Music in American LifeAcquiring Editor: Laurie Matheson
Music in American Life is a longstanding series that embodies the twin goals of documenting the place of music in American culture and the cultural life that gives rise to particular musical forms. Encompassing the broadest range of music, from classical through all forms of American vernacular music, the series welcomes a variety of approaches to the topic of music in American life, including monographs, biographies, memoirs, reference books, readers, and edited collections.
- WILLIAMS, William H. A. : 'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream: The Image of Ireland and the Irish in American Popular Song Lyrics, 1800-1920
- POLLACK, Howard : Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man
- HAVIGHURST, Craig : Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City
- FULLER, Albert : Alice Tully: An Intimate Portrait
- CHASE, Gilbert : America's Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present
- KIRK, Elise K. : American Opera
- LOZA, Steven : Barrio Rhythm: Mexican American Music in Los Angeles
- MAHAR, William J. : Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture
- EWING, Edited by Tom : The Bill Monroe Reader
- PARTCH, Harry : Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions, and Librettos
- ROSENBERG, Neil V. : Bluegrass: A History
- CANTWELL, Robert : Bluegrass Breakdown: The Making of the Old Southern Sound
- FLEISCHHAUER, Carl and Neil V. Rosenberg: Bluegrass Odyssey: A Documentary in Pictures and Words, 1966-86
- GOLDSMITH, Edited by Thomas : The Bluegrass Reader
- TOWNSEND, Henry as Told to Bill Greensmith: A Blues Life
- TEMPERLEY, Nicholas : Bound for America: Three British Composers
- MONTAGUE, Magnificent with Bob Baker: Burn, Baby! BURN!: The Autobiography of Magnificent Montague
- YANG, Mina : California Polyphony: Ethnic Voices, Musical Crossroads
- MAGEE, Gayle Sherwood : Charles Ives Reconsidered
- PERLIS, Vivian : Charles Ives Remembered: An Oral History
- WHITEIS, David : Chicago Blues: Portraits and Stories
- PRUTER, Robert : Chicago Soul
- SLOBIN, Mark : Chosen Voices: The Story of the American Cantorate
- OJA, Carol J. : Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds
- BLACK, Bob : Come Hither to Go Yonder: Playing Bluegrass with Bill Monroe
- MILLER, Leta E. and Fredric Lieberman: Composing a World: Lou Harrison, Musical Wayfarer
- JONES, Loyal : Country Music Humorists and Comedians
- PERETTI, Burton W. : The Creation of Jazz: Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America
- MISHLER, Craig : The Crooked Stovepipe: Athapaskan Fiddle Music and Square Dancing in Northeast Alaska and Northwest Canada
- AHLQUIST, Karen : Democracy at the Opera: Music, Theater, and Culture in New York City, 1815-60
- CANTOR, Louis : Dewey and Elvis: The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Deejay
- MALONE, Bill C. : Don't Get above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class
- PRUTER, Robert : Doowop: The Chicago Scene
- TITON, Edited by Jeff Todd : Downhome Blues Lyrics: An Anthology from the Post-World War II Era
- CRAY, Ed : The Erotic Muse: American Bawdy Songs
- SPOTTSWOOD, Richard K. : Ethnic Music on Records: A Discography of Ethnic Recordings Produced in the United States, 1893-1942. Vol. 1: Western Europe
- SPOTTSWOOD, Richard K. : Ethnic Music on Records: A Discography of Ethnic Recordings Produced in the United States, 1893-1942. Vol. 2: Slavic
- SPOTTSWOOD, Richard K. : Ethnic Music on Records: A Discography of Ethnic Recordings Produced in the United States, 1893-1942. Vol. 3: Eastern Europe
- SPOTTSWOOD, Richard K. : Ethnic Music on Records: A Discography of Ethnic Recordings Produced in the United States, 1893-1942. Vol. 4: Spanish, Portuguese, Philippines, Basque
- SPOTTSWOOD, Richard K. : Ethnic Music on Records: A Discography of Ethnic Recordings Produced in the United States, 1893-1942. Vol. 5: Middle East, Far East, Scandinavian, English Language, American Indian, International
- SPOTTSWOOD, Richard K. : Ethnic Music on Records: A Discography of Ethnic Recordings Produced in the United States, 1893-1942. Vol. 6: Artist Index, Title Index
- SPOTTSWOOD, Richard K. : Ethnic Music on Records: A Discography of Ethnic Recordings Produced in the United States, 1893-1942. Vol. 7: Record Number Index, Matrix Number Index
- WARING, Virginia : Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians
- MORGAN, Kenneth : Fritz Reiner, Maestro and Martinet
- WHITE, John I. : Git Along, Little Dogies: Songs and Songmakers of the American West
- MORRISON, Craig : Go Cat Go!: Rockabilly Music and Its Makers
- PEARSON, Nathan W., Jr.: Goin' to Kansas City
- BOYER, Text by Horace Clarence Photography by Lloyd Yearwood: The Golden Age of Gospel
- BERRY, Edited by Chad : The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance
- BROWNER, Tara : Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-wow
- NETTL, Bruno : Heartland Excursions: Ethnomusicological Reflections on Schools of Music
- HICKS, Michael : Henry Cowell, Bohemian
- LEDGIN, Stephanie P. : Homegrown Music: Discovering Bluegrass
- BIERLEY, Paul E. : The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa
- POLLACK, Howard : John Alden Carpenter: A Chicago Composer
- OLMSTEAD, Andrea : Juilliard: A History
- GLAZER, Joe : Labor's Troubadour
- SALEM, James M. : The Late Great Johnny Ace and the Transition from R&B to Rock 'n' Roll
- DIEKMAN, Diane : Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story
- MCCUSKER, Kristine M. : Lonesome Cowgirls and Honky-Tonk Angels: The Women of Barn Dance Radio
- COHEN, Norm : Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong (2d ed.)
- BROOKS, Tim : Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919
- BOULARD, Garry : Louis Prima
- KEILER, Allan : Marian Anderson: A Singer's Journey
- MCPARTLAND, Marian : Marian McPartland's Jazz World: All in Good Time
- JOHNSTON, Ben : "Maximum Clarity" and Other Writings on Music
- GINELL, Cary : Milton Brown and the Founding of Western Swing
- HICKS, Michael : Mormonism and Music: A History
- LILLY, John : Mountains of Music: West Virginia Traditional Music from Goldenseal
- KOSKOFF, Ellen : Music in Lubavitcher Life
- ROSENBERG, Neil V. and Charles K. Wolfe: The Music of Bill Monroe
- ANDERSON, Marian : My Lord, What a Morning: An Autobiography
- LIEBERMAN, Robbie : "My Song Is My Weapon": People's Songs, American Communism, and the Politics of Culture, 1930-50
- NEWMAN, Katharine D. : Never without a Song: The Years and Songs of Jennie Devlin, 1865-1952
- SCULLY, Michael F. : The Never-Ending Revival: Rounder Records and the Folk Alliance
- COLLINS, Lee : Oh, Didn't He Ramble: The Life Story of Lee Collins as Told to Mary Collins
- PRESTON, Katherine K. : Opera on the Road: Traveling Opera Troupes in the United States, 1825-60
- NOSS, Luther : Paul Hindemith in the United States
- DANIEL, Wayne W. : Pickin' on Peachtree: A History of Country Music in Atlanta, Georgia
- ROMALIS, Shelly : Pistol Packin' Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of Folksong
- MCDOWELL, John H. : Poetry and Violence: The Ballad Tradition of Mexico's Costa Chica
- STONEMAN, Roni as told to Ellen Wright: Pressing On: The Roni Stoneman Story
- BERTRAND, Michael T. : Race, Rock, and Elvis
- KEYES, Cheryl L. : Rap Music and Street Consciousness
- BROVEN, John : Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock 'n' Roll Pioneers
- BASTIN, Bruce : Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast
- PEARSON, Barry Lee and Bill McCulloch: Robert Johnson: Lost and Found
- SCHROEDER, Patricia R. : Robert Johnson, Mythmaking, and Contemporary American Culture
- TOWNSEND, Charles R. : San Antonio Rose: The Life and Music of Bob Wills
- RUSSELL, Craig H. : Santiago de Murcia's "Códice Saldívar No. 4": A Treasury of Secular Guitar Music from Baroque Mexico. Vol. 1: Commentary
- RUSSELL, Craig H. : Santiago de Murcia's "Códice Saldívar No. 4": A Treasury of Secular Guitar Music from Baroque Mexico. Vol. 2: Facsimile and transcription
- VANDER, Judith : Shoshone Ghost Dance Religion: Poetry Songs and Great Basin Context
- EPSTEIN, Dena J. : Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War
- WILLIAMS, Roger M. : Sing a Sad Song: The Life of Hank Williams
- HAWES, Bess Lomax : Sing It Pretty: A Memoir
- HICKS, Michael : Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic, and Other Satisfactions
- VANDER, Judith : Songprints: The Musical Experience of Five Shoshone Women
- PATTERSON, Beverly Bush : The Sound of the Dove: Singing in Appalachian Primitive Baptist Churches
- WILLIAMS, Michael Ann : Staging Tradition: John Lair and Sarah Gertrude Knott
- TRIBE, Ivan M. : The Stonemans: An Appalachian Family and the Music That Shaped Their Lives
- NEWMAN, Danny : Tales of a Theatrical Guru
- SLOBIN, Mark : Tenement Songs: The Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants
- LINN, Karen : That Half-Barbaric Twang: The Banjo in American Popular Culture
- AQUILA, Richard : That Old-Time Rock & Roll: A Chronicle of an Era, 1954-63
- SENGSTOCK, Charles A. Jr.: That Toddlin' Town: Chicago's White Dance Bands and Orchestras, 1900-1950
- GLINSKY, Albert : Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage
- LOZA, Steven : Tito Puente and the Making of Latin Music
- DAVID, Jonathan C., with photographs by Richard Holloway: Together Let Us Sweetly Live: The Singing and Praying Bands
- ROSENBERG, Edited by Neil V. : Transforming Tradition: Folk Music Revivals Examined
- MILLER, Kiri : Traveling Home: Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism
- WRIGHT, John : Traveling the High Way Home: Ralph Stanley and the World of Traditional Bluegrass Music
- YUNG, Edited by Bell and Helen Rees: Understanding Charles Seeger, Pioneer in Musicology
- DEFFAA, Chip : Voices of the Jazz Age: Profiles of Eight Vintage Jazzmen
- SACKS, Howard L. and Judith Rose : Way Up North in Dixie: A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem
- GEORGE, Nelson : Where Did Our Love Go?: The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound
- LOGSDON, Collected and edited by Guy : "The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" and Other Songs Cowboys Sing
- DICKENS, Hazel and Bill C. Malone: Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens
- STURMAN, Janet L. : Zarzuela: Spanish Operetta, American Stage