MUSIC IN AMERICAN LIFE

Acquiring 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.

ANDERSON, Marian : My Lord, What a Morning: An Autobiography
AQUILA, Richard : That Old-Time Rock & Roll: A Chronicle of an Era, 1954-63
BASTIN, Bruce : Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast
BERRY, Edited by Chad : The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance
BERTRAND, Michael T. : Race, Rock, and Elvis
BIERLEY, Paul E. : The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa
BISZICK-LOCKWOOD, Bar : Restless Giant: The Life and Times of Jean Aberbach and Hill and Range Songs
BLACK, Bob : Come Hither to Go Yonder: Playing Bluegrass with Bill Monroe
BOULARD, Garry : Louis Prima
BOYER, Text by Horace Clarence Photography by Lloyd Yearwood: The Golden Age of Gospel
BROOKS, Tim : Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919
BROVEN, John : Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock 'n' Roll Pioneers
BROWNER, Tara : Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-wow
BROWNER, Edited by Tara : Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America
CANTOR, Louis : Dewey and Elvis: The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Deejay
CANTWELL, Robert : Bluegrass Breakdown: The Making of the Old Southern Sound
CHASE, Gilbert : America's Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present
COHEN, Norm : Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong (2d ed.)
COLLINS, Lee : Oh, Didn't He Ramble: The Life Story of Lee Collins as Told to Mary Collins
CRAY, Ed : The Erotic Muse: American Bawdy Songs
DANIEL, Wayne W. : Pickin' on Peachtree: A History of Country Music in Atlanta, Georgia
DAVID, Jonathan C., with photographs by Richard Holloway: Together Let Us Sweetly Live: The Singing and Praying Bands
DEFFAA, Chip : Voices of the Jazz Age: Profiles of Eight Vintage Jazzmen
DICKENS, Hazel and Bill C. Malone: Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens
DIEKMAN, Diane : Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story
EPSTEIN, Dena J. : Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War
EWING, Edited by Tom : The Bill Monroe Reader
FLEISCHHAUER, Carl and Neil V. Rosenberg: Bluegrass Odyssey: A Documentary in Pictures and Words, 1966-86
FOX, Jon Hartley : King of the Queen City: The Story of King Records
FULLER, Albert : Alice Tully: An Intimate Portrait
GEORGE, Nelson : Where Did Our Love Go?: The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound
GINELL, Cary : Milton Brown and the Founding of Western Swing
GLAZER, Joe : Labor's Troubadour
GLINSKY, Albert : Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage
GOLDSMITH, Edited by Thomas : The Bluegrass Reader
HAVIGHURST, Craig : Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City
HAWES, Bess Lomax : Sing It Pretty: A Memoir
HICKS, Michael : Henry Cowell, Bohemian
HICKS, Michael : Mormonism and Music: A History
HICKS, Michael : Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic, and Other Satisfactions
JOHNSTON, Ben : "Maximum Clarity" and Other Writings on Music
JONES, Loyal : Country Music Humorists and Comedians
JOSEPHSON, Barney with Terry Trilling-Josephson: Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People
KEILER, Allan : Marian Anderson: A Singer's Journey
KEYES, Cheryl L. : Rap Music and Street Consciousness
KIRK, Elise K. : American Opera
KOSKOFF, Ellen : Music in Lubavitcher Life
LEDGIN, Stephanie P. : Homegrown Music: Discovering Bluegrass
LIEBERMAN, Robbie : "My Song Is My Weapon": People's Songs, American Communism, and the Politics of Culture, 1930-50
LILLY, John : Mountains of Music: West Virginia Traditional Music from Goldenseal
LINN, Karen : That Half-Barbaric Twang: The Banjo in American Popular Culture
LOGSDON, Collected and edited by Guy : "The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" and Other Songs Cowboys Sing
LOZA, Steven : Barrio Rhythm: Mexican American Music in Los Angeles
LOZA, Steven : Tito Puente and the Making of Latin Music
MAGEE, Gayle Sherwood : Charles Ives Reconsidered
MAHAR, William J. : Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture
MALONE, Bill C. : Don't Get above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class
MCCUSKER, Kristine M. : Lonesome Cowgirls and Honky-Tonk Angels: The Women of Barn Dance Radio
MCDOWELL, John H. : Poetry and Violence: The Ballad Tradition of Mexico's Costa Chica
MCPARTLAND, Marian : Marian McPartland's Jazz World: All in Good Time
MILLER, Leta E. and Fredric Lieberman: Composing a World: Lou Harrison, Musical Wayfarer
MILLER, Kiri : Traveling Home: Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism
MISHLER, Craig : The Crooked Stovepipe: Athapaskan Fiddle Music and Square Dancing in Northeast Alaska and Northwest Canada
MONTAGUE, Magnificent with Bob Baker: Burn, Baby! BURN!: The Autobiography of Magnificent Montague
MORGAN, Kenneth : Fritz Reiner, Maestro and Martinet
MORRISON, Craig : Go Cat Go!: Rockabilly Music and Its Makers
MUIR, Peter C. : Long Lost Blues: Popular Blues in America, 1850-1920
NETTL, Bruno : Heartland Excursions: Ethnomusicological Reflections on Schools of Music
NEWMAN, Katharine D. : Never without a Song: The Years and Songs of Jennie Devlin, 1865-1952
NEWMAN, Danny : Tales of a Theatrical Guru
NOSS, Luther : Paul Hindemith in the United States
OJA, Carol J. : Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds
OLMSTEAD, Andrea : Juilliard: A History
PARTCH, Harry : Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions, and Librettos
PATTERSON, Beverly Bush : The Sound of the Dove: Singing in Appalachian Primitive Baptist Churches
PEARSON, Nathan W., Jr.: Goin' to Kansas City
PEARSON, Barry Lee and Bill McCulloch: Robert Johnson: Lost and Found
PERETTI, Burton W. : The Creation of Jazz: Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America
PERLIS, Vivian : Charles Ives Remembered: An Oral History
POLLACK, Howard : Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man
PRESTON, Katherine K. : Opera on the Road: Traveling Opera Troupes in the United States, 1825-60
PRUTER, Robert : Chicago Soul
PRUTER, Robert : Doowop: The Chicago Scene
REMSBERG, Rich : Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs from the Great Depression
RIMLER, Walter : George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait
RODGER, Gillian M. : Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima: Variety Theater in the Nineteenth Century
ROMALIS, Shelly : Pistol Packin' Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of Folksong
ROSENBERG, Neil V. : Bluegrass: A History
ROSENBERG, Neil V. and Charles K. Wolfe: The Music of Bill Monroe
ROSENBERG, Edited by Neil V. : Transforming Tradition: Folk Music Revivals Examined
SACKS, Howard L. and Judith Rose : Way Up North in Dixie: A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem
SALEM, James M. : The Late Great Johnny Ace and the Transition from R&B to Rock 'n' Roll
SCHROEDER, Patricia R. : Robert Johnson, Mythmaking, and Contemporary American Culture
SCULLY, Michael F. : The Never-Ending Revival: Rounder Records and the Folk Alliance
SENGSTOCK, Charles A. Jr.: That Toddlin' Town: Chicago's White Dance Bands and Orchestras, 1900-1950
SHIPTON, Alyn : I Feel a Song Coming On: The Life of Jimmy McHugh
SLOBIN, Mark : Chosen Voices: The Story of the American Cantorate
SLOBIN, Mark : Tenement Songs: The Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants
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
STONEMAN, Roni as told to Ellen Wright: Pressing On: The Roni Stoneman Story
STURMAN, Janet L. : Zarzuela: Spanish Operetta, American Stage
TEMPERLEY, Nicholas : Bound for America: Three British Composers
TOWNSEND, Charles R. : San Antonio Rose: The Life and Music of Bob Wills
TRIBE, Ivan M. : The Stonemans: An Appalachian Family and the Music That Shaped Their Lives
VANDER, Judith : Songprints: The Musical Experience of Five Shoshone Women
WARING, Virginia : Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians
WELLS, Robert V. : Life Flows On in Endless Song: Folk Songs and American History
WHITE, John I. : Git Along, Little Dogies: Songs and Songmakers of the American West
WHITEIS, David : Chicago Blues: Portraits and Stories
WILLIAMS, Roger M. : Sing a Sad Song: The Life of Hank Williams
WILLIAMS, Michael Ann : Staging Tradition: John Lair and Sarah Gertrude Knott
WILLIAMS, William H. A. : 'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream: The Image of Ireland and the Irish in American Popular Song Lyrics, 1800-1920
WRIGHT, John : Traveling the High Way Home: Ralph Stanley and the World of Traditional Bluegrass Music
YANG, Mina : California Polyphony: Ethnic Voices, Musical Crossroads
YUNG, Edited by Bell and Helen Rees: Understanding Charles Seeger, Pioneer in Musicology