Music Reviews & Criticism

Booms Blues stands as both a remarkable biography of J. Frank G.Boom (19201953) and a recovery of his incredible contribution to blues scholarship ...

In narrative, photographs, and documents, Bringing the World to Mississippi: The University of Southern Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, 1919-2010 d...

From the 1980s through the early 2000s, a golden era for southern roots music, producer and three-time Grammy winner Scott Billington recorded many...

Wade Mainer (b. 1907) is believed to be the longest-lived country entertainer ever. His banjo lessons began in childhood and he played informally i...

In the late 1920s, Reverend A. W. Nix (18801949), an African American Baptist minister born in Texas, made fifty-four commercial recordings of his ...

The Poetics of American Song Lyrics is the first collection of academic essays that regards songs as literature and that identifies intersections b...

Glorious Days and Nights is a personal account of the fifty-year career of jazz photographer Herb Snitzer, with a special focus on his years in New...

In the spring of 1862, Lucy McKim, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a Philadelphia abolitionist Quaker family, traveled with her father to the Sea...

To Do This, You Must Know How traces black vocal music instruction and inspiration from the halls of Fisk University to the mining camps of Birming...

Memphis Boys chronicles the story of the rhythm section at Chips Moman's American Studios from 1964, when the group began working together, until 1...

Wade Mainer (b. 1907) is believed to be the longest-lived country entertainer ever. His banjo lessons began in childhood and he played informally i...

Since the magazines first issue in 1964, TeenSets role in popular music journalism has been overlooked and underappreciated. Teen fan magazines, of...

Greil Marcus once said to an interviewer, There is an infinite amount of meaning about anything, and I free associate. For more than four decades, ...

The first in-depth study in almost half a century of Robert Schumann's multi-movement Leipzig chamber works, this book offers novel and diverse enc...

Equestrian ballets (balletti a cavallo), although little known today, emerged as valued dramatic entertainments in early modern Europe, capable of ...

This value-priced reissue of Bowie at 75 (2022) celebrates the beloved rock star with expert commentary, hundreds of images, and an illustrated gat...

Selling Folk Music: An Illustrated History highlights commercial sources that reveal the process of how folk music has been packaged and sold to a ...

The Music of the Netherlands Antilles: Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart is not your usual musical scholarship. In October 1999, el...

The Stranglers occupy a paradoxical position within the history of popular music. Although major artists within the punk and new-wave movements, th...