Music: Styles & Genres

Who was the greatest of all American guitarists? You probably didnt name Gary Davis, but many of his musical contemporaries considered him without ...

It started with the searing sound of a slide careening up the neck of an electric guitar. In 1970, twenty-three-year-old Bruce Iglauer walked into ...

Beginning in the late 1950s, an influential cadre of young, white, mostly middle-class British men were consuming and appropriating African-America...

For over one hundred years, Memphis, Tennessee, has been the center of musical innovation for American popular music. From W. C. Handy to Alberta H...

Showcasing American music and music making during the Great Depression, Hard Luck Blues presents more than two hundred photographs created by the N...

It remains one of the most remarkable breakthroughs in music history. The nervous and dishevelled figure who played his punk-blues song 'Dog House ...

Through images of hands, this book conveys the strength, beauty, diversity, depth, and power of the blues, the root of all American music. It featu...

This collection assembles the best interviews from Steve Cushing's long-running radio program Blues Before Sunrise, the nationally syndicated, awar...

'The Gospel According to the Blues' dares us to read Jesus's Sermon on the Mount in conversation with Robert Johnson, Son House, and Muddy Waters. ...

Recent revisionist scholarship has argued that representations by white outsider observers of black American music have distorted historical truths...

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they...

Ornette Colemans career encompassed the glory years of jazz and the American avant-garde. Born in segregated Fort Worth, Texas, during the Great De...

The official illustrated history of Blue Note, the most influential and important brand in jazz. Blue Note is not only known as the purveyor of ...

No other jazz musician has proved so inspirational and so fascinating as Coltrane. Ben Ratliff, jazz critic for the New York Times, has written the...

Dottie Dodgion is a jazz drummer who played with the best.  A survivor, she lived an entire lifetime before she was seventeen. Undeterred by hardsh...

WINNER OF THE PRESTO JAZZ BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020An articulate, scrupulously researched account based on first-hand information, this book presents ...