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  • River of Tears

    Country Music, Memory, and Modernity in Brazil

    by Alexander Dent ...
    River of Tears is the first ethnography of Brazilian country music, one of the most popular genres in Brazil yet least-known outside it. Beginning in the mid-1980s, commercial musical duos practicing música sertaneja reached beyond their home in Brazil’s central-southern region to become national bestsellers. Rodeo events revolving around country music came to rival soccer matches in attendance. A ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Smart Blonde: The Life of Dolly Parton

    by Stephen Miller ...
    Smart Blonde: Dolly Parton is a comprehensive and revealing biography which includes interviews with family members, musicians and producers who have worked with Dolly over the years. This new and fully updated edition includes a detailed section on the superstar's legendary performance at 2014's Glastonbury Festival.This book is a detailed assessment of her music as a singer and songwriter over ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ryan Adams

    Losering, a Story of Whiskeytown

    by David Menconi ...
    Series series American Music Series
    A chronicle of Adams's rise from alt-country to rock stardom, featuring stories about the making of the albums Strangers Almanac and Heartbreaker.Before he achieved his dream of being an internationally known rock personality, Ryan Adams had a band in Raleigh, North Carolina. Whiskeytown led the wave of insurgent-country bands that came of age with No Depression magazine in the mid-1990s, and for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Africa and the Blues

    by Gerhard Kubik ...
    In 1969 Gerhard Kubik chanced to encounter a Mozambican labor migrant, a miner in Transvaal, South Africa, tapping a cipendani, a mouth-resonated musical bow. A comparable instrument was seen in the hands of a white Appalachian musician who claimed it as part of his own cultural heritage. Through connections like these Kubik realized that the link between these two far-flung musicians is African ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Musical Ritual in Mexico City

    From the Aztec to NAFTA

    by Mark Pedelty ...
    On the Zócalo, the main square of Mexico City, Mexico's entire musical history is performed every day. "Mexica" percussionists drum and dance to the music of Aztec rituals on the open plaza. Inside the Metropolitan Cathedral, choristers sing colonial villancicos. Outside the National Palace, the Mexican army marching band plays the "Himno Nacional," a vestige of the nineteenth century. And all ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Country Music Originals

    The Legends and the Lost

    by Tony Russell ...
    Graced by more than 200 illustrations, many of them seldom seen and some never before published, this sparkling volume offers vivid portraits of the men and women who created country music, the artists whose lives and songs formed the rich tradition from which so many others have drawn inspiration. Included here are not only such major figures as Jimmie Rodgers, The Carter Family, Fiddlin' John ... Read more

    $15.19 USD