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  • The Bakersfield Sound

    How a Generation of Displaced Okies Revolutionized American Music

    by Robert E. Price ...
    An immersive look at the country music sub-genre, from its 1950s origins to its heyday to the twenty-first century.In California's Central Valley, two thousand miles away from Nashville's country hit machine, the hard edge of the Bakersfield Sound transformed American music during the later half of the twentieth century. Fueled by the steel twang of electric guitars, explosive drumming, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain

    Tales of Romance and Tragedy

    by Grand Ole Opry, Robert K. Oermann ...
    The Grand Ole Opry has been home to the greatest legends of country music for over eighty years, and in that time it has seen some of conutry music's most dramatic stories unfold.We'll hear of the great love stories ranging from Johnny Cash and June Carter in the 1960s to Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, who married in 2005. We'll get the truth of the tragedies that led to the loss of three stars ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • He Stopped Loving Her Today

    George Jones, Billy Sherrill, and the Pretty-Much Totally True Story of the Making of the Greatest Country Record of All Time

    by Jack Isenhour ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    When George Jones recorded “He Stopped Loving Her Today” more than thirty years ago, he was a walking disaster. Twin addictions to drugs and alcohol had him drinking Jim Beam by the case and snorting cocaine as long as he was awake. Before it was over, Jones would be bankrupt, homeless, and an unwilling patient at an Alabama mental institution. In the midst of all this chaos, legendary producer ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern

    A Complete History

    by David McPherson ...
    A complete history of Toronto’s legendary Horseshoe Tavern, “the Birthplace of Canadian Rock,” to coincide with its seventieth anniversary.Like the Queen Street strip that has been its home for seven decades, the Horseshoe Tavern continues to evolve. It remains as relevant today as it did when Jack Starr founded the country music club on the site of a former blacksmith shop. From country and ... Read more

    $9.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime

    by Mr. Michael T. Fournier ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    The story of the Minutemen has been told before (Our Band Could Be Your Life, We Jam Econo), but this book focuses purely on their music - the punk ethic and the remarkable, enduring songs that comprise this, their greatest achievement. Including extensive interviews with Mike Watt and many others close to and inspired by the band, this is a great tribute to a classic piece of American underground ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks

    The Countercultural Sounds of Austin's Progressive Country Music Scene

    by Travis D. Stimeling, Ph.D. ...
    Country music of late 1960s and early 1970s was a powerful symbol of staunch conservative resistance to the flowering hippie counterculture. But in 1972, the city of Austin, Texas became host to a growing community of musicians, entrepreneurs, journalists, and fans who saw country music as a part of their collective heritage and sought to reclaim it for their own progressive scene. These children ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Banjo on the Mountain

    Wade Mainer's First Hundred Years

    by Dick Spottswood, Stephen Wade ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    Wade Mainer (b. 1907) is believed to be the longest-lived country entertainer ever. His banjo lessons began in childhood and he played informally into his adult years, when he joined his brother, fiddler J. E. Mainer (1898-1971), in Mainer's Mountaineers. Music became their ticket out of the cotton mills in 1934. At the time, country styles were swiftly evolving from community-based performance ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings

    Volumes 3 and 4

    by Steve Sullivan ...
    Volumes 3 and 4 of the The Encyclopedia of More Great Popular Song Recordings provides the stories behind approximately 1,700 more of the greatest song recordings in the history of the music industry, from 1890 to today. In this masterful survey, all genres of popular music are covered, from pop, rock, soul, and country to jazz, blues, classic vocals, hip-hop, folk, gospel, and ethnic/world music. ... Read more

    $220.99 USD

  • The Winding Stream

    An Oral History of the Carter and Cash Family

    by Beth Harrington ...
    There is a stream that courses through American roots music. Its source is in the Appalachian foothills in a place called Maces Springs, Virginia. It was there that A.P. Carter, his wife Sara, and his sister-in-law Maybelle began their careers as three of the earliest stars of country music.These three didn't just play the music emerging from their hill country upbringing. They helped invent it. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Unruly Media

    YouTube, Music Video, and the New Digital Cinema

    by Carol Vernallis ...
    Unruly Media argues that we are the crest of a new international style in which sonic and visual parameters become heightened and accelerated. This audiovisual turn calls for new forms of attention. Post-classical cinema, with its multi-plot narratives and flashy style, fragments under the influence of audiovisual numbers and music-video-like sync. Music video becomes more than a way of selling ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Francis Poulenc: Articles and Interviews

    Notes from the Heart

    by Nicolas Southon, Roger Nichols ...
    ’He plays the piano well,’ wrote the society hostess Mme de Saint-Marceaux in her diary on 18 March 1927. ’His compositions are not devoid of talent but he’s not a genius, and I’m afraid he thinks he is.’ Intelligent though the lady was, she got this one spectacularly wrong. Poulenc has in fact outpaced his colleagues in Les Six by many a mile, as singers and instrumentalists all over the world ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings

    Volumes 1 and 2

    by Steve Sullivan ...
    From John Philip Sousa to Green Day, from Scott Joplin to Kanye West, from Stephen Foster to Coldplay, The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 1 and 2 covers the vast scope of its subject with virtually unprecedented breadth and depth. Approximately 1,000 key song recordings from 1889 to the present are explored in full, unveiling the stories behind the songs, the recordings, ... Read more

    $207.99 USD