Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music

In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music...
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Author: Eric Weisbard
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Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music by Weisbard, Eric

Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music

¥44,792

Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music

¥44,792
Author: Eric Weisbard
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England Psalm-Singer to Jay-Z's 2010 memoir Decoded. Drawing on his background editing the Village Voice music section, coediting the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and organizing the Pop Conference, Weisbard connects American music writing from memoirs, biographies, and song compilations to blues novels, magazine essays, and academic studies. The authors of these works are as diverse as the music itself: women, people of color, queer writers, self-educated scholars, poets, musicians, and elites discarding their social norms. Whether analyzing books on Louis Armstrong, the Beatles, and Madonna; the novels of Theodore Dreiser, Gayl Jones, and Jennifer Egan; or varying takes on blackface minstrelsy, Weisbard charts an alternative history of American music as told through its writing. As Weisbard demonstrates, the most enduring work pursues questions that linger across time period and genre--cultural studies in the form of notes on the fly, on sounds that never cease to change meaning.

Author: Eric Weisbard
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 05/28/2021
Pages: 552
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.99lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.19d
ISBN: 9781478011941


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/01/2021 pg. 66
Choice 04/01/2022

About the Author
Eric Weisbard is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Alabama and the author of Top 40 Democracy: The Rival Mainstreams of American Music.

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