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Doc Watson: A Life in Music

The combination of meticulous research and fluent writing makes this title important for anyone interested in Doc Watson or the evolution of old-time, traditional, and folk music over the past 90 years.
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Mahler’s Symphonic World: Music for the Age of Uncertainty

Recommended for scholars possessing the requisite musical background and for sophisticated readers interested in the relationship of the arts to the human condition.

Dreaming in Ensemble: How Black Artists Transformed American Opera

Caplan highlights a treasure trove of vocalists and creators in this magisterial work that will prove immensely rewarding to serious opera scholars and those studying race relations and sociology in the 20th-century United States.
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Carl Perkins: The King of Rockabilly

Other than Perkins’s own 1996 autobiography, little has been published about him, and Apter admirably fills the gap with this detailed and emotionally charged biography.
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We Take Care of Our Own: Faith, Class, and Politics in the Art of Bruce Springsteen

Sawyers’s command of her subject and fluent style help her integrate various disparate elements into a convincing whole. This is a valuable sociological addition to the ever-growing Springsteen bookshelf.
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William L. Dawson

A valuable addition to the literature on celebrated music composed by Black artists and music education in the United States.

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Pat Metheny: Stories Beyond Words

Recommended for both jazz enthusiasts and readers exploring any of the music genres that have evolved from jazz over the past six decades.
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Bing and Billie and Frank and Ella and Judy and Barbra

This richly rewarding book is a singular achievement in tracing the prowess of these larger-than-life musical figures, whose talents still have emotional resonance today.
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Hound Dog

Will likely appeal to both music scholars and readers investigating the intersection of race and society in the U.S.
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