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Blood Harmony: The Everly Brothers Story

Mazor successfully strives for an expansive, nostalgia-evoking tone while not avoiding controversial subjects.
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Bob Dylan: Jewish Roots, American Soil

This biography rewards Dylanists and those interested in the developing folk scene and cultural milieu of the 1960s.
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Fleetwood Mac, All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track

All music aficionados, not just Fleetwood Mac fans, will appreciate this traversal of an iconic group’s output and influence. It’s a fine encyclopedic complement to Mark Blake’s Dreams.
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Soon and Very Soon: The Transformative Music and Ministry of Andraé Crouch

Little has been available heretofore about Crouch other than his 1974 autobiography Through It All, so Darden and Newby are to be commended for this title, likely to become the definitive exploration of this influential artist.
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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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