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Saved by Song A History of Gospel and Christian Music By Don Cusic 78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South Accordion Dreams : A Journey into Cajun and Creole Music Africa and the Blues Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge: The Library of Congress Letters, 1935-1945 American Musicians II: Seventy-one Portraits in Jazz American Singers: Twenty-seven Portraits in Song The Artistry of Afro-Cuban Bata Drumming: Aesthetics, transmission, Bonding, and creativity Bad Boy of Gospel Music: The Calvin Newton Story Banjo on the Mountain: Wade Mainer's First Hundred Years The Beat!: Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C. The Beatles: Image and the Media The Berimbau: Soul of Brazilian Music Big Band Jazz in Black West Virginia, 1930-1942 Black Diva of the Thirties: The Life of Ruby Elzy Blues Mandolin Man: The Life and Music of Yank Rachell Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues, Third Edition Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues Born in the U.S.A.: The Myth of American Popular Music from Colonial Times to the Present A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music Bringing the World to Mississippi: The University of Southern Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, 1919-2010 Cajun and Creole Music Makers: Musiciens cadiens et créoles Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California: Modern Pleasures in a Postmodern World Cajun Country Carolina Piedmont Country The Color of Jazz: Race and Representation in Postwar American Culture Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven Creole Trombone: Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe Downhome Gospel: African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country Earl Hooker, Blues Master Eddy Arnold: Pioneer of the Nashville Sound Elvis and Gladys Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine From Every Stage: Images of America's Roots Music The Glenbuchat Ballads Global Pop, Local Language Glorious Days and Nights: A Jazz Memoir Great Smoky Mountains Folklife Great Spirits: Portraits of Life-Changing World Music Artists The Guitar in America: Victorian Era to Jazz Age Hank Williams, So Lonesome 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 The High-Kilted Muse: Peter Buchan and His Secret Songs of Silence In Close Harmony: The Story of the Louvin Brothers I'm Feeling the Blues Right Now: Blues Tourism and the Mississippi Delta Jazz and Death: Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats Jazz Diplomacy: Promoting America in the Cold War Era The Jazz Image: Seeing Music through Herman Leonard's Photography Jazz in American Culture Jazz Planet Jimmie Rodgers: The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler Kennedy's Blues: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK Kentucky Bluegrass Country Knowing Jazz: Community, Pedagogy, and Canon in the Information Age Ladies First: Women in Music Videos Let the World Listen Right: The Mississippi Delta Hip-Hop Story Let's Make Some Noise: Axé and the African Roots of Brazilian Popular Music Lockstep and Dance: Images of Black Men in Popular Culture Lonesome Melodies: The Lives and Music of the Stanley Brothers Memphis Boys: The Story of American Studios Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues Music and History: Bridging the Disciplines MuzikMafia: From the Local Nashville Scene to the National Mainstream The New Blue Music: Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950-1999 Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From: Lyrics and History The Norumbega Harmony: Historic and Contemporary Hymn Tunes and Anthems from the New England Singing School Tradition Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895 Ozark Country Pearl Harbor Jazz: Change in Popular Music in the Early 1940s The Pilgrim Jubilees The Poetics of American Song Lyrics Prophet Singer The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie Public Folklore Racial Uplift and American Music, 1878-1943 Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz Rare Birds: Conversations with Legends of Jazz and Classical Music Recentering Anglo/American Folksong: Sea Crabs and Wicked Youths Reggae Wisdom: Proverbs in Jamaican Music Richard Dyer-Bennet: The Last Minstrel Roosevelt's Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on FDR Roots of a Region: Southern Folk Culture Sam Myers: The Blues Is My Story Shenandoah Valley Folklife Showman: The Life and Music of Perry George Lowery Shreveport Sounds in Black and White Somebody Always Singing You Soul of the Man: Bobby "Blue" Bland South Florida Folklife Southern Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests The Starday Story: The House That Country Music Built Strike Songs of the Depression Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues Swing, That Modern Sound That's Got 'Em!: The Life and Music of Wilbur C. Sweatman To Do This, You Must Know How: Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz Trumpet Records: Diamonds on Farish Street Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen: Travellers' Songs, Stories and Tunes of the Fetterangus Stewarts Upper Cumberland Country Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation Wiregrass Country Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life Zydeco!	Browse by Subject Download the BOOKFRIENDS newsletter BOOKFRIENDS JUKE JOINT Membership Party Join us on Facebook See our authors READ OUR BLOG Praise for Mary Wickes: I Know I've Seen That Face Before The June issue of ALA Booklist has a nice review of Steve Taravella's Mary Wickes: I Know I've Seen That Face Before. Moviegoers will remember Wickes as the housekeeper in White Christmas, the nurse in Now, Voyager, and the crotchety choir director in Sister Act. 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