American Made Music Series

Explorations of music history, origins, development, and artists

78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South

Africa and the Blues

Bad Boy of Gospel Music: The Calvin Newton Story

The Beat!: Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C.

Blues Boy: The Life and Music of B. B. King

Blues Mandolin Man: The Life and Music of Yank Rachell

A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music

Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe

Earl Hooker, Blues Master

Eddy Arnold: Pioneer of the Nashville Sound

Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine

Hank Williams, So Lonesome

In Close Harmony: The Story of the Louvin Brothers

Jazz and Death: Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats

Jazz Diplomacy: Promoting America in the Cold War Era

Jimmie Rodgers: The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler

The Johnson Family Singers: We Sang for Our Supper

Kennedy's Blues: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK

Ladies of Soul

Let the World Listen Right: The Mississippi Delta Hip-Hop Story

Mario Lanza: Singing to the Gods

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

Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895

The Pilgrim Jubilees

Prophet Singer
The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie

Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz

Roosevelt's Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on FDR

Sam Myers: The Blues Is My Story

Showman: The Life and Music of Perry George Lowery

Strike Songs of the Depression

Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues

A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz

Trumpet Records: Diamonds on Farish Street

Waltz the Hall: The American Play Party

Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life

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UPM Fall BOOKFRIENDS Party Announced

On Sunday, November 22 from 3–5 p.m. the University Press of Mississippi will be holding its annual BOOKFRIENDS fall membership party at The Auditorium Restaurant at the Duling School. This year’s party will honor the memory of Willie Morris on the seventy-fifth anniversary of his birth. To mark the occasion UPM is featuring a new, limited edition of the quintessential Morris essay, My Two

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