Music

78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South

Accordion Dreams : A Journey into Cajun and Creole Music

Africa and the Blues

American Musicians II: Seventy-one Portraits in Jazz

American Singers: Twenty-seven Portraits in Song

Bad Boy of Gospel Music: The Calvin Newton Story

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

The Beatles: Image and the Media

Black Diva of the Thirties: The Life of Ruby Elzy

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

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

Cajun and Creole Music Makers: Musiciens cadiens et créoles

Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California: Modern Pleasures in a Postmodern World

The Color of Jazz: Race and Representation in Postwar American Culture

Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven

Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe

Earl Hooker, Blues Master

Eddy Arnold: Pioneer of the Nashville Sound

Elvis and Gladys

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

Forever Mame: The Life of Rosalind Russell

From Every Stage: Images of America's Roots Music

The Glenbuchat Ballads

Global Pop, Local Language

Great Spirits: Portraits of Life-Changing World Music Artists

The Guitar in America: Victorian Era to Jazz Age

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

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

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

Music and History: Bridging the Disciplines

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

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

Pearl Harbor Jazz: Change in Popular Music in the Early 1940s

The Pilgrim Jubilees

Prophet Singer
The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie

Public Folklore

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

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

Shreveport Sounds in Black and White

Somebody Always Singing You

Southern Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests

Strike Songs of the Depression

Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues

Swing, That Modern Sound

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

Trumpet Records: Diamonds on Farish Street

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

Zydeco!

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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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