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Sixties British Pop, Inside Out
$99.00
Hardback, Aug 2008
ISBN13: 9780195333183ISBN10: 0195333187
An illuminating look at Sixties British rock, providing an astute analysis of a movement that changed music history.


Meeting Jimmie Rodgers

How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century
$27.95
Hardback, Apr 2009
ISBN13: 9780195327625ISBN10: 0195327624
An illuminating look at how the "Father of Country Music" inspired several generations of musical stars, from Woody Guthrie to Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, and Bob Dylan


Recorded Music in American Life

The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945
$45.00
Paperback, Nov 2003
ISBN13: 9780195171778ISBN10: 0195171772
Covers the early years of the recorded sound industry, and its close interaction with American culture and society


In the Houses of the Holy

Led Zeppelin and the Power of Rock Music
$45.00
Paperback, Aug 2001
ISBN13: 9780195147230ISBN10: 0195147235
Includes an ethnographic study of Led Zeppelin fans


Louisiana Hayride

Radio and Roots Music along the Red River
$45.00
Hardback, Nov 2004
ISBN13: 9780195167511ISBN10: 0195167511
Shreveport's Louisiana Hayride played a pivotal role not only in launching the careers of performers such as Elvis, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Slim Whitman, Jim Reeves, Webb Pierce, and Kitty Wells, but also in transforming American popular music as we know it.


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