Colcord's Popular Music Books

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1989: BOB DYLAN DIDN'T HAVE THIS TO SING ABOUT.

• AUTHOR: CLOVER, JOSHUA.
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• PUBLISHER: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: ML3470.C597 2009
• $21.95 CLOTH (187 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780520252554
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Joshua Clover examines the sudden changes to music in 1989 which came amidst cultural changes such as the fall of the Berlin wall. Covering various music genres, Clover examines disconnected phenomena from grunge, acid house, and gangsta rap. The book is a Roth Family Foundation Music in America Book. Clover is Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis.

• AUTHOR: CALT, STEPHEN.
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• PUBLISHER: UNIV OF ILLINOIS PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: ML3521.C35 2009
• $75.00 CLOTH (286 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780252033476
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A dictionary of obscure works and expressions from vintage blues music based on documentary evidence and interviews with artists from the 1920s and 1930s. Stephen Calt is the author of blues biographies on both Skip James and Charlie Patton.

• AUTHOR: CALT, STEPHEN.
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• PUBLISHER: UNIV OF ILLINOIS PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: ML3521.C35 2009
• $26.95 PAPER (286 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780252076602
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A dictionary of obscure works and expressions from vintage blues music based on documentary evidence and interviews with artists from the 1920s and 1930s. Stephen Calt is the author of blues biographies on both Skip James and Charlie Patton.

• AUTHOR: BANFIELD, WILLIAM C., 1961-
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• PUBLISHER: SCARECROW
• CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
• LC CLASS: ML3479.B364 2010
• $40.00 PAPER (220 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780810872868
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William C. Banfield explores black music culture from the angles of history, education, and the creative work of musicians who have moved the art forward. Focusing on 20th century popular music, the book includes profiles of some of the most important musicians of the era. Banfield is Professor of Africana Studies/Music and Society at Berkley College of Music.

• AUTHOR: CARNEY, COURT.
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• PUBLISHER: UNIVERSITY PR OF KANSAS
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: ML3508.C37 2009
• $34.95 CLOTH (219 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780700616756
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Court Carney examines the parallel development of jazz in four cities and connections between technologies in the dissemination of the music, marketing, race, and other factors. Carney is Assistant Professor of History at Stephen F. Austin State University.

• AUTHOR: LEHMAN, DAVID.
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• PUBLISHER: SCHOCKEN
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: ML3477.L45 2009
• $23.00 CLOTH (249 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780805242508
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In this book, Lehman examines the genesis of the American songbook in the 20th century and the dominant role of Jewish songwriters. David Lehman is the editor of the Oxford Book of American Poetry, and The Best American Poetry, as well as the author of seven books of poems.

• AUTHOR: D'AMBROSIO, ANTONINO.
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• PUBLISHER: NATION BOOKS
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: ML420.C265D35 2009
• $26.95 CLOTH (279 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9781568584072
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In this book, Antonino D’Ambrosio examines the little-known Johnny Cash folk protest record ‘Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian’, recorded early in his career. While focusing on the personal, political and cultural struggles informing the album, he also examines the collaboration with folk singer Peter La Farge. D’Ambrosio is artist-in-residence at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

• AUTHOR: ECHOLS, ALICE.
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• PUBLISHER: W.W. NORTON
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: ML3526.E34 2010
• $26.95 CLOTH (338 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780393066753
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Former disco DJ examines the cultural history of disco, connections to the emergence of “gay macho”, the rising black middle-class, and openness about female sexuality, as well as the music itself. Alice Echols is Professor of American Studies at Rutgers University

• AUTHOR: GIDDINS, GARY.
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• PUBLISHER: W.W. NORTON
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: ML3508.G54 2009
• $39.95 CLOTH (704 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780393068610
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This book is an in-depth overview of the genre from the 19th century to the present. Gary Giddins teaches at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and Scott DeVeaux teaches at the University of Virginia.

• AUTHOR: BONOMO, JOE.
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• PUBLISHER: CONTINUUM
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: ML420.L534
• $19.95 CLOTH (208 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780826429667
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In this examination or rock legend Jerry Lee Lewis, Joe Bonomo avoids Lewis’ various scandals to focus on his music, with emphasis on his 1964 album “Live” at the Star Club, and his musical legacy. Bonomo teaches in the English department of Northern Illinois University.

• AUTHOR: STRATTON, JON.
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• PUBLISHER: ASHGATE
• CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
• LC CLASS: ML3470.S79 2009
• $99.95 CLOTH (227 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780754668046
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This book explores issues of Jewish identity in relation to the social role of popular music. The book is a volume in the Ashgate Popular and Folk Music series. Jon Stratton is a lecturer in humanities and Curtin University of Technology, Australia.

• AUTHOR: KIRBY, DAVID.
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• PUBLISHER: CONTINUUM
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: ML420.L773
• $19.95 CLOTH (218 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780826429650
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This brief volume highlights the various contributions of Little Richard to popular music, as well as race relations and popular culture. David Kirby is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University.

• AUTHOR: MUIR, PETER C.
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• PUBLISHER: UNIV OF ILLINOIS PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
• LC CLASS: ML3521.M85 2009
• $85.00 CLOTH (254 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780252034879
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This book is a musicological study of early blues and interplay between folk and popular forms, appearing on recordings and in sheet music. The book is a volume in the series Music In American Life. Muir is co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Music and Health.

• AUTHOR: MUIR, PETER C.
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• PUBLISHER: UNIV OF ILLINOIS PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
• LC CLASS: ML3521.M85 2009
• $35.00 PAPER (254 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780252076763
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This book is a musicological study of early blues and interplay between folk and popular forms, appearing on recordings and in sheet music. The book is a volume in the series Music In American Life. Muir is co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Music and Health.

• AUTHOR: BURKART, PATRICK, 1969-
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• PUBLISHER: WESLEYAN UNIV PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
• LC CLASS: ML3790.B847 2009
• $70.00 CLOTH (180 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780819569172
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This book examines the emergence of alternative and radical media activists, culture jammers, hackers, netlabels, and critical legal scholars pushing back against the “copyright grab” by major labels to reestablish rights and privileges of the industry. Also covered are the recent trends and technologies. .Burkhart is Associate Professor of Communication at Texas A&M University.

• AUTHOR: BURKART, PATRICK, 1969-
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• PUBLISHER: WESLEYAN UNIV PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
• LC CLASS: ML3790.B847 2009
• $24.95 PAPER (180 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780819569189
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This book examines the emergence of alternative and radical media activists, culture jammers, hackers, netlabels, and critical legal scholars pushing back against the “copyright grab” by major labels to reestablish rights and privileges of the industry. Also covered are the recent trends and technologies. .Burkhart is Associate Professor of Communication at Texas A&M University.

• AUTHOR: GIVAN, BENJAMIN MARX.
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• PUBLISHER: UNIV OF MICHIGAN PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
• LC CLASS: ML419.R44G58 2010
• $75.00 CLOTH (242 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780472114993
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This book examines Reinhardt’s process, improvisational style, and instrumental technique. Also included are transcriptions of records from the 1920s through the 1950s, plus discussion of selected performances. Benjamin Givan is Assistant Professor of Music at Skidmore College.

• AUTHOR: GIVAN, BENJAMIN MARX.
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• PUBLISHER: UNIV OF MICHIGAN PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
• LC CLASS: ML419.R44G58 2010
• $29.95 PAPER (242 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780472034086
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This book examines Reinhardt’s process, improvisational style, and instrumental technique. Also included are transcriptions of records from the 1920s through the 1950s, plus discussion of selected performances. Benjamin Givan is Assistant Professor of Music at Skidmore College.

• AUTHOR: FOX, PAMELA, 1958-
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• PUBLISHER: UNIV OF MICHIGAN PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: ML3524.F73 2009
• $70.00 CLOTH (269 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780472070688
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This book examines connections of country music to image of ‘rusticity’. Topics include blackface and rube/hillbilly comedy, dressing down, postwar honky-tonk music and culture, and roots-based alt.country trend. The book is a volume in the series Class: Culture. Pamela Fox is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Georgetown University.

• AUTHOR: FOX, PAMELA, 1958-
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• PUBLISHER: UNIV OF MICHIGAN PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: ML3524.F73 2009
• $26.95 PAPER (269 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780472050680
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This book examines connections of country music to image of ‘rusticity’. Topics include blackface and rube/hillbilly comedy, dressing down, postwar honky-tonk music and culture, and roots-based alt.country trend. The book is a volume in the series Class: Culture. Pamela Fox is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Georgetown University.

• AUTHOR: HERNANDEZ, DEBORAH PACINI.
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• PUBLISHER: TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
• LC CLASS: ML3917.U6P33 2009
• $69.50 CLOTH (220 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9781439900895
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This book is an anthropological study. Deborah Pacini Hernandez is Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at Tufts University.

• AUTHOR: BISZICK-LOCKWOOD, BAR.
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• PUBLISHER: UNIV OF ILLINOIS PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: ML427.A24B57 2010
• $75.00 CLOTH (304 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780252035074
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This is a biography of popular music publishing house founder and hit-making during the 1940s and 1950s. The book is a volume in the series Music in American Life.

• AUTHOR: BISZICK-LOCKWOOD, BAR.
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• PUBLISHER: UNIV OF ILLINOIS PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: ML427.A24B57 2010
• $25.00 PAPER (304 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780252076947
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This is a biography of popular music publishing house founder and hit-making during the 1940s and 1950s. The book is a volume in the series Music in American Life.

• AUTHOR: MCDONALD, CHRIS.
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• PUBLISHER: INDIANA UNIV PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
• LC CLASS: ML421.R87M34 2009
• $60.00 CLOTH (255 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780253354082
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This book examines the impact of the group Rush on suburban middle-class culture during the 1970s and 1980s. Topics include middle-class aspirations and anxieties, the group’s performances, etc. The book is a volume in the series Profiles in Popular Music. Chris McDonald is an ethnomusicologist who specializes in popular music teaching at Cape Breton University.

• AUTHOR: MCDONALD, CHRIS.
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• PUBLISHER: INDIANA UNIV PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
• LC CLASS: ML421.R87M34 2009
• $22.95 PAPER (255 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780253221490
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This book examines the impact of the group Rush on suburban middle-class culture during the 1970s and 1980s. Topics include middle-class aspirations and anxieties, the group’s performances, etc. The book is a volume in the series Profiles in Popular Music. Chris McDonald is an ethnomusicologist who specializes in popular music teaching at Cape Breton University.

• AUTHOR: MILLER, KARL HAGSTROM, 1968-
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• PUBLISHER: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
• LC CLASS: ML3551.H198 2010
• $84.95 CLOTH (372 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780822346890
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In this book, the author argues that the common contemporary perception of southern music bears little relation to the ways southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late 19th and early 20th century, Miller examines the distinct genres linked to particular racial and ethnic identities. Also covered are ways in which the music industry and folklore studies have helped shape perceptions over time. Miller is Assistant Professor at the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music at the University of Texas, Austin.

• AUTHOR: MILLER, KARL HAGSTROM, 1968-
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• PUBLISHER: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
• LC CLASS: ML3551.H198 2010
• $23.95 PAPER (372 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780822347002
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In this book, the author argues that the common contemporary perception of southern music bears little relation to the ways southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late 19th and early 20th century, Miller examines the distinct genres linked to particular racial and ethnic identities. Also covered are ways in which the music industry and folklore studies have helped shape perceptions over time. Miller is Assistant Professor at the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music at the University of Texas, Austin.

• AUTHOR: MOORE, RYAN, 1970-
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• PUBLISHER: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: ML3918.R63M65 2009
• $75.00 CLOTH (275 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780814757475
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This book examines how music and youth culture have changed along with the economic, political, and cultural transformations of American society over the last 40 years. Ryan Moore is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Florida Atlantic University.

• AUTHOR: MOORE, RYAN, 1970-
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• PUBLISHER: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: ML3918.R63M65 2009
• $24.00 PAPER (275 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780814757482
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This book examines how music and youth culture have changed along with the economic, political, and cultural transformations of American society over the last 40 years. Ryan Moore is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Florida Atlantic University.

• AUTHOR: DUNAWAY, DAVID KING.
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• PUBLISHER: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: ML3551.D83 2010
• $27.95 CLOTH (255 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780195378344
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This book is based on 150 interviews with various figures involved in the folk revival conducted between 1976 and 2006. David King Dunaway teaches English and Communications at the University of New Mexico.

• AUTHOR: STEENSTRA, SYTZE.
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• PUBLISHER: CONTINUUM
• CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
• LC CLASS: ML410.B997S74 2010
• $80.00 CLOTH (301 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780826445599
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In this scholarly study, Sytze Steenstra documents ways in which David Byrne has evoked and reorganized sensibilities. Essays highlight facets of the many exchanges Byrne’s work encompasses, and capacities to invite forms of reciprocal change. Steenstra is a writer and philosopher living in the Netherlands.

• AUTHOR: STEENSTRA, SYTZE.
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• PUBLISHER: CONTINUUM
• CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
• LC CLASS: ML410.B997S74 2010
• $24.95 PAPER (301 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780826441683
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In this scholarly study, Sytze Steenstra documents ways in which David Byrne has evoked and reorganized sensibilities. Essays highlight facets of the many exchanges Byrne’s work encompasses, and capacities to invite forms of reciprocal change. Steenstra is a writer and philosopher living in the Netherlands.

• AUTHOR: ROWDEN, TERRY.
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• PUBLISHER: UNIV OF MICHIGAN PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
• LC CLASS: ML3556.R68 2009
• $65.00 CLOTH (171 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780472070640
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This book examines the ways in which blindness, like blackness, has affected the perception and production of music, mirroring the changes to America’s image of black Americans social position. The book is a volume in the series Corporealities: Discourses of Disability. Terry Rowden is Assistant Professor of English at the City University of New York, Staten Island.

• AUTHOR: ROWDEN, TERRY.
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• PUBLISHER: UNIV OF MICHIGAN PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
• LC CLASS: ML3556.R68 2009
• $22.95 PAPER (171 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780472050642
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This book examines the ways in which blindness, like blackness, has affected the perception and production of music, mirroring the changes to America’s image of black Americans social position. The book is a volume in the series Corporealities: Discourses of Disability. Terry Rowden is Assistant Professor of English at the City University of New York, Staten Island.

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• EDITOR: OLA JOHANSSON
• PUBLISHER: ASHGATE
• CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
• LC CLASS: ML3918.P67S68 2009
• $99.95 CLOTH (305 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780754675778
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This collection of papers interprets the meaning of music from a spatial perspective to further understanding of broader social relations and trends, including identity, attachment to place, cultural economies, social activism and politics. Ola Johansson is Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown.

• AUTHOR: BENNIGHOF, JAMES.
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• PUBLISHER: PRAEGER
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: ML410.M6823B46 2010
• $44.95 CLOTH (213 P.)
• ISBN-13: 9780313355943
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This book features an in-depth album-by-album musical analysis and a brief career profile. The book is a volume in the Praeger Singer-Songwriter Collection. Bennighof is Professor of Music Theory at Baylor University.