I Don't Sound Like Nobody

I Don't Sound Like Nobody
Author: Albin Zak
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2012-10-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0472035126

A definitive study of the most important decade in post-World War II popular music history

Baby, Let's Play House

Baby, Let's Play House
Author: Alanna Nash
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 710
Release: 2010-01-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0061699845

Award-winning journalist Nash explores Elvis Presley's complex relationships with women, his sexual identity, and how both informed his art and his life.

The Complete Bo Diddley Sessions

The Complete Bo Diddley Sessions
Author: George R. White
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1993
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

Complete US/UK discography of this legendary American guitarist by his biographer. Includes band history, session details, list of all US/UK releases from 1955 to 1992, selected foreign rarities, BBC radio recordings, film and video performances, guest appearances on other artists' sessions, label shots, and vintage ads.

Salt the Water

Salt the Water
Author: Candice Iloh
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2023-10-03
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0593529332

A Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book Cerulean Gene is free everywhere except school, where they’re known for repeatedly challenging authority. Raised in a free-spirited home by two loving parents who encourage Cerulean to be their full self, they’ve got big dreams of moving cross-country to live off the grid with their friends after graduation. But a fight with a teacher spirals out of control, and Cerulean impulsively drops out to avoid the punishment they fear is coming. Why wait for graduation to leave an oppressive capitalist system and live their dreams? Cerulean is truly brilliant, but their sheltered upbringing hasn’t prepared them for the consequences of their choice — especially not when it’s compounded by a family emergency that puts a parent out of work. Suddenly the money they’d been stacking with their friends is a resource that the family needs to stay afloat. Salt the Water is a book about dreaming in a world that has other plans for your time, your youth, and your future. It asks, what does it look like when a bunch of queer Black kids are allowed to dream? And what does it look like for them to confront the present circumstances of the people they love while still pursuing a wildly different future of their own?

Popular Music in America

Popular Music in America
Author: Michael Campbell
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2005
Genre: Popular music
ISBN:

"...Reviews the evolution of popular music from the mid-19th century, highlighting connections, contrasts, and patterns of infludence among artists and styles. Students gain new listening skills and the ability to place the music in context...features additional coverage of country, Latin, world, and late 20th-century music in a modular organization..."--back cover.

Record Cultures

Record Cultures
Author: Kyle Barnett
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2020-02-20
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0472131036

Record Cultures tells the story of how early U.S. commercial recording companies captured American musical culture in a key period in both music and media history. Amid dramatic technological and cultural changes of the 1920s and 1930s, small recording companies in the United States began to explore the genres that would later be known as jazz, blues, and country. Smaller record labels, many based in rural or out of the way Midwestern and Southern towns, were willing to take risks on the country’s regional vernacular music as a way to compete with more established recording labels. Recording companies’ relationship with radio grew closer as both industries were on the rise, propelled by new technologies. Radio, which had become immensely popular, began broadcasting more recorded music in place of live performances, and this created profitable symbiosis. With the advent of the talkies, the film industry completed the media trifecta. The novelty of recorded sound was replacing film accompanists, and the popularity of movie musicals solidified film’s connections with the radio and recording industries. By the early 1930s, the recording industry had gone from being part of the largely autonomous phonograph industry to being major media industry of its own, albeit deeply tied to—and, in some cases, owned by—the radio and film industries. The triangular relationships between these media industries marked the first major entertainment and media conglomerates in U.S. history. Through an interdisciplinary and intermedial approach to recording industry history, Record Cultures creates new connections between different strands of media research. It will be of interest to scholars of popular music, media studies, sound studies, American culture, and the history of film, television, and radio.

The Elvis Presley Scrapbook

The Elvis Presley Scrapbook
Author: James Robert Parish
Publisher:
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1975
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Biographical illustrated scrap book of Elvis Presley.