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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Backstory in blue	John Fass Morton	"It may be that the song most baby boomers identify from July 1956 is a simple twelve-bar blues, hyped on national television by a twenty-one-year-old Elvis Presley and his handlers. But it is a very…	OL12047070W
Cultural codes	William C. Banfield	"No art can survive without an understanding of, and dedication to, the values envisioned by its creators. No culture over time has existed without a belief system to sustain its survival. Black musi…	OL15611867W
American singers	Whitney Balliett	American singers, Teddi King, Mary Mayo, Barbara Lea -- Let it be classy, Alberta Hunter -- Majesty, Joe Turner -- Just a singer, Helen Humes -- It's detestable when you live it, Ray Charles -- A qua…	OL15834491W
Louisiana music	Rick Koster	"A journey from R&B to zydeco, jazz to country, blues to gospel, Cajun music to swamp pop to Carnival music and beyond."	OL15951062W
Canyon of dreams	Harvey Kubernik	Traces the musical legacy of the California neighborhood of Laurel Canyon, and the artists who lived there.	OL16187276W
The Battle Hymn of the Republic	John Stauffer,Benjamin Soskis	It was sung at Ronald Reagan's funeral, and adopted with new lyrics by labor radicals. John Updike quoted it in the title of one of his novels, and George W. Bush had it performed at the memorial ser…	OL16806167W
Creating jazz counterpoint	Vic Hobson	A full study of Buddy Bolden and Bunk Johnson confirming their roles in the real blues roots of New Orleans jazz.	OL17136418W
Andrew WKs I Get Wet 33 13	Phillip Crandall	x, 160 p. : 17 cm	OL17582903W
George P. Knauff's Virginia reels and the history of American fiddling	Chris Goertzen	George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels (1839) was the first collection of southern fiddle tunes and the only substantial one published in the nineteenth century. Knauff's activity could not anticipate our…	OL19736860W
Waiting for the sun	Barney Hoskyns	xiii,356,[14]p. : 25cm	OL1983586W
No regrets	Rob Young	Scott Walker has travelled from teen idol to the outer limits of music : from 'The sun ain't gonna shine any more' reaching no.1 through to recordings of meat being punched on his last album, The dri…	OL19957351W
Behind the baton	Gerard Schwarz	375 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm	OL20056354W
Listen but don't ask question	Kevin Fellezs	"Played on an acoustic steel-string guitar with open tunings and a finger-picking technique, Hawaiian slack key guitar music emerged in the mid-nineteenth century. Though played on a non-Hawaiian ins…	OL21242339W
Houston Rap Tapes	Lance Scott Walker,Willie D	"Houston Rap Tapes" is the companion to "Houston Rap," Peter Beste's intimate photo book on this important hip hop culture. "Houston Rap Tapes" complements Beste's photography with a series of oral h…	OL21354014W
American Piano Classics	Joseph Smith, Jr.	Reprints of separate authoritative editions	OL28026771W
Listening well	Ora Frishberg Saloman	"The twelve essays in Listening Well illuminate aesthetic, educative, and evaluative strategies utilized by writers in Paris, Boston, and New York to guide listeners in confronting the challenges of …	OL3507669W
The new breed	Robert K. Krishef	Biographies of nine contemporary country music stars, including Glen Campbell, John Denver, Emmylou Harris, and Dolly Parton.	OL5902333W
Tori Amos	Tori Amos	I choose to fight my battles through my music . . . I was born a feminist. And then at age five, when my strict Christian grandmother punished me, I realized, I'm not penetrating here. I'm just pissi…	OL5973826W
Music, a MARC format	Library of Congress. MARC Development Office.	98 p. ; 26 cm	OL6537835W
Lessons in American Music	Debra Kay Robinson Lindsay	Lessons in American Music, by Debra Kay Robinson Lindsay, is a collection of lessons covering William Billings, Stephen Foster, Scott Joplin, and "The Star-Spangled Banner." This book is an all-in-on…	OL8884830W