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    by Garry Boulard
    £19.49

    A biography of Louis Prima, one of the most underrated jazz musicians and entertainers of the twentieth century. It explores Prima's ability to maintain a lifelong career, his knack for self-promotion, and how the cities in which he lived and performed - New York, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas - uniquely and indelibly informed his style.

  • - A Life of Music, Love, and Politics
    by Jean R. Freedman
    £23.99

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    - Interviews from the Chicago Scene
    by Steve Cushing
    £78.49

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    - John Philip Sousa's Washington Years, 1854-1893
    by Patrick Warfield
    £20.99 - 33.49

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    - Composer in Two Worlds
    by Carol J. Oja
    £19.49

    Traces the life, influences on fellow musicians, and struggles of a pioneer among American composers who turned to the island of Bali for inspiration. Presenting an unconventional life, this title is designed for scholars, musicians or those interested in 20th century American or Balinese music.

  • - Chicago Blues at the Crossroads
    by Alan Harper
    £15.49 - 78.49

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    - The Jimmy Rogers Story
    by Wayne Everett Goins
    £88.99

  • - SONGS AND SONGMAKERS OF THE AMERICAN WEST
    by John I. White
    £15.49

  • - The wrong place for the Right people
    by Barney Josephson & Terry Trilling-Josephson
    £14.99 - 24.99

    The story of the night club impresario whose wildly successful interracial club, Cafe Society, changed the American artistic landscape forever

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    - A Discography of Ethnic Recordings Produced in the United States, 1893-1942. Vol. 7: Record Number Index, Matrix Number Index
    by Richard K. Spottswood
    £68.49

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    - A HISTORY 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
    by Neil V. Rosenberg
    £17.99

    Beginning with the musical cultures of the American South in the 1920s and 1930s, this title traces the genre through its pivotal developments during the era of Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys in the forties. It also describes early bluegrass' role in postwar country music, and its trials following the appearance of rock and roll.

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    - Black Folk Music to the Civil War
    by Dena J. Epstein
    £23.99

    From the plaintive tunes of woe sung by exiled kings and queens of Africa to the spirited work songs and "shouts" of freedmen, this title traces the course of early black folk music in various its guises.

  • - People's Songs, American Communism, and the Politics of Culture, 1930-50
    by ROBBIE LIEBERMAN
    £16.49

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    - Tradition and Innovation in Chicago
    by David Whiteis
    £78.49

  • - Playing Bluegrass with Bill Monroe
    by Bob Black
    £16.49

    The inside story on the Father of Bluegrass from one of his Blue Grass Boys

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    - Rockabilly Music and Its Makers
    by Craig Morrison
    £20.99

    Presents the who, what, where, and when of rockabilly music

  • - An Intimate Portrait
    by Walter Rimler
    £22.49

    The dramatic story of a legendary American composer

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    - Bodies, Space, and Sound in American Cultural History
    by Christopher J. Smith
    £78.49

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    - The Chicago Scene
    by Robert Pruter
    £21.99

  • - A Memoir
    by Neil V Rosenberg
    £15.49 - 88.99

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    by Gary B. Reid
    £20.99

    Brings together forty years of passionate research by scholar and record label owner. This book provides fans and scholars alike with a guide for immersion in the long career and breathtaking repertoire of two legendary American musicians.

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    - Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music
    by Robert M. Marovich
    £20.99 - 88.99

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    - Country Music and the Southern Working Class
    by Bill C Malone
    £17.99

    Combining the history of country music's roots with portraits of its primary performers, this work examines the close relationship between "America's truest music" and the working-class culture that has constituted its principal source, nurtured its development, and provided its most dedicated supporters.

  • - Ethnomusicological Reflections on Schools of Music
    by Bruno Nettl
    £16.49

    One of the ethnomusicologists takes the reader along for a tour of his workplace.

  • by Jon Hartley Fox
    £22.49

    Offers a comprehensive history of King Records, one of the most influential independent record companies in the history of American music. This book tells the story of a small outsider record company in Cincinnati, Ohio, that attracted an extremely diverse roster of artists, including the Stanley Brothers, Grandpa Jones, Redd Foxx and Earl Bostic.

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    - Composer and Critic
    by Suzanne Robinson
    £20.99 - 78.49

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