Popular music

From the Jim Crow world of 1920s Greenville, South Carolina, to Greenwich Village's Cafe Society in the '40s, to their 1974 Grammy-winning collaboration on "e;Loves Me Like a Rock,"e; the Dixie Hummingbirds have been one of gospel's most durable and inspiring groups.

"e;If You Don't Know Me By Now,"e; "e;The Love I Lost,"e; "e;The Soul Train Theme,"e; "e;Then Came You,"e; "e;Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now"e;--the distinctive music that became known as Philly Soul dominated the pop music charts in the 1970s.

'A Gilbert is of no use without a Sullivan.

Charles Mingus was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 20th Century, and ranks with Ives and Ellington as one of America's greatest composers.

A generation before Walt Disney, Fred Thompson was the "e;boy-wonder"e; of American popular amusements.

Dizzy Gillespie was one of the most important and best-loved musicians in jazz history.

Although he died in a tragic car accident at twenty-five, Clifford Brown is widely considered one of the most important figures in the history of jazz, a trumpet player who ranks with Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miles Davis, and a leading influence on contemporary jazz musicians.

Four Parts, No Waiting investigates the role that vernacular, barbershop-style close harmony has played in American musical history, in American life, and in the American imagination.

Swing is back in style, and with it a renewed interest in the Big Band Era.

"e;I don't make culture, I sell it"e; Dick Clark once remarked.

This book is the first biography of 20th-century pianist Rudolf Serkin, providing a narrative of Serkin's life with emphasis on his European roots and the impact of his move to America.

Based on three years of ethnographic research with Bruce Springsteen fans, and informed by the author's own experiences as a fan, Tramps Like Us is an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which ordinary people form special, sustained attachments to Springsteen and his music and how those attachments function in people's daily lives.

Lydia Mendoza began her legendary musical career as a child in the 1920s, singing for pennies and nickels on the streets of downtown San Antonio.

Gene Lees is probably the best jazz essayist in America today, and the book that consolidated his reputation was Singers and the Song, which appeared in 1987.

Of all the major jazz artists, Thelonious Monk was one of the most original musical thinkers--nonconformist, idiosyncratic, imaginative, eccentric--in a word, unique.

Although it isn't the official national anthem, America may be the most important and interesting patriotic song in our national repertoire.

Renowned today as a prominent African-American in Music Theater and the Arts community, composer, conductor, and violinist Will Marion Cook was a key figure in the development of American music from the 1890s to the 1920s.

This is the first study of "e;hard"e; country music as well as the first comprehensive application of contemporary cultural theory to country music.

Art Tatum defined the limits of the possible in jazz piano.

If Benny Goodman was the "e;King of Swing,"e; then Fletcher Henderson was the power behind the throne.

The setting is the Royal Gardens Cafe.

From the turn of the century to the 1960s, the songwriters of Tin Pan Alley dominated American music.

There were but four major galaxies in the early jazz universe, and three of them--New Orleans, Chicago, and New York--have been well documented in print.

The effect of jazz upon American culture and the American character has been all-pervasive.

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater collects a critical mass of border-crossing scholarship on the intersections of dance and theatre.

In Sonic Virtuality: Sound as Emergent Perception, authors Mark Grimshaw and Tom Garner introduce a novel theory that positions sound within a framework of virtuality.

We have grown accustomed to corporate influence in retail outlets, restaurants, and even higher education-but what happens when corporations take over desire?

Sounds French examines the history of popular music in France between the arrival of rock and roll in 1958 and the collapse of the first wave of punk in 1980, and the connections between musical genres and concepts of community in French society.

George Balanchine's arrival in the United States in 1933, it is widely thought, changed the course of ballet history by creating a bold neoclassical style that is celebrated as the first American manifestation of the art form.

One of the most important dance artists of the twentieth century, dancer and choreographer Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) created works that thrilled audiences the world over.

One of the most important dance artists of the twentieth century, dancer and choreographer Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) created works that thrilled audiences the world over.

Living in the Merry Ghetto reframes how people use music to build resistance.

Elliott Carter (1908-2012) was the foremost composer of classical music in America during the second half of the 20th century.

Elliott Carter (1908-2012) was the foremost composer of classical music in America during the second half of the 20th century.

Alla Osipenko is the gripping story of one of history's greatest ballerinas, a courageous rebel who paid the price for speaking truth to the Soviet State.

Alla Osipenko is the gripping story of one of history's greatest ballerinas, a courageous rebel who paid the price for speaking truth to the Soviet State.

He was the Wicked Wilson Pickett, the legendary soul man whose forty-plus hits included "e;In the Midnight Hour,"e; "e;634-5789,"e; "e;Land of 1000 Dances,"e; "e;Mustang Sally,"e; and "e;Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You.

He was the Wicked Wilson Pickett, the legendary soul man whose forty-plus hits included "e;In the Midnight Hour,"e; "e;634-5789,"e; "e;Land of 1000 Dances,"e; "e;Mustang Sally,"e; and "e;Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You.

Now in its sixth decade, country music studies is a thriving field of inquiry involving scholars working in the fields of American history, folklore, sociology, anthropology, musicology, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, and geography, among many others.

Engaging with a broad range of research and performance genres, The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies offers the most comprehensive research on Hip Hop dance to date.

Engaging with a broad range of research and performance genres, The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies offers the most comprehensive research on Hip Hop dance to date.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Hollywood studios and record companies churned out films, albums, music videos and promotional materials that sought to recapture, revise, and re-imagine the 1950s.

When it was first published in 1994, King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and his Era was widely heralded not only as the most thorough investigation of Scott Joplin's life and music, but also as a gripping read, almost a detective story.

When it was first published in 1994, King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and his Era was widely heralded not only as the most thorough investigation of Scott Joplin's life and music, but also as a gripping read, almost a detective story.

This volume focuses on developments in the music business in the twentieth century, including vaudeville, music boxes, the relationship of Hollywood to the music business, the "e;fall and rise"e; of the record business in the 1930s, new technology (TV, FM, and the LP record) after World War II, the dominance of rock-and-roll and the huge increase in the music business during the 1950s and 1960s, and finally the changing music business scene from 1967 to the present, especially regarding government regulations, music licensing, and the record business.

The prevailing discourse surrounding urban music education suggests the deficit-laden notion that urban school settings are "e;less than,"e; rather than "e;different than,"e; their counterparts.

Posthuman Rap listens for the ways contemporary rap maps an existence outside the traditional boundaries of what it means to be human.

Posthuman Rap listens for the ways contemporary rap maps an existence outside the traditional boundaries of what it means to be human.

Starting with 1964's Goldfinger, every James Bond film has followed the same ritual, and so has its audience: after an exciting action sequence the screen goes black and the viewer spends three long minutes absorbing abstract opening credits and a song that sounds like it wants to return to 1964.