Music: New Titles http://www.press.umich.edu/rss/newMusic.xml New Music Books en-us ump.webmaster@umich.edu The Songs of Blind Folk: African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness | by Terry Rowden http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=232221 How America has constructed the figure of the visually impaired black performer over the last 150 years Natural Acts: Gender, Race, and Rusticity in Country Music | by Pamela Fox http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=277898 Hillbilly, honky-tonk, Nashville glitz, or alt.country: what makes music authentically country? Highbrow/Lowdown : Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class | by David Savran http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=338819 The culture clash that permanently changed American theater. Ellington Uptown : Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz | by John Howland http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=211239 Explores a little-discussed yet truly hybrid American musical tradition lost between the canons of authentic jazz and classical music. New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History | by Bruce Boyd Raeburn http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=176136 A fascinating and insightful study of the development of New Orleans jazz and its effect on jazz history. Old Roots, New Routes: The Cultural Politics of Alt.Country Music | edited by Pamela Fox and Barbara Ching http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=344030 An in-depth look at the influences, meaning, and identity of this contemporary music form. Hazel Scott The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Cafe Society to Hollywood to HUAC | by Karen Chilton http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=197245 The first biography of an important but overlooked African American pianist, singer, actor, and civil-rights advocate. Delightfulee: The Life and Music of Lee Morgan | by Jeffery S. McMillan http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=132323 The story of one of the most individual jazz stylists of his time. Counterculture Kaleidoscope: Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco | by Nadya Zimmerman http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=192464 A bold reconsideration of the meaning of 1960s San Francisco counterculture. Don't Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition | by Lorenzo Thomas | Edited and with an Introduction by Aldon Lynn Nielsen http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=91773 Reflections on the relationships between black American intellectuals and African American musical traditions from blues to hip hop. Haunted Heart: A Biography of Susannah McCorkle | by Linda Dahl http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=190229 NEW IN PAPER! The secret life and tragic death of a great American songbird.