Songbooks: the literature of American popular music
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Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
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xxii, 530 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"Songbooks, a critical guide to American popular music writing, unfolds chronologically, with entries on authors, artists, and topics beginning with William Billings's 1770 New-England Psalm-Singer. Outsiders proliferate in these pages: women and/or writers of color, authors displaced by sexuality, self-educated scholars, elites deviating from norms. Their work routinely took non-academic shapes: compilations of songs, memoirs and biographies, fiction and magazine essays. Others fought within the academy to establish fields like ethnomusicology and jazz studies. Drawing on his background as a Village Voice music critic and as the longtime organizer of the Pop Conference, Eric Weisbard offers an important corrective to a fragmented field"--

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 446-512) and index.
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"Songbooks, a critical guide to American popular music writing, unfolds chronologically, with entries on authors, artists, and topics beginning with William Billings's 1770 New-England Psalm-Singer. Outsiders proliferate in these pages: women and/or writers of color, authors displaced by sexuality, self-educated scholars, elites deviating from norms. Their work routinely took non-academic shapes: compilations of songs, memoirs and biographies, fiction and magazine essays. Others fought within the academy to establish fields like ethnomusicology and jazz studies. Drawing on his background as a Village Voice music critic and as the longtime organizer of the Pop Conference, Eric Weisbard offers an important corrective to a fragmented field"--,Provided by publisher.

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Weisbard, E. (2021). Songbooks: the literature of American popular music. Durham, Duke University Press.

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Weisbard, Eric. 2021. Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music. Durham, Duke University Press.

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Weisbard, Eric, Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music. Durham, Duke University Press, 2021.

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Weisbard, Eric. Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music. Durham, Duke University Press, 2021.

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