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Americanaland - Where Country and Western Met Rock 'n' Roll by John Milward
Category: Music/Performance | Series: Music in American Life Ser.
A musical genre forever outside the lines With a claim on artists from Jimmie Rodgers to Jason Isbell, Americana can be hard to define, but you know it when you hear it. John Milward's Americanaland is filled with the enduring performers and vivid stories that are at the heart of Americana. At base a hy ...Show more
Buddy Emmons - Steel Guitar Icon by Steve Fishell
Category: Music | Series: Music in American Life Ser.
The acknowledged maestro of the pedal steel guitar, Buddy Emmons lent his unparalleled virtuosity to over five decades of hit recordings and set standards that remain the benchmark for musicians today. Steve Fishell's merger of biography and memoir draws extensively on in-depth interviews with Emmons an ...Show more
Ethnic Music on Records - A Discography of Ethnic Recordings Produced in the United States, 1893-1942. Vol. 1: Western Europe by Richard K. Spottswood
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Music in American Life Ser.
This impressive compilation offers a nearly complete listing of sound recordings made by American minority artists prior to mid-1942. Organized by national group or language, the seven-volume set cites primary and secondary titles, composers, participating artists, instrumentation, date and place of rec ...Show more
George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait by Walter Rimler
Category: Biography | Series: Music in American Life Ser.
George Gershwin lived with purpose and gusto, but with melancholy as well, for he was unable to make a place for himself--no family of his own and no real home in music. He and his siblings received little love from their mother and no direction from their father. Older brother and lyricist Ira managed ...Show more
Peggy Glanville-Hicks - Composer and Critic by Suzanne Robinson
Category: Music | Series: Music in American Life Ser.
As both composer and critic, Peggy Glanville-Hicks contributed to the astonishing cultural ferment of the mid-twentieth century. Her forceful voice as a writer and commentator helped shape professional and public opinion on the state of American composing. The seventy musical works she composed ranged f ...Show more
The Man That Got Away - The Life and Songs of Harold Arlen by Walter Rimler
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Music in American Life Ser.
Over the Rainbow, "Stormy Weather," and "One for My Baby" are just a few of Harold Arlen's well-loved compositions. Yet his name is hardly known--except to the musicians who venerate him. At a gathering of songwriters George Gershwin called him "the best of us." Irving Berlin agreed. Paul McCartney sent ...Show more
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