Eric Weisbard

Songbooks

The Literature of American Popular Music

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Produktbeschreibung

In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England Psalm-Singer to Jay-Z's 2010 memoir Decoded. Drawing on his background editing the Village Voice music section, coediting the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and organizing the Pop Conference, Weisbard connects American music writing from memoirs, biographies, and song compilations to blues novels, magazine essays, and academic studies. The authors of these works are as diverse as the music itself: women, people of color, queer writers, self-educated scholars, poets, musicians, and elites discarding their social norms. Whether analyzing books on Louis Armstrong, the Beatles, and Madonna; the novels of Theodore Dreiser, Gayl Jones, and Jennifer Egan; or varying takes on blackface minstrelsy, Weisbard charts an alternative history of American music as told through its writing. As Weisbard demonstrates, the most enduring work pursues questions that linger across time period and genre-cultural studies in the form of notes on the fly, on sounds that never cease to change meaning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 554
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 943g
• ISBN-13: 9781478011941
• ISBN-10: 1478011947
• Artikelnr.: 59758270

Autorenporträt

Eric Weisbard is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Alabama and the author of Top 40 Democracy: The Rival Mainstreams of American Music.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction  1 Part I: Setting the Scene First Writer
of Music and on Music: William Billings: The New-England Psalm-Singer
1770  20 Blackface Minstrelsy Extends Its Twisted Roots: T.D. Rice
"Jim Crow
" c. 1832  22 Shape-Note Singing and Early Country: B.F. White and E.J. King
The Sacred Harp
1944  25 Music in Captivity: Solomon Northup
Twelve Years a Slave: 1853  26 Champion of the White Male Vernacular: Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
1855  28 Notating Spirituals: William Francis Allen
Charles Pickard Ware
and Lucy McKim Garrison
eds.
Slave Songs of the United States
1867  30 First Black Music Historian: James Trotter
Music and Some Highly Musical People: The Lives of Remarkable Musicians of the Colored Race
1878  32 Child Ballads and Folklore: James Child
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
5 vols.
1882-1898  33 Women Not Inventing Ethnomusicology: Alice Fletcher
A Study of Omaha Indian Music
1893  35 First Hit Songwriter
from Pop to Folk and Back Again: Morrison Foster
Biography
Songs and Musical Compositions of Stephen C. Foster
1896  39 Americana Emerges: Emma Bell Miles
The Spirit of the Mountains
1905  44 Documenting the Story: O.G. Sonneck
Bibliography of Early Secular American Music
1905  45 Tin Pan Alley's Sheet Music Biz: Charles K. Harris
How to Write a Popular Song
1906  47 First Family of Folk Collecting: John A. Lomax
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
1910  50 Proclaiming Black Modernity: James Weldon Johnson
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
1912  52 Songcatching in the Mountains: Olive Dame Campbell and Cecil Sharp
English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians
1917  54 Part II: The Jazz Age Stories for the Slicks: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Flappers and Philosophers
1920  62 Remembering the First Black Star: Mabel Rowland
ed.
Bert Williams
Son of Laughter
1923  64 Magazine Criticism across Popular Genres: Gilbert Seldes
The Seven Lively Arts
1924  67 Harlem Renaissance: Alain Locke
ed.
The New Negro: An Interpretation
1925  69 Tin Pan Alley's Standards Setter: Alexander Woollcott
The Story of Irving Berlin
1925  71 Broadway Musical as Supertext: Edna Ferber
Show Boat
1926  74 Father of the Blues in Print: W.C. Handy
ed.
Blues: An Anthology
1926  76 Poet of the Blare and Racial Mountain: Langston Hughes
The Weary Blues
1926  78 Blessed Immortal
Forgotten Songwriter: Carrie Jacobs-Bond
The Roads of Melody
1927  80 Tune Detective and Expert Explainer: Sigmund Spaeth
Read 'Em and Weep: The Songs Your Forgot to Remember
1927  82 Pop's First History Lesson: Isaac Goldberg: Tin Pan Alley: A Chronicle of the American Popular Music Racket
1930  84 Roots Intellectual: Constance Rourke
American Humor: A Study of the National Character
1931  85 Jook Ethnography
Inventing Black Music Studies: Zora Neale Hurston
Mules and Men
1935  87 What He Played Came First: Louis Armstrong
Swing That Music
1936  90 Jazz's Original Novel: Dorothy Baker
Young Man with a Horn
1938  94 Introducing Jazz Critics: Frederic Ramsey Jr. and Charles Edward Smith
eds.
Jazzmen
1939  95 Part III: Midcentury Icons Folk Embodiment: Woody Guthrie
Bound for Glory
1943  104 A Hack Story Soldiers Took to War: David Ewen
Men of Popular Music
1944  106 From Immigrant Jew to Red Hot Mama: Sophie Tucker
Some of These Days
1945  108 White Negro Drug Dealer: Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe
Really the Blues
1946  110 Composer of Tone Parallels: Barry Ulanov
Duke Ellington
1946  111 Jazz's Precursor as Pop and Art: Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis
They All Played Ragtime: The True Story of an American Music
1950  114 Field Recording in the Library of Congress: Alan Lomax
Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton
New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz
" 1950  118 Dramatizing Blackness from a Distance: Ethel Waters with Charles Samuels
His Eye Is on the Sparrow
1951  120 Centering Vernacular Song: Gilbert Chase
America's Music
1955  122 Writing about Records: Roland Gelatt
The Fabulous Phonograph: From Tin Foil to High Fidelity
1955  124 Collective Oral History of Document Scenes: Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff
eds.
Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It
1955  127 The Greatest Jazz Singer's Star Text: Billie Holiday with William Dufty
Lady Sings the Blues
1956  129 Beat Generation: Jack Kerouac
On the Road
1957  133 Borderlands Folklore and Transnational Imaginaries: Américo Paredes
"With His Pistol in His Hands": A Border Ballad and Its Hero
1958  136 New Yorker Critic of a Genre Becoming Middlebrow: Whitney Balliett
The Sound of Surprise: 46 Pieces on Jazz
1959  141 Part IV. Vernacular Counterculture Blues Revivalists: Samuel Charters
The Country Blues
1959; Paul Oliver
Blues Fell This Morning: The Meaning of the Blues
1960  148 Britpop in Fiction: Colin MacInnes
Absolute Beginners
1959  151 Form-Exploding Indeterminacy: John Cage
Silence
1961  153 Science Fiction Writer Pens First Rock and Roll Novel: Harlan Ellison
Rockabilly [Spider Kiss]
1961  155 Pro-Jazz Scene Sociology: Howard Becker
Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance
1963  159 Reclaiming Black Music: LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)
Blues People: Negro Music in White America
1963  159 An Endless Lit
Limited Only in Scope: Michael Braun
"Love Me Do!": The Beatles Progress
1964  162 Music as a Prose Master's Jagged Grain: Ralph Ellison
Shadow and Act
1964  167 How to Succeed in . . .: M. William Krasilovsky and Sidney Schemel
This Business of Music
1964  169 Schmaltz and Adversity: Sammy Davis Jr. and Burt Boyar
Yes I Can
1965  171 New Journalism and Electrified Syntax: Tom Wolfe
Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
1965  173 Defining a Genre: Bill C. Malone
Country Music
U.S.A.: A Fifty-Year History
1968  175 Swing's Movers as an Alternate History of American Pop: Marshall and Jean Stearns
Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance
1968  177 Rock and Roll's Greatest Hyper: Nik Cohn
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom
1969/1970  182 Ebony's Pioneering Critic of Black Pop as Black Power: Phyl Garland
The Sound of Soul: The Story of Black Music
1969  184 Entertainment Journalism and the Power of Knowing: Lillian Roxon
Rock Encyclopedia
1969  185 An Over-the-Top Genre's First Reliable History: Charlie Gillett
The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll
1970  187 Rock Critic of the Trivially Awesome: Richard Meltzer
The Aesthetics of Rock
1970  188 Black Religious Fervor as the Core of Rock and Soul: Anthony Heilbut
The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times
1971  190 Jazz Memoir of "Rotary Perception" Multiplicity: Charles Mingus
Beneath the Underdog
1971  193 Composing a Formal History: Eileen Southern
The Music of Black Americans
1971  194 Krazy Kat Fiction of Viral Vernaculars: Ishmael Reed
Mumbo Jumbo
1972  196 Derrière Garde Prose and Residual Pop Styles: Alec Wilder
American Popular Song: The Great Innovators
1900–1950
1972  198 Charts as a New Literature: Joel Whitburn
Top Pop Records
1955–1972
1973  201 Selling Platinum across Formats: Clive Davis with James Willwerth
Clive
Inside the Record Business
1975  203 Blues Relationships and Black Women's Deep Songs: Gayl Jones
Corregidora
1975  205 "Look a the World in a Rock 'n' Roll Sense . . . What Does That Even Mean?": Greil Marcus
Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music
1975  207 Cultural Studies Brings Pop from the Hallway to the Classroom: Hall and Tony Jefferson
eds.
Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain
1976  211 Life in Country for an Era of Feminism and Counterculture: Loretta Lynn with George Vecsey
Coal Miner's Daughter
1976  214 Introducing Rock Critics: Jim Miller
ed.
The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll
1976  216 Patriarchal Exegete of Black Vernacular as "Equipment for Living": Albert Murray
Stomping the Blues
1976  219 Reading Pop Culture as Intellectual Obligation: Roland Barthes
Image—Music—Text
1977  221 Paging through Books to Make History: Dean Epstein
Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War
1977  223 Historians Begin to Study Popular Music: Lawrence Levine
Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom
1977  225 Musicking to Overturn Hierarchy: Christopher Small
Music
Society
Education
1977  226 Drool Data and Stained Panties from a Critical Noise Boy: Nick Tosches
Country: The Biggest Music in America
1977  229 Part V: After the Revolution Punk Negates Rock: Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons
The Boy Looked at Johnny: The Obituary of Rock and Roll
1978  236 The Ghostwriter behind the Music Books: Ray Charles and David Ritz
Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story
1978  240 Disco Negates Rock: Andrew Holleran
Dancer from the Dance
1978  242 Industry Schmoozer and Black Music Advocated Fills Public Libraries with Okay Overviews: Arnold Shaw
Honkers and Shouters: The Golden Years of Rhythm and Blues
1978  245 Musicology's Greatest Tune Chronicler: Charles Hamm
Yesterdays: Popular Song in America
1979  247 Criticism's Greatest Album Chronicler: Robert Christgau
Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the '70s
1981  248 Rock's Frank Capra: Cameron Crowe: Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A True Story
1981  251 Culture Studies/Rock Critic Twofer!: Simon Frith
Sound Effects: Youth
Leisure
and the Politics of Rock'n'Roll
1981  252 A Magical Explainer of Impure Sounds: Robert Palmer
Deep Blues
1981  255 Feminist Rock Critic
Pop-Savvy Social Critic: Ellen Willis
Beginning to See the Light: Pieces of a Decade
1981  257 New Deal Swing Believer Revived: Otis Ferguson
In the Spirit of Jazz: The Otis Ferguson Reader
1982  259 Ethnomusicology and Pop
Forever Fraught: Bruno Nettl
The Study of Ethnomusicology: Twenty-Nine Issues and Concepts
1983  260 Autodidact Deviance
Modeling the Rock Generation to Come: V. Vale and Andrea Juno
eds.
RE/Search #6/7: Industrial Culture Handbook
1983  263 The Rolling Stones of Rolling Stones Books: Stanley Booth
The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
1984  266 Finding the Blackface in Bluegrass: Robert Cantwell
Bluegrass Breakdown: The Making of the Old Southern Sound
1984  268 Cyberpunk Novels and Cultural Studies Futurism: William Gibson
Neuromancer
1984  269 Glossary Magazine Features Writer Gets History's Second Draft: Gerri Hirshey
Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music
1984  272 Theorizing Sound as Dress Rehearsal for the Future: Jacques Attali
Noise: The Political Economy of Music
1977; Translation 1985  274 Classic Rock
Mass Market Paperback Style: Stephen Davis
Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zepplin Saga
1985  275 Love and Rockets
Signature Comic of Punk Los Angeles as Borderland Imaginary: Los Bros Hernandez
Music for Mechanics
1985  277 Plays about Black American Culture Surviving the Loss of Political Will: August Wilson
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
1985  280 Putting Pop in the Big Books of Music: H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie
eds.
The New Grove Dictionary of American Music
1986  282 Popular Music's Defining Singer and Swinger: Kitty Kelley
His Way
The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra
1986  284 Anti-Epic Lyricizing of Black Music after Black Power: Nathaniel Mackey
Bedouin Hornbook
1986  288 Lost Icon of Rock Criticism: Lester Bangs
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
1987  290 Veiled Glimpses of the Songwriter Who Invented Rock and Roll as Literature: Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry: The Autobiography
1987  292 Making "Wild-Eyed Girls" a More Complex Narrative: Pamela Des Barres
I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie
1987  294 Reporting Black Music as Art Mixed with Business
Nelson George
The Death of Rhythm & Blues
1988  295 Sessions with the Evil Genius of Jazz: Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe
Miles: The Autobiography
1989  298 Part VI: New Voices
New Method Literature of New World Order Americanization: Jessica Hagedorn
Dogeaters
1990  308 Ethnic Studies of Blended Musical Identities: George Lipsitz
Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture
1990  310 Ballad Novels for a Baby Boomer Appalachia: Sharyn McCrumb
If Ever I Return
Pretty Peggy-O
1990  312 Pimply
Prole
and Putrid
but with a Surprisingly Diverse Genre Literature: Chuck Eddy
Stairway to Hell: The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums in the Universe
1991  314 How Musicology Met Cultural Studies: Susan McClary
Feminine Endings: Music
Gender
and Sexuality
1991  318 Idol for Academic Analysis and a Changing Public Sphere: Madonna
Sex
1992  320 Black Bohemian Cultural Nationalism: Greg Tate
Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America
1992  324 From Indie to Alternative Rock: Gina Arnold
Route 666: On the Road to Nirvana
1993  326 Musicology on Popular Music—In Pragmatic Context: Richard Crawford
The American Musical Landscape
1993  330 Listenign
Queerly
Wayne Koestenbaum
The Queen's Throat: Opera
Homosexuality
and the Mystery of Desire
1993  332 Blackface as Stolen Vernacular: Eric Lott
Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
1993  334 Media Studies of Girls Listening to Top 40: Susan Douglas
Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media
1994  338 Ironies of a Contested Identity: Peter Guralnick
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
1994  339 Two Generations of Leading Ethnomusicologists Debate the Popular: Charles Keil and Steven Feld: Music Grooves: Essays and Dialogues
1944  344 Defining Hip-Hop as Flow
Layering
Rupture
and Postindustrial Resistance: Tricia Rose
Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
1994  346 Regendering Music Writing
with the Deadly Art of Attitude: Evelyn McDonnell and Ann Powers
eds.
Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock
Pop
and Rap
1995  348 Soundscaping References
Immersing Trauma: David Toop
Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk
Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds
1995  348 Sociologist Gives Country Studies a Soft-Shell Contrast to the Honky-Tonk: Richard Peterson
Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity
1997  354 All That Not-Quite Jazz: Gary Giddins
Visions of Jazz: The First Century
1998  355 Jazz Studies Conquers the Academy: Robert G. O'Meally
ed.
The Jazz Cadence of American Culture
1998  357 Part VII: Topics in Progress Paradigms of Club Culture
House and Techno to Rave and EDM: Simon Reynolds
Energy Flash: A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture
1998  368 Performance Studies
Minoritarian Identity
and Academic Wildness: José Esteban Muñoz
Disidentification: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
1999  372 Left of Black: Networking a New Discourse: Mark Anthony Neal
What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture
1999  375 Aerobics as Genre
Managing Emotions: Tia DeNora
Music in Everyday Life
2000  377 Confronting Globalization: Thomas Turino
Nationalists
Cosmopolitans
and Popular Music in Zimbabwe
2000  378 Evocations of Cultural Migration Centered on Race
Rhythm
and Eventually Sexuality: Alejo Carpentier
Music in Cuba
2001 (1946)  382 Digging Up the Pre-Recordings Creation of a Black Pop Paradigm: Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff
Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music
1889–1895
2002  386 When Faith in Popular Sound Wavers
He's Waiting: Theodor Adorno
Essays on Music
ed. Richard Leppert
2002  388 Codifying a Precarious but Global Academic Field: David Hesmondhalgh and Keith Negus
eds.
Popular Music Studies
2002  391 Salsa and the Mixings of Global Culture: Lise Waxer
City of Musical Memory: Salsa
Record Grooves
and Popular Culture in Cali
Colombia
2002  393 Musicals as Pop
Nationalism
and Changing Identity: Stacy Wolf
A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical
2002  396 Musical Fiction and Criticism by the Greatest Used Bookstore Clerk of All Time: Jonathan Lethem
Fortress of Solitude
2003  399 Poetic Ontologies of Black Musical Style: Fred Moten
In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition
2003  401 Rescuing the Afromodern Vernacular: Guthrie Ramsey Jr.
Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop
2003  402 Sound Studies and the Songs Question: Jonathan Sterne: The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
2003  404 Dylanologist Conventions: Bob Dylan
Chronicles: Volume One
2004  405 Two Editions of a Field Evolving Faster Than a Collection Could Contain: Murray Forman and Mark Anthony Neal
eds.
That's the Joint! The Hip-Hop Studies Reader
2004
2012  410 Revisionist Bluesology and Tangled Intellectual History: Elijah Wald
Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
2004  412 Trying to Tell the Story of a Dominant Genre: Jeff Chang
Can't Stop
Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
2005  415 Refiguring American Music—And Its Institutionalizations: Josh Kun
Audiotopia: Music
Race
and America
2005  419 Country Music Scholars Pioneer Gender and Industry Analysis: Diane Pecknold
The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry
2007  423 Where Does Classical Music Fit In?: Alex Ross
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
2007  426 Poptimism
33 1/3 Books
and the Struggles of Music Critics: Carl Wilson
Let's Talk about Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
2007  429 Novelists Collegial with Indie Music: Jennifer Egan
A Visit from the Goon Squad
2010  432 YouTube
Streaming
and the Popular Music Performance Archive: Will Friedwald
A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers
2010  437 Idiosyncratic Musician Memoirs—Performer as Writer in the Era of the Artist as Brand: Jay-Z
Decoded
2010  438 Acknowledgments  443 Works Cited  447 Index  513