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Avenue Breakdown - Black Music And The Recording Industry In Shreveport

by John M. Shaw

~~28,81€~~ 25,93€ 10% OFF

 Avenue Breakdown: Black Music and the Recording Industry in Shreveport uncovers the rich yet often overlooked legacy of Black music in Shreveport, Louisiana—a city better known for country tunes and the Louisiana Hayride. This compelling history shines a spotlight on the city’s vibrant postwar scene, where blues, R&B, jazz, soul, funk, and gospel thrived in Black neighborhoods despite the pressures of segregation and state-sanctioned violence. From the iconic downtown record store of Stan Lewis to clubs that pulsed with the sound of legends, Shreveport fostered a dynamic music culture that drew producers and performers from across the region. Yet, systemic racism and economic decline eroded this cultural lifeblood, culminating in moments of unrest like the Cedar Grove Riot of 1988. Spanning decades of music, struggle, and community resilience, Avenue Breakdown captures the power of sound to challenge, uplift, and endure. It’s a vital record of a city’s past and an invitation to consider what comes next for the music of the Ark-La-Tex.
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Fiddling Is My Joy - The Fiddle In African American Culture

by Jacqueline Cogdell Djedje

~~39,75€~~ 35,78€ 10% OFF

 Examines the history of fiddling among African Americans from the seventeenth to the mid-twentieth century.
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Let Me Be Frank - The Extraordinary Life And Music Of Frank Sinatra, Jr.

by Andrea Kauffman e Bruce H. Klauber

~~33,79€~~ 30,41€ 10% OFF

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 Aims to finally set the record straight about American singer, conductor, composer, and actor, Frank Sinatra, Jr. (1944â€"2016); a man and a brilliant performer who never truly got the credit he deserved despite his own star has often been overshadowed by his world-famous father.
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Bluegrass Gospel - The Music Ministry Of Jerry And Tammy Sullivan

by Jack Edward Bernhardt

~~33,13€~~ 29,82€ 10% OFF

 Heavily influenced by Bill Monroe, the "Father of Bluegrass" in the 1940s and ’50s, gospel music in the South began to shift into bluegrass gospel, a style that combines both genres. In Bluegrass Gospel: The Music Ministry of Jerry and Tammy Sullivan, anthropologist and journalist Jack Edward Bernhardt explores the lives, music, and ministry of acclaimed father-daughter bluegrass gospel performers and recording artists Jerry (1933-2014) and Tammy Sullivan (1964-2017) of southwest Alabama. Beginning in 1993, Bernhardt lived and traveled with the Sullivans as they took their music and testimony along bumpy back roads to backwoods sanctuaries from the Florida Panhandle to Mississippi, Louisiana’s bayous, Texas, Arkansas, and beyond. The author’s compelling narrative combines long-term fieldwork with extensive oral histories, archival research, photography, and tape recordings of the Sullivans’ music and testimonies in secular and sacred contexts. Bernhardt describes in vivid detail the challenges of life on the road through unforeseen circumstances and the financial uncertainty of performing for pass-the-collection-basket "love offerings," while remaining committed to doing the work they felt called to do. In an afterword by Marty Stuart, Jerry’s friend and cowriter of the 1995 Grammy-nominated "At the Feet of God," Stuart recounts his experiences playing mandolin with the Sullivan Family on the "Brush Arbor Trail" as a talented, wide-eyed twelve-year-old. In the penultimate chapter, Bernhardt accompanies Tammy’s widower, Jonathan Causey, and their son, Jon Gideon, to churches along the same gospel trail blazed by Jerry and Tammy. With their own music ministry, the Causeys continue the legacy of song and testimony the Sullivans pursued for thirty-five years. Ultimately, Bernhardt reflects on how his relationship with the Sullivans led to friendship and mutual respect for cultural differences that endure through time. The result is an intimate portrayal of life, faith, and family-based music ministry in the South today as in the past.
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Fiddling Is My Joy - The Fiddle In African American Culture

by Jacqueline Cogdell Djedje

~~28,81€~~ 25,93€ 10% OFF

 Examines the history of fiddling among African Americans from the seventeenth to the mid-twentieth century.
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Bluegrass Gospel - The Music Ministry Of Jerry And Tammy Sullivan

by Jack Edward Bernhardt

~~24,01€~~ 21,61€ 10% OFF

 Heavily influenced by Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass in the 1940s and 50s, gospel music in the South began to shift into bluegrass gospel, a style that combines both genres. In Bluegrass Gospel: The Music Ministry of Jerry and Tammy Sullivan, anthropologist and journalist Jack Edward Bernhardt explores the lives, music, and ministry of acclaimed father-daughter bluegrass gospel performers and recording artists Jerry (19332014) and Tammy Sullivan (19642017) of southwest Alabama. Beginning in 1993, Bernhardt lived and traveled with the Sullivans as they took their music and testimony along bumpy back roads to backwoods sanctuaries from the Florida Panhandle to Mississippi, Louisianas bayous, Texas, Arkansas, and beyond. The authors compelling narrative combines long-term fieldwork with extensive oral histories, archival research, photography, and tape recordings of the Sullivans music and testimonies in secular and sacred contexts. Bernhardt describes in vivid detail the challenges of life on the road through unforeseen circumstances and the financial uncertainty of performing for pass-the-collection-basket love offerings, while remaining committed to doing the work they felt called to do. In an afterword by Marty Stuart, Jerrys friend and cowriter of the 1995 Grammy-nominated At the Feet of God, Stuart recounts his experiences playing mandolin with the Sullivan Family on the Brush Arbor Trail as a talented, wide-eyed twelve-year-old. In the penultimate chapter, Bernhardt accompanies Tammys widower, Jonathan Causey, and their son, Jon Gideon, to churches along the same gospel trail blazed by Jerry and Tammy. With their own music ministry, the Causeys continue the legacy of song and testimony the Sullivans pursued for thirty-five years. Ultimately, Bernhardt reflects on how his relationship with the Sullivans led to friendship and mutual respect for cultural differences that endure through time. The result is an intimate portrayal of life, faith, and family-based music ministry in the South today as in the past.
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Eck Robertson At The Crossroads Of American Fiddling

by Chris Goertzen

~~39,75€~~ 35,78€ 10% OFF

 Depicts how Eck Robertson took musical practice that already had a broad reach and a distinguished history in a direction that would guarantee a niche in modern American culture.
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Eck Robertson At The Crossroads Of American Fiddling

by Chris Goertzen

~~28,81€~~ 25,93€ 10% OFF

 Depicts how Eck Robertson took musical practice that already had a broad reach and a distinguished history in a direction that would guarantee a niche in modern American culture.
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Sax Expat - Don Byas

by Con Chapman

~~39,75€~~ 35,78€ 10% OFF

 Don Byas (1913-1972) may be lesser known than the counterparts he played with—Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespie, among others—but he was an enigma. He never stayed with a band for long, and eventually went solo partly to make more money and partly due to his inability to work with bandleaders. Often drinking to excess, alcohol fueled his sometimes-erratic behavior on and off the bandstand. He went through at least thirteen different groups in fifteen years of professional play before leaving for Europe in 1946. Despite his fractious personality, in Europe he found peace and contentment as a family man in the Netherlands, where he lived out his days with his second wife and their four children. He learned at least seven languages during his years in Europe, and on traveling to a new country could pick up a few phrases in short order, soon speaking to the locals and even composing songs in their native tongue. In Sax Expat: Don Byas, author Con Chapman argues that Byas’s relative obscurity arises from his choice to live in Europe, where he missed out on recording opportunities and exposure in the US that would have made him renowned and wealthier. His numerous achievements, including his solo on Count Basie’s "Harvard Blues," which is a model of restrained invention; his interpretation of the sentimental movie theme "Laura"; and his duets with bassist Slam Stewart were included in the Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz and secured Byas’s place in jazz history. This biography brings to life an amazing jazz story.
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Sax Expat - Don Byas

by Con Chapman

~~28,81€~~ 25,93€ 10% OFF

 Honorable Mention Recipient for the 2026 Jazz Book of the Year in Biography or Autobiography from the Jazz Journalists Association Don Byas (1913-1972) may be lesser known than the counterparts he played with—Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespie, among others—but he was an enigma. He never stayed with a band for long, and eventually went solo partly to make more money and partly due to his inability to work with bandleaders. Often drinking to excess, alcohol fueled his sometimes-erratic behavior on and off the bandstand. He went through at least thirteen different groups in fifteen years of professional play before leaving for Europe in 1946. Despite his fractious personality, in Europe he found peace and contentment as a family man in the Netherlands, where he lived out his days with his second wife and their four children. He learned at least seven languages during his years in Europe, and on traveling to a new country could pick up a few phrases in short order, soon speaking to the locals and even composing songs in their native tongue. In Sax Expat: Don Byas, author Con Chapman argues that Byas’s relative obscurity arises from his choice to live in Europe, where he missed out on recording opportunities and exposure in the US that would have made him renowned and wealthier. His numerous achievements, including his solo on Count Basie’s "Harvard Blues," which is a model of restrained invention; his interpretation of the sentimental movie theme "Laura"; and his duets with bassist Slam Stewart were included in the Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz and secured Byas’s place in jazz history. This biography brings to life an amazing jazz story.
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Tone Parallel To Duke Ellington - The Man In The Music

by Jack Chambers

~~33,13€~~ 29,82€ 10% OFF

 In this insightful new volume, Jack Chambers explores Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington’s music thematically, collating motifs, memes, and predilections that caught Ellington''s attention and inspired his restless muse. In presenting Ellington’s work in this manner, Chambers situates the music in the context in which it was created—historical, political, musical, biographic, and personal. Chambers offers a novel kind of access to the man and the music. Ellington’s music presents a daunting task for listeners because of its sheer volume. The numbers defy credulity. Ellington (1899-1974) wrote more than two thousand compositions in numerous genres, including pop songs, big band swing, revues, hymns, tone poems, soundtracks, suites, ballets, concertos, and symphonies. Where to start? The themes in this book offer natural entry points. They provide the context in which the music came into being, with enough biography to satisfy music lovers, even those who come to the book knowing very little about Ellington’s life. Each chapter features its own playlist as a guide to the music discussed, and, in some cases, fuller listings in case readers might want to pursue a topic further. In the early chapters, Chambers covers topics that occupied Ellington through much of his career, and in later chapters he covers more specific themes, some of them from Ellington''s last decades, which are less well studied. The music, Ellington said, is his "continuing autobiography," and it reveals the man behind it.
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A Tone Parallel To Duke Ellington - The Man In The Music

by Jack Chambers

~~24,01€~~ 21,61€ 10% OFF

 In this insightful new volume, Jack Chambers explores Edward Kennedy Duke Ellingtons music thematically, collating motifs, memes, and predilections that caught Ellington's attention and inspired his restless muse. In presenting Ellingtons work in this manner, Chambers situates the music in the context in which it was createdhistorical, political, musical, biographic, and personal. Chambers offers a novel kind of access to the man and the music. Ellingtons music presents a daunting task for listeners because of its sheer volume. The numbers defy credulity. Ellington (18991974) wrote more than two thousand compositions in numerous genres, including pop songs, big band swing, revues, hymns, tone poems, soundtracks, suites, ballets, concertos, and symphonies. Where to start? The themes in this book offer natural entry points. They provide the context in which the music came into being, with enough biography to satisfy music lovers, even those who come to the book knowing very little about Ellingtons life. Each chapter features its own playlist as a guide to the music discussed, and, in some cases, fuller listings in case readers might want to pursue a topic further. In the early chapters, Chambers covers topics that occupied Ellington through much of his career, and in later chapters he covers more specific themes, some of them from Ellington's last decades, which are less well studied. The music, Ellington said, is his continuing autobiography, and it reveals the man behind it.
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Folk Music And Song In The Wpa Ex-Slave Narratives

by John Minton

~~99,38€~~ 89,44€ 10% OFF

 Quoting extensively from the WPAâ€™s Federal Writersâ€™ Project, this volume provides readers with detailed explanations and full references for every musical item or tradition featured in the ex-slave narratives. The book offers a general overview of these narratives, their contents, creation, and relation to the field of African American folklore.
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Folk Music And Song In The Wpa Ex-Slave Narratives

by John Minton

~~72,03€~~ 64,83€ 10% OFF

 Quoting extensively from the WPAâ€™s Federal Writersâ€™ Project, this volume provides readers with detailed explanations and full references for every musical item or tradition featured in the ex-slave narratives. The book offers a general overview of these narratives, their contents, creation, and relation to the field of African American folklore.
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Life And Music Of Booker &Quote;Bukka&Quote; White - Recalling The Blues

by David W. Johnson

~~33,13€~~ 29,82€ 10% OFF

 Booker ""Bukka"" White (1905â€"1977) was one of the most important blues musicians of the twentieth century. In this book, David W. Johnson traces the trajectory of Whiteâ€™s life from his early years in Mississippi, through his imprisonment in the notorious Mississippi State Penal Farm in the late 1930s, to making a new life for himself in Memphis, TN.
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Life And Music Of Booker &Quote;Bukka&Quote; White - Recalling The Blues

by David W. Johnson

~~33,13€~~ 29,82€ 10% OFF

 Booker ""Bukka"" White (1905â€"1977) was one of the most important blues musicians of the twentieth century. In this book, David W. Johnson traces the trajectory of Whiteâ€™s life from his early years in Mississippi, through his imprisonment in the notorious Mississippi State Penal Farm in the late 1930s, to making a new life for himself in Memphis, TN.
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Fiddling Is My Joy - The Fiddle In African American Culture

by Jacqueline Cogdell Djedje

~~43,26€~~ 38,93€ 10% OFF

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 Examines the history of fiddling among African Americans from the seventeenth to the mid-twentieth century.
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Purple One - Prince, Race, Gender, And Everything In Between

~~39,75€~~ 35,78€ 10% OFF

 Prince (1958â€"2016) looms large in contemporary music history. Despite universal acclaim for his artistry, few scholars and writers have thoroughly treated the underlying ideas expressed in his work or examined his profound impact on popular culture. This book positions Prince in his proper cultural, political, and social place in history.
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Purple One - Prince, Race, Gender, And Everything In Between

~~39,75€~~ 35,78€ 10% OFF

 Prince (1958â€"2016) looms large in contemporary music history. Despite universal acclaim for his artistry, few scholars and writers have thoroughly treated the underlying ideas expressed in his work or examined his profound impact on popular culture. This book positions Prince in his proper cultural, political, and social place in history.
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Wichita Blues - Music In The African American Community

by Patrick Joseph O'Connor

~~33,13€~~ 29,82€ 10% OFF

 Explores the lively Wichita blues tradition. In interviews with nineteen African American Wichita blues performers, Patrick Joseph Oâ€™Connor reveals the evolution of the blues from the 1930s to the 1960s and beyond.
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In With The In Crowd - Popular Jazz In 1960s Black America

by Mike Smith

~~39,75€~~ 35,78€ 10% OFF

 Tells the joyful story of the musicians, the radio DJs, the record labels, and the live venues where jazz not only survived but thrived in the 1960s. In an era marked by turmoil and struggle, popular jazz offered a powerful outlet for joy, resilience, pride, and triumph.
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In With The In Crowd - Popular Jazz In 1960s Black America

by Mike Smith

~~39,75€~~ 35,78€ 10% OFF

 Tells the joyful story of the musicians, the radio DJs, the record labels, and the live venues where jazz not only survived but thrived in the 1960s. In an era marked by turmoil and struggle, popular jazz offered a powerful outlet for joy, resilience, pride, and triumph.
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Wichita Blues - Music In The African American Community

by David Evans e Patrick Joseph O'Connor

~~118,97€~~ 107,07€ 10% OFF

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 Explores the lively Wichita blues tradition. In interviews with nineteen African American Wichita blues performers, Patrick Joseph Oâ€™Connor reveals the evolution of the blues from the 1930s to the 1960s and beyond.
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Wichita Blues - Music In The African American Community

by David Evans e Patrick Joseph O'Connor

~~31,08€~~ 27,97€ 10% OFF

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 Explores the lively Wichita blues tradition. In interviews with nineteen African American Wichita blues performers, Patrick Joseph Oâ€™Connor reveals the evolution of the blues from the 1930s to the 1960s and beyond.
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