Book Reviews

H-Southern-Music Book Reviews

The New Blue Music: Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950-1999 (O'Brien on Ripani)

Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens(Meacham on Malone and Dickens)

A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music (Carr on McCusker and Pecknold)

Staging Tradition: John Lair and Sarah Gertrude Knott (Lechner on Williams)

The Bill Monroe Reader (Richey on Ewing)

The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry (La Chapelle on Pecknold)

Singing in the Saddle: The History of the Singing Cowboy (Stimeling on Green)

Ramblin' on My Mind: New Perspectives on the Blues (Ferguson on Evans)

Recent H-Net Book Reviews of Interest

Lonesome Cowgirls and Honky Tonk Angels: The Women of Barn Dance Radio (Spaulding on McCusker)

Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City (Neuzil on Havighurst)

Shout, Sister, Shout: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Maskell on Wald)

Votaries of Apollo: The St. Cecilia Society and the Patronage of Concert Music in Charleston, South Carolina, 1766-1820 (Hartigan-O'Connor on Butler)

Brecht at the Opera (Mews on Calico)

Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain (Smith on Pickering)

Coal and Culture: Opera Houses in Appalachia (Yates on Condee)

Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign (Browne on Adams and Keene)

Faulkner and the Discourses of Culture (Holcombe on Hannon)

A Web of Words: The Great Dialogue of Southern Literature (Bain on Gray)

Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism (Barnes on Myers)

The Silencing of Ruby McCollum: Race, Class, and Gender in the South(Boyd on Evans)

Hip Hop Revolution: The Politics and Culture of Rap (Johnson on Ogbar)

This is Our Music: Free Jazz, The Sixties, and American Culture (Lechner on Anderson)

Elvis Presley (Johns on Mason)

I Am a Man! Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement (Forts on Estes)