{"product_id":"songbooks-eric-weisbard-9781478014089","title":"Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music","description":"In \u003ci\u003eSongbooks\u003c\/i\u003e, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 \u003ci\u003eNew-England Psalm-Singer\u003c\/i\u003e to Jay-Z's 2010 memoir \u003ci\u003eDecoded\u003c\/i\u003e. Drawing on his background editing the \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e music section, coediting the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Popular Music Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric Weisbard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478014083\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478014089\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/28\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 552\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2022","brand":"Eric Weisbard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47039884132607,"sku":"9781478014089","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bd05c964-bc78-46b9-b943-71d8d55c6ad4.jpg?v=1752752864","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/songbooks-eric-weisbard-9781478014089","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}