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Songbooks : the literature of American popular music / Eric Weisbard.

by Weisbard, Eric, author.

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Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.

Popular music -- United States -- History and criticism.

Popular music -- United States -- Historiography.

9781478014089 (paperback)

1478014083 (paperback)

Refiguring American music.

xxii, 530 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Setting the Scene -- The Jazz Age -- Midcentury Icons -- Vernacular Counterculture -- After the Revolution -- New Voices, New Methods -- Topics in Progress.

"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 pursue questions that linger across time period and genre--cultural studies in the form of notes on the fly on sounds that never cease of change meaning."-- Publisher.

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