American popular music : new approaches to the twentieth century /

Table of Contents: “…Tin Pan Alley and the Black-Jewish nation /…”

Move on up : Chicago soul music and black cultural power / by Cohen, Aaron (Writer on music)

Recorded music in American life : the phonograph and popular memory, 1890-1945 / by Kenney, William Howland

Table of Contents: “…Two "circles of resonance": audience uses of recorded music -- "The Coney Island crowd": the phonograph and popular recordings before World War I -- "His master's voice": the Victor Talking Machine Company and the social reconstruction of the phonograph -- The phonograph and the evolution of "foreign" and "ethnic" records -- The gendered phonograph: women and recorded sound, 1890-1930 -- African American blues and the phonograph: from race records to rhythm and blues -- Economics and the invention of hillbilly records in the south -- A renewed flow of memories: the Depression and the struggle over "hit records" -- Popular recorded music within the context of national life.…”
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What is it all but luminous : notes from an underground man / by Garfunkel, Art

Jazz owls : a novel of the Zoot Suit Riots / by Engle, Margarita