TY - GEN TY - GEN T1 - Songbooks : the literature of American popular music T2 - Refiguring American music A1 - Weisbard, Eric, kirjoittaja LA - eng PP - Durham PB - Duke University Press YR - 2021 UL - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5555701 AB - "Songbooks, a critical guide to American popular music writing, unfolds chronologically, with entries on authors, artists, and topics beginning with William Billings's 1770 New-England Psalm-Singer. Outsiders proliferate in these pages: women and/or writers of color, authors displaced by sexuality, self-educated scholars, elites deviating from norms. Their work routinely took non-academic shapes: compilations of songs, memoirs and biographies, fiction and magazine essays. Others fought within the academy to establish fields like ethnomusicology and jazz studies. Drawing on his background as a Village Voice music critic and as the longtime organizer of the Pop Conference, Eric Weisbard offers an important corrective to a fragmented field"-- SN - 978-1-4780-1194-1 kovakantinen KW - Popular music : United States : History and criticism. KW - Popular music : United States : Historiography. KW - populaarimusiikki KW - historiankirjoitus KW - historia KW - kirjat KW - populärmusik KW - historieskrivning KW - Yhdysvallat KW - Förenta staterna ER -