Stephen Shearon, Mary Nichols, producers. I’ll Keep on Singing: The Southern Gospel Convention Tradition. Murfreesboro: Middle Tennessee State University, 2010. 55 mins. DVD. $15.00.
Reviewed by Jada Watson (Universite Laval) Published on H-Southern-Music (December, 2011) Commissioned by Kristine M. McCusker
Preserving the Southern Gospel Convention Tradition
Patrick Huber. Linthead Stomp: The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 440 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-3225-7.
Reviewed by Robert H. Ferguson Published on H-Southern-Music (November, 2009) Commissioned by Christopher J. Scott
Contextualizing Early Country Music and Modernity
Richard J. Ripani. The New Blue Music: Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950–1999. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006. xvi + 261 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57806-861-6; $22.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-57806-862-3.
Reviewed by Timothy J. O'Brien (University of Houston) Published on H-Southern-Music (September, 2009) Commissioned by Christopher J. Scott
Hazel Dickens, Bill C. Malone. Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens. Music in American Life Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. Illustrations. ix + 102 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03304-9; $17.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-07549-0.
Reviewed by Matthew Meacham Published on H-Southern-Music (May, 2009) Commissioned by Christopher J. Scott
David Evans, ed. Ramblin' on My Mind: New Perspectives on the Blues. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. 430 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03203-5; $27.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-07448-6.
Reviewed by Robert H. Ferguson Published on H-Southern-Music (November, 2008) Commissioned by Christopher J. Scott
Douglas B. Green. Singing in the Saddle: the History of the Singing Cowboy. Country Music Foundation Press, 2005. xvi + 392 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8265-1506-3.
Reviewed by Travis Stimeling Published on H-Southern-Music (October, 2008) Commissioned by Christopher J. Scott
The Cowboy in Records, Radio, and Film
Diane Pecknold. The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. 312 pp. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-4059-1; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-4080-5.
Reviewed by Peter L. Chapelle (History Program, Nevada State College) Published on H-Southern-Music (June, 2008)
The Hillbilly Sponsor: Notes on a Modern Potentate
Tom Ewing, ed. The Bill Monroe Reader. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xi + 301 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-07399-1.
Reviewed by E. Duke Richey (Department of History, Pacific Lutheran University) Published on H-Southern-Music (November, 2007)
How Yankees Reinvented Bluegrass
Michael Ann Williams. Staging Tradition: John Lair and Sarah Gertrude Knott. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xvi + 221 pp. $20.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-07344-1; $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03102-1.
Reviewed by Zachary Lechner (Department of History, Temple University) Published on H-Southern-Music (February, 2007)
I Can't Stop Loving You: Ray Charles and Country Music. Country Music Hall of Fame. .
Reviewed by Scott Anderson Published on H-Southern-Music (September, 2006)
Kristine M. McCusker, Diane Pecknold, eds. A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004. xxiv + 232 pp. $20.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-57806-678-0; $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57806-677-3.
Reviewed by Vanessa Carr (Sarah Lawrence College) Published on H-Southern-Music (July, 2006)
Gender Matters
Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm and Blues, 1945-1970. Country Music Hall of Fame. .
Reviewed by Brian Hackett Published on H-Southern-Music (March, 2006)
