American Popular Music: A Reference Guide

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The only available in-depth reference guide' to American popular music, this should be joyously welcomed by all students of the field. The first two chapters cover pop music in general and pop music before the 20th century; the other five focus on the literature of pop's genres from Tin Pan Alley, Bands, Broadway, and Hollywood' to Rock.' Each bibliographical essay surveys bibliographies and discographies first, then general reference, biographies, and history and commentary. Over 1100 of the most important books and magazines (no articles) and special library collections are listed through 1981. ... Highly recommended for most reference collections.-Library Journal
This study is ... a long overdue resource text for students of the music of the majority. ... The initial chapter explores a variety of music-related resources--bibliographic studies, songs, records, and sheet music--and probes a diverse literary field of biographical, historical, sociological, and technological studies. The following six chapters follow a consistent pattern of resource presentation and critical elaboration. ... It is rare to encounter a reference work of this scope which offers both the superb resource balance and the informed, literate commentary presented by Booth. ... American Popular Music: A Reference Guide should be a welcome addition to all libraries. Booth's even-handed approach to examining several popular music forms--country, folk, jazz, ragtime, and rock--and his clarity of presentation should meet the research needs of students, teachers, and scholars alike.-Journal of Popular Culture
"The only available in-depth reference guide' to American popular music, this should be joyously welcomed by all students of the field. The first two chapters cover pop music in general and pop music before the 20th century; the other five focus on the literature of pop's genres from Tin Pan Alley, Bands, Broadway, and Hollywood' to Rock.' Each bibliographical essay surveys bibliographies and discographies first, then general reference, biographies, and history and commentary. Over 1100 of the most important books and magazines (no articles) and special library collections are listed through 1981. ... Highly recommended for most reference collections."-Library Journal
"This study is ... a long overdue resource text for students of the music of the majority. ... The initial chapter explores a variety of music-related resources--bibliographic studies, songs, records, and sheet music--and probes a diverse literary field of biographical, historical, sociological, and technological studies. The following six chapters follow a consistent pattern of resource presentation and critical elaboration. ... It is rare to encounter a reference work of this scope which offers both the superb resource balance and the informed, literate commentary presented by Booth. ... American Popular Music: A Reference Guide should be a welcome addition to all libraries. Booth's even-handed approach to examining several popular music forms--country, folk, jazz, ragtime, and rock--and his clarity of presentation should meet the research needs of students, teachers, and scholars alike."-Journal of Popular Culture

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