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Band People

Life and Work in Popular Music

University of Texas Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Chuco Punk

Sonic Insurgency in El Paso

University of Texas Press

An immersive study of the influential and predominantly Chicanx punk rock scene in El Paso, Texas.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Quantum Criminals

Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan

University of Texas Press

A literary and visual exploration of the songs of Steely Dan.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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You're with Stupid

kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music

University of Texas Press

An insider’s look at how Chicago’s underground music industry transformed indie rock in the 1990s.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Maybe We'll Make It

A Memoir

University of Texas Press

Country music star Margo Price shares the story of her struggle to make it in an industry that preys on its ingenues while trying to move on from devastating personal tragedies.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive

On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton

University of Texas Press

A moving memoir exploring how a poet found support and revival through Dolly Parton’s music and story.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Black Country Music

Listening for Revolutions

University of Texas Press

How Black musicians have changed the country music landscape and brought light to Black creativity and innovation.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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T Bone Burnett

A Life in Pursuit

University of Texas Press

This first critical appreciation of T Bone Burnett reveals how the proponent of Americana music and producer of artists ranging from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss to B. B. King and Elvis Costello has profoundly influenced American music and culture.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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The Running Kind

Listening to Merle Haggard

University of Texas Press

A new and expanded biography of one of country music’s most celebrated singer-songwriters.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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DJ Screw

A Life in Slow Revolution

University of Texas Press

How a DJ’s innovative chopped and screwed technique changed the Houston hip-hop scene.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Woman Walk the Line

How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives

Edited by Holly Gleason
University of Texas Press

In this collection of personal essays, a diverse group of women music writers pay tribute to the female country artists who have inspired them, including Brenda Lee, June Carter Cash, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, and Taylor Swift.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Who Got the Camera?

A History of Rap and Reality

University of Texas Press

An illuminating cultural study arguing that, in the late 1980s, the reality TV of Cops and the reality rap of “Fuck tha Police” were two sides of the same coin, redefining popular entertainment as a truth-telling medium.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Where the Devil Don't Stay

Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers

University of Texas Press

In the first full-length book on the Drive-By Truckers, Deusner examines the southern spaces that shaped the band’s ideas of what music can say and do while also discovering how their music shifted the way we view the modern South.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Seeing Sideways

A Memoir of Music and Motherhood

University of Texas Press

A follow-up to the critically acclaimed Rat Girl, this beautifully written memoir takes readers on an emotional journey through the author’s life as she reflects on thirty years of music and motherhood.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Fangirls

Scenes from Modern Music Culture

University of Texas Press

Touching on her own experiences as a music obsessive, Hannah Ewens captures the joy and community of young women bonded by their musical fandoms and the impact these fangirls have on the artists they love.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Glitter Up the Dark

How Pop Music Broke the Binary

University of Texas Press

From the Beatles to Prince to Perfume Genius, Glitter Up the Dark takes a historical look at the voices that transcended gender and the ways music has subverted the gender binary.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Go Ahead in the Rain

Notes to A Tribe Called Quest

University of Texas Press

The first chronicle of A Tribe Called Quest—the visionary, award-winning group whose jazz-infused records and socially conscious lyrics revolutionized rap in the early 1990s.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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A Spy in the House of Loud

New York Songs and Stories

University of Texas Press

A cofounder of the dB’s, Chris Stamey re-creates the music scene in late 1970s New York City, recalling the birth of punk and other new streams of electric music as well as the making of the cult albums Stands for deciBels and Repercussion.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Chrissie Hynde

A Musical Biography

University of Texas Press

With new insights into her life and music and fascinating details about the making of all of her albums, this is the first book about Rock and Roll Hall of Fame legend Chrissie Hynde, the leader of The Pretenders.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Don't Suck, Don't Die

Giving Up Vic Chesnutt

By Kristin Hersh; Introduction by Amanda Petrusich
University of Texas Press

A haunting ode to a lost friend, this memoir by the acclaimed author of Rat Girl offers the most personal, empathetic look at the creative genius and often-tormented life of singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt that is ever likely to be written.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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