Books/Featured: Top of Home Page/Lists/Music 10 Conversation-Shifting Contemporary Books About Music By Josh Friedberg / 10 October 2017 These are multiple works of genre history and works tackling important issues of race, class, and gender. All challenge dominant narratives of music.
Books/Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Music Contrary to Popular Belief, the Blues Were Not Born on the Mississippi Delta By George de Stefano / 16 May 2017 Historians Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff debunk myths about the origins of blues music, locating them not in the Mississippi Delta but in southern black vaudeville.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Music Retelling the History of Black Music: Everything You Know About the Blues Is Wrong By Mark Reynolds / 2 July 2008