Music
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WINNER
The Queen Next Door
Aretha Franklin, an Intimate Portrait
Reflections on the life of Aretha Franklin captured in exclusive photographs by her friend, photojournalist Linda Solomon.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814347287
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814347294
Blues Legacy
Blues Legacy is a collection of exquisitely crafted poems in which the blues and other forms of African American music serve as metaphors representing the spirit of determination and perseverance that characterizes African American culture.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780940713277
Whitechapel Noise
Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884–1914
New perspectives on Anglo-Jewish history via the poetry and song of Yiddish-speaking immigrants in London from 1884 to 1914.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814343555
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814344880
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343562
Field Recordings
Poetry that uses American folk music as a lens to investigate themes of family, art, and masculinity.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814344965
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814344972
Twenty Israeli Composers
Voices of a Culture
Twenty of Israel's leading art-music composers discuss the interaction of inspiration, method and cultural context in their work, revealing both international and national influence and scope.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814344255
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814344248

WINNER
Heaven Was Detroit
From Jazz to Hip-Hop and Beyond
A comprehensive collection of essays on the long history of Detroit music by some of America’s best-known music writers.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814341223
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814341230

WINNER
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Grace, Grit, and Glory
The first history of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to describe and document its origins in 1887 to the present day, relating its changing fortunes in light of the economic, demographic, and cultural history of the city of Detroit.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814331361
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814340622
The Stooges
Head On, a Journey Through the Michigan Underground
The story of seminal Ann Arbor punk rock band the Stooges, told through original interviews with the band members and associates.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814334843
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814337103
Mc5
Sonically Speaking, a Tale of Revolution and Rock'n'roll
A definitive history of the MC5 that considers the band's musical legacy and revolutionary political roots.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814334850
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814337110

WINNER
Travelin' Man
On the Road and Behind the Scenes with Bob Seger
A photo-driven insider's look at Bob Seger's career from the early days to his breakthrough as a world-famous musician.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814335017
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814337028

WINNER
Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic
Examines a pan-ethnic style of music created by North African and Middle Eastern Israeli musicians in the late twentieth century.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814334652
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814336939
Techno Rebels
The Renegades of Electronic Funk
An updated, expanded history of techno music with special attention to its roots in Detroit.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814334386
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814337127

WINNER
Maqam and Liturgy
Ritual, Music, and Aesthetics of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn
Explores the cultural connection between Syrian Jewish life and Arab culture in present-day Brooklyn, New York, through liturgical music.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814332160
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814341865

WINNER
Yiddishlands
A Memoir
A renowned scholar looks back on his life and the life of his mother, tracing the Yiddish experience through major historical events of the last century.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814333976
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335444

WINNER
When the Church Becomes Your Party
Contemporary Gospel Music
A look at the innovations of contemporary performers of modern gospel music and their roots in the African American Christian church.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814332184
It Was All Right
Mitch Ryder's Life in Music
The story of Detroit rock icon Mitch Ryder’s life in the context of the many changes in popular music, politics, and American culture since the 1960s.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814333372

WINNER
Windjammers
Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors
A collection of stories, lyrics, music and folklore centered on the Great Lakes.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814329979
Music in the World of Islam
A Socio-Cultural Study
Provides basic musicological information about a vast variety of Middle Eastern musical genres within an ethnomusical context.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814329702
Jewish Musical Traditions
This is the first English-language volume to consider oral music of Jewish communities in a sociocultural context.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814322352
From Jazz to Swing
African-American Jazz Musicians and Their Music, 1890-1935
In the 1920s, many black regional jazz bands were recorded and became products of the entertainment industry, which was altering the face of America from the handmade, homemade, homemade society of the ninteenth century to the mass-produced, mass-consumed
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814321799