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Southern Music/American Music
Begins with southern folk music in its British and American types during the 18th century; traces their respective developments into the streams of ragtime, blues and jazz in the early 20th century; discusses such offshoots as Hillbilly, Cajun and Gospel music; analyzes the variegated trends whereby this music moved from its southern regionalism to a more national kind of expression and acceptance.
The Branch Davidians of Waco
What were the beliefs of the Branch Davidians? This is the first full scholarly account of their history. Kenneth G. C. Newport argues that, far from being an act of unfathomable religious insanity, the calamitous fire at Waco in 1993 was the culmination of a long theological and historical tradition that goes back many decades. The Branch Davidians under David Koresh were an eschatologically confident community that had long expected that the American government, whom they identified as the Lamb-like Beast of the book of Revelation, would one day arrive to seek to destroy God's remnant people. The end result, the fire, must be seen in this context.
Sing Me Back Home
For over fifty years, Bill C. Malone has researched and written about the history of country music. Today he is celebrated as the foremost authority on this distinctly American genre. This new collection brings together his significant article-length work from a variety of sources, including essays, book chapters, and record liner notes. Sing Me Back Home distills a lifetime of thinking about country and southern roots music. Malone offers the heartfelt story of his own working-class upbringing in rural East Texas, recounting how in 1939 his family’s first radio, a battery-powered Philco, introduced him to hillbilly music and how, years later, he went on to become a scholar in the field be...
The American South in the Twentieth Century
In the South today, the sight of a Latina in a NASCAR T-shirt behind the register at an Asian grocery would hardly draw a second glance. That scenario, and our likely reaction to it, surely signals something important--but what? Here some of the region’s most respected and readable observers look across the past century to help us take stock of where the South is now and where it may be headed. Reflecting the writers’ deep interests in southern history, politics, literature, religion, and other matters, the essays engage in new ways some timeless concerns about the region: How has the South changed--or not changed? Has the South as a distinct region disappeared, or has it absorbed the ma...
Am I My Own Grandpa?
Robert DeWitt Rush was born in Alabama in 1918. He married Hazel Heifner and they had three children. They lived in Alabama most of their lives. Information on their ancestral lines which are long time Southern residents and collaterial families is given in this volume. Relatives continue to live in Alabama and elsewhere.
Bibliographic Guide to Conference Publications
Vols. for 1975- include publications cataloged by the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library with additional entries from the Library of Congress MARC tapes.
Ethno-musicology
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