Our 2021 IASPM-US Exhibit

We would like to invite attendees and presenters at this year’s IASPM-US conference to explore our latest releases in music history and popular culture studies, especially titles from our American Popular Music book series, edited by Jeffrey Melnick. If you have a project in process that you would like to discuss, please reach out to UMass Press’s senior editor, Brian Halley to setup a meeting.

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Sale expires August 1, 2021.

I Believe I’ll Go Back Home: Roots and Revival in New England Folk Music
Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White
A Sound History: Lawrence Gellert, Black Musical Protest, and White Denial

Brick City Vanguard: Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black Modernity
On the Record: Music Journalists on Their Lives, Craft, and Careers
Shaker Fever: America’s Twentieth Century Fascination with a Communitarian Sect
The Honky Tonk on the Left: Progressive Thought in Country Music
Country Comes to Town: The Music Industry and the Transformation of Nashville
Writing the Record: The Village Voice and the Birth of Rock Criticism