Subject: Popular music › United States › History and criticism

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• Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music… by John McWhorter (173 copies)
• Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians by Peter Guralnick (104 copies)
• The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art… by Bill Zehme (82 copies)
• American Roots Music by Robert Santelli (76 copies)
• The House That George Built: With a Little Help from… by Wilfrid Sheed (72 copies)
• Country Music, U.S.A. by Bill C. Malone (69 copies)
• Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn (62 copies)
• Richard Goldstein's The Poetry of Rock by Richard Goldstein (56 copies)
• The Death of Rhythm and Blues by Nelson George (48 copies)
• Songwriters on Songwriting by Paul Zollo (43 copies)
• Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music by Hugh Barker (39 copies)
• Buppies, B-Boys, Baps, and Bohos: Notes on Post-Soul Black… by Nelson George (34 copies)
• American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 by Alec Wilder (33 copies)
• The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Popular Standards by Max Morath (32 copies)
• Rockin' Out: Popular Music in the USA (2nd Edition) by Reebee Garofalo (31 copies)
• Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America by Greg Tate (31 copies)
• The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders by Wayne Jancik (27 copies)
• Any Old Way You Choose It by Robert Christgau (26 copies)
• Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in… by Martha Bayles (22 copies)
• Yesterdays: Popular Song in America by Charles Hamm (20 copies)
• Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their… by William Knowlton Zinsser (20 copies)
• Romancing the Folk: Public Memory and American Roots Music by Benjamin Filene (20 copies)
• Riding on a Blue Note: Jazz and American Pop by Gary Giddins (19 copies)
• Just My Soul Responding by Brian Ward (19 copies)
• Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music by Arthur Kempton (17 copies)
• The Frank Sinatra Reader by Steven Petkov (16 copies)
• White Christmas: The Story of an American Song by Jody Rosen (16 copies)
• And the Beat Goes On: An Introduction to Popular Music in… by Michael Campbell (14 copies)
• Follow the Music: The Life and High Times of Elektra… by Jac Holzman (14 copies)
• Don't Think Twice, It's All Right: Bob Dylan, the Early… by Andy Gill (14 copies)
• They're Playing Our Song: Conversations With America's… by Max Wilk (13 copies)
• Nice Work If You Can Get It: My Life in Rhythm and Rhyme by Michael Feinstein (13 copies)
• Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America (American Crossroads) by Josh Kun (12 copies)
• Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot, 1843-1924 by David Wondrich (12 copies)
• Blacks, Whites and Blues by Tony Russell (11 copies)
• Clive: Inside the Record Business by Clive Davis (10 copies)
• Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters,… by David A. Jasen (10 copies)
• Highway 61 Revisited: The Tangled Roots of American Jazz,… by Gene Santoro (10 copies)
• One Nation Under A Groove: Motown and American Culture by Gerald Early (9 copies)
• The Top Ten: 1956-Present by Gary Theroux (8 copies)
• That half-barbaric twang : the banjo in American popular… by Karen Linn (8 copies)
• The great American popular singers by Henry Pleasants (8 copies)
• Making Tracks: The History of Atlantic Records. by Charlie Gillett (8 copies)
• American Popular Music by David Lee Joyner (7 copies)
• Tin Pan Alley : the composers, the songs, the performers,… by David A. Jasen (7 copies)
• Riot and revelry in early America by William Pencak (7 copies)
• I Hear America Singing by Lynn Wenzel (7 copies)
• American Popular Music: New Approaches to the Twentieth… by Rachel Rubin (6 copies)
• All the Years of American Popular Music by David Ewen (6 copies)
• Electric children: Roots and branches of modern folkrock by Jacques Vassal (6 copies)

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