10 Conversation-Shifting Contemporary Books About Music
These are multiple works of genre history and works tackling important issues of race, class, and gender. All challenge dominant narratives of music.
Elijah Wald
Contrary to Popular Belief, the Blues Were Not Born on the Mississippi Delta
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.