Series

Music of the American South explores the origins, history, and evolving present of all forms of music, from classical to vernacular musics, including gospel, jazz, blues, country, old-time, roots, and Americana. With a concentration on work that is accessible to a wide readership while being of the highest scholarly standards, the series seeks bold, innovative works emphasizing issues of race, class, gender, and power in music-making. The art, culture, and business of music is told in a variety of forms including monographs, biographies, memoirs, readers, and reference works from scholars, artists, journalists, and others.