Browse: Duke University Press (publisher), Rock & Pop

[A] recollection and examination of what exactly went into the first days of that ground-breaking marriage between music and television, far before the first episode of 120 Minutes even aired.... — Popmatters More…

Ian Condry's years of contact with the main players in Japanese hiphop allow him to create a keenly observed oral history of rap in Japan from its very earliest days, and the story is longer... — The Wire More…

This is a fascinating subject. Jayna Brown's study of well-known, little-known, and unknown African American female performers-from minstrels to 'coon cantatrices,' from dancers to jazz trumpeters-in... — Journal of American History More…

Fellezs succeeds in being both academic and a fan. He succeeds in bringing these four artists in from the margins while recognising their cross-cultural capital lies in their non-belonging to... — Jazzwise More…

Licia Fiol-Matta has written a marvelous exploration of the voice. In the process, she assembles a vocal archive of Puerto Rican performers whose labor is usually relegated to footnotes or cursory... — Journal of Popular Music Studies More…

Thanks to his command of cultural, social, and historical contexts and deftness in illuminating and interpreting the dialectic between musicians and the forces of transnationalism and globalization,... — Choice More…

Ever since people started writing about rock, other people have made fun of them. Anthony DeCurtis's anthology, with its clutch of academics, rock writers and musicians, will strike cynics as... — The New York Times More…