University of Illinois Press

Rethinking American Music demonstrates the diversity of current scholarship on American music culture. . . . Recommended — Choice More…

This academically solid and emotionally moving work shows the price that was paid by so many women in creating not only their own place in bluegrass, but in shaping and taking the music to new... — Bluegrass Unlimited More…

An inspirational assessment of the American maverick — BBC Music Magazine More…

Valuable not only to researchers but also to performers, who will find their minds opened to how music different from their own can help them improvise better in their chosen genre. . . . Recommended — Choice More…

4 stars. Welcome to a world filled with payola, the mob and jukebox sounds — MOJO More…

Vividly describes an enchanting time on the local music scene, when a handful of teenagers could taste rock 'n' roll stardom with harmonies they cooked up on a street corner — The Chicago Tribune More…

The Bluegrass Reader successfully manages to appeal to both the bluegrass insider and the newcomer to the genre, and in the process has given well-deserved new life to some masterful bits of... — Bluegrass Unlimited More…