University of Texas Press

[Glitter Up the Dark] speaks to pop music's effect on future generations of norm-breaking artists, but also on public perceptions of gender and its engagement with race and class politics. It's... — Pitchfork More…

It is hard to overstate the influence that the Lomaxes had on the subsequent interest in and development of North American song; equally, it is difficult for the modern reader to conceive of... — The Times More…

a new collection of personal essays on the transformative impact of women in country music aims to change the narrative — Washington Post More…

In expansive prose . . . , Chan proves that despite a smooth-edged commercial exterior, Carey’s style “foregrounds the ways singing can activate something irrational and untamed within us.”... — Publishers Weekly More…

An original, timely and much-needed entry in the long-overdue national conversation on representation and accountability in the country music industry — Los Angeles Times More…

[The book] compresses the maddening minutiae of touring life into verses of such jarring imagery and black humor, it's a wonder anyone ever decides to become a musician at all. And yet they... — Houston Chronicle More…