Bibliography: Additions

New for 2015:
Elijah Wald, Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night that Split the Sixties (2015)
Stephen Petrus & Ronald Cohen, Folk City: New York and the American Folk Music Revival (2015)

John Szwed,  Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World  (2010) 
Robert Cantwell, When We Were Good: The Folk Revival  (1996)
Mary Beth Hamilton, In Search of the Blues  (2008)
Philip Ratcliffe, Mississippi John Hurt: His Life and Times (2011)
Studs Terkel, They All Sang (2006) 
John A. and Alan Lomax, American Ballads and Folk Songs (1934)
Alan Lomax, The Folk Songs of North America (1960)
Carl Sandburg, The American Songbag  (1927)

Robert Wells, Folk Songs and American History (2009)
Robert Palmer, Deep Blues (1982)
Dana Jennings, Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death, and Country Music  (2008)
Dave Van Ronk (with Elijah Wald), The Mayor of MacDougal Street  (2005)

Albert Murray, Stomping the Blues (1976)
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Two of the best books we have on "American roots," by two of this country's greatest writers. Not on music per se, but you should know about them:

+ James Agee and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men  (1941)
+ William Carlos Williams, In the American Grain (1925)

Or read anything by William Faulkner!


and also of interest, thematically:  Colin Woodard's American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America. A popular book, of general interest, with many good ideas--and covers a lot of our course territory.