Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock 'n' Roll Pioneers

About the Author, Further Reading, Publication Information

JOHN BROVEN is a respected expert on the rock ’n’ roll era and has served as a consultant at Ace Records in the United Kingdom. A one-time coeditor of Blues Unlimited and cofounder of Juke Blues Magazine, he is the author of Rhythm and Blues in New Orleans (originally Walking to New Orleans) and South to Louisiana : The Music of the Cajun Bayous. Broven has contributed articles to many periodicals and essays for numerous record/CD releases. A retired English bank manager, he currently works for a Long Island local newspaper group. www.johnbroven.com i-xvi_1-592_Brov.indd 585 11/19/09 10:45:42 AM i-xvi_1-592_Brov.indd 586 11/19/09 10:45:42 AM Music in American Life Only a Miner: Studies in Recorded Coal-Mining Songs Archie Green Great Day Coming: Folk Music and the American Left R. Serge Denisoff John Philip Sousa: A Descriptive Catalog of His Works Paul E. Bierley The Hell-Bound Train: A Cowboy Songbook Glenn Ohrlin Oh, Didn’t He Ramble: The Life Story of Lee Collins, as Told to Mary Collins Edited by Frank J. Gillis and John W. Miner American Labor Songs of the Nineteenth Century Philip S. Foner Stars of Country Music: Uncle Dave Macon to Johnny Rodriguez Edited by Bill C. Malone and Judith McCulloh Git Along, Little Dogies: Songs and Songmakers of the American West John I. White A Texas-Mexican Cancionero: Folksongs of the Lower Border Américo Paredes San Antonio Rose: The Life and Music of Bob Wills Charles R. Townsend Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural Analysis Jeff Todd Titon An Ives Celebration: Papers and Panels of the Charles Ives Centennial FestivalConference Edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Vivian Perlis Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War Dena J. Epstein Joe Scott, the Woodsman-Songmaker Edward D. Ives Jimmie Rodgers: The Life and Times of America’s Blue Yodeler Nolan Porterfield Early American Music Engraving and Printing: A History of Music Publishing in America from 1787 to 1825, with Commentary on Earlier and Later Practices Richard J. Wolfe Sing a Sad Song: The Life of Hank Williams Roger M. Williams Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong Norm Cohen Resources of American Music History: A Directory of Source Materials from Colonial Times to World War II D. W. Krummel, Jean Geil, Doris J. Dyen, and Deane L. Root Tenement Songs: The Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants Mark Slobin Ozark Folksongs Vance Randolph; edited and abridged by Norm Cohen Oscar Sonneck and American Music Edited by William Lichtenwanger Bluegrass Breakdown: The Making of the Old Southern Sound Robert Cantwell Bluegrass: A History Neil V. Rosenberg Music at the White House: A History of the American Spirit Elise K. Kirk Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast Bruce Bastin Good Friends and Bad Enemies: Robert Winslow Gordon and the Study of American Folksong Debora Kodish Fiddlin’ Georgia Crazy: Fiddlin’ John Carson, His Real World, and the World of His Songs Gene Wiggins i-xvi_1-592_Brov.indd 587 11/19/09 10:45:42 AM America’s Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present (rev. 3d ed.) Gilbert Chase Secular Music in Colonial Annapolis: The Tuesday Club, 1745–56 John Barry Talley Bibliographical Handbook of American Music D. W. Krummel Goin’ to Kansas City Nathan W. Pearson, Jr. “Susanna,” “Jeanie,” and “The Old Folks at Home”: The Songs of Stephen C. Foster from His Time to Ours (2d ed.) William W. Austin Songprints: The Musical Experience of Five Shoshone Women Judith Vander “Happy in the Service of the Lord”: Afro-American Gospel Quartets in Memphis Kip Lornell Paul Hindemith in the United States Luther Noss “My Song Is My Weapon”: People’s Songs, American Communism, and the Politics of Culture, 1930–50 Robbie Lieberman Chosen Voices: The Story of the American Cantorate Mark Slobin Theodore Thomas: America’s Conductor and Builder of Orchestras, 1835–190 Ezra Schabas “The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing” and Other Songs Cowboys Sing Guy Logsdon Crazeology: The Autobiography of a Chicago Jazzman Bud Freeman, as told to Robert Wolf Discoursing Sweet Music: Brass Bands and Community Life in Turn-of-the-Century Pennsylvania Kenneth Kreitner Mormonism and Music: A History Michael Hicks Voices of the Jazz Age: Profiles of Eight Vintage Jazzmen Chip Deffaa Pickin’ on Peachtree: A History of Country Music in Atlanta, Georgia Wayne W. Daniel...