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Abbott, Lynn, and Doug Seroff. Ragged but right: black traveling shows, “coon songs,” and the dark pathway to blues and jazz. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. viii, 461 p. ISBN 1578069017 (hbk.: alk. paper). ISBN 9781578069019 (hbk.: alk. paper). LC 2006-015009. American made music series

Abeywickrama, Maya. Harmonious illusions: a study of Western influence on the music of Sri Lanka. Colombo: Vijitha Yapa Publications, 2006. ii, 113 p. ISBN 9551266285. LC 2006-414693.

Andersen, Neil. Music madness: questioning music and music videos. Mankato, MN: Capstone Press, 2007. 32 p. ISBN 9780736867658 (hbk.). ISBN 0736867651 (hbk.). ISBN 9780736878616 (pbk.). ISBN 0736878610 (pbk.). LC 2006-023372. Fact finders. Media literacy

Attanas, John. Daniel Barenboim: his life, music & art. Evanston, IL: J. G. Burke, 2007. 208 p. ISBN 0934272832 (hbk.: alk. paper). ISBN 0934272840 (pbk.: alk. paper). ISBN 9780934272834 (hbk.: alk. paper). ISBN 9780934272841 (pbk.: alk. paper). LC 2006-035148.

Awkward, Michael. Soul covers: rhythm and blues remakes and the struggle for artistic identity: (Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Phoebe Snow). Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. xxvii, 246 p. ISBN 9780822339809 (hbk.: alk. paper). ISBN 0822339803 (hbk.: alk. paper). ISBN 9780822339977 (pbk.: alk. paper). ISBN 0822339978 (pbk.: alk. paper). LC 2006-034550. Refiguring American music

Baker, Felicity, and Tony Wigram, eds. Song writing: methods, techniques and clinical applications for music therapy clinicians, educators and students. London; Philadelphia, PA: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2005. 285 p. ISBN 1843103567 (pbk.). ISBN 9781843103561 (pbk.). LC 2005-001861.

Bakshi, Haresh. 101 raga-s for the 21st century and beyond: a music lover’s guide to Hindustani music. Victoria, B.C.: Trafford, 2005. 116 p. ISBN 1412046777. LC 2007-390705.

Barger, Judith. Elizabeth Stirling and the musical life of female organists in nineteenth-century England. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. xvi, 240 p. ISBN 0754651290 (alk. paper). ISBN 9780754651291 (alk. paper). LC 2006-018532. Music in nineteenth-century Britain

Barker, David, ed. 33 1/3 greatest hits. New York: Continuum, 2006. Vol. 1. ISBN 0826419038 (v. 1). ISBN 9780826419033 (v. 1). LC 2006-298965.

Barker, Hugh, and Yuval Taylor. Faking it: the quest for authenticity in popular music. New York: W. W. Norton, 2007. xiii, 375 p. ISBN 0393060780. ISBN 9780393060782. LC 2006-039754.

Beckerman, Michael Brim, ed. Martinu’s mysterious accident: essays in honor of Michael Henderson. Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2007. x, 198 p. ISBN 157647111X. ISBN 9781576471111. ISBN 9781576470039 (pbk.). ISBN 1576470032 (pbk.). LC 2006-029222. Studies in Czech music series; no. 4

Bego, Mark. Billy Joel: the biography. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2007. xxiv, 407 p., 8 p. of plates. ISBN 1560259892. ISBN 9781560259893. LC 2007-298180.

Benjamin, Thomas, Michael M. Horvit, and Robert Nelson. Techniques and materials of music: from the common practice period through the twentieth century. 7th ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson Schirmer, 2008. xii, 308 p. ISBN 9780495189770. ISBN 0495189774. LC 2006-934270.

Bertholf, Bret. The long gone lonesome history of country music. New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2007. 55 p. ISBN 0316523933 (hbk.). ISBN 9780316523936 (hbk.). LC 2005-016036.

Biddle, Ian D., and Vanessa Knights, eds. Music, national identity and the politics of location: between the global and the local. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. xii, 251 p. ISBN 0754640558 (alk. paper). ISBN 9780754640554 (alk. paper). LC 2006-005310. Ashgate popular and folk music series

Biersdorfer, J. D. iPod: the missing manual. 5th ed. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2007. xi, 239 p. ISBN 0596529783. ISBN 9780596529789. LC 2007-272305. Missing manual

Big, Kenny, John Rich, and Allen Rucker. Big & Rich: all access. New York: Center Street, 2007. xxii, 231 p. + 1 DVD. ISBN 9781599957173. ISBN 1599957175. LC 2006-101320.

Bogdanovich, John S. Classical guitar making: a modern approach to traditional design. New York: Sterling Pub. Co., 2007. x, 309 p. ISBN 1402720602. ISBN 9781402720604. LC 2006-002554.

Bolden, Tonya. Take-off!: American all-girl bands during WW II. New York: Knopf, 2007. 76 p. + 1 CD. ISBN 0375827978 (trade). ISBN 9780375827976 (trade). ISBN 0375927972 (lib. bdg.). ISBN 9780375927973 (lib. bdg.). LC 2006-024523.

Boonshaft, Peter Loel. Teaching music with purpose: conducting, rehearsing and inspiring. Galesville, MD: Meredith Music Publications; Milwaukee, WI...