Focuses on the life and musical career of the composer who wrote a number of popular musicals and brought jazz into the realm of acceptable and respectable musi

Whitman's famous poem, accompanied by linoleum-cut illustrations, depicts people at work all over an earlier America.

The first edition of American Popular Music introduces the history and influence of American music within the broader context of American culture. It reveals ho

For twenty-two years, Katherine Bouton had a secret that grew harder to keep every day. An editor at The New York Times, at daily editorial meetings she couldn'