Music

William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll

By Casey Rae

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Why Karen Carpenter Matters

By Karen Tongson

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Revenge of the She-Punks

A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot

By Vivien Goldman

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Go Ahead in the Rain

Notes to A Tribe Called Quest

By Hanif Abdurraqib

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Beyonce in Formation

Remixing Black Feminism

By Omise'eke Tinsley

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Why the Ramones Matter

By Donna Gaines

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Why the Beach Boys Matter

By Tom Smucker

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Houston Rap Tapes

An Oral History of Bayou City Hip-Hop

By Lance Scott Walker, Foreword by Willie D

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Night Moves

By Jessica Hopper

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Country Music USA

50th Anniversary Edition

By Bill C. Malone and Tracey E. W. Laird

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No Depression

Summer 2018: (im)migration

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A Spy in the House of Loud

New York Songs and Stories

By Chris Stamey

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No Depression

Spring 2018: Appalachia

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Ghostnotes

Music of the Unplayed

By B+

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No Depression

Winter 2017: Singer-songwriter

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Woman Walk the Line

How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives

By Holly Gleason

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Adventures of a Ballad Hunter

By John A. Lomax, foreword by John Lomax III, John Nova Lomax, and Anna Lomax Wood

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No Depression

Fall 2017: Foremothers

FreshGrass, Illustrations by Drew Christie, Jenny Ritter, and Howard Rains

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A Perfectly Good Guitar

By Chuck Holley

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No Depression

Summer 2017: Over Yonder

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Chrissie Hynde

A Musical Biography

By Adam Sobsey

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No Depression

Winter 2016: Beyond Bluegrass

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No Depression

Spring 2017: Heartland

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A Pure Solar World

Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism

By Paul Youngquist

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T Bone Burnett

A Life in Pursuit

By Lloyd Sachs

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Toby Snax

Written and illustrated by Kristin Hersh

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Madonnaland

And Other Detours into Fame and Fandom

By Alina Simone

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Real Love, No Drama

The Music of Mary J. Blige

By Danny Alexander

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Don't Suck, Don't Die

Giving Up Vic Chesnutt

By Kristin Hersh, Foreword by Amanda Petrusich

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Comin' Right at Ya

How a Jewish Yankee Hippie Went Country, or, the Often Outrageous History of Asleep at the Wheel

By Ray Benson, and David Menconi

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Los Lobos

Dream in Blue

By Chris Morris

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John Prine

In Spite of Himself

By Eddie Huffman

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The Flatlanders

Now It's Now Again

By John T. Davis

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Merle Haggard

The Running Kind

By David Cantwell

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Mojo Hand

The Life and Music of Lightnin' Hopkins

By Timothy J. O'Brien and David Ensminger

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Ryan Adams

Losering, a Story of Whiskeytown

By David Menconi

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Dwight Yoakam

A Thousand Miles from Nowhere

By Don McLeese

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The Adventures of a Cello

Revised Edition, with a New Epilogue

By Carlos Prieto

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SXSW Scrapbook

People and Things That Went Before

Edited by Peter Blackstock, Jason Cohen, and Andy Smith

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The Austin Chronicle Music Anthology

Edited by Austin Powell and Doug Freeman

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Country Music, U.S.A.

Third Revised Edition

By Bill C. Malone and Jocelyn R. Neal

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Texas Tornado

The Times and Music of Doug Sahm

By Jan Reid, with Shawn Sahm

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House of Hits

The Story of Houston's Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios

By Andy Bradley and Roger Wood

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In Search of the Blues

A Journey to the Soul of Black Texas

By Bill Minutaglio

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The Road Goes On Forever and the Music Never Ends

By Robert Earl Keen

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No Depression #77

Surveying the Past, Present, and Future of American Music

Grant Alden and Peter Blackstock, editors

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Chicano Rap

Gender and Violence in the Postindustrial Barrio

By Pancho McFarland

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No Depression #76

Surveying the Past, Present, and Future of American Music

Edited by Grant Alden and Peter Blackstock

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