Music
The Puccini Companion
Paperback
This informative volume offers 27 photographs and drawings, select bibliographies, a chronology of Puccini’s life and works, a dramatis personae of the countless individuals who played a role in Puccini’s career, a list of first performances, and plot summaries of all the operas.
Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie
Paperback
Winner of the Oklahoma Book Award and the Deems Taylor ASCAP Award for Best Folk, Pop, or Jazz Biography
"A beautiful job…In exploring the nuances of Guthrie's work, Cray's exacting style is pitch-perfect." —Los Angeles Times Book Review- Featured
Revolutions in American Music: Three Decades That Changed a Country and Its Sounds
Hardback
The story of how three tumultuous decades changed American music
Rock and Roll Is Here To Stay: An Anthology
Hardback
"If you like rock and roll, you'll love this raunchy, rollicking anthology—great writers, great music, and astounding musicians dead and alive." —Carl Hiaasen
The Rose & the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad
Paperback
A devastatingly original work that plunges into the emotional heart of the American psyche.