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Profiles in Popular Music

Profiles in Popular Music features single-authored book-length studies on popular musics, centered on the U.S., but open to music and musicians from outside with a significant audience in the U.S. Topics may focus on individual artists or genres, including rock, blues, jazz, rap, gospel, ragtime, country, zydeco, Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, Latin music and other world music. Books in the series may demonstrate a variety of approaches to the subject matter. Inquiries and submissions may be sent to series editors Jeffrey Magee at jmag@uiuc.edu or Felicia Miyakawa at miyakawa@mtsu.edu. You may also contact IU Press Sponsoring Editor Raina Polivka at rpolivka@indiana.edu.

Jeffrey Magee and Felicia Miyakawa, editors

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A Social History of a Brazilian Popular Music

Tamara Elena Livingston and Thomas George Caracas Garcia

Paperback $26.00

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Five Percenter Rap

God Hop's Music, Message, and Black Muslim Mission

Felicia M. Miyakawa

Paperback $21.95

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Conversations with Twenty-One Musicians

Wayne Enstice and Janis Stockhouse

cloth $24.95

ebook $20.99

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Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play

Inside Two Long Songs

Tim Smolko, Foreword by Adrian Stone-Mason

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$25.00

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$70.00

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Johnny Cash and the Paradox of American Identity

Leigh H. Edwards

Paperback $22.00

ebook $16.95

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The Megamusical

Jessica Sternfeld

cloth $29.95

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Radiohead and the Resistant Concept Album

How to Disappear Completely

Marianne Tatom Letts

Paperback $24.00

cloth $60.00

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Rush, Rock Music, and the Middle Class

Dreaming in Middletown

Chris McDonald

Paperback $22.95

cloth $60.00

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Rush, Rock Music, and the Middle Class

Dreaming in Middletown

Chris McDonald

ebook $18.99

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The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers

A Legacy in Country Music

Jocelyn R. Neal

Paperback $21.95

cloth $55.00

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Unlocking the Groove

Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music

Mark J. Butler

Paperback $35.00