Current Research in American Studies
7.5 credits
Reading list, Bachelor's level, 5EN755
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Main group 1
- Abdurraqib, Hanif, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory
- Bradley, Regina N., Chronicling Stankonia: the rise of the hip hop South / Regina N. Bradley, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory (1–18)
- The Oxford handbook of music and queerness / edited by Fred Everett Maus and Sheila Whiteley. [electronic resource], uuuu-uuuuCompulsory (Selected chapters.)
- Gabbard, Krin, Hotter than that: the trumpet, jazz, and American culture, First edition, New York, Faber and Faber, Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008Compulsory (Chapter 3, 70–106.)
- Miller, Karl Hagstrom, Segregating sound [electronic resource]: inventing folk and pop music in the age of Jim Crow / Karl Hagstrom Miller, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory (Chapter 6, 187–214)
- Jack Hamilton, Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory (Chapter 6, 246–276.)
- Hubbs, Nadine, Rednecks, queers, and country music / Nadine Hubbs, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory (Chapter 3, 107–130,)
- Hunter, Tera W., To 'joy my freedom: Southern Black women's lives and labors after the Civil War / Tera W. Hunter, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory (Chapter 7, 145–167.)
- Wells, Christi Jay, Between beats: the jazz tradition and black vernacular dance / Christi Jay Wells, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory (Chapter 3, 61–108.)
- Lordi, Emily J., The meaning of soul: black music and resilience since the 1960s, Durham, Duke University Press, 2020Compulsory (1–8)
- Lott, Eric, The Seeming Counterfeit, Part of: American quarterly, vol. 43, no. 2, 1991, p. 223–254, https:/
/ Compulsorywww.jstor.org/ stable/ 2712925 - Mahon, Maureen, Black diamond queens: African American women and rock and roll, Durham, Duke University Press, [2020]Compulsory (Chapter 2, 52–75.)
- Marcus, Greil, Mystery train: images of America in rock 'n' roll music, Sixth revised edition., New York, Plume, 2015Compulsory (Chapter 6.)
- McCracken, Alison, 'God's Gift to Us Girls': Crooning, Gender, and the Re-Creation of American Popular Song, 1928-1933, Part of: American music, vol. 17, no. 4, 1999, p. 365–395, https:/
/ Compulsorywww.jstor.org/ stable/ 3052656 - Molanphy, Chris, Old town road / Chris Molanphy, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory
- Morrison, Matthew D., Race, Blacksound, and the (Re)Making of Musicological Discourse, Part of: Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 72, no. 3, 2019, p. 781–823, https:/
/ Compulsorywww.jstor.org/ stable/ 26908096
* Compulsory