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The drama of In Cold Blood meets the stylings of a Coen brothers film in this long-lost manuscript from musicologist Robert “Mack” McCormick, whose research on blues icon Robert Johnson's mysterious life and death became as much of a myth as the musician himself "This is a human and humane book, an... Read More about Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey

NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' PICK OF 2023The drama of In Cold Blood meets the stylings of a Coen brothers film in this long-lost manuscript from musicologist Robert “Mack” McCormick, whose research on blues icon Robert Johnson's mysterious life and death became as much of a myth as the musician himself"T... Read More about Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey

US history gets the star treatment with this essential guide to the Smithsonian's first permanent exhibition on pop culture, featuring objects like Muhammad Ali’s training robe, and Leonard Nimoy’s Spock ears, and Dorothy’s ruby slippers, oh my!Entertainment Nation is a star-studded and richly illus... Read More about Entertainment Nation: How Music, Television, Film, Sports, and Theater Shaped the United States

From the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, the U.S. government sought to control practices of music on reservations and in Indian boarding schools. At the same time, Native singers, dancers, and musicians created new opportunities through musical performance to resist and manipulate those s... Read More about Indian Blues: American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879-1934 Volume 3 (New Directions in Native American Studies #3)

Although the calculus of variations has ancient origins in questions of Ar- istotle and Zenodoros, its mathematical principles first emerged in the post- calculus investigations of Newton, the Bernoullis, Euler, and Lagrange. Its results now supply fundamental tools of exploration to both mathematic... Read More about Variational Calculus and Optimal Control: Optimization with Elementary Convexity (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

Although the calculus of variations has ancient origins in questions of Ar- istotle and Zenodoros, its mathematical principles first emerged in the post- calculus investigations of Newton, the Bernoullis, Euler, and Lagrange. Its results now supply fundamental tools of exploration to both mathematic... Read More about Variational Calculus and Optimal Control: Optimization with Elementary Convexity (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)