New Orleans Rhythm & Blues: A Resource Guide to Crescent City Artists and their Recordings, 1945-1975

Authors: B. Lee Cooper, Debbie Edens, and Frank W. Hoffmann

Published: 2017
Publisher: The Paw Paw Press
Available for Purchase: Amazon
Genre: History – American Culture – Popular Music
Author’s Note: This volume is an extension of a previous collection of essays that I edited for the academic journal Popular Music and Society (Routledge, 2008). This study examines the rise and fall of New Orleans R&B music as a nationally charted artistic phenomenon.
OLLI Affiliation: OLLI at the University of North Carolina at Asheville – Member and Instructor

Other Book Titles: Discs of Distinction: Essays on Remarkable Recordings by Exceptional Artists (2015); Lyrical Legacies: Essays on Topics in Rock, Pop, and Blues Lyrics and Beyond (2015); More Discs of Distinction: Additional Essays on Remarkable Recordings by Exceptional Artists (2015); Novelty Records: Selected Subjects and Artists (2015); Popular Music Research: Answer Songs, Blue-Eyed Soul, Cover Recordings…And Beyond (2015); Popular Music Scholarship: Articles, Bibliographies, Book/CD Reviews, and Discographies (2015); Prominent Themes in Popular Songs: An Exploration of 54 Persistent Lyrical Themes (2015)