Elijah Wald

21 books

The Blues: A Very Short Introduction by Elijah Wald

The Blues: A Very Short Introduction

Very Short Introductions

Elijah Wald

140 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history music informative reflective fast-paced
The Dozens: A History of Rap's Mama by Elijah Wald

The Dozens: A History of Rap's Mama

Elijah Wald

244 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history music reflective slow-paced
Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties by Elijah Wald

Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties

Elijah Wald

368 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

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Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues by Elijah Wald

Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues

Elijah Wald

368 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

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Global Minstrels: Voices of World Music by Elijah Wald

Global Minstrels: Voices of World Music

Elijah Wald

306 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography music informative reflective medium-paced
How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music by Elijah Wald

How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music

Elijah Wald

323 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history music informative medium-paced
Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen by Eric Alterman, Richard Russo, Kenneth Womack, Frank Stefanko, Daniel Wolff, Deepa Iyer, A.O. Scott, Wesley Stace, June Skinner Sawyers, Martyn Joseph, Jim Cullen, David L. Ulin, Peter Ames Carlin, Natalie Adler, Nancy Bishop, Louis Masur, Regina Barreca, Jefferson Cowie, Dermot Bolger, Joel Dinerstein, Irwin Streight, Greil Marcus, Gillian G. Gaar, Jonathan D. Cohen, Elijah Wald, Wayne Swan, Paul Muldoon, Colleen Sheehy, Lauren Onkey

Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen

Eric Alterman, Richard Russo, Kenneth Womack, Frank Stefanko, Daniel Wolff, Deepa Iyer, A.O. Scott, Wesley Stace, June Skinner Sawyers, Martyn Joseph, Jim Cullen, David L. Ulin, Peter Ames Carlin, Natalie Adler, Nancy Bishop, Louis Masur, Regina Barreca, Jefferson Cowie, Dermot Bolger, Joel Dinerstein, Irwin Streight, Greil Marcus, Gillian G. Gaar, Jonathan D. Cohen, Elijah Wald, Wayne Swan, Paul Muldoon, Colleen Sheehy, Lauren Onkey

270 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

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The Mayor of Macdougal Street 2013 Edition: A Memoir by Dave Van Ronk, Elijah Wald

The Mayor of Macdougal Street 2013 Edition: A Memoir

Dave Van Ronk, Elijah Wald

274 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir music reflective slow-paced
The Mayor of MacDougal Street by Dave Van Ronk, Elijah Wald

The Mayor of MacDougal Street

Dave Van Ronk, Elijah Wald

272 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir music reflective slow-paced
Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas by Elijah Wald

Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas

Elijah Wald

368 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history music travel informative medium-paced