Required Textbooks Fall 2008

AMS3810-01: Underground Music In America, 1980-Present

AMS3810-02: The Modern American Haunting

AMS3310-01: Crime Narratives and the American Cultural Identity

AMS3310-02: American Women Between the Wars

AMS3810-03: Crime Narratives and the American Cultural Identity

AMS3810-01
UNDERGROUND MUSIC IN AMERICA, 1980-PRESENT
Micah Vandegrift
Four (4) books total

1) Title: Youth Subcultures: Exploring Underground America
Author: Arielle Greenberg
Publisher: Longman
Edition:
Copyright Date: 2007
Published Date: Oct. 30, 2006
ISBN: 0-321-24194-0
Relevant Info: Longman Topics Reader

2) Title: We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet, The Collected Interviews
Author: Edited by Daniel Sinker
Publisher: Punk Planet Books/Akashic Books
Edition: Expanded Edition
Copyright Date: 2008
Published Date: April 1, 2007 (Expanded edition)
ISBN: 978-1933354323
Relevant Info: Expanded Edition

3) Title: Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers and Emo
Author: Andy Greenwald
Publisher: St. Martins Griffin
Edition:
Copyright Date: 2003
Published Date: Nov. 15, 2003
ISBN: 0312308639
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4) Title: Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
Author: Michael Azerrad
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Edition:
Copyright Date: 2001
Published Date: July 2, 2002
ISBN: 0316787531
Relevant Info: soft cover or hardcover versions of this book are ok.

AMS 3810-02
The Modern American Haunting
Jackie Attaway
Three (3) books total

1) Title: Soul Resin.
Author: Cannon, C.W.
Publisher: FC2
Edition:
Copyright Date:
Published Date: 2002
ISBN: 157366099X.
Relevant Info:

2) Title: Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls.
Author: Corin, Lucy.
Publisher: FC2
Edition:
Copyright Date:
Published Date: 2004
ISBN: 1573661120.
Relevant Info:

3) Title: Absalom, Absalom!
Author: Faulkner, William.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Edition:
Copyright Date:
Published Date: 1972
ISBN: 0679732187.
Relevant Info:

AMS3310-01
Crime Narratives and the American Cultural Identity
Jeff Bennett
Nine (9) books total

1) Title: The Big Sleep
Author: Raymond Chandler
Publisher: Vintage Books
Edition:
Copyright Date: 1939
Published Date: 1992
ISBN: ISBN-13: 978-0394758282 or ISBN-13: 978-0140108927
Relevant Info: No Hardcovers

2) Title: My Dark Places
Author: James Ellroy
Publisher: Vintage Books
Edition:
Copyright Date: 1996
Published Date: 1997
ISBN: 978-0679762058
Relevant Info: No Hardcovers

3) Title: Cotton Comes to Harlem
Author: Chester Himes
Publisher: Vintage Books
Edition:
Copyright Date: 1965
Published Date: 1988
ISBN: 978-0394759999
Relevant Info: No Hardcovers

4) Title: Killshot
Author: Elmore Leonard
Publisher: Harper-Collis
Edition:
Copyright Date:
Published Date: 2003
ISBN: 978-0061563867
Relevant Info: No Hardcovers

5) Title: No Country for Old Men
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Random House Inc.
Edition:
Copyright Date:
Published Date: 2005
ISBN: 978-0307387134
Relevant Info: No Hardcovers

6) Title: Rape: A Love Story
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Carroll and Graf
Edition:
Copyright Date:
Published Date: 2004
ISBN: 978-0786714827
Relevant Info: No Hardcovers

7) Title: The Ice Harvest
Author: Scott Phillips
Publisher: Ballentine
Edition:
Copyright Date:
Published Date: 2001
ISBN: 978-0345440198
Relevant Info: No Hardcovers

8) Title: After Dark, My Sweet
Author: Jim Thompson
Publisher: Orion Books Limited
Edition:
Copyright Date:
Published Date: 2004
ISBN: 978-0679732471
Relevant Info: No Hardcovers

9) Title: Miami Blues
Author: Charles Willeford
Publisher: Vintage Books
Edition:
Copyright Date:
Published Date: 2004
ISBN: 978-1400032464
Relevant Info: No Hardcovers

AMS3310-02
American Women Between the Wars
Peggy Wright-Cleveland
Six (6) Required Texts:

1.) Title: A Farewell to Arms
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Publisher: Scribner
Edition:
Copyright Date:
Published Date: 1995
ISBN: 9780684801469
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2) Title: One of Ours
Author: Willa Cather
Publisher: Vintage Books
Edition:
Copyright Date:
Published Date: 1991
ISBN: 9780679737445
Relevant Info:

3.) Title: Grapes of Wrath
Author: John Steinbeck
Publisher: Penguin Books
Edition:
Copyright Date:
Published Date: 1991
ISBN: 9780140281620
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4.) Title: Creating Rosie the Riveter: Class, Gender, and Propaganda During World War II
Author: Maureen Honey
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Edition:
Copyright Date:
Published Date: 1984
ISBN: 9780870234446
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5.) Title: Private Politics and Public Voices: Black Women’s Activism from World War I to the New Deal
Author: Nikki Brown
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Edition:
Copyright Date:
Published Date: 2006
ISBN: 9780253348043
Relevant Info:

6.) Title: Cane
Author: Jean Toomer
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Edition:
Copyright Date:
Published Date: 1993
ISBN: 978-0871401519
Relevant Info:

AMS3810-03
Crime Narratives and the American Cultural Identity
Jeff Bennett
Nine (9) books total