Real musicians don’t sign autographs, date models, or fly in private jets. They spend their lives in practice rooms and basement clubs or toiling in the obscu

A collection of candid, surreal, and wickedly funny poems and prose.

Power Ballads is a term that derives from the 1970s and especially from an era when Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd and other associated acts conquered the airwave

The first book to explore the ballad's history and emotional appeal, surveying seventy years of the genre in modern America.

"Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork and over 150 interviews with gang-affiliated youth in the "Taylor Park" neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Ba