The Oxford American Releases 9th Edition of Award-Winning Music Issue

The Oxford American Releases 9th Edition of Award-Winning Music Issue

CONWAY, Ark., Oct. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Why are famous acts Dwight Yoakam, Thelonious Monk, and rapper David Banner nestled together with obscurities like the International Submarine Band, Zakary Thaks, Teddy Grace, Karen Dalton, the Parchman Prison Band, and other authentic American originals on one CD together? There can only be one reason: The 2007 Oxford American Music Issue has arrived!

The Oxford American celebrates the diversity of American music and storytelling in its 2007 Music Issue now on sale nationwide including a 26-track CD generously underwritten by the country music-oriented cable television network CMT.

In addition to the CD abounding with 26 musical surprises, there is also the magazine itself. Sean Wilentz delivers a fly-on-the-wall account of the making of Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde in Nashville. Columnist Roy Blount urges for the return of yodeling. Harper's staffer Bill Wasik writes on the blogosphere phenomenon of Annuals. Acclaimed novelist Fredrick Barthelme writes of his days in the 1960's as the drummer for the cult art-noise band, the Red Crayola. Sam Stephenson writes about Thelonious Monk's final gig in his home state of North Carolina in 1970. And more...

"Every year we try and do something special with the music issue and CD," says Editor Marc Smirnoff. "This year, with the exception of a few big names, we really wanted to get into the undercurrent of celebrating lost and unjustly forgotten musical superstars. If people recognize right off the bat most of the names we're covering in this year's edition, then we kind of failed at our mission."

Each artist on the CD is featured in the magazine with insightful commentary from talented music writers and regular OA contributors including William Bowers, Carol Ann Fitzgerald, Kevin Brockmeier, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Warren Zanes, Derek Jenkins, Sven Birkerts, Amanda Petrusich, Bill Friskics-Warren, and Mike Powell.

The Oxford American is published by the nonprofit Oxford American Literary Project. The OA is a quarterly magazine based on the campus of the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, Arkansas. Founded in 1992, it bills itself as "The Southern Magazine of Good Writing." In 2005 the Music Issue was a finalist for a National Magazine Award -- an award they won in 1999 and 2003.

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CONTACT: Ray Wittenberg, +1-501-733-4164, ray@oxfordamericanmag.com, or
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