Our Own Sweet Sounds: A Celebration of Popular Music in Arkansas

Originating as a catalog for the 1995-1996 exhibit at the Old State House Museum in Little Rock, this book now accompanies the expanded exhibit called Our Own Sweet Sounds II. It contains a history of popular music in Arkansas, encompassing folksongs, fiddlers, radio, the blues, jazz, western swing, gospel, country, and rock and roll. The new edition adds about 70 individual artists to the text, and the last section has expanded biographical and musical information on 33 of them. Cochran is a professor of English and director of the Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies at the University of Arkansas. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Hailed as the state's leading folklorist by the Arkansas Times, Robert Cochran is professor of English, chair of American Studies, and director of the Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies at the University of Arkansas. Among his many published books are A Photographer of Note: Arkansas Artist Geleve Grice (Arkansas), Vance Randolph: An Ozark Life, and Singing in Zion (Arkansas).