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The Sound of Stevie Wonder: His Words and Music.

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The Sound of Stevie Wonder: His Words and Music. By James E. Perone. (The Praeger Singer-Songwriter Collection.) Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006. [xiii, 187 p. ISBN 0-275-98723-X; ISBN-13 978-0-275-98723-7. $39.95.] Index, bibliography, discography, illustrations.

This volume is the first in the Praeger Singer-Songwriter Collection and is written by series editor James E. Perone, professor of music at Mount Union College (Ohio). The series has an ambitious publication schedule, with a volume on Frank Zappa released in 2006 and entries on Carole King (also by Perone), Bruce Springsteen, and Bob Marley due in 2007. Perone has written on music of the Vietnam conflict, the counterculture era, and Woodstock, as well as authoring a number of bibliographies, including five titles in Greenwood Press's Bio-bibliographies in Music series.

According to the series foreword, the intent of the Singer-Songwriter Collection is ambitious as well: to focus on the artist's work and relate it to their life and the society around them, to serve as listeners' guides and "companions to the artist's recorded output" and to offer "true insight into the work of the artists they study" (p. vii). Literary, musicological, or cultural aspects of the artist's work may be emphasized, depending upon...

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