BlackReads Collection: Celebrating Black Stories
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Jazz à la Creole: French Creole Music and the Birth of Jazz
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Winner of the 2023 Award for Excellence for Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections During ...
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How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /"Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly." So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant med...
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The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /An illuminating selection of writings on a wide variety of topics—everything from technique, music theory, and daily routine to spirituality and ...
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Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /ONE OF THE NEW YORKER’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE MUSIC BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NO DEPRESSION: THE JOURNAL OF ROOTS MUS...
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Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /American pop music is arguably this country's greatest cultural contribution to the world, and its singular voice and virtuosity were created by a ...
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Kansas City Jazz: A Little Evil Will Do You Good
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /The brand of jazz that developed in the Kansas City area in the period from the late 1920s to the late 1930s is recognised as both a distinct styli...
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William Levi Dawson: American Music Educator
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /William Levi Dawson (1899-1990) overcame adversity and Jim Crow racism to become a nationally recognized composer, choral arranger, conductor, and ...
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William Levi Dawson: American Music Educator
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /William Levi Dawson (1899-1990) overcame adversity and Jim Crow racism to become a nationally recognized composer, choral arranger, conductor, and ...
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Going Back to T-Town: The Ernie Fields Territory Big Band Volume 2
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /There was a time when countless young people in the Midwest, South, and Southwest went to dances and stage shows to hear a territory band play. Ter...
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Mischief of the Gods: Tales from the Ethiopian Streets
PaperbackOriginal price $33.99 - Original price $33.99Original price $33.99$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /"What a rich life it is to have these memories of time spent with the young Azmari singer Tigabu, the Lalibela poet Tilahun, and the other spirits ...
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Composing Aid: Music, Refugees, and Humanitarian Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Composing Aid is unique to the book market for the following reasons: - It humanizes people that have experienced forced migration during a period ...
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The Authorized P-Funk Song Reference: Official Canon of Parliament-Funkadelic, 1956-2023
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /"Daniel Bedrosian has done a wonderful job of a seemingly impossible task of reconstructing this history--finding everybody who's been a part of, i...
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Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Where exactly does the South begin and end? Current maps are too rigid to account for the ways Black people have built the South while being simult...
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Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Where exactly does the South begin and end? Current maps are too rigid to account for the ways Black people have built the South while being simult...
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African Musicians in the Atlantic World: Legacies of Sound and Slavery
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /Music, that fundamental form of human expression, is one of the most powerful cultural continuities fostered by enslaved Africans and their descend...
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E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Raised in the ghetto, abandoned as a child, addicted to drugs and women all his life but still able to produce four consecutive #1 hip-hop albums...
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Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020“[Brother Robert} book does much to pull the blues master out of the fog of myth.”—Rolling StoneAn ...
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The Story of Motown
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Re-release of the first book ever published in America about the legendary Motown Record Company, with a new foreword by legendary music journali...
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Murder Dog The Covers Vol. 1
HardcoverOriginal price $48.99Original price $48.99 - Original price $48.99Original price $48.99Current price $45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Murder Dog has been the premiere magazine of underground Hip Hop for over twenty years now This full-color book features the best of their covers ...
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Murder Dog The Interviews Vol. 1
HardcoverOriginal price $45.99 - Original price $45.99Original price $45.99$59.99$59.99 - $59.99Current price $59.99| /Yes, it's true Over The Edge and Murder Dog have joined forces and we are re-purposing and releasing some of their amazing premium content. Murder...
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The History of Hip Hop
HardcoverOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Hip Hop in the 1990s--What an era? Only one hip hop history book tells you how Hip Hop & R&B took over for ages to come This rap history bo...
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The History of Hip Hop
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /"In the eighties, Hip hop transformed from urban American from infancy to a new culture "With the gradual shift from the seventies disco scene, a n...
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The History of Hip Hop
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Hip Hop Truth for the Art and Pulse of America This cultural brilliance of sound presented a voice and mindset detailing life growing up in the str...
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The History of Hip Hop
PaperbackOriginal price $13.99 - Original price $13.99Original price $13.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"Rhythms of Resistance: A Journey through 90s Hip-Hop"*** Author of "Rapper's Delight" essay currently archived at the Library of Congress ****** G...
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