Category - Music
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Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Winner, Best History, 2012 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research When Mississippi J...
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Ain't But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story
HardcoverOriginal price $104.95 - Original price $104.95Original price $104.95$123.99$123.99 - $123.99Current price $123.99| /Despite the fact that most of jazz's major innovators and performers have been African American, the overwhelming majority of jazz journalists, cri...
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Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker
PaperbackOriginal price $30.95Original price $30.95 - Original price $30.95Original price $30.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Since ascending onto the world stage in the 1990s as one of the premier bassists and composers of his generation, William Parker has perpetually to...
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DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /DJ Screw, a.k.a. Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop forever. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed a revoluti...
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From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration After 1945
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people ...
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Arrest the Music!: Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /"Olaniyan has given us a profound and beautifully integrated book which culminates in a persuasive interpretation of the relationship between Fela'...
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Hi-De-Ho: The Life of Cab Calloway
PaperbackOriginal price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Clad in white tie and tails, dancing and scatting his way through the "Hi-de-ho" chorus of "Minnie the Moocher," Cab Calloway exuded a warm charm a...
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Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Biography of a Song
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Learn the story behind the song performed by Andra Day in "United States vs. Billie Holiday" now on Hulu Recorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday in ...
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Deep River and the Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Dr. Howard Thurman explores how protest and resistance are expressed in spirituals as well as how these songs have been a "spiritual watering hole"...
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Holler if You Hear Me
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Acclaimed for his writings on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as his passionate defense of black youth culture, Michael Eric Dyson h...
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The Books of American Negro Spirituals
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /This stirring collection of Negro spirituals, edited by the great Negro poet James Weldon Johnson and arranged for voice and piano by his brother J...
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On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Since its inception in the mid-twentieth century, American music theory has been framed and taught almost exclusively by white men. As a result, wh...
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Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America
PaperbackOriginal price $33.95 - Original price $33.95Original price $33.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /Argues that Indigenous hip hop is the latest and newest assertion of Indigenous sovereignty throughout Indigenous North America.Product DetailsISBN...
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The Griot Tradition as Remixed Through Hip Hop: Straight Outta Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /Although Hip Hop is known to come from the streets of South Bronx, New York, its origins go far deeper than that. Unconsciously, the innovative sou...
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The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /The Hip Hop Generation is an eloquent testament for black youth culture at the turn of the century. The only in-depth study of the first generation...
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Night Train to Nashville: The Greatest Untold Story of Music City
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Set against the backdrop of Jim Crow, Night Train to Nashville takes readers behind the curtain of one of music's greatest untold stories during th...
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Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll--from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some ...
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The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /In The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept. In the 1960s, Lordi argues, soul came to sign...
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In the Heart of the Beat: The Poetry of Rap
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Despite its extraordinary popularity and worldwide influence, the world of rap and hip hop is under constant attack. Impressions and interpretation...
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The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /2007 Alan Merriam Prize presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Book Award Finalist Explores how the traditions of bl...
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Mercy, Mercy, Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Twenty years after his murder at the hands of his own father, Marvin Gaye continues to define the hopes and shattered dreams of the Motown generati...
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Ain't But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Despite the fact that most of jazz's major innovators and performers have been African American, the overwhelming majority of jazz journalists, cri...
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Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive
HardcoverOriginal price $89.00 - Original price $89.00Original price $89.00$111.99$111.99 - $111.99Current price $111.99| /PROSE Award- Music and Performing Arts Category Winner A framework for understanding the deep archive of Black performance in the digital era In an...
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Ride or Die: A Feminist Manifesto for the Well-Being of Black Women
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Nautilus Book Awards' Better Books for a Better World A "ride-or-die chick" is a woman who holds down her family and community. She's your girl th...
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