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Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen?: A Reader
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In this primer accompanying Adam Pendleton's MoMA show, the artist behind "Black Dada" fuses musical counterpoint with the aesthetics of protestAda...
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An Outkast Reader: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Postmodern South
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /OutKast, the Atlanta-based hip-hop duo formed in 1992, is one of the most influential musical groups within American popular culture of the past tw...
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Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /"An extraordinary, innovative, and generative book." - George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes PlaceProduct DetailsISBN-13: 9780814770412 Media ...
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Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In a definitive and "excellent homage to a star who left this planet too soon" (Questlove), the life, career, tragic death, and evolution of Aaliya...
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Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /In a definitive and "excellent homage to a star who left this planet too soon" (Questlove), the life, career, tragic death, and evolution of Aaliya...
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Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /After a century of racist whitewashing, country music is finally reckoning with its relationship to Black people. In this timely work--the first bo...
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Black Moses: The Hot-Buttered Life and Soul of Isaac Hayes
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The first biography of soul pioneer Isaac Hayes, whose groundbreaking music provided the foundation for hip-hop and a new racial paradigm. "Black m...
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African Musicians in the Atlantic World: Legacies of Sound and Slavery
PaperbackOriginal price $29.50 - Original price $29.50Original price $29.50$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780813949789 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: University of Virginia Press Publication Date: 11-03-2023 Pages: 256 Series:...
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Bronzeville Nights: On the Town in Chicago's Black Metropolis
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Bronzeville was once America's most vibrant Black community--next to Harlem. Nightclubs, dance halls, rialtos, and jazz and blues joints lined the ...
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Can I Kick It?
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"Can I kick it?""Yes you can "--A Tribe Called Quest Situated squarely in the oral traditions of hip-hop and BreakBeat Poetry, Idris Goodwin's work...
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Charley Patton: Expanded Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /The Father of the Delta Blues, Charley Patton (1891–1934) was born and raised around Mississippi's cotton plantations. During the 1920s, he was t...
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Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's "Gospel Army"
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War’s “Gospel Army” analyzes the songs of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, a regiment of ...
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An Eternal Pitch: Bishop G. E. Patterson, Broadcast Religion, and the Afterlives of Ecstasy Volume 2
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /An Eternal Pitch examines the life and afterlife of the vivid sermons of Bishop G. E. Patterson, the dynamic spiritual leader of the Church of God ...
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Margaret Garner: The Premiere Performances of Toni Morrison's Libretto
HardcoverOriginal price $49.50 - Original price $49.50Original price $49.50$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /In January 1856, Margaret Garner--an enslaved woman on a Kentucky plantation--ran with members of her family to the free state of Ohio. As slave ca...
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May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part o...
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Musical Crossroads: Stories Behind the Objects of African American Music
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95Original price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /This major new title builds out of Musical Crossroads, one of the 12 permanent exhibitions at the National Museum of African American History and C...
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Dreams in Double Time: On Race, Freedom, and Bebop
HardcoverOriginal price $102.95 - Original price $102.95Original price $102.95$121.99$121.99 - $121.99Current price $121.99| /In Dreams in Double Time Jonathan Leal examines how the musical revolution of bebop opened up new futures for racialized and minoritized communitie...
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Dreams in Double Time: On Race, Freedom, and Bebop
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In Dreams in Double Time Jonathan Leal examines how the musical revolution of bebop opened up new futures for racialized and minoritized communitie...
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Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent. Performed for the purpose of...
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Sly & the Family Stone: An Oral History
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Their music changed pop history, but we've never known much about the people who made it...until now. "...a first-hand account of both the kaleidos...
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Feenin: R&B Music and the Materiality of Blackfem Voices and Technology
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In Feenin, Alexander Ghedi Weheliye traces R&B music's continuing centrality in Black life since the late 1970s. Focusing on various musical pr...
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Recorded Solo Concert Spirituals, 1916-2022
PaperbackOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$95.99$95.99 - $95.99Current price $95.99| /This work catalogs commercially produced recordings of Negro spirituals composed for solo concert vocalists. More than 5,000 tracks are listed, wi...
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Welcome 2 Houston: Hip Hop Heritage in Hustle Town
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Langston Collin Wilkins returns to the city where he grew up to illuminate the complex relationship between place, identity, and music in Houston's...
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The Blues: The Authentic Narrative of My Music and Culture
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"A fresh new perspective that will be a true revolution to readers and will open new lines of discussion on . . . the importance of the city of N...
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