Fiction - Black Reads

"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...

An illuminating selection of writings on a wide variety of topics—everything from technique, music theory, and daily routine to spirituality and ...

"Rhythms of Resistance: A Journey through 90s Hip-Hop"*** Author of "Rapper's Delight" essay currently archived at the Library of Congress ****** G...

"Boombox Echoes: The Definitive Hip-Hop Journey of the 80s"*** Author of "Rapper's Delight" essay currently archived at the Library of Congress ***...

"From Streets to Stardom: A Rapid-Fire Tour of Hip-Hop Evolution"Hip Hop's evolution offers a vivid voice and pictorial history of life on the stre...

Brings to light the life and work of one of France's most distinguished musicians in the most complete biography in any language of Charles-Marie W...

A poetry collection by internationally acclaimed poet Lenard D. Moore focusing on jazz music as an experience and an inspiration.Product DetailsISB...

A canonizing, bold, and urgent anthology setting a new precedent for Black Punk Lit, created by generations of Black punks--featuring both new voic...

From acclaimed musician Alicia Keys, author of the memoir More Myself, comes a revealing songbook of collected poems and lyrics that document her g...

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...

Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War’s “Gospel Army” analyzes the songs of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, a regiment of ...

"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...

Award-winning poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor pays tribute to her departed son Malik ‘Phife Dawg’ Taylor of the legendary hip-hop trio A Tribe Called Qu...

Now And Then is not merely a collection of a songwriter’s lyrics; the song-poems of this undisputed ‘bluesologist’ triumphantly stand on their ow...