Nonfiction - Black Reads
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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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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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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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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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Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Like the hard-hitting sounds of a Public Enemy jam, the words of the band's lead singer, Chuck D, excite the mind and senses. In his first book, Ch...
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The Land Is Sung: Zulu Performances and the Politics of Place
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Ethnography on the politics of land and belonging in post apartheid Zulu performancesWhat does it mean to belong? In The Land is Sung, musicologist...
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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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Queer Arrangements: Billy Strayhorn and Midcentury Jazz Collaboration
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Queer Arrangements is a new study of Billy Strayhorn that examines his music and career at the intersection of jazz and Black queer historyThe lega...
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Performing Arts and Gender in Postcolonial Western Uganda
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$145.99$145.99 - $145.99Current price $145.99| /Drawing on archival research and extensive fieldwork in the regions of Bunyoro and Tooro, Linda Cimardi examines the connection between traditional...
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Magic City: How the Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped the Sound of America
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Magic City is the story of one of American music's essential unsung places: Birmingham, Alabama, birthplace of a distinctive and influential jazz h...
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Magic City: How the Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped the Sound of America
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Magic City is the story of one of American music's essential unsung places: Birmingham, Alabama, birthplace of a distinctive and influential jazz h...
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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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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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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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Transforming Vòdún: Musical Change and Postcolonial Healing in Benin's Jazz and Brass Band Music
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Transforming Vòdún examines how musicians from the West African Republic of Benin transform Benin's cultural traditions, especially the ancestral s...
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