Nonfiction - Black Reads
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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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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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Widor: A Life Beyond the Toccata
PaperbackOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /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...
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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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Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo's key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebel...
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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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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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Now You See Me: An Introduction to 100 Years of Black Design
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Previously marginalized, overlooked, or even erased from history, Black designers are finally given their due in this first book to celebrate a cen...
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Black and Blur
HardcoverOriginal price $107.95 - Original price $107.95Original price $107.95$127.99$127.99 - $127.99Current price $127.99| /"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best descr...
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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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A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A sweeping, genre-bending “masterpiece” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) exploring Black art, music, and culture in all ...
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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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Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers' Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Connecting the black music tradition with the black activist tradition, Party Music brings both into greater focus than ever before and reveals j...
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Ode to Hip-Hop: 50 Albums That Define 50 Years of Trailblazing Music
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Celebrate the music that has shaped the culture and given us some of the greatest hits of all time with this vibrantly illustrated anthology, featu...
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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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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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Making the Movement: How Activists Fought for Civil Rights with Buttons, Flyers, Pins, and Posters
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Packed with over 200 color photos, this visual journey through Black history and the Civil Rights Movement is told through the objects--buttons, ba...
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Energy Never Dies: Afro-Optimism and Creativity in Chicago
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From Afro Sheen to Theaster Gates and from Soul Train to Chance the Rapper, Black Chicago draws sustenance from a culture rooted in self-determinat...
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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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South African Popular Music
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From the storied ache of mbube harmonies of the '40s to the electronic boom of kwaito and the amapiano and house explosion of the '00s, this book e...
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