Music
Inside A Thug's Heart
Rikers Island is the centerpiece of the New York City Department of Corrections, a sprawling prison city of concrete and steel with housing for mo…
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Pan-Africanism
Fela: Kalakuta Notes
Fela: Kalakuta Notes is an evocative account of Fela Kuti the Afrobeat superstar who took African music into the arena of direct action. With his a…
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Music
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most important commentators on African American music and culture. In this brilliant a…
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Soul
After the Dance: My Life with Marvin Gaye
A riveting cautionary tale about the ecstasy and dangers of loving Marvin Gaye, a performer passionately pursued by all—and a searing memoir of dru…
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Soul
Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation
From Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson of the award-winning hip-hop group the Roots, comes this vibrant book commemorating the legacy of Soul Tr…
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racism
The Black Musician and the White City: Race and Music in Chicago,1900-1967
Amy Absher’s The Black Musician and the White City tells the story of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-twentieth century. While…
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Music
How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil RightsMovement
In 1964, Nina Simone sat at a piano in New York's Carnegie Hall to play what she called a "show tune." Then she began to sing: "A…
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women
Monument Eternal: The Music of Alice Coltrane
Alice Coltrane was a composer, improviser, guru, and widow of John Coltrane. Over the course of her musical life, she synthesized a wide range of mu…
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racism
A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America
A Change is Gonna Come chronicles more than forty years of black music: from the hopeful, angry refrains of the Freedom movement to the slick pop of…
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Music
Oscar Peterson: The Man and His Jazz
Called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson released over 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, received th…
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Music
Fela: This Bitch of a Life
African superstar, composer, singer, and musician, as well as mystic and political activist, Nigerian Fela Kuti, born in 1938, was controversy perso…
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Music
Incredible African-American Jazz Musicians
Readers will learn about a variety of African American jazz musicians including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, …
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r&b
Rihanna: The Only Girl In The World
Multi-award-winning artist and indisputable queen of R&B Rihanna is one of the most recognizable and successful singers in the world, and this i…
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Soul
Say it Loud! The Life of James Brown, Soul Brother No. 1
When Don Rhodes took his seat not far behind Michael Jackson at the funeral of the "Godfather of Soul" on December 30, 2006, it marked t…
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spirituality
Rastafari and the Arts: An Introduction
Drawing on literary, musical, and visual representations of and by Rastafari, Darren J. N. Middleton provides an introduction to Rasta through the …
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pan african
Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity
Africa In Stereo examines the role that African American music has played in the pan-Africanist imagination since the end of the nineteenth century…
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Music
The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--andWhy It Matters
Hip-hop is in crisis. For the past dozen years, the most commercially successful hip-hop has become increasingly saturated with caricatures of blac…
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Sports
Brave Black Women: From Slavery to the Space Shuttle
Writing especially for students in grades four through eight, Ruthe Winegarten and Sharon Kahn trace the history of black women from slavery until…
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police Misconduct
LAbyrinth: A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur andNotorious B.I.G., the Implication of Death Row Records' Suge Knight,and the Origins of the Los Angeles Police Scandal
Acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan follows Russell Poole, a highly decorated LAPD detective who in 1997 was called to investigate a controversia…
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Theatre
Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of AmericanPopular Culture, 1890-1930
This collection of thirteen essays, edited by historian W. Fitzhugh Brundage, brings together original work from sixteen scholars in various discipl…
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