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53 Books in the
MUSIC / History & Criticism
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They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Expanded Edition)
by
Hanif Abdurraqib
Shine Bright: A Personal History of Black Women in Pop
by
Danyel Smith
Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive
by
Mark Anthony Neal
May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem
by
Imani Perry
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
by
Hanif Abdurraqib
She Begat This: 20 Years of the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
by
Joan Morgan
Black and Blur (consent not to be a single being)
by
Fred Moten
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us
by
Hanif Abdurraqib
Young Soul Rebels: A Personal History of Northern Soul
by
Stuart Cosgrove
Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul
by
Stuart Cosgrove
Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
by
Greg Tate
Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues
by
Albert Murray
Olio
by
Tyehimba Jess
I Am Charlie Wilson
by
Charlie Wilson
Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation
by
Questlove
Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
by
Questlove and Ben Greenman
I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon
by
Touré
Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy From Slavery To Hip-Hop
by
Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen
The Chitlin’ Circuit: And The Road To Rock &rsquoN&rsquo Roll
by
Preston Lauterbach
Feeding the Soul: Black Music, Black Thought
by
Diane D. Turner
Caruso’s Mustache Off - And Other Writings about Music and Musicians
by
Carl Van Vechten
In the Heart of the Beat: The Poetry of Rap (African American Cultural Theory and Heritage)
by
Alexs D. Pate
Dancing With the Devil: How Puff Burned the Bad Boys of Hip-Hop
by
Mark Curry
The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk about When We Talk about Hip Hop—And Why It Matters
by
Tricia Rose
Don’t Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition
by
Lorenzo Thomas
Somebody Scream!: Rap Music’s Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power
by
Marcus Reeves
Born in the Bronx: A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip Hop
by
Johan Kuelberg
I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters on Their Craft
by
LaShonda Katrice Barnett
Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip-Hop
by
Michael Eric Dyson
Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
by
Brian Coleman
Considering Genius: Writings On Jazz
by
Stanley Crouch
Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women
by
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip-Hop Aesthetic
by
William Jelani Cobb
Raising Hell: The Reign, Ruin, and Redemption of Run-D.M.C. and Jam Master Jay
by
Ronin Ro
Thru My Eyes: Thoughts on Tupac Amaru Shakur in Pictures and Words
by
Gobi
I See the Rhythm
by
Toyomi Igus
Hip Hop America
by
Nelson George
With Billie
by
Julia Blackburn
Prophets of the Hood-PB
by
Imani Perry
And It Don’t Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years
by
Raquel Cepeda
One Nation Under A Groove: Motown and American Culture
by
Gerald L. Early
In The Break: The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition
by
Fred Moten
The Quotable Musician: From Bach to Tupac
by
Sheila E. Anderson
Bad Boy: The Influence of Sean "Puffy" Combs on the Music Industry
by
Ronin Ro
Holler If You Hear Me: Searching For Tupac Shakur
by
Michael Eric Dyson
Rock ’Til You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia
by
John Strausbaugh
Miles Davis and American Culture
by
Gerald L. Early
Images: Iconography of Music in African-American Culture (1770s-1920s) (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
by
Eileen Southern
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, And An Early Cry For Civil Rights
by
David Margolick
Miles and Me
by
Quincy Troupe
John Coltrane: His Life And Music (The Michigan American Music Series)
by
Lewis Porter
Miles: The Autobiography
by
Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe
Stomping The Blues (Da Capo Paperback)
by
Albert Murray