53 Books in the “Music / History & Criticism” Category (collage)

They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Expanded Edition)

by Hanif Abdurraqib
Two Dollar Radio (Jun 20, 2023)
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Shine Bright: A Personal History of Black Women in Pop

by Danyel Smith
Roc Lit 101 (Apr 19, 2022)
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Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive

by Mark Anthony Neal
New York University Press (Mar 08, 2022)
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May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem

by Imani Perry
University of North Carolina Press (Oct 21, 2021)
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A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

by Hanif Abdurraqib
Random House (Mar 30, 2021)
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She Begat This: 20 Years of the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

by Joan Morgan
Atria Books (Aug 07, 2018)
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Black and Blur (consent not to be a single being)

by Fred Moten
Duke University Press Books (Dec 08, 2017)
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They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us

by Hanif Abdurraqib
Two Dollar Radio (Nov 07, 2017)
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Young Soul Rebels: A Personal History of Northern Soul

by Stuart Cosgrove
Birlinn (Mar 24, 2017)
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Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul

by Stuart Cosgrove
Polygon (Oct 03, 2016)
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Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader

by Greg Tate
Duke University Press Books (Aug 05, 2016)
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Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues

by Albert Murray
University of Minnesota Press (May 16, 2016)
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Olio

by Tyehimba Jess
Wave Books (Apr 05, 2016)
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I Am Charlie Wilson

by Charlie Wilson
Atria / 37 Ink (Jun 30, 2015)
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Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation

by Questlove
Harper Design (Oct 22, 2013)
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Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

by Questlove and Ben Greenman
Grand Central Publishing (Jun 18, 2013)
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I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon

by Touré
Atria Books (Mar 19, 2013)
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Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy From Slavery To Hip-Hop

by Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen
W. W. Norton & Company (Aug 27, 2012)
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The Chitlin’ Circuit: And The Road To Rock &rsquoN&rsquo Roll

by Preston Lauterbach
W. W. Norton & Company (Jul 18, 2011)
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Feeding the Soul: Black Music, Black Thought

by Diane D. Turner
Third World Press (May 01, 2010)
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Caruso’s Mustache Off - And Other Writings about Music and Musicians

by Carl Van Vechten
Mondial (Mar 04, 2010)
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In the Heart of the Beat: The Poetry of Rap (African American Cultural Theory and Heritage)

by Alexs D. Pate
Scarecrow Press (Nov 24, 2009)
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Dancing With the Devil: How Puff Burned the Bad Boys of Hip-Hop

by Mark Curry
New Mark Books (Feb 02, 2009)
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The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk about When We Talk about Hip Hop—And Why It Matters

by Tricia Rose
Civitas Book Publisher (Dec 02, 2008)
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Don’t Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition

by Lorenzo Thomas
University of Michigan Press (May 02, 2008)
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Somebody Scream!: Rap Music’s Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power

by Marcus Reeves
Faber and Faber (Mar 18, 2008)
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Born in the Bronx: A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip Hop

by Johan Kuelberg
Rizzoli (Nov 06, 2007)
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I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters on Their Craft

by LaShonda Katrice Barnett
Thunder’s Mouth Press (Oct 26, 2007)
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Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip-Hop

by Michael Eric Dyson
Basic Civitas Books (Jul 02, 2007)
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Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies

by Brian Coleman
Villard (Jun 12, 2007)
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Considering Genius: Writings On Jazz

by Stanley Crouch
Basic Civitas Books (Apr 10, 2007)
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Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women

by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
New York University Press (Mar 01, 2007)
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To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip-Hop Aesthetic

by William Jelani Cobb
New York University Press (Feb 01, 2007)
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Raising Hell: The Reign, Ruin, and Redemption of Run-D.M.C. and Jam Master Jay

by Ronin Ro
Harper Paperbacks (Oct 31, 2006)
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Thru My Eyes: Thoughts on Tupac Amaru Shakur in Pictures and Words

by Gobi
Atria Books (Nov 01, 2005)
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I See the Rhythm

by Toyomi Igus
Lee & Low Books (Sep 09, 2005)
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Hip Hop America

by Nelson George
Penguin Books (Apr 26, 2005)
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With Billie

by Julia Blackburn
Pantheon Books (Apr 19, 2005)
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Prophets of the Hood-PB

by Imani Perry
Duke University Press Books (Nov 30, 2004)
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And It Don’t Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years

by Raquel Cepeda
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Sep 29, 2004)
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One Nation Under A Groove: Motown and American Culture

by Gerald L. Early
University of Michigan Press (Mar 25, 2004)
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In The Break: The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition

by Fred Moten
University of Minnesota Press (Apr 09, 2003)
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The Quotable Musician: From Bach to Tupac

by Sheila E. Anderson
Allworth Press (Mar 01, 2003)
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Bad Boy: The Influence of Sean "Puffy" Combs on the Music Industry

by Ronin Ro
Atria Books (Nov 01, 2001)
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Holler If You Hear Me: Searching For Tupac Shakur

by Michael Eric Dyson
Basic Civitas Books (Aug 15, 2001)
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Rock ’Til You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia

by John Strausbaugh
Verso Books (Aug 09, 2001)
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Miles Davis and American Culture

by Gerald L. Early
Missouri History Museum Press (Jun 01, 2001)
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Images: Iconography of Music in African-American Culture (1770s-1920s) (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

by Eileen Southern
Routledge (Nov 28, 2000)
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Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, And An Early Cry For Civil Rights

by David Margolick
Running Press (Apr 06, 2000)
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Miles and Me

by Quincy Troupe
University of California Press (Mar 08, 2000)
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John Coltrane: His Life And Music (The Michigan American Music Series)

by Lewis Porter
University of Michigan Press (Jan 28, 2000)
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Miles: The Autobiography

by Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe
Simon & Schuster (Sep 15, 1990)
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Stomping The Blues (Da Capo Paperback)

by Albert Murray
Da Capo Press (Aug 01, 1989)
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