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53 Books in the MUSIC / History & Criticism Category

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They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Expanded Edition) Shine Bright: A Personal History of Black Women in Pop Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance She Begat This: 20 Years of the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Black and Blur (consent not to be a single being) They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us Young Soul Rebels: A Personal History of Northern Soul Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues Olio I Am Charlie Wilson Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy From Slavery To Hip-Hop The Chitlin’ Circuit: And The Road To Rock &rsquoN&rsquo Roll Feeding the Soul: Black Music, Black Thought Caruso’s Mustache Off - And Other Writings about Music and Musicians In the Heart of the Beat: The Poetry of Rap (African American Cultural Theory and Heritage) Dancing With the Devil: How Puff Burned the Bad Boys of Hip-Hop The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk about When We Talk about Hip Hop—And Why It Matters Don’t Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition Somebody Scream!: Rap Music’s Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power Born in the Bronx: A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip Hop I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters on Their Craft Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip-Hop Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies Considering Genius: Writings On Jazz Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip-Hop Aesthetic Raising Hell: The Reign, Ruin, and Redemption of Run-D.M.C. and Jam Master Jay Thru My Eyes: Thoughts on Tupac Amaru Shakur in Pictures and Words I See the Rhythm Hip Hop America With Billie Prophets of the Hood-PB And It Don’t Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years One Nation Under A Groove: Motown and American Culture In The Break: The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition The Quotable Musician: From Bach to Tupac Bad Boy: The Influence of Sean "Puffy" Combs on the Music Industry Holler If You Hear Me: Searching For Tupac Shakur Rock ’Til You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia Miles Davis and American Culture Images: Iconography of Music in African-American Culture (1770s-1920s) (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, And An Early Cry For Civil Rights Miles and Me John Coltrane: His Life And Music (The Michigan American Music Series) Miles: The Autobiography Stomping The Blues (Da Capo Paperback)