53 Collage of Books in the Music / History & Criticism Category — View a list.

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