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Black Music

by Amiri Baraka

Black Music Amiri Baraka 9781933354934 Nonfiction Akashic Books Akashic Books The long-awaited reissue (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series) of the sequel to Amiri Baraka’s seminal work, Blues Pe...

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Black music in America: A history through its people

by James Haskins

Black music in America: A history through its people James Haskins 9780690044607 Fiction Thomas Y. Crowell Co. HarperCollins Surveys the history of black music in America, from early slave songs throu...

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Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo

by Kristina R. Gaddy and Rhiannon Giddens

Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo Kristina R. Gaddy and Rhiannon Giddens 9781469690575 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of...

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Feeding the Soul: Black Music, Black Thought

by Diane D. Turner

Feeding the Soul: Black Music, Black Thought Diane D. Turner 9780883782262 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press An Africa-centered framework unifies these essays about misconceptions in stan...

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How Black Music Took Over the World

by Melvin Gibbs

How Black Music Took Over the World Melvin Gibbs 9781541603240 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books One of the world’s greatest bassists lays down the heart of Black music, revealing how its rhythmi...

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Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story

by Willard Jenkins

Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story Willard Jenkins 9781478019039 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Despite the fact that most of jazz’s major ...

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Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians (The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Black Music)

by Eileen Southern

Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians (The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Black Music) Eileen Southern 9780313213397 Nonfiction Greenwood Publishing Group Greenwood Publishing Grou...

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African-American Traditions in Song, Sermon, Tale, and Dance, 1600s-1920: An Annotated Bibliography of Literature, Collections, and Artworks (The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Black Music)

by Eileen Southern

African-American Traditions in Song, Sermon, Tale, and Dance, 1600s-1920: An Annotated Bibliography of Literature, Collections, and Artworks (The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Black Music) Eileen Southern...

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The Music Is the People

by Sean Qualls

The Music Is the People Sean Qualls 9780063144255 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins CORETTA SCOTT KING HONOR ARTIST, SEAN QUALLS From Coretta Scott King Honor artist and illustrator of Questlo...

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Power 101: The Harvard Report, Soul Music, and The American Dream

by Logan H. Westbrooks and Schuyler C. Traughber

Power 101: The Harvard Report, Soul Music, and The American Dream Logan H. Westbrooks and Schuyler C. Traughber 9780998782232 Nonfiction Ascent Book Publishing Ascent Book Publishing In 1972 CBS Recor...

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What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture

by Mark Anthony Neal

What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture Mark Anthony Neal 9780415920728 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge “What the Music Said is a passionately written book. It provides expert...

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We Were Here: A History of Black People and Alternative Music

by Stephanie Phillips

We Were Here: A History of Black People and Alternative Music Stephanie Phillips 9780306832758 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group A long-overdue corrective to the history of rock ’n’ roll an...

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Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race

by Maureen Mahon

Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race Maureen Mahon 9780822333173 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books The original architects of rock...

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Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music

by Amiri Baraka

Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music Amiri Baraka 9780520265820 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka ...

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Digging: The Afro-American Soul Of American Classical Music

by Amiri Baraka

Digging: The Afro-American Soul Of American Classical Music Amiri Baraka 9780520257153 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka ...

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I See the Rhythm

by Toyomi Igus

I See the Rhythm Toyomi Igus 9780892392124 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books From Michele Wood and Toyomi Ingus, the award-winning artist and author of Going Back Home, comes their second boo...

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Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive

by Mark Anthony Neal

Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive Mark Anthony Neal 9781479806881 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press A framework for understanding the deep ar...

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Don’t Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition

by Lorenzo Thomas

Don’t Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition Lorenzo Thomas 9780472068920 Nonfiction University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press Black musical forms profoundl...

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Serious Music

by Percival Everett

Serious Music Percival Everett 9780385552585 Fiction Doubleday Books Penguin Random House A thrilling, darkly comic journey of a Black musician making his way from the trenches of the Somme to the jaz...

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Seduced

by Nelson George

Seduced Nelson George 9780345412669 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House "[A] smart, funny, and wonderfully resonant novel … It’s the 1980s, and aspiring songwriter Derek Harper is a man ...

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It’s Our Music Too: The Black Experience in Classical Music

by Earl Ofari Hutchinson

It’s Our Music Too: The Black Experience in Classical Music Earl Ofari Hutchinson 9780692781876 Nonfiction Middle Passage Press Middle Passage Press Groundbreaking Book Explores the Black Impact on Cl...

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The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop

by Kyra D. Gaunt

The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop Kyra D. Gaunt 9780814731208 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press 2007 Alan Merriam Prize presented...

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How Sweet the Sound: A Soundtrack for America

by Kwame Alexander

How Sweet the Sound: A Soundtrack for America Kwame Alexander 9780316442497 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Featuring artists ranging from Miles Davis to Kendrick Lam...

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A Phat Death: Or, The Last Days of Noir Soul (Nina Halligan)

by Norman Kelley

A Phat Death: Or, The Last Days of Noir Soul (Nina Halligan) Norman Kelley 9781888451481 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Fiction. African American Studies. A hit on a notorious hip-hop star plunge...

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Life of the Party

by Harmony Holiday

Life of the Party Harmony Holiday 9781635902013 Nonfiction Semiotext(e) Semiotext(e) An archive and annotation of Black music-performance culture, produced alongside Harmony Holiday’s first solo museu...

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Shotgun Seamstress: An Anthology

by Osa Atoe

Shotgun Seamstress: An Anthology Osa Atoe 9781593767396 Fiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press A cut & paste celebration of Black punk and outsider identity, this is the only complete collection of...

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Harlem 69: The Future of Soul

by Stuart Cosgrove

Harlem 69: The Future of Soul Stuart Cosgrove 9781846974205 Nonfiction Polygon Birlinn Book 3 in The Soul Trilogy Harlem, 1969, and the vibrant community around 125th Street is rife with creative inn...

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L-vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems

by Kevin Coval

L-vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems Kevin Coval 9781608461516 Poetry Haymarket Books Haymarket Books From the poet the Chicago Tribune calls “the new voice of Chicago,” comes L-vis Lives!, a bold new collec...

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The City Of Refuge [New And Expanded Edition]: The Collected Stories Of Rudolph Fisher

by Rudolph Fisher

The City Of Refuge [New And Expanded Edition]: The Collected Stories Of Rudolph Fisher Rudolph Fisher 9780826218124 Nonfiction University of Missouri Press University of Missouri One of the premier wr...

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Swing Time

by Zadie Smith

Swing Time Zadie Smith 9781594203985 Fiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of W...

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W.E.B. Du Bois: Writings (Loa #34): The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays

by W.E.B. Du Bois and Nathan Huggins

W.E.B. Du Bois: Writings (Loa #34): The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays W.E.B. Du Bois and Nathan Huggins 9780940450332 Nonfiction Library of A...

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The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel (A D Hunter Mystery)

by Nelson George

The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel (A D Hunter Mystery) Nelson George 9781617750243 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "George is an ace at interlacing the real dramas of the world … the book’s slim l...

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Clifford’s Blues

by John A. Williams

Clifford’s Blues John A. Williams 9781566890809 Fiction Coffee House Press Coffee House Press “John A. Williams proves again that he is the greatest American novelist of the twentieth century”—Ishmael...

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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Movie Tie-In): A Play

by August Wilson

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Movie Tie-In): A Play August Wilson 9780593184967 Fiction Plume Penguin Random House NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING VIOLA DAVIS AND CHADWICK BOSEMAN From the Pulitzer Prize-winn...

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The Magic Of Juju: An Appreciation Of The Black Arts Movement

by Kalamu ya Salaam

The Magic Of Juju: An Appreciation Of The Black Arts Movement Kalamu ya Salaam 9780883781968 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press A contextual historical examination of the civil rights move...

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How to Slay: Inspiration from the Queens and Kings of Black Style

by Constance White

How to Slay: Inspiration from the Queens and Kings of Black Style Constance White 9780847861385 Nonfiction Rizzoli International Publications Rizzoli International Publications An inspirational journe...

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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (1920s Century Cycle)

by August Wilson

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (1920s Century Cycle) August Wilson 9780452261136 Fiction Plume Penguin Random House Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano LessonWinner of the New York Drama C...

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Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader

by Greg Tate

Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader Greg Tate 9780822361800 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate h...

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Open Mike

by Michael Eric Dyson

Open Mike Michael Eric Dyson 9780465017652 Nonfiction Basic Civitas Books Perseus Books Here, collected for the first time, are interviews and essays representing Michael Eric Dyson’s most important t...

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RL’s Dream

by Walter Mosley

RL’s Dream Walter Mosley 9780393038026 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. When a black musician in New York is evicted for non-payment of rent, a white woman living in the sam...

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My Voice Is a Trumpet

by Jimmie Allen

My Voice Is a Trumpet Jimmie Allen 9780593352182 Fiction Flamingo Books Penguin Random House Jimmie Allen, multi-platinum selling recording artist and the first Black musician to win The Academy of Co...

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Bessie: Revised and Expanded Edition

by Chris Albertson

Bessie: Revised and Expanded Edition Chris Albertson 9780300107562 Nonfiction Yale University Press Yale University Press The basis for the HBO film airing in May 2015, this revised and expanded editi...

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Hoop Roots

by John Edgar Wideman

Hoop Roots John Edgar Wideman 9780618257751 Fiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A multilayered memoir of basketball, family, home, love, and race, John Edgar Wideman"s Hoop Roots brings "a...

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African American Musicians

by Eleanora E. Tate

African American Musicians Eleanora E. Tate 9780471253563 Fiction Wiley Wiley Meet the black musicians who created Americais greatest music—from the early years to modern times Marian Anderson Louis "...

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Beethoven and Me: A Beginner’s Guide to Classical Music

by Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Beethoven and Me: A Beginner’s Guide to Classical Music Earl Ofari Hutchinson 9780692508176 Nonfiction Middle Passage Press Middle Passage Press Political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson is best known a...

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The Weight

by Jeff Boyd

The Weight Jeff Boyd 9781668007266 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A powerful coming-of-age novel about a twenty-something Black musician living in predominantly white Portland, Oregon...

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Skin Deep

by Kathleen Cross

Skin Deep Kathleen Cross 9780976098805 Fiction William Blue Publishers William Blue Publishers Biracial but white-looking, Nina Moore is the daughter of a rich and famous black musician and a deceased...

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Stagolee Shot Billy

by Cecil Brown

Stagolee Shot Billy Cecil Brown 9780674010567 Fiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press Although his story has been told countless times—by performers from Ma Rainey, Cab Calloway, an...

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Blue Fasa

by Nathaniel Mackey

Blue Fasa Nathaniel Mackey 9780811224451 Poetry New Directions Publishing New Directions Publishing A stellar new collection of poems by “the Balanchine of the architecture dance” (The New York Times)...

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Harlem’s Little Blackbird

by Renée Watson

Harlem’s Little Blackbird Renée Watson 9780375869730 Nonfiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Zora and Langston. Billie and Bessie. Eubie and Duke. If the Harlem Renaissanc...

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Blues People: Negro Music in White America

by Amiri Baraka

Blues People: Negro Music in White America Amiri Baraka 9780688184742 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins "The path the slave took to ’citizenship’ is what I want to look at. And I make my analo...

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My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present, and Future

by Alice Randall

My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present, and Future Alice Randall 9781668018408 Nonfiction Atria / Black Privilege Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. Alice Randall, awar...

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Make a Pretty Sound: A Story of Ella Jenkins―The First Lady of Children’s Music

by Traci N. Todd

Make a Pretty Sound: A Story of Ella Jenkins―The First Lady of Children’s Music Traci N. Todd 9781452170640 Nonfiction Chronicle Books Chronicle Books Once upon a time, children’s music was just Mothe...

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Music Is in Everything

by Ziggy Marley

Music Is in Everything Ziggy Marley 9781617759437 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books A picture book based on Ziggy Marley’s popular song celebrating music’s many forms, from the sounds of ocean waves...

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The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music

by Victor L. Wooten

The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music Victor L. Wooten 9780425220931 Nonfiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor...

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Music Is History

by Questlove

Music Is History Questlove 9781419751431 Nonfiction Abrams Image Abrams Bestselling author and Sundance award-winning director Questlove offers a thrilling, music-driven ride through the last fifty ye...

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Stop the Music

by Cynthia Eileen Johnson

Stop the Music Cynthia Eileen Johnson 9780966299700 Fiction Black Butterfly Publishing & Marketing Black Butterfly Publishing & Marketing Stop the Music is a bold but sensitive novel that explores the...

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The Spirit of Music: The Lesson Continues

by Victor L. Wooten

The Spirit of Music: The Lesson Continues Victor L. Wooten 9780593081662 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House Grammy Award winner Victor Wooten’s inspiring parable of the importance of music and th...

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Meals, Music, and Muses: Recipes from My African American Kitchen

by Alexander Smalls with Veronica Chambers

Meals, Music, and Muses: Recipes from My African American Kitchen Alexander Smalls with Veronica Chambers 9781250098092 Nonfiction Flatiron Books Macmillan Publishers Iconic chef and world-renowned op...

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Victor Wooten Bass Workshop: The Language of Music and How to Speak It

by Victor L. Wooten

Victor Wooten Bass Workshop: The Language of Music and How to Speak It Victor L. Wooten 9781540002952 Nonfiction Hudson Music Hudson Music Book/Media OnlineVictor Wooten emerged as a once-in-a-lifetim...

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Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein (Junior Library Guild Selection)

by Susan Goldman Rubin

Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein (Junior Library Guild Selection) Susan Goldman Rubin 9781580893442 Nonfiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge ”Life without music is unthinkable.”—Leonard Bernstein...

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All You Need to Know About the Music Business 6th Edition

by Donald S. Passman

All You Need to Know About the Music Business 6th Edition Donald S. Passman 9780743293181 Nonfiction Hal Leonard Hal Leonard For fifteen years, All You Need to Know About the Music Business has been ...

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Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America

by Tricia Rose

Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America Tricia Rose 9780819562753 Nonfiction Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press Winner of the American Book Award from the Bef...

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A Child’s Introduction to Jazz: The Musicians, Culture, and Roots of the World’s Coolest Music

by Jabari Asim

A Child’s Introduction to Jazz: The Musicians, Culture, and Roots of the World’s Coolest Music Jabari Asim 9780762479412 Nonfiction Black Dog & Leventhal Hachette Book Group Get ready to swing with A ...

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The Story of West African Music: How it Conquered the World

by Doye T. Agama

The Story of West African Music: How it Conquered the World Doye T. Agama 9781806547425 Nonfiction BookVault BookVault Publishing This powerful exploration of African music traces its journey from...

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A Young Person’s Guide to Classical Music

by Earl Ofari Hutchinson

A Young Person’s Guide to Classical Music Earl Ofari Hutchinson 9781087950617 Nonfiction Middle Passage Press Middle Passage Press A Young Person’s Guide to Classical Music is a fast-paced, highly rea...

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Clap Your Hands: A Celebration of Gospel

by Toyomi Igus

Clap Your Hands: A Celebration of Gospel Toyomi Igus 9780310769477 Nonfiction Zonderkidz HarperCollins Christian Publishing An inspirational, joyous celebration of poetry, art, and rhythm, tracing the...

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Caruso’s Mustache Off - And Other Writings about Music and Musicians

by Carl Van Vechten

Caruso’s Mustache Off - And Other Writings about Music and Musicians Carl Van Vechten 9781595690708 Fiction Mondial Mondial Before Carl Van Vechten’s later careers—as the first dance critic in America...

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The Speech of Angels

by Sharon Maas

The Speech of Angels Sharon Maas 9780007123865 Fiction Bookouture Bookouture Jyothi is a child of the slums and the streets, with a faint memory of past happiness: green hills at dawn, a boy’s clear a...

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Somebody Scream!: Rap Music’s Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power

by Marcus Reeves

Somebody Scream!: Rap Music’s Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power Marcus Reeves 9780571211401 Nonfiction Faber and Faber Faber and Faber For many African Americans of a certain demogra...

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Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music

by Gerald Horne

Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music Gerald Horne 9781583677858 Nonfiction Monthly Review Press Monthly Review Press A galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flo...

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Number Ones Only: The Autobiography of Ryan Press & the Art of Making Hits

by Ryan Press

Number Ones Only: The Autobiography of Ryan Press & the Art of Making Hits Ryan Press 9781954220874 Nonfiction Kingston Imperial Kingston Imperial Number Ones Only: The Autobiography of Ryan Press & T...

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The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music

by Roberta Flack and Tonya Bolden

The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music Roberta Flack and Tonya Bolden 9780593479872 Nonfiction Anne Schwartz Books Penguin Random House This autobiographical picture book by the multiple Grammy Aw...

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The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe

by Stephon Alexander

The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe Stephon Alexander 9780465093571 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books A spectacular musical and scientific journey f...

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Free Jazz: Creative Originality, Controlled Surprise

by Robert Fleming and K Kelly McElroy

Free Jazz: Creative Originality, Controlled Surprise Robert Fleming and K Kelly McElroy 9781681210346 Nonfiction Uptown Media Joint Ventures Uptown Media Joint Ventures As the Cold War and the McCarth...

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The Little Red Book of Musician’s Wisdom (Little Red Books)

by Sheila E. Anderson

The Little Red Book of Musician’s Wisdom (Little Red Books) Sheila E. Anderson 9781616088552 Nonfiction Skyhorse Publishing Skyhorse Publishing Celebrating both the famous and the obscure from every g...

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Mogul: A Novel

by Terrance Dean

Mogul: A Novel Terrance Dean 9781451611922 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the Essence bestselling author of Hiding in Hip Hop and an entertainment insider—a juicy debut novel about th...

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The Quotable Musician: From Bach to Tupac

by Sheila E. Anderson

The Quotable Musician: From Bach to Tupac Sheila E. Anderson 9781581156676 Nonfiction Allworth Press Allworth Press In The Quotable Musician: From Bach to Tupac, music artists through the ages speak o...

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Bliss: A Novel

by Danyel Smith

Bliss: A Novel Danyel Smith 9781400046423 Fiction Crown Penguin Random House Danyel Smith is one of the most acclaimed music journalists of her generation, a prose stylist who “writes with music in he...

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Bad Boy: The Influence of Sean "Puffy" Combs on the Music Industry

by Ronin Ro

Bad Boy: The Influence of Sean "Puffy" Combs on the Music Industry Ronin Ro 9780743428231 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. This is a tale of friendship, greed, and betrayal in the music i...

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John Coltrane: His Life And Music (The Michigan American Music Series)

by Lewis Porter

John Coltrane: His Life And Music (The Michigan American Music Series) Lewis Porter 9780472086436 Nonfiction University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press This is a definitive assessment o...

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A is for Aretha

by Leslie Kwan

A is for Aretha Leslie Kwan 9780593406533 Nonfiction Kokila Penguin Random House An exciting ABC board book featuring Black women musicians whose artistry and activism globally changed the way we hear...

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Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar: The Musical Story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll

by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow

Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar: The Musical Story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll Charnelle Pinkney Barlow 9780593571064 Nonfiction Doubleday Books for Young Read...

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Dirty Music

by Shaun Sinclair

Dirty Music Shaun Sinclair 9781496728654 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. THE CRESCENT CREW SERIES He built an empire from his infamous Dirty South crew’s street riches. He’s an unstoppabl...

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B Jenkins (Refiguring American Music)

by Fred Moten

B Jenkins (Refiguring American Music) Fred Moten 9780822346968 Poetry Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred...

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Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip Hop Culture

by Yvonne Bynoe

Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip Hop Culture Yvonne Bynoe 9780313330582 Nonfiction Greenwood Publishing Group Greenwood Publishing Group Hip Hop music is comprised of several art forms: 1) MC-ing or rappin...

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The Beauty That Remains

by Ashley Woodfolk

The Beauty That Remains Ashley Woodfolk 9781524715878 Fiction Delacorte Press Penguin Random House Told from three diverse points of view, this story of life and love after loss is one Angie Thomas, a...

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Prince: Inside the Music and the Masks

by Ronin Ro

Prince: Inside the Music and the Masks Ronin Ro 9781250127549 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers With a brand-new introduction and chapter that cover the last five years of Prince’s ...

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Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues

by Albert Murray

Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues Albert Murray 9780816699551 Nonfiction University of Minnesota Press University of Minnesota Press The year 2016 will mark the centennial of the bir...

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My Soul to Keep

by Kennedy Ryan

My Soul to Keep Kennedy Ryan 9781519135452 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC It seems the things worth keeping are often the hardest to hold&helip; KAI I had two things in life that mattere...

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Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard On You?: A Memoir

by George Clinton with Ben Greenman

Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard On You?: A Memoir George Clinton with Ben Greenman 9781476751085 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this seminal music memoir, F...

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The Half That’s Never Been Told: The Real-Life Reggae Adventures of Doctor Dread

by Doctor Dread

The Half That’s Never Been Told: The Real-Life Reggae Adventures of Doctor Dread Doctor Dread 9781617752902 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Impassioned and engaging."—Booklist"A heartfelt tribute...

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Unfinished Blues…Memories of a New Orleans Music Man

by Harold Battiste Jr. and Karen Celestan

Unfinished Blues…Memories of a New Orleans Music Man Harold Battiste Jr. and Karen Celestan 9780917860553 Nonfiction The Historic New Orleans Collection The Historic New Orleans Collection Unfinished...

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Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip-Hop

by Michael Eric Dyson

Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip-Hop Michael Eric Dyson 9780465017164 Nonfiction Basic Civitas Books Perseus Books Whether along race, class or generational lines, hip-hop music has been a source...

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Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies

by Robert G. O’Meally

Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies Robert G. O’Meally 9780231123518 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bea...

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Violet’s Music

by Angela Johnson

Violet’s Music Angela Johnson 9780803727403 Fiction Dial Books Penguin Random House There’s nothing Violet loves more than music, and she plays or sings every chance she gets. But where are the other ...

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The Quotable Musician: From Bach to Tupac

by Sheila E. Anderson

The Quotable Musician: From Bach to Tupac Sheila E. Anderson 9781581152630 Fiction Allworth Press Allworth Press Both the famous and the obscure from every genre of music—classical, rock, Latin, count...

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I Live in Music

by Ntozake Shange

I Live in Music Ntozake Shange 9781556703720 Poetry Stewart, Tabori & Chang Rizzoli International Publications Shange’s lyrical poem is a tribute to the language of music and the magical, often mystic...

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A cry from the earth: Music of the North American Indians

by John Bierhorst

A cry from the earth: Music of the North American Indians John Bierhorst 9780590075336 Fiction Four Winds Press Scholastic Inc. An overview of Indian music and dance which includes a discussion of the...

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August Lane

by Regina Black

August Lane Regina Black 9781538767528 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group From the author of The Art of Scandal comes a small town romance about the visibility of Black women’s voice...

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