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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 18 books in this booklist
£9.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571368983 | ISBN 10: 0571368980
The dramatic story of a musician and artist whose unconventional journey to international success was far more important than her family name. Â A ROUGH TRADE, THE TIMES, CLASH BOOK OF THE YEARÂ The dramatic story of Solange: a musician and a ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781642730210 | ISBN 10: 1642730211
Billie Holiday, one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, had a troubled life: a childhood in poverty, brothels, jail, broken love, and a dependence on alcohol and heroin. Her first performances in the night clubs of prohibitionist America was wh ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911617204 | ISBN 10: 1911617206
Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr.  Paul Robeson was a brilliant student and champion athlete who abandoned a career in law to find worldwide fame as a performer and activist. He was undoubtedly the most famous African American of his time — be ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781788160711 | ISBN 10: 1788160711
An essential masterpiece of jazz history by renowned photographer and music historian, with a new foreword by Richard Williams. In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz histori ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782118749 | ISBN 10: 1782118748
Inspired by the Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary, this is the story of the real Miss Simone. What Happened, Miss Simone? tells the story of incandescent soul singer and Black Power icon Nina Simone, one of the most influential, provocativ ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846973666 | ISBN 10: 184697366x
Detroit 67 is the story of Motor City in the year that changed everything. Twelve chapters take you on a turbulent year-long journey through the drama and chaos that ripped through the city in 1967 and tore it apart in personal, political and interra ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099592624 | ISBN 10: 0099592622
When eighteen-year-old Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia studios in November of 1933 to record ‘Riffin’ the Scotch’ and ‘Your Mother’s Son-in-Law’, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and important career in twentieth-c ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780745335322 | ISBN 10: 0745335322
A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen languages. These could be the crowning achievements of a life well-lived, yet for Paul Robeson the higher calling ... more
View book details£23.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780822358374 | ISBN 10: 0822358379
Soul! was where Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind & Fire got funky, where Toni Morrison read from her debut novel, where James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni discussed gender and power, and where Amiri Baraka and Stokely Carmichael enjoyed a sympathetic foru ... more
View book details£17.99 hardback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781606996904 | ISBN 10: 1606996908
The lore of the early days of hip hop has become the stuff of myth, so what better way to document this fascinating, epic true story than in another great American mythological medium — the comic book? From exciting young talent and self-proclaimed h ... more
View book details£20.00 hardback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781681312 | ISBN 10: 1781681317
In his heyday, Paul Robeson was one of the most famous people in the world; to his enemies he was also one of the most dangerous. From the 1930s to the 1960s, the African-American singer was the voice of the people, both as a performer and as a polit ... more
View book details£22.95 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780472050642 | ISBN 10: 0472050648
The Songs of Blind Folk explores the ways that the lives and careers of blind and visually impaired African American musicians and singers have mirrored the changes in America's image of African Americans and the social positioning and possibilities ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780747565611 | ISBN 10: 0747565619
"No one can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell."(Bob Dylan) The great pre-war blues musician Blind Willie McTell was one of the most gifted artists of his generation, with an exquisite voice and a sublime talen for the 12-string guitar. Yet h ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781933368559 | ISBN 10: 1933368551
A seminal foray into the world of hip-hop, rap, art, transience and the culture and politics that surround it. A mix of storytelling, journalism, and original research on a broad range of topics like suburban sprawl, hip-hop culture, wiggers, ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099483656 | ISBN 10: 0099483653
Julia Blackburn's brilliant and haunting new book is a life of Billie Holiday told in the voices of those who knew her. During the 1970s a young woman called Linda Kuehl, planning to write a biography of Billie, recorded interviews with more than 150 ... more
View book details£9.95 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780714531311 | ISBN 10: 0714531316
In December 1950, Samuel Charters first journeyed to New Orleans in search of its jazz sources and its musicians. In December 2005, more than half a century later, he returned to his beloved city to find what still was left of this musical heritage a ... more
View book details£9.95 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780714531076 | ISBN 10: 0714531073
A Blues Reader documents Samuel Charters' recordings of famous and not so well known blues artistes. From Muddy Waters and Otis Spam in the 1960s to Zydeco and Good Rockin' Dopsie in the 1970s, Charters walks us from Houston Texas, alongside 'Lightni ... more
View book details£26.99 paperback (1995) - ISBN 13: 9781566393621 | ISBN 10: 1566393620
Rap and hip hop, the music and culture rooted in African American urban life, bloomed in the late 1970s on the streets and in the playgrounds of New York City. This critical collection serves as a historical guide to rap and hip hop from its beginnin ... more
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