Voodoo Child: The Illustrated Legend of Jimi Hendrix (Penguin Studio Books)

Often cited as one of the most innovative and influential rock musicians, guitar legend Jimi Hendrix had a short and turbulent life, succ...

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Fela: This Bitch of a Life

African superstar, composer, singer, and musician, as well as mystic and political activist, Nigerian Fela Kuti, born in 1938, was controv...

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In Township Tonight!: South Africa's Black City Music and Theatre, Second Edition

David B. Coplan’s pioneering social history of black South Africa’s urban music, dance, and theatre established itself as a classic soon a...

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The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States

When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on...

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Hip Hop Africa: New African Music in a Globalizing World

Hip Hop Africa explores a new generation of Africans who are not only consumers of global musical currents, but also active and creative p...

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Music and Social Change in South Africa: Maskanda Past and Present

Music and Social Change in South Africa looks at contemporary maskanda-a folk musical genre distinguished by fast guitar picking and blues...

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How to Play Djembe

This book is a complete, step-by-step, user friendly course on how to play djembe. Right from the start, in addition to learning how to m...

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African Dance (World of Dance)

The ancient tradition of African dance has influenced dance styles all over the world. It is used to commemorate many annual ceremonies an...

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Ska: The Rhythm of Liberation

Like other major music genres, ska reflects, reveals, and reacts to the genesis and migration from its Afro-Caribbean roots and colonial o...

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West African Pop Roots

Having spent more than twenty years as a performer, manager, and producer of African music, John Collins brings an insider's perspecti...

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Music, Modernity, and the Global Imagination: South Africa and the West

How was Africa seen by the West during the colonial period? How do Europeans and Americans conceive of Africa in today's postcolonial ...

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Highlife Saturday Night: Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana

Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights in Ghana—when musicians took to the stage and dancers took to the floor—i...

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Tony Allen: An Autobiography of the Master Drummer of Afrobeat

Tony Allen is the autobiography of legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, the rhythmic engine of Fela Kuti's Afrobeat. Conversational,...

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Different Drummers: Rhythm and Race in the Americas (Music of the African Diaspora)

Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse bla...

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Rihanna (People in the News)

Describes the life and career of the Barbadian singer, from her discovery at age fifteen by a music producer to her international success...

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African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective

The African Diaspora presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin Am...

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Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band

Thanks to the pioneering tours of the Creole Band, jazz began to be heard nationwide on the vaudeville stages of America from 1914 to 1918...

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Willie Dixon: Preacher of the Blues

One of the greats of blues music, Willie Dixon was a recording artist whose abilities extended beyond that of bass player. A singer, songw...

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Masters of the Sabar: Wolof Griot Percussionists of Senegal

"Masters of the Sabar" is the first book to examine the music and culture of Wolof griot percussionists, masters of the vibrant ...

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Race and Curriculum: Music in Childhood Education

This book focuses on the near total attrition of African American students from school music programs and the travesty of democratic educa...

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