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Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
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Writing African History
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
9:15 AM
Afrocentrism. Eurocentrism. Caribbean Studies. British Studies. To the forces of cultural nationalism hunkered down in their camps, this b...
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
African Business
Business
celebrity
Hip Hop
Jay-Z
Mainstream Hip-Hop
Music
Music Industry
Popular Music
Rap
Rapper
Shawn Carter
united states
Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office
3:38 PM
"I'm not a businessman-I'm a business, man." --Jay-Z Some people think Jay-Z is just another rapper. Others see him as...
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Voodoo Child: The Illustrated Legend of Jimi Hendrix (Penguin Studio Books)
1:34 PM
Often cited as one of the most innovative and influential rock musicians, guitar legend Jimi Hendrix had a short and turbulent life, succ...
Saturday, November 14, 2015
When Music Migrates: Crossing British and European Racial Faultlines,1945-2010
9:08 AM
When Music Migrates uses rich material to examine the ways that music has crossed racial faultlines that have developed in the post-Secon...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
12:01 PM
Here's what The Rap Year Book does: It takes readers from 1979, widely regarded as the moment rap became recognized as part of the cu...
Thursday, November 5, 2015
George Clinton: The Cosmic Odyssey of Dr Funkenstein
5:10 AM
The first in-depth biography of one of music’s most fascinating, colourful and innovative characters. The definitive history of the last...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Inside A Thug's Heart
5:31 AM
Rikers Island is the centerpiece of the New York City Department of Corrections, a sprawling prison city of concrete and steel with hous...
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Fela: Kalakuta Notes
6:12 AM
Fela: Kalakuta Notes is an evocative account of Fela Kuti the Afrobeat superstar who took African music into the arena of direct action. ...
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
9:30 AM
For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most important commentators on African American music and culture. In this b...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
After the Dance: My Life with Marvin Gaye
9:55 AM
A riveting cautionary tale about the ecstasy and dangers of loving Marvin Gaye, a performer passionately pursued by all—and a searing mem...
Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation
9:52 AM
From Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson of the award-winning hip-hop group the Roots, comes this vibrant book commemorating the legacy ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
The Black Musician and the White City: Race and Music in Chicago,1900-1967
7:53 AM
Amy Absher’s The Black Musician and the White City tells the story of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-twentieth cent...
Sunday, September 13, 2015
How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil RightsMovement
6:37 AM
In 1964, Nina Simone sat at a piano in New York's Carnegie Hall to play what she called a "show tune." Then she began to sin...
Friday, September 4, 2015
Monument Eternal: The Music of Alice Coltrane
6:30 AM
Alice Coltrane was a composer, improviser, guru, and widow of John Coltrane. Over the course of her musical life, she synthesized a wide r...
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America
10:29 AM
A Change is Gonna Come chronicles more than forty years of black music: from the hopeful, angry refrains of the Freedom movement to the sl...
Thursday, August 27, 2015
Oscar Peterson: The Man and His Jazz
8:14 AM
Called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson released over 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, r...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Fela: This Bitch of a Life
3:32 PM
African superstar, composer, singer, and musician, as well as mystic and political activist, Nigerian Fela Kuti, born in 1938, was controv...
Monday, August 24, 2015
Incredible African-American Jazz Musicians
9:35 AM
Readers will learn about a variety of African American jazz musicians including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy G...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Rihanna: The Only Girl In The World
7:08 AM
Multi-award-winning artist and indisputable queen of R&B Rihanna is one of the most recognizable and successful singers in the world, ...
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