After the Dance: My Life with Marvin Gaye

A riveting cautionary tale about the ecstasy and dangers of loving Marvin Gaye, a performer passionately pursued by all—and a searing mem...

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Rihanna: The Only Girl In The World

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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On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom

On Highway 61 explores the historical context of the significant social dissent that was central to the cultural genesis of the sixties. T...

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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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Upside Your Head!: Rhythm and Blues on Central Avenue

Legendary jazzman Johnny Otis has spent a lifetime at the center of L.A.'s black music scene as a composer, performer, producer, d.j.,...

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Follow Your Heart: Moving with the Giants of Jazz, Swing, and Rhythm and Blues

Detailing the fascinating career of Joe Evans, Follow Your Heart chronicles the nearly thirty years that he spent immersed in one of the m...

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The New Blue Music: Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950-1999

Rhythm & blues emerged from the African American community in the late 1940s to become the driving force in American popular music ove...

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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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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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The Rough Guide to Soul & R 'n' B

The Rough Guide to Soul and R&B is the definitive guide to the genre’s greatest singers, musicians, songwriters and record labels, enc...

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