Music/Ethnomusicology
Music/Ethnomusicology
Bundini: Don't Believe The Hype
“Bundini gave Ali his entire heart. Bundini played a very important part in Ali’s career. He was Ali’s right hand man. He knew exactly how to motivate him. He was the one guy who could really get him up to...
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Van Gogh and Music: A Symphony in Blue and Yellow
This engaging book is the first in-depth investigation of the influential role that music and sound played throughout Vincent van Gogh’s (1853–1890) life. From psalms and hymns to the operas of Richard Wagner to simple birdsong, music represented to Van...
$35.00
$31.00
Showtime at the Apollo: The Epic Tale of Harlem's Legendary Theater
Writer Ted Fox and artist James Otis Smith bring to life Harlem’s legendary theater in this graphic novel adaptation of Fox’s definitive, critically acclaimed history of the Apollo.Since its inception as an African-American theater in 1934, the Apollo, and the...
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Hip Hop Honeys
They've been essential parts of decades-worth of rap videos yet rarely get the spotlight. That all changes with this book, where the women move to the foreground to be celebrated and showered with attention all their own. It's time to...
$35.00
$29.00
Black Moses: The Hot-Buttered Life and Soul of Isaac Hayes
The first biography of soul pioneer Isaac Hayes, whose groundbreaking music provided the foundation for hip-hop and a new racial paradigm.“Black men could finally stand up and be men because here's Black Moses; he's the epitome of Black masculinity. Chains...
$28.00
Trips: Rock Life in the Sixties―Augmented Edition (Dover Books On Music: History)
"Name an iconic Sixties rock moment and Ellen Sander was probably there. A beautifully written, sweeping yet intimate account of America's cultural awakening in that decade. Massively entertaining" — Rolling StoneA #1 Amazon Bestseller: Musical Philosophy & Social Aspects!As a pioneering...
$16.95
Star Wars: Legion: (Star Wars Collectible) (Star Wars Collection)
Discover hundreds of stormtrooper helmet designs with a deluxe art book, and customize your own unique helmet with this collector’s set!In 2014, creatives from Lucasfilm, Disney, Industrial Light & Magic, Pixar, and Marvel Studios joined forces for an incredible artistic...
$75.00
$55.00
Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation
Celebrate the culture of cool with this compact, paperback edition of the heartfelt tribute to Soul Train, a worldwide phenomenon of dance, music, and fashion.From Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson of the award-winning hip-hop group the Roots, comes this vibrant book commemorating the...
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Dead Straight Guides Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan once declared “I have no respect for factual knowledge. I don’t care what anybody knows.” And he has often attempted to confuse and mislead with a stream of misinformation and even downright lies. Yet Dylan’s persistent evasions have...
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John Cage Was
Intimate portraits and remembrances of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth centuryIt is difficult to imagine a world without John Cage. His playful, challenging spirit remains pervasive―a formative force in the lives of those in the forefront...
$55.00
Dilla Time
WINNER OF THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHYNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“This book is a must for everyone interested in illuminating the idea of unexplainable genius.” ―QUESTLOVEEqual parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla,...
$20.00
Who's That Girl?: A Memoir (coming soon-September 17, 2024)
The definitive autobiography from Eve, the multiplatinum, Grammy Award®–winning, Emmy®-nominated rapper, singer-songwriter, actor, mother, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.In 1999, Eve Jihan Cooper made history with her solo debut album, Let There Be Eve…Ruff Ryders’ First Lady, reaching number one on the Billboard...
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Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation
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Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation
The definitive and remarkable story of 2 Tone Records, featuring an introduction by Pauline Black ―A Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year―An Uncut Book of the Year―Long-Listed for the Penderyn Music Book Prize―A Louder Than War Book of the Year―A Blitzed Magazine Book of the Year In 1979,...
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Tales from the Symphony: Perspectives from African American Musicians
This book contains conversations with nineteen African American classical musicians currently performing—or who have previously performed—in America’s major symphony orchestras. Each chapter focuses on the story of one musician and sheds light on the realities of African American musicians playing...
$221.00
Spirit of the Century: Our Own Story
An insider history of the Blind Boys of Alabama, the longest running group in American music, and the untold story of their world, written with band members and key musical colleagues. The Blind Boys of Alabama are the quintessential Gospel...
$30.00
Rise of a Killah
The story of the celebrated rapper and the iconic Wu-Tang Clan, told by one of its founding membersDennis Coles―aka Ghostface Killah―is a co-founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, a legendary hip hop group who established themselves by breaking all the rules,...
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Rap and Redemption on Death Row: Seeking Justice and Finding Purpose behind Bars
Imprisoned since age nineteen, Alim Braxton has spent more than a quarter century on North Carolina's death row. During that time, he converted to Islam and dedicated his life to redemption. Braxton, a rapper since the age of thirteen, uses...
$220.00
On Rhetoric and Black Music
This groundbreaking work examines how Black music functions as rhetoric, considering its subject not merely reflective of but central to African American public discourse. Author, musician, and scholar Earl H. Brooks argues that there would have been no Harlem Renaissance,...
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My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future
Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author presents “a celebration of all things country music” (Ken Burns) as she reflects on her search for the first family of Black country music.Country music had brought Alice Randall and her activist mother...
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Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital (Music / Culture)
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Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital (Music / Culture)
Examines John Coltrane's "late period" and Miles Davis's "Lost Quintet" through the prisms of digital architecture and experimental photographyLiving Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital fuses biography and style history in order to illuminate...
$28.00
Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories
A bestselling music historian follows Jelly Roll Morton on a journey through the hidden worlds and forbidden songs of early blues and jazz. In Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories, Elijah Wald takes readers on a journey into the hidden...
$32.00
The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America
From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie—who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the...
$32.50
Ink: The Indelible J. Mayo Williams (coming soon - July 23, 2024)
The product of a hardscrabble childhood, J. Mayo “Ink” Williams parlayed an Ivy League education into unlikely twin careers as a foundational producer of Black music and pioneering Black player in the early NFL. Clifford R. Murphy tells the story...
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Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys
'Our strategy is collecting from the heart…The reason why we doubled down on artists of color is because much of our own community wasn’t collecting these giants.’ – Swizz Beatz ‘We want people to see themselves…We want you to see...
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Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future
For readers of Kiese Laymon’s Heavy and Hanif Abdurraqib’s A Little Devil in America,a beautiful, painful, and soaring tribute to everything that Black men are and can beGrowing up in the Bronx, Joél Leon was taught that being soft, being vulnerable, could end...
$28.98
Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States
A new concept for understanding the history of the American popular music industry. Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this...
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Becoming a Composer
'Singer, composer, musician . . . Renaissance Woman of contemporary music.’ - The Observer I am a composer. A composer of classical music. Quite honestly I am not quite sure how that happened to a girl born in Belize and brought...
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Music Is a Rainbow
The music turned into color and light and filled the room. A young boy remembers quietly watching his father read the paper and sip a cup of coffee. He remembers his sweet momma, who lovingly pressed away the wrinkles on his...
$18.99
Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century: Identity, Agency, and Performance Practice (Eastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology, 2)
Drawing on extensive field research conducted over the course of two decades, Bode Omojola examines traditional and contemporary Yorùbá genres of music.From the primeval age of Ayànàgalú (the Yorùbá pioneer-drummer-turned-deity-of-drumming) to the modern era, Yorùbá musical traditions have been shaped...
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Yorùbá Bàtá Goes Global: Artists, Culture Brokers, and Fans
Responding to growing international interest in the Yorùbá culture of southwestern Nigeria, practitioners of bàtá—a centuries-old drumming, dancing, and singing tradition—have recast themselves as traditional performers in a global market. As the Nigerian market for ritual bàtá has been declining,...
$144.00