Black America/Black Power Books

 

 

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A reissue of a classic, long out of print, featuring a highly provocative and profoundly insightful collection of essays on jazz criticism, the creative...

This story of a man living every day in fear of his life for simply being black is as powerful today as it was when it was first published in 1947. The...

 

A study on Zora's greatest book

Zora Neale Hurston's debut 1934 novel

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Nigerian Yoruba orisha worship in New York

A portrait of James Baldwin tracing his development from the ghettos of Harlem to Paris and back to America where his active participation in civil rights...

Includes work by Archie Shepp, Langston Hughes and Amiri Baraka

Sheet Music book

This is the first book to explain how rap is put together musically. Whereas popular music scholarship tends to dismiss music analysis as of limited value,...

A social critic and award-winning author of Hip Hop America describes the splintering of African-American culture in the 1980s, examining the dichotomy...

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s/hand hardback book w/dustjacket ex libraryFrom the mid-1940s until his death in 1979, Charles Mingus created an unparalleled body of recorded work, most...

Out of print first edition paperback in good cond

This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title, organised by the The David C. Driskell Centre for the study of the Visual...

The definitive account of Barack Obama’s life before he became the 44th president of the United States – the formative years, confluence of forces,...

Original 1970 Interviews with Alice Coltrane, Horace Tapscott, John Coltrane, Leon Thomas, Gary Bartz and more! Beat that!

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Thoughts on the black expereience

 

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Examines the spiritual, social, and anthropological roots of the blues, discussing African animist religion, the slave trade, Voodoo, Hoodoo, and the early...

Includes section on Bibliographies of bibliographies and Bibliographies on biographies (!) and 'records and record collections'

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These concluding years of the freedom era show King at the height of his powers even as his worldly prestige falls under withering attack. We witness non-violent...

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Leroi Jones' play Dutchman

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In this book, Jon Michael Spencer argues that African rhythm, particularly African rhythm in the New World, gives rise to the distinctive qualities of...

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