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Jacob CollierDjesse Vol. 4 (Deluxe Edition)Decca
A Love From Outer SpaceVarious ArtistsMaterial Music
The AltonsHeartache in Room 14Daptone Records
Bonnie “Prince” BillyThe Purple BirdDomino
FKA TwigsEUSEXUAYoung
Art PepperGettin’ Together!Craft Recordings
MogwaiThe Bad FireRock Action
Prince Lasha QuintetThe Cry!Craft Recordings
Don Cherry BOOKEternal RhythmBy Graeme Ewens
Franz FerdinandThe Human FearDomino
Cal TjaderLatin Kick (Original Jazz Classics Series)Craft Recordings
Neil YoungOn The Beach (50th Anniversary)Warner Records
As OneRequiemDe:tuned
Salvator DragattoThoughts of YouColemine Records
Grant GreenVisionsDecca / Blue Note
Hank MobleyA Slice Of The TopDecca / Blue Note
Neue GrafikDalston Tapes Vol. 1Rhythm Section International
Tony Williams LifetimeEmergency!Decca
SAULT11Forever Living Originals
Sault5Forever Living Originals
Sault7Forever Living Originals
SAULTAIIRForever Living Originals
SaultAIRForever Living Originals
KokorokoGet The MessageBrownswood
Cleo SolGoldForever Living Originals
Cleo SolHeavenForever Living Originals
Sun Ra presents The QualitiesIt’s Christmas TimeStrut
Cleo SolMotherForever Living Originals
SaultNINEForever Living Originals
Cleo SolRose in the DarkForever Living Originals
SAULTToday & TomorrowForever Living Originals
SaultUNTITLED (Black Is)Forever Living Originals
SAULTUNTITLED (God)Forever Living Originals
SaultUntitled (Rise)Forever Living Originals
The BeatlesA Hard Day’s Night (Original Motion Picture Sound Track)UMR
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Listening for Africa Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music's African Origins
Duke University Press
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In Listening for Africa David F. Garcia explores how a diverse group of musicians, dancers, academics, and activists engaged with the idea of black music and dance’s African origins between the 1930s and 1950s.
Love Saves The DayA History Of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979Duke University Press
Essential, thorough book on the underground New York Disco scene of the 1970s written by Tim Lawrence (who also wrote the sleevenotes for Soul Jazz Records'...
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Crossing The WaterA Photographic Path To The Afro-Cuban Spirit WorldDuke University Press
OVER 50% OFF! SUPERB DEEP LARGE FORMAT PAPERBACK
In the summer of 2000, two award-winning photographers, Claire Garoutte and Anneke Wambaugh, were in...
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Hold On To Your DreamsArthur Russell And The Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992Duke University Press
If you are in anyway interested in Arthur Russell then you have to buy this book! 400-odd pages of seriously researched stuff - this is Arthur Russell's...
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Contemporary Carioca: Technologies of Mixing in a Brazilian Music Sceneby Frederick MoehnDuke University Press
- Original Book (500g)£10.00Secondhand paperback ex-library in good condition.
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Listening in DetailPerformances of Cuban MusicDuke University Press
"Listening in detail" is a method invested in opening up, rather than pinning down, experiences of Cuban music. Critiques of imperialism, nationalism,...
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Buena Vista In The ClubRap, Reggaeton, and Revolution in HavanaDuke University Press
In Buena Vista in the Club, Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial...
- Original Book (600g) 9780822349594£15.00Secondhand USA paperback pretty much as newIn stockAdd to Bag
Bacchanalian SentimentsMusical Experiences and Political Counterpoints in TrinidadDuke University Press
Trinidad is known for its vibrant musical traditions, which reflect the island's ethnic diversity. Soca is a dance music derived from calypso,...
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BlutopiaGraham LockDuke University Press
In "Blutopia" Graham Lock studies the music and thought of three pioneering twentieth-century musicians: Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton. Providing...
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Lipstick TracesA Secret History of the Twentieth CenturyFaber & Faber
In Lipstick Traces, Greil Marcus's classic book on punk, Dadaism, the situationists, medieval heretics and the Knights of the Round Table (amongst others),...
- Book (950g) 0571277101£15.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
The Secret DJBy AnonymousFaber & Faber
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads: The Secret DJ's Guide to Surviving Dance Music is a true story of DJing, from an authentic voice speaking to this scene....
- Book (300g) 9780571334490£9.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Black Music Four Lives (Spellman)Schocken Books (1966)
Late 60s book about new jazz scene, specifically Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Nichols and Jackie McClean. One of the main strengths of this book...
- Original Book (300g)£20.00Original 1976 s/hand paperback in good condition
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Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havanaby Robin D MooreUniversity of Pittsburg Press
Secondhand paperback in ok condition (stamps, wear, underlining etc)
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The Music of Black Americans: A Historyby Eileen SouthernW.W Norton & Company
- Original Book (800g)£20.00Original USA out of print edition paperback, wear to top of spine, ageing.
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Giants of Black Musicby Pauline Rivelli & Robert LevinA Dacapo
Original 1970 Interviews with Alice Coltrane, Horace Tapscott, John Coltrane, Leon Thomas, Gary Bartz and more! Beat that!
- Original Book (250g)£25.00Original USA hardback ex library with stamps and stickers in good condSold out Notify me when in stock
I Know What I KnowThe Music Of Charles Mingus By Todd S. JenkinsPraeger
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...
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Voguing: Voguing and the House Ballroom Scene of New York City 1989-92Photographs and interviews by Chantal Regnault, Introduction by Tim LawrenceSoul Jazz Books
BACK IN PRINT!!! The ESSENTIAL book about Voguing featuring 200+ photographs, interviews and text on the LEGENDS of the House Ballroom Scene of New York...
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White Line FeverLemmy: The AutobiographyPocket Books
Lemmy’s name was synonymous with notorious excess. His blood would have killed another human being. This is the up-to-date story of the heaviest drinking,...
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24 Hour Party PeopleThe Story Of Tony Wilson and Factory RecordsChannel 4 Books
Really funny and great book by the late Tony Wilson, founder of Factory Records. The story was later made into an equally funny and great film of...
- Book (400g) 9780752220253£6.00Secondhand paperbackOut of stock Notify me when in stock
People Apart1950s Cape Town RevisitedBlack Dog Publishing
People Apart: 1950s Cape Town Revisited offers a rich and fascinating insight into South Africa at the very beginning of the apartheid era through Bryan...
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Afro-Brazilian Percussion Guide CandombleBy Kirk Brundage
Out-of-print - as new
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil is an important cradle of Afro-Brazilian culture, and home to musical styles that form the bedrock of much...
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Soul of a Nation (BOOK)Art in the Age of Black Power
BACK IN STOCK!!!!In the period of radical change that was 1963-1983, young Black artists at the beginning of their careers in the USA confronted key questions...
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JunkanooFestival Of The BahamasMacMillan Caribbean
Examines the history and development of the festival called Junkanoo, held each Christmas in the Bahamas. This survey aims to give the reader an insight...
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Between WorldsA Sourcebook of Central European Avant-Gardes, 1910-1930The MIT Press
USA IMPORT BIG HARDBACK BOOK - 75% OFF!!!!Hundreds of primary documents from the Central European artistic avant-gardes, most of them translated into English...
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Tradition And The Black AtlanticCritical Theory in the African DiasporaBasic Civitas Books
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s Tradition and the Black Atlantic is both a vibrant romp down the rabbit hole of cultural studies and an examination...
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Silencing the Sounded SelfJohn Cage and the American Experimental Tradition By Christopher ShultisUniversity Press of New England
Import USA out of print Paperback edition book
Having placed Cage in the experimental tradition of music, poetry, and literature, Christopher Shultis...
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BackbeatEarl Palmer's StorySmithsonian Institute Press
USA IMPORT HARDBACK BOOK 50% OFF. INTERESTED IN NEW ORLEANS FUNK - 100%read about New Orleans finest drummer!There he is, drumming on "Tutti Frutti," "You've...
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