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Old School Rap and Hip-Hop Chris Woodstra, John Bush, Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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Book (350g) 9780879309169£14.00 £8.00
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Only £8 IMPORT USA PAPERBACK BOOK The real old school! More than 500 reviews plus artist bios and the true tales of the birth of the art form

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Musical Gumbo: The Music Of New Orleans by Grace Lichtenstein & Laura Dankner W. W. Norton

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Original Book (600g)£40.00
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The Bermuda Strollers Bermuda Strollers '73 (1973)Edmar

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Breakout - Profiles in African Rhythm By Gary Stewart Chicago (1992)

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Soul Rebels The Rastafari By William F Lewis

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Jazz Styles History And Analysis Prentice Hall

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A Good Looking Corpse The World of Drum - Jazz and Gangsters, Hope and Defiance in the Townships of South Africa (1995)Minerva

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Uptown Portrait of a Chicago Neighborhood in the Mid-1970s Chicago's Book Press

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Kris Okotie I Need Someone (1980)Phonodisk

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Black Music Of Two Worlds (1972)John Storm Roberts Original Music

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Bunny Mack Let Me Love You (1980)Win Records

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