At root, the blues is rich in its simplicity, but it has flowered across the years in a variety of rare complexity. Perhaps no form of popular art is more...
"The ultimate in art is self-expression, not escape."-Duke Ellington In this fascinating portrait of one of America's greatest musical legends, longtime...
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The most exhaustive bibliography of articles and books on African American Blues artists ever attempted, 770 pages, 20,000 entries, with a comprehensive...
*French Translation* Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century. Born to a single mother...
Back To Roots Records bring you Peace Militia a limited cassette only mix series, creating a militia of DJs championing a dance floor unity through the...
A grim read from Goldman ..Ten years after the publication of his book on the life of Elvis Presley, the author examines the last 24 hours of Elvis' life....
Brian Ward is Lecturer in American History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne .; This book is intended for american studies, American history postwar...
This text examines the legacy of the arrival of the "Empire Windrush" at Tilbury Dock in 1948. Contributors including Jackie Kay, Sonia Boyce, Stuart Hall...
The world's leading authority on jazz and popular song, Benny Green was a prolific writer whose material spanned every aspect of the musical arts. As an...
Part of a series of books which look at religious belief through the eyes of a child, this book looks at the Rastafarian religion. Specially-taken photographs...
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Jamaica's mounting external debt problems throughout the 1980s, and the associated package of structural...
"I am a mobile weed-selling industry" ... UK fiction 95 innitDescription: One of a hard-edged fiction series featuring the lives of a group of London street...
Raw 'specials' from the Upsetter. Both sides cut from dub plates. The A side is slightly less spacey and the B side which has never been out before is...
Now including an afterword and new poems by the author and an introduction by Gary YoungePioneering poet Linton Kwesi Johnson has revolutionized English...
'Key to understanding black British history' - Sunday Times'Sharp and still relevant' - Zadie Smith'A mosaic of wise, urgent and moving pieces' - Kit de...
The classic work on the history and beliefs of the Rastafarians, whose roots of protest go back to the seventeenth-century maroon societies of escaped...