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Beau WanzerBeau WanzerL.I.E.S.
David SylvianDead Bees on a Cake (Expanded Edition)UMC
Yan TreggerDucks & DrakesBBE
Kikagaku MoyoKikagaku MoyoGuruguru Brain
Kikagaku MoyoMasana TemplesGuruguru Brain
Sundays & CybeleOn The GrassGuruguru Brain
Lee PerrySuper Ape Returns To ConquerEcho Beach
Switched-On EugeneVarious ArtistsNumero
How to Dress WellThe AnteroomDomino
Disco LadiesThree's Company...Everland
Sam WilkesWILKESLeaving Records
Johnnie TaylorAin't That Lovin' You / Blues In The NightSoul Brother Records
Antilles Mechant Bateau: Deep Biguines & Gwo Ka From 60s French West IndiesVariousBorn Bad Records
Mary Lou WilliamsBlack Christ Of The AndesDown At Dawn
Andy RantzenBlue Hour Vol IIKen Oath Records
Neneh CherryBroken PoliticsSmalltown Supersound
AdmiralCash On The LineWandering Eye
ClaudeFuture EPLa Freund Recordings
Gilles Peterson & Brownswood Recordings present: Future Bubblers 2.0Various ArtistsBrownswood Recordings / Future Bubblers
Sylvia StriplinGive Me Your LoveExpansion Records
John CarpenterHalloween (2018)Sacred Bones
Esther PhillipsHome Is Where the Hatred Is / I've Never Found a ManKudu
Shida ShahabiHomes130701 / Fat Cat
Omar S feat. Simon BlackI'll Do It AgainFXHE
The ExpansionsMosaicAlbert's Favourites
EnergizePiece of Class / Star of The DiscoRain & Shine
FabianProphecyTribes Man
Twinkle BrothersRasta Pon TopBurning Sounds
Linval ThompsonRocking Vibration / Love Is The QuestionBurning Sounds
Running Back Presents: Front (Part 2)Various ArtistsRunning Back
Shaolin Soul: Episodes 1, 2 , 3Various ArtistsBecause Music
James GinzburgSix CorrelationsSubtext
Skull SnapsSkull SnapsMr Bongo
BRSSpring Dom EP (feat. Medlar remix)Wolf Music
Julien DyneTealSoundway
Neil LandstrummThreesomePeacefrog Records
Caution! HorsesWaiting for You (Versions) EPByo-Jo Recordings
Voguing: Voguing and the House Ballroom Scene of New York City 1989-92Photographs and interviews by Chantal Regnault, Introduction by Tim LawrenceSoul Jazz Books
Roots of Salsa. Vol. 3Various ArtistsGrosso!
Ishmael EnsembleSevern Songs 2Severn Songs
Soul Togetherness 2018: 15 Modern Soul Room GemsVarious ArtistsExpansion
Ferg Ireland TrioVolume 1Mondegreen
Jahtarian DubbersVolume 4Jahtari
Factory FloorA Soundtrack For A FilmHeart Of Data
A Certain Ratioacr:setMute
Butcher BrownCamden SessionGearbox Records
CLS / South Street PlayersCan You Feel It / (Who?) Keeps Changing Your MindStrictly Rhythm
BeneathCloudy / OutsourceA14
ERR REC Library Vol.1 - Espaces UrbainsVarious ArtistsERR REC
Francois KFK-EPWave Music
Empire of Sin is a vibrant account of New Orleans in the early 1920s, a time when commercialised vice, jazz culture and endemic crime form the background for a civil war that lasts for thirty years. At its centre the city’s vice lord fights desperately to keep his empire intact. Populated by flamboyant prostitutes, crusading moral reformers, dissolute jazzmen, ruthless Mafiosi, corrupt politicians and a violent serial killer, the heady and dangerous underworld of the Jazz Age is bought vividly to life. This gripping account intertwines personal stories with the wider history of New Orleans and plunges the reader into the heart of a city at war with itself.
The Black Power Imperative (1985)by Theodore Cross
Large USA secondhand paperback in ok condition
- Original Book (1.4kg)£15.00Large USA secondhand paperback in ok conditionIn stockAdd to Bag
Stevie WonderBy John Swenson
- Original Book (500g)£10.00Secondhand paperback in great conditionIn stockAdd to Bag
Words of Our Mouth, Meditations of Our Heartby Kenneth Bilby
This is the first book devoted to the studio musicians who were central to Jamaica's popular-music explosion. With color portraits and interview excerpts,...
- Book (750g)£22.99In stockAdd to Bag
African Musics in Context. Institutions, Culture, Identityby Thomas Solomon
African Musics in Context discusses the place of performing arts in Ugandan society, archiving music and music sources, performing archival music, performing...
- Book (550g)£20.00In stockAdd to Bag
Namba RoyNo Black Sparrows
'A vivid portrait of Jamaica in the 1930s"
Excellent social realist novel. Written by Jamaican Namba Roy in the 1950s in Britain. He died in 1961 and...
- Original Book (200g)£18.00Secondhand paperback copy, creasing to front cover, clean insideIn stockAdd to Bag
Ferdinand DennisThe Last Blues Dance
S/hand paperback in good condition.100% Guarantee on this and all Original Books at Sounds Of The Universe - 'if you're not happy we're not happy' or your...
- Original Book (200g)£8.00s/hand paperback in good condition.
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Chester HimesRun Man Run
Secondhand paperback (slightly difft cover) in ok condition100% Guarantee on this and all Original Books at Sounds Of The Universe - 'if you're not happy...
- Original Book (200g)£7.00secondhand paperback (slightly difft cover) in ok condition
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Blood Posse (1994)by Phillip Baker
Yardie stylee!
'This book follows the life of Danny, a young Jamaican growing up in Brooklyn in the 1970s. At the age of 18, in the middle of a sectarian...
- Original Book (300g)£5.00Secondhand out of print paperback in FAIR condition only.
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Just Above My Headby James Baldwin
UK 1st edition hardback w/dustjacket covered in plastic ex-library w stamps in good condition.
'This is the work of a born storyteller at the height...
- Original Book (900g)£20.00UK 1st edition hardback w/dustjacket covered in plastic ex-library w stamps in good condition.In stockAdd to Bag
Music in Africaby Adana Dzemila
Africa is such a large and diverse continent. Outside Africa, there is often only talk about Africa as one country: For example Tunisia and Tanzania could...
- Book (200g)£7.99In stockAdd to Bag
Lion SongsThomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made Zimbabwe
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Like Fela Kuti and Bob Marley, singer, composer, and bandleader...
- Book (750g)£29.99 £7.99In stockAdd to Bag
R.I.P.: New York Spraycan Memorialsby Martha Cooper
- Original Book (400g)£9.00Secondhand paperback in good condition (name written inside)In stockAdd to Bag
Mars by 1980 - The Story of Electronic MusicBy David Stubbs
New KILLER 100% essential MASSIVE 450+ pages book about the history of electronic music.
'Mars by 1980' is written by the very groovy David Stubbs, author...
- Book (700g)£20.00In stockAdd to Bag
Emilie Levienaise-FarrouchÉpoques
French pianist / composer Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch returns with the stunning 'Époques', her sophomore album for FatCat's pioneering 130701 imprint....
- LP£17.99In stockAdd to Bag
Mark KavumaKavuma
Debut album from Ugandan born and raised trumpeter Mark Kavuma. He is a key young trumpet player on the British jazz scene and leads his own band, as well...
- 1. Into the Darkness
- 2. Carolina Moon
- 3. Modibo
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- LP£22.99In stockAdd to Bag
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An African treasury: Articles, essays, stories, poems by Black Africans (1961)by Langston Hughes
Out of print secondhand USA paperback (yellow pages etc)100% Guarantee on this and all Original Books at Sounds Of The Universe - 'if you're not happy...
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High SocietyThe Real Voices of Club Culture
Intro by Billy Nasty.
It's youth culture, the real kids talk. It's raves, parties, drugs .....
s/hand paperback original book
- Original Book (200g)£8.00In stockAdd to Bag
Len DeightonWinter - A Berlin Family 1899-1945Limited edition uncorrected proof number 906 / 1000
Limited edition uncorrected proof number 906 / 1000.Yellowing cover. One crease. Box 1
- Original Book (350g)£40.00In stockAdd to Bag
Life And Death On The New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983By Tim Lawrence
Here we go .. massive NYC dancefloor 500+ page book by the excellent Tim Lawrence - who wrote Love Saves The Day and also has written for Soul Jazz...
- Book (900g)£20.99In stockAdd to Bag
Elvis Presley - Unseen Archivesby Marie Clayton (2002)
S/hand hardback book
- Original Book (2kg)£9.00In stockAdd to Bag
70 Years of Popular Music: The War YearsEdited by Peter Foss (1987)
Large format secondhand book/pamphlet
- Original Book (250g)£8.00In stockAdd to Bag
Sandeeno / Johnny ClarkeZion Train / Dance
Double header from Dub Conductor Music on this new 10" featuring Sandeeno and the legendary Johnny Clarke on one vocal a piece plus dubs.
- 1. Sandeeno – Zion Train
- 2. Dub
- 3. Johnny Clarke – Dance
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- 10"£8.49In stockAdd to Bag
Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsessionby Greil Marcus (1992)
- Original Book (600g)£10.00In stockAdd to Bag
All American Music: Composition in the Late Twentieth Centuryby John Rockwell (1983)
Secondhand hardback book w/dustjacket, plastic covered. Features chapters on Cage, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Robert Ashley, Phillip Glass, Keith Jarrett,...
- Original Book (600g)£12.00In stockAdd to Bag
Soviet Composers and the Development of Soviet Musicby Stanley Dale Krebs (1970)
- Original Book (650g)£20.00In stockAdd to Bag
Zoot Suits and Secondhand Dresses: Anthology of Fashion and Music (Youth questions)by Angela McRobbie (1989)
Youth culture clothes innit. Secondhand paperback book
- Original Book (500g)£8.00In stockAdd to Bag
History of Russian Music : Volume 1, From Its Origins to Dargomyzhskyby Dr Gerald R. Seaman (1967)
- Original Book (650g)£10.00In stockAdd to Bag
Music from the Middle Ages to the Renaissanceby F. W. Sternfeld (1973)
Secondhand hardback book w/ a badly damaged dustjacket
- Original Book (1.1kg)£7.00In stockAdd to Bag
The Later Works of R. Vaughan Williams (The Musical Pilgrim)by Frank Howes (1937)
- Original Book (200g)£8.00In stockAdd to Bag
Medieval Music (Oxford Topics in Music)by Joan Arnold (1982)
- Original Book (200g)£8.00In stockAdd to Bag
The Folk Music Encyclopaediaby Kristin Baggelaar And Donald Milton (1977)
- Original Book (1kg)£10.00In stockAdd to Bag
In Search of the Blues: Black Voices, White Visionsby Marybeth Hamilton (2007)
- Original Book (400g)£8.00In stockAdd to Bag
Backing into the Limelight: The Story of the Mike Sammes Singersby Mike Sammes (1994)
Easy now!Secondhand hardback book w/dustjacket
- Original Book (600g)£10.00In stockAdd to Bag
A Future for English Music and other Lecturesby Sir Edward Elgar (1968)
- Original Book (600g)£10.00In stockAdd to Bag
Music for the Moviesby Tony Thomas (1977)
Good secondhand out of print edition paperback book
- Original Book (600g)£12.00In stockAdd to Bag
Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continentby Bruno Nettl (1965)
Original secondhand hardback book w/ dustjacket in plastic covering ex-library w/stamps
- Original Book (500g)£20.00In stockAdd to Bag
Best of Jazz: Basin Street to Harlem - Jazz Masters and Masterpieces, 1917-30by Humphrey Lyttelton (1978)
Secondhand 1st edition hardback book w/dustjacket. From Basin Street to Mornington Crescent ... no sorry, to Harlem.
- Original Book (500g)£10.00In stockAdd to Bag
Whitney Houston 1963-2012 We Will Always Love Youby James Robert Parish (2012)
This comprehensive biography chronicles the full dramatic narrative of Houston’s rollercoaster ride from her troubled childhood days in New Jersey to...
- Original Book (300g)£6.00In stockAdd to Bag
If I Can Dream: Elvis's Own Storyby Larry Geller And Joel Spector (1989)
A long-time confidante of Elvis Presley reveals intimate details of the legendary performer's dreams and disillusionments, showing his disintegration due...
- Original Book (700g)£10.00In stockAdd to Bag
Duke Ellington : A Jazz Book Club ProductionBy Peter Gammond (1959)
- Original Book (500g)£10.00In stockAdd to Bag
Black Music in Britain: Essays on the Afro-Asian Contribution to Popular Music (Popular Music in Britain)by Paul Oliver (1990)
Secondhand paperback - "essays on the Afro-Asian contribution to popular music"
- Original Book (400g)£10.00In stockAdd to Bag
The Record Players:The Story Of Dance Music Told By History's Greatest DJsBy Bill Brewster and Frank BroughtonVirgin Books
From the writers of 'Last Night A DJ Saved My Life', Bill Brewster & Frank Broughton have come up trumps again with this fabulous book 'The Record...
- Book (1.1kg)£16.99 £6.00
Creation StoriesRiots, Raves And Running A Label by Alan McGeeSidgwick & Jackson
USA IMPORT HARDBACK BOOK OVER 50% OFF!!Alan McGee's role in shaping British musical culture over the past thirty years is hard to overstate. As the founder...
- Book (600g)£18.99 £8.00
Disco: An Encyclopedic guide to the cover art of disco Presented by Disco Patrick and Patrick Vogt Soul Jazz Books
OUT NOW! New 400-page 12"x12" deluxe heavyweight book on Soul Jazz Records/Books.
Foreword by Tom Moulton and Nicky Siano (The Gallery).
Presented...
- SJ Book (3.6kg)£35.00 £30.00In stockAdd to Bag
Mo' Meta BluesThe World According to QuestloveHachette Books
Import USA Paperback edition book 60% OFF!!!!
MO' META BLUES is a punch-drunk-on-culture memoir in which Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson tells his own story...
- Book (600g)£19.99 £7.99
John Coltrane by Bill ColeDA CAPO PRESS
This book is highly informative to anyone who would like to dive into Coltrane.
s/hand paperback book (difft cover)
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Pieces Of A ManGil Scott-Heron - By Marcus Baram
OVER 50% OFF ORIGINAL PRICE!!! LOVELY USA IMPORT HARDBACK BOOK! CHEAPER THAN AMAZON!!!
Best known for his 1970 polemic "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,"...
- Book (600g)£19.99 £8.99
EdieFactory GirlpowerHouse Books
Import USA Hardback edition bookExcellent Warhol/Factory book!! Bargain price!!!
She was riveting to look at, a sprite of the zeitgeist, the living...
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