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SAULTActs Of FaithForever Living Originals
Laurin Rinder & W. Michael LewisSeven Deadly Sins Be With Records
Steve ReichCollected WorksNonesuch
SecondoOver UnderWhat About Never
Jacob CollierDjesse Vol. 4 (Deluxe Edition)Decca
Secret Superstar SoundsScraping Bubblegum Off My Soul 1977-80 : Punk - Powerpop - New Wave - DIYSoul Jazz Records
Studio One Showcase 45 (Expanded Edition)Feat. The Skatalites, The Heptones, Horace Andy, Bob Marley, Jackie Mittoo and moreSoul Jazz Records
Fred SpiderChakalaka Jazz (A Selection Of South African Gems)Heavenly Sweetness
Victoria PortDid It AgainFirst Word Records
Martin CircusEvolution Française 1969-1985Born Bad Records
Q LazzarusGoodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (Music from the Motion Picture)Sacred Bones
Leo VidalHaunted By Your LoveSymphonical
Great AreaLight DeclineRelaxin Records
Nyron HigorNyron HigorFar Out Recordings
Praise Poems Volume 10 (A Journey Into Deep, Soulful Jazz & Funk From The 1970s)Various ArtistsTramp Records
Reggae Disco 45 BOOKReggae Disco 45 BOOKBy Matin 'Skyjuice' Blomqvist
Tim HeckerShardsKranky
Themba MokoenaThembaAfrodelic
Vincent ArthurTravel With The MusicSweet Free Association
Ocean MoonWays To The Deep MeadowMusic From Memory
Joe BataanAftershower Funk / FinSoul Jazz Records
Arp Frique & The Perpetual SingersAnother Taste ReworksSpace Grapes
BlawanBouQXL Recordings
Igor JadraninContemporary Outdoors EP (inc. Byron The Aquarius remix)Star Creature
J Dilla / The Jimi Entley SoundGeek Down / Charlies ThemeFriendly Records
Joe BataanLatin Strut / Peace, Friendship and SolidaritySoul Jazz Records
VisioneersRaidOmniverse Records
Tokyo BlissVarious ArtistsWewantsounds
VisioneersWhat It Mean (Battle Cut)Omniverse Records
A Thousand ThreadsBy Nenah Cherry
BugleApexEvidence Music
Jah Matty & King Bee ft. El IndioChange is gonna comePeace Foundation Music
Archie WonderCruisingWooligan Recordings
Tes Fa SiyonDifferent Type of EducationMeditative Sounds
Courtney SinclairDiffuse The VibesSilver B
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Taken together, these comprehensive volumes offer an authoritative account of the music of Africa. One of the most prominent experts on the subject, Gerhard Kubik draws on his extensive travels and three decades of study in many parts of the continent to compare and contrast a wealth of musical traditions from a range of cultures. In this second volume, he turns to the cognitive study of African rhythm, Yoruba chantefables, the musical Kachamba family of Malawi, and African conceptions of space and time.
Features an extensive selection of photographs and is accompanied by a compact disc of Kubik's own recordings. Erudite and exhaustive, "Theory of African Music" is an invaluable reference source.
Reggae Disco 45 BOOKReggae Disco 45 BOOK
BACK IN STOCK LAST COPIES EVER!Reggae Disco 45 is a personal journey through author Martin Skyjuice's collection of 12" and 10" singles. A tribute to the...
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A Thousand Threads
Top of the Pops, December 1988. The world sat up as a young woman made her debut: gold bra, gold bomber jacket, and proudly, gloriously, seven months pregnant....
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There And Black Again
By Don Letts and Mal Peachey
Don Letts – filmmaker, musician, DJ, broadcaster, social commentator, husband and father – has always defied conformity....
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An Almanac of Extreme GirlhoodAlien Daughters Walk Into the Sun
Compiled as a field guide, travelogue, essay collection, and weather report, Alien Daughters Walk into the Sun traces Jackie Wang's trajectory from hard...
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Women In Revolt!Art and Activism in the UK 1970-90
A timely exploration of the work and lived experiences of a postwar generation of women artists that have largely been omitted from art historical narratives,...
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Subcontinental SynthesisElectronic Music at the National Institute of Design, India 1969-1972
The history of India's first electronic music studio founded in 1969 at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad by David Tudor.Subcontinental Synthesis...
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The Great Psychic OutdoorsEssays on Low Fidelity: Lo-Fi Music and Escaping Capitalism
Homemade records, tape-hiss worship and a taste for a very peculiar kind of psychedelia have carved themselves a weird niche in the contemporary musical...
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Published...
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The South London Cultural Review Volume 2On Feminist Films
This collection of essays celebrates the work of international feminist filmmakers from the 1950s to the present. Featuring contributions from leading...
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendía family and of Macondo, the town they built. Though little...
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Radio Phonics LaboratoryTelecommunications, Speech Synthesis & The Birth of Electronic Music
The Radio Phonics Laboratory delves into the intersection of technology and creativity that shaped the sonic landscape of the 20th century. This fascinating...
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A Messy History of Women in Printing and TypographyThe Natural Enemies of Books
'Natural Enemies of Books' is a response to the groundbreaking 1937 publication 'Bookmaking on the Distaff Side', which brought together contributions...
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The Women Who Changed Architecture
A visual and global chronicle of the triumphs, challenges, and impact of over 100 women in architecture, from early practitioners to contemporary leaders.
Marion...
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Things Fall Apart
Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire in the harmattan. But when he accidentally...
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August Blue
At the height of her career, concert pianist Elsa M. Anderson - former child prodigy, now in her thirties - walks off the stage in Vienna, mid-performance....
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The Haunted TrailClassic Tales Of The Rambling Wild
A remarkable blood-soaked stranger upends the lives of two Lake District ramblers; a lonely tavern offers its guests something much more disturbing than...
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A NovelGirls Against God
Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her past, her practice...
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful ExperimentsIntimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queen Radicals
At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The first generations born after emancipation, their struggle...
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Is It My Body?
Throughout the 1980s and early 90s, Kim Gordon-widely known as a founding member of the influential band Sonic Youth - produced a series of writings on...
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Satanic FeminismLucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture
According to the Bible, Eve was the first to heed Satan's advice to eat the forbidden fruit and thus responsible for all of humanity's subsequent miseries....
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Terminal Boredom
On a planet where men are contained in ghettoised isolation, women enjoy the fruits of a queer matriarchal utopia -- until a boy escapes and a young woman's...
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The Conspiracy of Art: Manifestos, Interviews, Essays
Cutting-edge theorist Jean Baudrillard on the complicitous dance of art, politics, economics, and media; includes "War Porn," on Abu Ghraib as a new genre...
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The Power Of Words
The philosopher and activist Simone Weil was one of the most courageous thinkers of the twentieth century. Here she writes, with honesty and moral clarity,...
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Things I Don't Want To Know
Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life....
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What Is Existentialism?
How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity...
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The In Crowd: The Story of the Northern and Rare Soul SceneBy Mike Ritson and Dave Godin
- Original Book (1.2kg)£40.00Original Pre-Owned First Edition UK Hardback Book, bit of creasingIn stockAdd to Bag
Don Cherry BOOKEternal Rhythm
The eternal rhythm is the vital conduit that links music through breath to life itself. Don Cherry certainly lived music. And his music is alive.When he...
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A Book Of Days
With 365 photographs, taking you through a single year, A Book of Days is a new way to experience the expansive mind of the visionary poet, writer, and...
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Women, Art and IdeologyOld Mistresses
Why is everything that compromises greatness in art coded as 'feminine'? Has the feminist critique of Art History history yet effected real change? With...
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The Life and Lessons of a Black Woman DJWelcome To The Club
Featuring a foreword from Annie Mac In Welcome to the club, Manchester legend DJ Paulette shares the highs, lows and lessons of a thirty-year music career,...
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SassieThe Life Of Sarah Vaughan
- Original Book (400g)£8.00Original Pre-Owned Out-Of-Print Paperback Book in Good ConditionIn stockAdd to Bag
Black Music Of Two Worlds (1972)John Storm RobertsOriginal Music
Essential music book about African and New World Afro-musics of the Caribbean and US.
- Original Book (600g)£30.00S/hand original out of print book in good conditionSold out Notify me when in stock
Bunny MackLet Me Love You (1980)Win Records
Rare independent Nigerian boogie funk.
Original Nigerian vinyl.Vinyl G only , sleeve Fair only so cheap £40 to £10+High-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine...
- – Let Me Love You
- – Love You Forever
- 1. – Let Me Love You
- 2. – Love You Forever
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- Original LP WNL 111£10.00Sold out Notify me when in stock
Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe & His Nigeria Sound Makers InternationalJim´s SpecialSposa
Quality album of Igbo highlife.Rare Original Nigerian vinyl.Vinyl VG, sleeve F (wear)+High-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine Utrasonic cleaned+
- – Jim´s Special
- 1. – Jim´s Special
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- Original LP Sposa 001£25.00Sold out Notify me when in stock
Talking 'Bout Your MamaThe Dozens, Snaps, And The Deep Roots Of RapOxford University Press
ONLY £10 Import USA HARDBACK BOOK CHEAPER THAN AMAZON
From Two Live Crew's controversial comedy to Ice Cube's gangsta styling and the battle rhymes of...
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Pablo MilanésPablo Milanés Canta A Nicolás Guillén (1975)Areito
Original Cuban vinyl!Vinyl VG , sleeve GHigh-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine Utrasonic cleaned+
- Original LP LD-4017£20.00Sold out Notify me when in stock
Brenda FassieBlack President (1990)Mercury
Rare Zimbabwe boogie
- – Street Girl
- – Bump Party Time
- 7. – Street Girl
- 8. – Bump Party Time
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- Original LP 4064851£35.00 £10.00Vinyl condition: VG-Sleeve condition: VG-ORIGINAL NIGERIAN VINYL MARK ON SIDE TWO TRACK 1, sleeve damage
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100% Guarantee on this and all Original Vinyl at Sounds Of The Universe - 'if you're not happy we're not happy' or your money back!Sold out Notify me when in stock
JazzEdited by Nat Hentoff and Albert McCarthyQuartet Books (1977)
- Original Book (350g)£12.00Secondhand out of print book in good conditionIn stockAdd to Bag
The Last SultanThe Life And Times Of Ahmet ErtegunSimon & Schuster
Import USA Paperback edition book 40% Off Original price!
The Last Sultan is the definitive biography of a man who changed popular culture throughout...
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AmericaHoliday (1974)WB
- Original LP£10.00Vinyl condition: VG+Sleeve condition: VG+Original Pre-Owned Out-of-Print USA VinylIn stockAdd to Bag
Getting Together With The Jackson 5 (1971)Musico Records
Original = USA Original Vinyl G+ /Sleeve VG-
+High-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine Utrasonic cleaned+100% Guarantee on this and all Original Vinyl...
- Original LP MDS 1047£10.00Sold out Notify me when in stock
Jazz Masters Of New OrleansBy Martin WilliamsMacMillan (1979)
Good book! Did you know why the drummers of New Orleans jazz have always been underrecorded? Did you know that Orson Welles was a big New Orleans jazz...
- Original Book (600g)£15.00Secondhand USA hardback (ex-library, plastic covered)In stockAdd to Bag
Sonny OkosunThe Gospel Of Ozziddi (1981)EMI International
Afro-Disco funk.
Original Nigerian Vinyl VG, sleeve G- (lot of wear)
+High-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine Utrasonic cleaned+100% Guarantee on this...
- – Carnival
- 3. – Carnival
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- Original LP NEMI (LP) 0530£25.00Sold out Notify me when in stock
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...
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Old School Rap and Hip-HopChris Woodstra, John Bush, Stephen Thomas ErlewineBackbeat Books
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
- Book (350g) 9780879309169£14.00 £8.00In stockAdd to Bag
Don Shirley TrioDon Shirley Trio (1960)Cadence
Original 1960 textured sleeve original vinyl jazz trio quite deep
- Original LP CLP 3046£12.00Sold out Notify me when in stock
Back In The Days Photographs By Jamel ShabazzpowerHouse Books
Amazing, genius photographs of New York hip-hop fashion and culture taken by Jamel Shabazz between 1980 and 1989. Intro by Fab Five Freddy. As stylish...
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Stevie WonderBy John Swenson
- Original Book (500g) 9780859650762£12.00Secondhand paperback in great conditionIn stockAdd to Bag
Dakota StatonI Want A Country Man (1973)Groove Merchant
Original USA 1973 Groove Merchant reocrds w/ Frank Wess, Cecil Bridgewater, Bill Watrous produced by Sonny Lester
- Original LP GM 521£9.99Vinyl condition: VG+Sleeve condition: VG+Sold out Notify me when in stock
Jazz Religion, The Second Line And Black New OrleansBy Richard Brent TurnerIndiana University Press
Great New Orleans music book! NEW EDITION DIFFT COVER
Richard Brent Turner explores the history and contemporary significance of the...
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Musica BrasileiraA History of Popular Music and the People of BrazilMarion Boyars
STILL ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS ON BRAZILIAN MUSIC! Only £6!!!
Written by Claus Schreiner, this is an excellent book covering all aspects of Brazilian music...
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Danny JohnsonIntroducing Danny Johnson (1978)First American
Chicago soul 78. Orig USA vinyl
- Original LP FA 7717£10.00Sold out Notify me when in stock
Rhythms Of WonderStevie Wonder by Sharon DavisRobson Books
- Original Book (700g) 9781861059659£10.00Original Pre-Owned Out-of-Print UK HardbackIn stockAdd to Bag
Aretha Franklin - Lady SoulBy Leslie CourseFranklin Watts
- Original Book (300g)£20.00Original Pre-Owned Out of print Paperback BookIn stockAdd to Bag
Richie Ray & Bobby CruzEl Sonido De La Bestia (1980)Vaya Records
Hardcore salsa.
Vinyl VG, sleeve G (tape on spine)+High-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine Utrasonic cleaned+
Venezuelan vinyl
- – El Sonido De La Bestia
- 7. – El Sonido De La Bestia
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John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the MusicEdited by Leonard L. BrownOxford University Press
Edited by prominent musician and scholar Leonard Brown, John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music is a timely exploration...
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