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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
9780679771265Women's History Selection$18.00From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$18.00Subtotal: -
The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop and Connected Writings
9781416516323$14.99In the underground labyrinths of New York City's subway system, beneath the third rail of a long forgotten line, Saul Williams discovered scrolls of aged yellowish-brown paper rolled tightly into a can of spray paint. His quest to decipher this mystical... -
Sweat the Technique: Revelations on Creativity from the Lyrical Genius
9780062850232$24.99On the heels of Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer Prize, as the world begins to recognize the creative side of Hip-Hop, comes a writing guide from a musician and The greatest MC of all time, Rakim. The musician and Hip Hop legend--hailed as "the greatest MC of... -
Sweat the Technique: Revelations on Creativity from the Lyrical Genius (PB)
9780062850249$16.99On the heels of Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer Prize, as the world begins to recognize the creative side of Hip-Hop, comes a writing guide from a musician and The greatest MC of all time, Rakim. The musician and Hip Hop legend--hailed as "the greatest MC of... -
Blues People
9780688184742$13.99"The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music -- through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel development, jazz... [If] the... -
Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South
9781469661964$24.95This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a post-civil rights generation. For scholar and critic Regina N. Bradley, Outkast's work is the touchstone,... -
As Serious as Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution
9781788160711$18.95In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established black music as the true vanguard of American culture...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$18.95Subtotal: -
Jay-Z: Made in America
9781250230966$25.99NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLERDyson writes with the affection of a fan but the rigor of an academic. ... Using extensive passages from Jay-Z's lyrics, 'Made in America' examines the rapper's role as a poet, an... -
Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics, and Guilt in America
9781620973400$24.99Should Johnny Cash have been charged with murder after he sang, "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die"? Few would seriously subscribe to this notion of justice. Yet in 2001, a rapper named Mac whose music had gained national recognition was... -
The Rose That Grew from Concrete (Hardcover)
9780671028442$23.00Tupac Shakur's most intimate and honest thoughts were uncovered only after his death with the instant classic The Rose That Grew from Concrete. His talent was unbounded a raw force that commanded attention and respect. His death was tragic--a... -
Renegades: Born in the USA
9780593236314$50.00Two longtime friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music, and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly produced expansion of their groundbreaking Higher Ground podcast,... -
The Rose That Grew from Concrete
9780671028459$16.00Tupac Shakur's most intimate and honest thoughts were uncovered only after his death with the instant classic The Rose That Grew from Concrete. His talent was unbounded a raw force that commanded attention and respect. His death was tragic--a... -
Cack-Handed: A Memoir
9780062961716$26.99The British comedian of Nigerian heritage and co-executive producer and writer of the CBS hit series Bob Hearts Abishola chronicles her odyssey to get to America and break into Hollywood in this lively and humorous memoir. According to family... -
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest
9781477316481$16.95How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theoryand Midnight Marauders. Seventeen years after their last album,... -
The Gospel of Hip Hop
9781576874974$29.95The Gospel of Hip Hop: First Instrument, the first book from the I Am Hip Hop, is the philosophical masterwork of KRS ONE. Set in the format of the Christian Bible, this 800-plus-page opus is a life-guide manual for members of Hip Hop Kulture that... -
Ride or Die: A Feminist Manifesto for the Well-Being of Black Women (HC) (2022)
9780306874673$27.00Do you have a "ride or die chick" in your life? A "ride or die chick" is a Black woman who holds down her family and community. She's that friend or family member that you can call up in the middle of the night to bail you out of jail, if ever needed,...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$27.00Subtotal: