Hip Hop’s Amnesia by Reiland Rabaka (2012)
Considering the many aspects of hip hop music, Reiland Rabaka’s approach to the social, musical and most of all the
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Jazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties by Robert Nippoldt, Hans-Juergen Schaal (2013)
This fine cooperation of writer Hans-Juergen Schaal and illustrator Robert Nippoldt is devoted to the beginnings of Jazz in the
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Big Band Jazz in Black West Virginia, 1930-1942 by Christopher Wilkinson (2012)
Whenever the state of West Virginia is mentioned in an article on music, chances are good that the state is
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Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke: At the Roots of the Racial Divide by Bryan Crable (2012)
Ralph Ellison, one of the greatest American authors and of particular interest to fans of blues and jazz, often stated
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The Ballad Collectors of North America by Scott B. Spencer (ed.) (2012)
The 1960s were a decade of massive change, no matter what subject we pick, be it Civil Rights, the arts,
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Ragged But Right: Black Traveling Shows, “Coon Songs,” and the… by Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff (2012)
For several decades, a very distinctive form of African American minstrel show was the most popular form of entertainment for
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Jazz Icons: Heroes, Myths and the Jazz Tradition by Tony Whyton (2013)
Does jazz have a distinctive place among the arts and popular culture of today? Why, yes. But how exactly did
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