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    Black Country Music

    Listening for Revolutions

    by Francesca Royster ...
    Narrated by LaNecia Edmonds ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 20 min

    Black Country Music tells the story of how Black musicians have changed the country music landscape and brought light to Black creativity and innovation.After a century of racist whitewashing, country music is finally reckoning with its relationship to Black people. In this timely work—the first book on Black country music by a Black writer—Francesca Royster uncovers the Black performers and fans, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Black Country Music

    Listening for Revolutions

    by Francesca T. Royster ...
    Series series American Music Series
    2023 Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame2024 Woody Guthrie Book Award, International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US Branch (IASPM-US)2023 Certificate of Merit, ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, Association for Recorded Sound Collections2023 The Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award, American Musicological SocietyHow Black ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Choosing Family

    A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance

    by Francesca T. Royster ...
    Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance is a brilliant literary memoir of chosen family and chosen heritage, told against the backdrop of Chicago's North and South Sides.As a multiracial household in Chicago's North Side community of Rogers Park, race is at the core of Francesca T. Royster and her family's world, influencing everyday acts of parenting and the conception ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Choosing Family

    A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance

    by Francesca T. Royster ...
    Narrated by Sarah Palmero ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 33 min

    A brilliant literary memoir of chosen family and chosen heritage, told against the backdrop of Chicago’s North and South Sides.As a multiracial household in Chicago’s North Side community of Rogers Park, race is at the core of Francesca T. Royster and her family's world, influencing everyday acts of parenting and the conception of what family truly means. Like Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, this ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    A New York Times bestseller, Music Is History combines multi-Grammy Award winner Questlove’s deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years.Focusing on the years 1971 to the present, Questlove finds the hidden connections in the American tapestry, whether investigating how the blaxploitation era reshaped Black identity or considering the way ... Read more

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  • Mo' Meta Blues

    The World According to Questlove

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  • A Little Devil in America

    In Praise of Black Performance

    by Hanif Abdurraqib ...
    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A sweeping, genre-bending “masterpiece” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) exploring Black art, music, and culture in all their glory and complexity—from Soul Train, Aretha Franklin, and James Brown to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Whitney Houston, and BeyoncéONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Tribune, The ... Read more

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  • Dilla Time

    The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

    by Dan Charnas ...
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  • She Come By It Natural

    Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

    by Sarah Smarsh ...
    In this Time Top 100 Book of the Year, the National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Heartland “analyzes how Dolly Parton’s songs—and success—have embodied feminism for working-class women” (People).Growing up amid Kansas wheat fields and airplane factories, Sarah Smarsh witnessed firsthand the particular vulnerabilities—and strengths—of women in working poverty. ... Read more

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  • Major Labels

    A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres

    by Kelefa Sanneh ...
    **One of Oprah Daily's 20 Favorite Books of 2021 • Selected as one of Pitchfork's Best Music Books of the Year“One of the best books of its kind in decades.” —The Wall Street JournalAn epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty years refracted through the big genres that have defined and dominated it: rock, R&B, country, punk, hip-hop, dance music, ... Read more

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  • Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z

    A Library of America Special Publication

    Edited by Jonathan Lethem, Kevin Dettmar ...
    The essential playlist of great writing about the music that rocked America, with fifty landmark pieces on Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, Lez Zepplin, and other rock n’ roll legendsJonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar's Shake It Up invites the reader into the tumult and excitement of the rock revolution through fifty landmark pieces by a supergroup of writers on rock in all its variety, from heavy metal ... Read more

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  • What Are You Doing Here?

    A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal

    by Laina Dawes ...
    In her nuanced, extremely perceptive book, Laina Dawes champions the liberating possibilities of metal while questioning the color-blindness of the metal world, celebrating the role of black women in creating rock music, examining the reaction of the black community to black punks and metalheads, and sorting out the gender issues that complicate sisterhood in a male-dominated sphere. Her ... Read more

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