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  • Bitter the Chastening Rod

    Africana Biblical Interpretation after Stony the Road We Trod in the Age of BLM, SayHerName, and MeToo

    by Brian K. Blount, Theodore W. Burgh, Allen Dwight Callahan, Ronald Charles, Stacy Davis, Ericka S. Dunbar Hill, Dennis R. Edwards, Wil Gafney, Clarice J. Martin, William H. Myers0, Hugh R. Page, Jr.1, Angela N. Parker2, Emerson B. Powery4, Marcus W. Shields5, Kamilah Hall Sharp6, Thomas B. Slater7, Mitzi J. Smith8, Renita J. Weems0, Jeremy L. Williams1 ...
    Bitter the Chastening Rod follows in the footsteps of the first collection of African American biblical interpretation, Stony the Road We Trod (1991). Nineteen Africana biblical scholars contribute cutting-edge essays reading Jesus, criminalization, the enslaved, and whitened interpretations of the enslaved. They present pedagogical strategies for teaching, hermeneutics, and bible translation that ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Is God Funky or What?

    Black Biblical Culture and Contemporary Popular Music

    by Theodore W. Burgh ...
    Series Book 111 - Black Studies and Critical Thinking
    Black music is a powerful art form. Artists’ creations often go where words cannot. The music is special—sacred. However, it’s still frequently shoehorned into the ambiguous categories of secular and sacred. Is God Funky or What?: Black Biblical Culture and Contemporary Popular Music complicates the traditional categories of sacred and secular by exposing religious rhetoric and contexts of ... Read more

    $39.09 USD

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  • Mo' Meta Blues

    The World According to Questlove

    by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Ben Greenman ...
    "You have to bear in mind that [Questlove] is one of the smartest motherf*****s on the planet. His musical knowledge, for all practical purposes, is limitless." --Robert ChristgauA punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the greats, the fakes, the philosophers, the heavyweights, and the true originals of the music world. He ... 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 ...
    **WINNER OF THE PEN/**JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHYNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“This book is a must for everyone interested in illuminating the idea of unexplainable genius.” —QUESTLOVEEqual parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius who transformed the sound of popular music for the twenty-first century... ... Read more

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  • The Holy or the Broken

    Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah"

    by Alan Light ...
    See the film Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song from Sony Pictures ClassicsThis “thoughtful and illuminating” (The New York Times) work of music journalism is an unforgettable, fascinating, and unexpected account of one of the most performed and beloved songs in pop history—Leonard Cohen’s heartrending “Hallelujah.”How did one obscure song become an international anthem for human triumph ... Read more

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  • Murphy's Laws of Songwriting (Revised 2013)

    by Ralph Murphy ...
    About the BookAchieving "hit writer" status has always been a formidable goal for any songwriter. Never more so however than in the 21st century. Catching the ear of the monumentally distracted, fragmented listener has never been more difficult. Getting their attention, inviting them in to your song and keeping them there for long enough for your song to become "their song" requires more than ... 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 ...
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  • Reckless Daughter

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    "She was like a storm." —Leonard CohenThe remarkable, heart-wrenching story of Joni Mitchell, the influential artist who left an indelible mark on American music.In Reckless Daughter, music critic David Yaffe tells the captivating tale of how a Canadian prairie girl became a superstar of folk music in the 1960s, a key figure in the Laurel Canyon scene of the 1970s, and a songwriter who spoke ... Read more

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  • Escaping the Delta

    Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues

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    The life of blues legend Robert Johnson becomes the centerpiece for this innovative look at what many consider to be America's deepest and most influential music genre. Pivotal are the questions surrounding why Johnson was ignored by the core black audience of his time yet now celebrated as the greatest figure in blues history.Trying to separate myth from reality, biographer Elijah Wald studies ... Read more

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  • More Songwriters on Songwriting

    by Paul Zollo ...
    "Compelling portraits. As a songwriter . . . [Zollo] . . . brings to the table the kind of easygoing empathy that allows him to ask the right question[s]." — Los Angeles Review of BooksThe sequel to Songwriters on Songwriting, often called "the songwriter's bible," More Songwriters on Songwriting goes to the heart of the creative process with in-depth interviews with many of the world's greatest ... Read more

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