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  • Sun Ra's Chicago

    Afrofuturism and the City

    de William Sites ...
    Series series Historical Studies of Urban America
    "Sites provides crucial context on how Chicago's Afrocentrist philosophy, religion, and jazz scenes helped turn Blount into Sun Ra. " — Chicago ReaderSun Ra (1914–93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renowned for extravagant performances in which his Arkestra appeared in neo-Egyptian garb, the keyboardist and bandleader also espoused an ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • Hip

    The History

    de John Leland ...
    Hip: The History is the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. How did hip become such an obsession? From sex and music to fashion and commerce, John Leland tracks the arc of ideas as they move from subterranean Bohemia to Madison Avenue and back again. Hip: The History examines how hip has helped shape - ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?

    Essays

    de Jesse McCarthy ...
    **2022 Whiting Award Winner for NonfictionFinalist • National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism)Best Books of the Year: TIME, Kirkus Reviews"This is a very smart and soulful book. Jesse McCarthy is a terrific essayist." —Zadie SmithA supremely talented young critic’s essays on race and culture, from Toni Morrison to trap, herald the arrival of a major new voice in American letters.**Ranging ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Race Rebels

    Culture, Politics, And The Black Working Class

    de Robin D. G. Kelley ...
    From notable historian and author of Freedom Dreams, the untold history of the Black working class resistances throughout the 20th century.Many Black strategies of daily resistance have been obscured—until now. Race rebels, argues Kelley, have created strategies of resistance, movements, and entire subcultures. Here, for the first time, everyday race rebels are given the historiographical ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Exploring American Folk Music

    Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States

    de Kip Lornell ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Regional & Vernacular Traditions in the United States reflects the fascinating diversity of regional and grassroots music in the United States. The book covers the diverse strains of American folk music--Latin, Native American, African, French-Canadian, British, and Cajun--and offers a chronology of the development of folk music in the United States.The book ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • American Cultural History

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Eric Avila ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: these are the words, images, and sounds that populate American cultural history. From the Boston Tea Party to the Dodgers, from the blues to Andy Warhol, dime novels to Disneyland, the history of American culture tells us how previous generations of ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

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  • Banding Together

    How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music

    de Jennifer C. Lena ...
    Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches? Banding Together explores this question and reveals the attributes that together explain the growth of twentieth-century American popular music. Drawing on a vast array of examples from sixty musical styles--ranging from rap and bluegrass to death metal and South Texas polka, and including several created outside ... Leer más

    $41.79 USD

  • Black Genius

    Inspirational Portraits of African-American Leaders

    de Dick Russell ...
    Intimate, in-depth portraits, interviews, and essays of America's black leaders-from the founding of the nation and Frederick Douglass to the 2008 presidential race and Barack Obama. Each figure is interconnected with the next, exploring themes of family and intergenerational community, spirituality, and diligence, activism, and struggle. These remarkable portraits reveal the true spirit of the ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • African American Studies

    The Discipline and Its Dimensions

    de Nathaniel Norment, Jr. ...
    Series Libro 110 - Black Studies and Critical Thinking
    African American Studies: The Discipline and Its Dimensions is a comprehensive resource book that recounts the development of the discipline of African American Studies and provides a basic reference source for sixteen areas of knowledge of the discipline: anthropology, art, dance, economics, education, film, history, literature, music, philosophy, psychology, religion, sociology, political ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • Freedom Sounds

    Civil Rights Call out to Jazz and Africa

    de Ingrid Monson ...
    An insightful examination of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, Freedom Sounds traces the complex relationships among music, politics, aesthetics, and activism through the lens of the hot button racial and economic issues of the time. Ingrid Monson illustrates how the contentious and soul-searching debates in the Civil Rights, African ... Leer más

    $37.99 USD

  • Hidden in the Mix

    The African American Presence in Country Music

    Edición de Diane Pecknold ...
    Country music's debt to African American music has long been recognized. Black musicians have helped to shape the styles of many of the most important performers in the country canon. The partnership between Lesley Riddle and A. P. Carter produced much of the Carter Family's repertoire; the street musician Tee Tot Payne taught a young Hank Williams Sr.; the guitar playing of Arnold Schultz ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • New Orleans

    Creolization and all that Jazz

    de Berndt Ostendorf ...
    Ralph Ellison once wrote that the rules of performance in American culture are jazz-shaped. This book explores the Afro-creole core culture of New Orleans as the mainspring of this energizing music. Much of the cultural capital of the city is buried in a complex, tripartite racial history, which threatens the binary logic of North American racism with all sorts of sensual transgressions. Its jazz ... Leer más

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