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Union Divided: Black Musicians' Fight for Labor Equality
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Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States
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4.54 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical
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The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s
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4.52 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll
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4.42 avg rating — 98 ratings
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To Do This, You Must Know How: Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition
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Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
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4.05 avg rating — 1,106 ratings
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Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions (American Music Series)
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4.22 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Heart & Soul: A Celebration of Black Music Style in America 1930-1975
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4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
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A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance
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4.59 avg rating — 10,089 ratings
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Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry
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Way Up North in Dixie: A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem
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3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War
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4.30 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Readings in Black American Music
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Black Music
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
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Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop
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3.74 avg rating — 121 ratings
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People Get Ready!: A New History of Black Gospel Music
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3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Blind Tom, the Black Pianist-Composer (1849-1908): Continually Enslaved
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3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Black Beauty, White Heat: A Pictorial History of Classic Jazz, 1920-1950
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4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Black Music Of Two Worlds
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3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Rip it Up: The Black Experience in Rock 'n' Roll
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3.65 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Doin' the Charleston: Black Roots of American Popular Music & the Jenkins Orphanage Legacy
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3.78 avg rating — 194 ratings
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The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop
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3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Blacks, Whites, and Blues
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3.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919
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Lining Out the Word: Dr. Watts Hymn Singing in the Music of Black Americans (Volume 8)
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Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920-1940
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Black Soundscapes White Stages: The Meaning of Francophone Sound in the Black Atlantic
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What's the Use of Walking If There's a Freight Train Going Your Way?: Black Hoboes & Their Songs
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How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement
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3.97 avg rating — 61 ratings
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In Search of the Blues: A Journey to the Soul of Black Texas (Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections at Texas State University)
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3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Big Star Fallin' Mama: Five Women in Black Music
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3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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With Billie: A New Look at the Unforgettable Lady Day
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3.88 avg rating — 388 ratings
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Nothing but Love in God's Water: Volume I: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
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Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America
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4.20 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz (American Made Music Series)
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Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s
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3.88 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Souled American: How Black Music Transformed White Culture
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The Music of Black Americans: A History
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4.26 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life (American Made Music Series)
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The Last 'Darky': Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora
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Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills
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My Country, Too: The Other Black Music
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Blacks in Blackface: A Sourcebook on Early Black Musical Shows: 2 Volumes
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Blind Tom: The Post-Civil War Enslavement of a Black Musical Genius
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James Brown: Black and Proud
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Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South
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Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers' Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music
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Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power
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Spirits That Dwell in Deep Woods: The Prayer and Praise Hymns of the Black Religious Experience
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Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way (A Dazzling and Unique Book for History Lovers, Broadway Fans, and Pop Culture Connoisseurs)
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Midnight Lightning: Jimi Hendrix and the Black Experience
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Beale Black and Blue: Life and Music on Black America's Main Street
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Songs in the Key of Black Life
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Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive
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Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms
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4.46 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Blues People: Negro Music in White America
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Negro Folk Music, U.S.A.
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Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King
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3.89 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Musical Crossroads: Stories Behind the Objects of African American Music
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Singing in the Spirit: African-American Sacred Quartets in New York City
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The Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville (American Made Music Series)
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When the Church Becomes Your Party: Contemporary Gospel Music
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Happy in the Service of the Lord: African-American Sacred Vocal Harmony
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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From Jubilee to Hip Hop: Readings in African American Music
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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Songs of Blind Folk: African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness
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African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston
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Roosevelt's Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on FDR
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Fire in My Bones: Transcendence and the Holy Spirit in African American Gospel (Contemporary Ethnography)
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A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism
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Drop on Down in Florida: Field Recordings of African American Traditional Music 1977-1980
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The Banjo: America’s African Instrument
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Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895 (American Made Music Series)
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Sacred Steel: Inside an African American Steel Guitar Tradition (Music in American Life
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3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Downhome Gospel: African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country
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We'll Understand It Better By and By: Pioneering African American Gospel Composers (The "Wade in the Water" Series)
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Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia
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African-American Entertainment in Atlanta
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Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music (Volume 13)
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Singing in the African American Tradition - Volume 2: Building a Vocal Community
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African American Music Trails of Eastern North Carolina
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Hidden in the Mix: The African American Presence in Country Music
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African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics: The Lawrence Gellert Story (American Folk Music and Musicians Series)
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Jazzwomen: Conversations With Twenty-One Musicians
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The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America
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Second Linin: Jazzmen of Southwest Louisiana 1900-1950
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This is Bop: Jon Hendricks and the Art of Vocal Jazz
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Jazz Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)
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Get a Shot of Rhythm and Blues: The Arthur Alexander Story
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