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  • Alive in the Sound

    Black Music as Counterhistory

    by Ronald Radano ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    In Alive in the Sound, Ronald Radano proposes a new understanding of US Black music by focusing on the key matter of value, manifested musically in its seemingly embodied qualities—spirit, soul, and groove. While acknowledging these qualities are always embedded in Black music, Radano shows they developed not simply from performance but from musicians’ status as laborers inhabiting an enduring ... Read more

    $41.79 CAD

  • Segregating Sound

    Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow

    by Ronald Radano, Josh Kun, Karl Hagstrom Miller ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    In Segregating Sound, Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, Miller chronicles how southern music—a fluid complex of sounds and styles in practice—was reduced to a series of distinct ... Read more

    $34.09 CAD

  • Beyond Exoticism

    Western Music and the World

    by Timothy D. Taylor, Charles McGovern, Ronald Radano ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    In Beyond Exoticism, Timothy D. Taylor considers how western cultures’ understandings of racial, ethnic, and cultural differences have been incorporated into music from early operas to contemporary television advertisements, arguing that the commonly used term “exoticism” glosses over such differences in many studies of western music. Beyond Exoticism encompasses a range of musical genres and ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Hip Hop Desis

    South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness

    by Nitasha Tamar Sharma, Ronald Radano, Josh Kun ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    Hip Hop Desis explores the aesthetics and politics of South Asian American (desi) hip hop artists. Nitasha Tamar Sharma argues that through their lives and lyrics, young “hip hop desis” express a global race consciousness that reflects both their sense of connection with Blacks as racialized minorities in the United States and their diasporic sensibility as part of a global community of South ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Audible Empire

    Music, Global Politics, Critique

    Edited by Ronald Radano, Tejumola Olaniyan ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    Audible Empire rethinks the processes and mechanisms of empire and shows how musical practice has been crucial to its spread around the globe. Music is a means of comprehending empire as an audible formation, and the contributors highlight how it has been circulated, consumed, and understood through imperial logics. These fifteen interdisciplinary essays cover large swaths of genre, time, politics ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Selling Sound

    The Rise of the Country Music Industry

    by Diane Pecknold, Charles McGovern, Ronald Radano ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    Few expressions of popular culture have been shaped as profoundly by the relationship between commercialism and authenticity as country music has. While its apparent realism, sincerity, and frank depictions of everyday life are country’s most obvious stylistic hallmarks, Diane Pecknold demonstrates that commercialism has been just as powerful a cultural narrative in its development. Listeners have ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • African Rhythms

    The Autobiography of Randy Weston

    by Randy Weston, Willard Jenkins, Ronald Radano, Josh Kun ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    The pianist, composer, and bandleader Randy Weston is one of the world’s most influential jazz musicians and a remarkable storyteller whose career has spanned five continents and more than six decades. Packed with fascinating anecdotes, African Rhythms is Weston’s life story, as told by him to the music journalist Willard Jenkins. It encompasses Weston’s childhood in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • Buena Vista in the Club

    Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana

    by Geoffrey Baker, Ronald Radano, Josh Kun ...
    Series series Refiguring American music
    In Buena Vista in the Club, Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaetón. While Cuban officials initially rejected rap as “the music of the enemy,” leading figures in the hip hop scene soon convinced certain cultural institutions to accept and then promote rap as part of Cuba’s national culture. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Soul Covers

    Rhythm and Blues Remakes and the Struggle for Artistic Identity (Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Phoebe Snow)

    by Michael Awkward, Charles McGovern, Ronald Radano ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    Soul Covers is an engaging look at how three very different rhythm and blues performers—Aretha Franklin, Al Green, and Phoebe Snow—used cover songs to negotiate questions of artistic, racial, and personal authenticity. Through close readings of song lyrics and the performers’ statements about their lives and work, the literary critic Michael Awkward traces how Franklin, Green, and Snow crafted ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Mexican American Mojo

    Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968

    by Anthony Macías, Ronald Radano, Josh Kun ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    Stretching from the years during the Second World War when young couples jitterbugged across the dance floor at the Zenda Ballroom, through the early 1950s when honking tenor saxophones could be heard at the Angelus Hall, to the Spanish-language cosmopolitanism of the late 1950s and 1960s, Mexican American Mojo is a lively account of Mexican American urban culture in wartime and postwar Los ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison

    by Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race,” and Going to the Territory (1986), ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Shadow and Act

    by Ralph Ellison ...
    Series series Vintage International
    With the same intellectual incisiveness and supple, stylish prose he brought to his classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison examines his antecedents and in so doing illuminates the literature, music, and culture of both black and white America. His range is virtuosic, encompassing Mark Twain and Richard Wright, Mahalia Jackson and Charlie Parker, The Birth of a Nation and the Dante-esque ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD