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  • Shout, Sister, Shout!

    The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe

    by Gayle Wald ...
    The essential biography of America’s godmother of rock ‘n’ roll whose exuberant singing and guitar playing captivated audiences and inspired generations of musicians from the 40s to todayWhen Shout, Sister, Shout! was first published in 2007, Sister Rosetta Tharpe was resting in an unmarked grave in a Philadelphia cemetery. That lack of a headstone symbolized so much of what was egregiously wrong ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Crossing the Line

    Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture

    by Gayle Wald, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in The Souls of Black Folk, the fiction of the color line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial “order.” Yet the very arbitrariness of this line also gives rise to opportunities for racial “passing,” a practice through which subjects appropriate the terms of racial discourse. To erode race’s authority, Gayle Wald ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • This Is Rhythm

    Ella Jenkins, Children's Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement

    by Gayle F. Wald ...
    The remarkable life story of Ella Jenkins, "The First Lady of Children's Music."Ella Jenkins was one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century. Her songs "You'll Sing a Song and I'll Sing a Song" and "Who Fed the Chickens?" are classics in the world of children's music. In a career spanning more than sixty years, she recorded forty albums, won a lifetime-achievement Grammy, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • It's Been Beautiful

    Soul! and Black Power Television

    by Gayle Wald ...
    Series series Spin Offs
    Soul! was where Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind & Fire got funky, where Toni Morrison read from her debut novel, where James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni discussed gender and power, and where Amiri Baraka and Stokely Carmichael enjoyed a sympathetic forum for their radical politics. Broadcast on public television between 1968 and 1973, Soul!, helmed by pioneering producer and frequent host Ellis ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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    Shout, Sister, Shout!

    The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe

    by Gayle Wald ...
    Narrated by Leslie Uggams, Shawn T. Andrew, Anthony Heilbut ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 1 min

    The untold story of 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Sister Rosetta Tharpe, America’s first rock guitar divaLong before “women in rock” became a media catchphrase, African American guitar virtuoso Rosetta Tharpe proved in spectacular fashion that women could rock. Born in Cotton Plant, Arkansas, in 1915, Tharpe was gospel’s first superstar and the preeminent crossover figure of its golden ... Read more

    $35.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Neo-Passing

    Performing Identity after Jim Crow

    by Michele Elam, Derek Adams, Christopher M Brown, Martha J Cutter, Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Alisha Gaines, Jennifer Glaser, Allyson Hobbs, Brandon J. Manning, Loran Marsan, Lara Narcisi, Eden Osucha, Deborah Elizabeth Whaley ...
    African Americans once passed as whites to escape the pains of racism. Today's neo-passing has pushed the old idea of passing in extraordinary new directions. A white author uses an Asian pen name; heterosexuals live "out" as gay; and, irony of ironies, whites try to pass as black. Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young present essays that explore practices, performances, and texts of neo ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Good Booty

    Love and Sex, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music

    by Ann Powers ...
    NPR Best Books of 2017In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR's acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most notably sex and race.In Good Booty, Ann Powers explores how popular music became America's primary erotic art ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll

    An Alternative History of American Popular Music

    by Elijah Wald ...
    "There are no definitive histories," writes Elijah Wald, in this provocative reassessment of American popular music, "because the past keeps looking different as the present changes." Earlier musical styles sound different to us today because we hear them through the musical filter of other styles that came after them, all the way through funk and hip hop. As its blasphemous title suggests, How ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Louis Armstrong

    An Extravagant Life

    by Laurence Bergreen ...
    Louis Armstrong was the founding father of jazz and one of this century's towering cultural figures, yet the full story of his extravagant life has never been told.Born in 1901 to the sixteen-year-old daughter of a slave, he came of age among the prostitutes, pimps, and rag-and-bone merchants of New Orleans. He married four times and enjoyed countless romantic involvements in and around his ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • On Highway 61

    Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom

    by Dennis McNally ...
    On Highway 61 explores the historical context of the significant social dissent that was central to the cultural genesis of the sixties. The book is going to search for the deeper roots of American cultural and musical evolution for the past 150 years by studying what the Western European culture learned from African American culture in a historical progression that reaches from the minstrel era ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • At the Jazz Band Ball

    Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene

    by Nat Hentoff ...
    Nat Hentoff, renowned jazz critic, civil liberties activist, and fearless contrarian—"I’m a Jewish atheist civil-libertarian pro-lifer"—has lived through much of jazz’s history and has known many of jazz’s most important figures, often as friend and confidant. Hentoff has been a tireless advocate for the neglected parts of jazz history, including forgotten sidemen and -women. This volume includes ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Blues: The Basics

    by Dick Weissman ...
    Series series The Basics
    Blues: The Basics offers a concise introduction to a century of the blues. Organized chronologically, it focuses on the major eras in the growth and development of this popular musical style. Material includes:a definition of the blues and the major genres within itkey artists such as Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson and Blind Lemon Jeffersonkey recordingsComplete with timelines ... ... Read more

    $33.99 USD