Genres & Styles - Soul & R&B
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Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers’ Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music
$19.95 Add to cartConnecting the black music tradition with the black activist tradition, Party Music brings both into greater focus than ever before and reveals just how strongly the black power movement was felt on t… [more below]
- Author: Vincent, Rickey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1613744927
- Language: English
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Boyz II Men 40th Anniversary Celebration
$30.00 Add to cartA must-have for every Boyz II Men fan, this handsome volume traces forty years of the groundbreaking group through stunning photography, fascinating facts, and interviews with fans and industry pros. … [more below]
- Author: Morrison, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 760395020
- Language: English
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Disco: Music, Movies, and Mania Under the Mirror Ball
$55.00 Read moreThis dazzling volume shines new light on the songs, styles, and enduring pop culture impact of the 1970s musical genre that emerged from Black and Latin queer culture to take the world by storm.
Half- Author: DeCaro, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0847899616
- Language: English
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James Brown’s Live at the Apollo
$14.95 Read moreIn this remarkable book, Douglas Wolk brings to life an October evening in 1962, at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem – an evening at the height of Cold War tensions. In great detail, Wolk pieces together … [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #13
- Author: Wolk, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 10 2004
- ISBN10: 0826415725
- Language: English
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Black Moses: The Hot-Buttered Life and Soul of Isaac Hayes
$28.00 Read moreThe first biography of soul pioneer Isaac Hayes, whose groundbreaking music provided the foundation for hip-hop and a new racial paradigm.
“Black men could finally stand up and be men because here’s B- Author: Ribowsky, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1642938866
- Language: English
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Sly and the Family Stone’s There’s a Riot Goin’ on
$14.95 Add to cartThe story behind the making of the album that signaled the descent of Sylvester Sly Stone Stewart into a haze of drug addiction and delirium is captivating enough for the cinema. In the spacious attic
- Series: 33 1/3 #32
- Author: Lewis, Miles Marshall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: February 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0826417442
- Language: English
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Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation
$39.99 Read moreCelebrate the culture of cool with this compact, paperback edition of the heartfelt tribute to Soul Train, a worldwide phenomenon of dance, music, and fashion.
From Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson of the- Author: Insight Editions
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1647228581
- Language: English
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Southern Man: Music & Mayhem in the American South: A Memoir
$24.95 Read more“We developed reputations real fast. We treated our entertainers right. We got them paid. Other agents and promoters and managers showed them the money. We got them the money. We brought respect to th… [more below]
- Author: Walden, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1911036718
- Language: English
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Funk & Soul Covers
$70.00 Add to cartFollowing the success of Jazz Covers, this epic volume of groove assembles over 500 legendary covers from a golden era in Black music. Psychedelia meets Black Power, sexual liberation meets social con
- Author: Paulo, Joaquim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 3836588765
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Music: A History of the Blues
$19.99 Add to cartSuperbly researched and vividly written, The Devil’s Music is one of the only books to trace the rise and development of the blues both in relation to other forms of black music and in the context of … [more below]
- Author: Oakley, Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 22 1997
- ISBN10: 306807432
- Language: English
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The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s
$26.95 Add to cartIn The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept. In the 1960s, Lordi argues, soul came to signify a cultural belief in black resilience, which was … [more below]
- Series: Refiguring American Music
- Author: Lordi, Emily J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1478009594
- Language: English
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Memphis Mayhem: A Story of the Music That Shook Up the World
$16.95 Read moreMemphis gave birth to music that changed the world — Memphis Mayhem is a fascinating history of how music and culture collided to change the state of music forever
“David Less has captured the esse
- Author: Less, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1770415084
- Language: English
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Motown: The Sound of Young America
$45.00 Read moreThe music of Motown defined an era. From the Jackson 5 and Diana Ross to Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson, Berry Gordy and his right-hand man, Barney Ales, built the most successful independent recor
- Author: White, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0500294852
- Language: English
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Ain’t Too Proud to Beg: The Troubled Lives and Enduring Soul of the Temptations
$30.99 Add to cartThe first and only definitive biography of legendary Motown group, the Temptations
The Temptations are an incomparable soul group, with dozens of chart-topping hits such as My Girl and Papa Was a Rolli
- Author: Ribowsky, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01, 2010
- ISBN10: 047026117X
- Language: English
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Sly & the Family Stone: An Oral History
$18.00 Read moreTheir music changed pop history, but we’ve never known much about the people who made it…until now.
“…a first-hand account of both the kaleidoscopic talent that drove Stone to the top and attracte- Author: Selvin, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1637585020
- Language: English
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Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
$18.00 Add to cartBlues is the cornerstone of American popular music, the bedrock of rock and roll. In this extraordinary musical and social history, Robert Palmer traces the odyssey of the blues from its rural beginni… [more below]
- Author: Palmer, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 29 1982
- ISBN10: 0140062238
- Language: English
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D’Angelo’s Voodoo
$14.95 Add to cartVoodoo, D’Angelo’s much-anticipated 2000 release, set the standard for the musical cycle ordained as “neo-soul,” a label the singer and songwriter would reject more than a decade later. The album is a
- Series: 33 1/3 #144
- Author: Pennick, Faith A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: March 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1501336509
- Language: English
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Funk & Soul Covers. 40th Ed.
$30.00 Read moreFollowing the success of Jazz Covers, this epic volume of groove assembles over 500 legendary covers from a golden era in Black music. Psychedelia meets Black Power, sexual liberation meets social con
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Paulo, Joaquim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 10 2022
- ISBN10: 3836588196
- Language: English
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Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
$21.00 Add to cartThe story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a monument to racial harmony in blighted south Memphis during the civil rights movement. Their success soon pit
- Author: Gordon, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1608194167
- Language: English
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But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups
$31.00 Read moreFeaturing over 300 hours of new interviews with 100+ subjects, an oral history of the girl groups (such as The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas) that redefined the early 1960s … [more below]
- Author: Flam, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0306829770
- Language: English
