Soul & R&B
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Didn’t We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston
$18.00 Read moreDidn’t We Almost Have It All is a candid exploration of the genius, shame, and celebrity of Whitney Houston.
Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR . . . SO FAR by The New Yorker
Named a BEST BOOK OF THE MONT- Author: Kennedy, Gerrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1419752979
- Language: English
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The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll: The Illustrated Story of Sun Records and the 70 Recordings That Changed the World
$60.00 Read moreA fascinating look at the history of Sun Records, the label that started Rock n’ Roll, told through 70 of its iconic recordings.
In Memphis, Tennessee, in the 1950s, there was hard-edged blues playing- Author: Guralnick, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1681888963
- Language: English
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Over the Influence: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartA breathtakingly candid memoir by Joanna “JoJo” Levesque, the chart-topping, multi-platinum recording artist behind hits like “Leave (Get Out),” “Too Little, Too Late”, and the Grammy Award-winning “S
- Author: Levesque, Joanna Jojo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 030683314X
- Language: English
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Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: A Life in Mod – From the Revival to Acid Jazz
$29.99 Read moreThis is the memoir of a teenage mod from the East End of London.
A journey of discovery for a schoolboy dabbling with punk, funk, record shops, discos and clothes, and then… WHAAAM! An unstoppable- Author: Piller, Eddie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 180096059X
- Language: English
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The Lost Supreme: The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard
$16.99 Read moreIn the months before she died, Florence Ballard, the spunky teenager who founded the most successful female vocal group in history–the Supremes–told her own side of the story. Recorded on tape, Flo
- Author: Benjaminson, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1556529597
- Language: English
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Time Is Tight: My Life, Note by Note
$18.99 Read moreThe long-awaited memoir of Booker T. Jones, leader of the famed Stax Records house band, architect of the Memphis soul sound, and one of the most legendary figures in music.
From Booker T. Jones’s ear… [more below]- Author: Jones, Booker T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0316485594
- Language: English
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I’ll Take You There: Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers, and the March Up Freedom’s Highway
$18.00 Add to cart“A biography that will send readers back to the music of Mavis and the Staple Singers with deepened appreciation and a renewed spirit of discovery” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)–from the acclaimed… [more below]
- Author: Kot, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1451647867
- 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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The Story of Motown
$17.95 Read more- In 2018, ITV Studios and Reelz will release a documentary about the Supremes on which Peter Benjaminson will appear
- Also in 2018, CNN will broadcast a four-part series about Detroit in 1963. Benjaminso
- Author: Benjaminson, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 13, 2018
- ISBN10: 1947856235
- Language: English
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Muscle Shoals Sound Studio: How the Swampers Changed American Music
$23.99 Add to cartAn estimated four hundred gold records have been recorded in the Muscle Shoals area. Many of those are thanks to Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, dubbed “the Swampers.”
- Author: Whitley, Carla Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 22 2014
- ISBN10: 1626192391
- 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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Funkiest Man Alive: Rufus Thomas and Memphis Soul
$63.33 Add to cartRufus Thomas may not be a household name, but he is widely regarded as the patriarch of Memphis R&B, and his music influenced three generations. His first singles in the early 1950s were recorded as b… [more below]
- Series: American Made Music
- Author: Ruddick, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1496838408
- Language: English
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Muscle Shoals Sound Studio: How the Swampers Changed American Music
$31.99 Add to cartAn estimated four hundred gold records have been recorded in the Muscle Shoals area. Many of those are thanks to Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, dubbed “the Swampers.”… [more below]
- Author: Whitley, Carla Jean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: July 22 2014
- ISBN10: 1540209180
- Language: English
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Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll’s Best-Kept Secret
$36.00 Add to cartWinner of the Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction and Los Angeles Times bestseller
“It makes good music sound better.”-Janet Maslin in The New York Times “A fascinating look into the West Coast r- Author: Hartman, Kent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 14 2012
- ISBN10: 031261974X
- 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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Janelle Monáe’s the Archandroid
$14.95 Read moreIn Janelle Mon?e’s full-length debut, the science fiction concept album The ArchAndroid, the android Cindi Mayweather is on the run from the authorities for the crime of loving a human. Living in 28th
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Favreau, Alyssa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1501355708
- 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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Under a Hoodoo Moon: The Life of the Night Tripper
$22.99 Add to cartUnder a Hoodoo Moon is one of rock’s most original and infectious autobiographies. In its pages, Dr. John, the alchemist of New Orleans psychedelic funk, tells his story, and what a story it is: of fo… [more below]
- Author: Rebennack, Mac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: March 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0312131976
- Language: English
