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  • God Made Dirt: The Life & Times of Ol' Dirty Bastard by Sadler, Spencer
    Spencer Sadler

    God Made Dirt: The Life & Times of Ol' Dirty Bastard

    On May 1, 2003, Russell Tyrone Jones was released on parole for a new and sober beginning. He had a megadeal for a new album and a clothing line all about sealed. After several months in a mental ward and a couple of years...
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  • Original London Style (UK): Hip Hop, Sound Systems and Black British culture by Pipitone, Giuseppe U. Net
    Giuseppe U. Net Pipitone

    Original London Style (UK): Hip Hop, Sound Systems and Black British culture

    When on December 6, 1982, the video for Buffalo Gals by Malcolm MacLaren & The World's Supreme Team aired during the Top of the Pops broadcast, English popular culture would never be the same. Suddenly, the indecipherable codes telling the story of the new...
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  • The History of Hip Hop: Volume 4 by Reese, Eric
    Eric Reese

    The History of Hip Hop: Volume 4

    "Beats of the New Millennium: An Odyssey Through the First Decade of Millennium Hip-Hop"*** Author of "Rapper's Delight" essay currently archived at the Library of Congress ****** Guest speaker of BBC2 Radio "Rapper's Delight 40th Anniversary" by DJ Trevor Nelson - September 2019 ***Step...
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  • Da Baddest by Trina
    Trina

    Da Baddest

    The award-winning, platinum selling rapper, songwriter, and television personality shares her unforgettable story of coming of age in Miami, her inevitable rise to stardom, and her enduring legacy as a Hip-Hop Icon. Growing up in the Liberty City area of Miami, Florida, Katrina "Trina"...
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  • Sonic Rebellions: Sound and Social Justice by Canton, Wanda
    Wanda Canton

    Sonic Rebellions: Sound and Social Justice

    Sonic Rebellions combines theory and practice to consider contemporary uses of sound in the context of politics, philosophy, and protest, by exploring the relationship between sound and social justice, with particular attention to sonic methodologies not necessarily conceptualised or practiced in traditional understandings of...
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  • The Gangs of Zion: A Black Cop's Crusade in Mormon Country by Stallworth, Ron
    Ron Stallworth

    The Gangs of Zion: A Black Cop's Crusade in Mormon Country

    New York Times bestselling author of Black Klansman, Ron Stallworth, returns with another firsthand account of trailblazing police work in the most unlikely place for a Black cop in the '90s. Determined to pursue his passion for undercover work wherever it leads, Ron Stallworth...
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  • The Chronicles of Doom: Unraveling Rap's Masked Iconoclast by Fernando, S. H.
    S. H. Fernando

    The Chronicles of Doom: Unraveling Rap's Masked Iconoclast

    The definitive biography of MF DOOM, charting the reclusive and revered hip-hop artist's life, career, and eventual immortality. From the journalist behind From the Streets of Shaolin and packed with behind-the-scenes content, for fans of hip-hop biographies like Dilla Time and The Marathon Don't...
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  • To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic by Cobb, William Jelani
    William Jelani Cobb

    To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic

    2007 Arts Club of Washington's National Award for Arts Writing - FinalistSEE ALSO: Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. An inside look into the beats, lyrics, and flow of hip-hop's history With roots that stretch...
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  • Hip-Hop Is History by Questlove
    Questlove

    Hip-Hop Is History

    This is a book only Questlove could have written: a perceptive and personal reflection on the first half-century of hip-hop. When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn't expected to become the cultural force it is today. But for a young Black kid...
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  • The Secret Black Book of Breakbeats: The Original Breakbeats That Made Hip Hop Famous by Ozone, Big Daddy
    Big Daddy Ozone

    The Secret Black Book of Breakbeats: The Original Breakbeats That Made Hip Hop Famous

    This book is a reference guide for Breakbeat DJs and Record Collectors. In this book you will find, song after song with the greatest of breakbeats in them. Some famous, some forgotten, some unheard. These are the songs that the most successful producers in...
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  • Celebrating Hip Hop Music with Poetry by Walter the Educator
    Walter the Educator

    Celebrating Hip Hop Music with Poetry

    Celebrating Hip Hop Music with Poetry includes unique poems representing topics associated with the lovable culture, making it the perfect collectible for the hip-hop lover. Follow and find more unique poetry by Walter the Educator at WaltertheEducator.comCreating a poetry book celebrating hip hop music...
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  • Life and Def: Sex, Drugs, Money, + God by Simmons, Russell
    Russell Simmons

    Life and Def: Sex, Drugs, Money, + God

    Russell Simmons, the original and eternal hip-hop mogul, is one of the most innovative and influential figures in modern American business and culture. When no one outside of inner-city New York had even heard of hip-hop, Simmons saw the seeds of a global force...
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  • The History of Hip Hop by Reese, Eric
    Eric Reese

    The History of Hip Hop

    "Boombox Echoes: The Definitive Hip-Hop Journey of the 80s"*** Author of "Rapper's Delight" essay currently archived at the Library of Congress ****** Guest speaker of BBC2 Radio "Rapper's Delight 40th Anniversary" by DJ Trevor Nelson - September 2019 ***Immerse yourself in a time of...
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  • Remix Multilingualism: Hip Hop, Ethnography and Performing Marginalized Voices by Williams, Quentin
    Quentin Williams

    Remix Multilingualism: Hip Hop, Ethnography and Performing Marginalized Voices

    "Remixing multilingualism" is conceptualised in this book as engaging in the linguistic act of using, combining and manipulating multilingual forms. It is about creating new ways of 'doing' multilingualism through cultural acts and identities and involving a process that invokes bricolage. This book is...
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  • Nuthin' But a "G" Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap by Quinn, Eithne
    Eithne Quinn

    Nuthin' But a "G" Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap

    In the late 1980s, gangsta rap music emerged in urban America, giving voice to--and making money for--a social group widely considered to be in crisis: young, poor, black men. From its local origins, gangsta rap went on to flood the mainstream, generating enormous popularity...
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  • Women Behind The Mic: Curators of The Culture Volume Two "The Hip-Hop Edition" by Brookshire, Lajoyce
    Lajoyce Brookshire

    Women Behind The Mic: Curators of The Culture Volume Two "The Hip-Hop Edition"

    WOMEN BEHIND THE MIC: Curators of The Culture Volume Two "The Hip-Hop Edition" Volume Two "The Hip-Hop Edition" from the WOMEN BEHIND THE MIC series contains the stories of 21 veteran executives who were the engines behind the most iconic artists and brands of...
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  • Hip Hop: Da Culture by Daniel, Roderick Van
    Roderick Van Daniel

    Hip Hop: Da Culture

    Hip Hop - Da Culture is giving back to the culture. Hip Hop is social justice and creativity at its best. This issue is dedicated to the people of Memphis, Tennessee. Hip Hop - Da Culture wants the world to know that hip hop...
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  • On Ruben Slikk: A Manifesto on the Purpose of Art and the Value of Transgression by True, Caleb
    Caleb True

    On Ruben Slikk: A Manifesto on the Purpose of Art and the Value of Transgression

    On Ruben Slikk: An Manifesto on the Purpose of Art and the Value of Transgression is a philosophical and critical inquiry into the modern musical landscape, using the obscure, prolific, transgressive soundcloud rapper Ruben Slikk as an entrypoint for discussing the interplay of art,...
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  • It Was You All Along
    Russ

    It Was You All Along

    The self-made musical artist follows his bestseller IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD with this second inspirational book for everyone who's looking for answers in all the wrong places. It's a book about self-empowerment, self-awareness, and ultimately self-love.Independent rapper, songwriter, singer, and producer Russ sells...
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  • High and Rising by Moore, Marcus J.
    Marcus J. Moore

    High and Rising: A.K.A. the de la Soul Book

    A stunning cultural biography of De La Soul, the era-defining hip-hop trio that touched millions of lives and changed rap forever.De La Soul burst onto the scene with the release of their groundbreaking 1989 album 3 Feet High & Rising, an "anything goes" hip-hop...
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  • Old Town Road by Molanphy, Chris
    Chris Molanphy

    Old Town Road

    In Old Town Road, Chris Molanphy considers Lil Nas X's debut single as pop artifact, chart phenomenon, and cultural watershed. "Old Town Road" was more than a massive hit, with the most weeks at No. 1 in Billboard Hot 100 history. It is also...
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  • Deathlife: Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations of Blackness by Pinn, Anthony B.
    Anthony B. Pinn

    Deathlife: Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations of Blackness

    In Deathlife, Anthony B. Pinn analyzes hip hop to explore how Blackness serves as a framework for defining and guiding the relationship between life and death in the United States. Pinn argues that white supremacy and white privilege operate based on the right to...
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  • I Know Nigo(r) by Nigo(r)
    Nigo(r)

    I Know Nigo(r)

    This volume documents the collaborations between famed fashion designer Nigo(R) and many recording artists (including Pharrell, A$AP Rocky, and Tyler, the Creator), presenting a trove of limited-edition apparel, sneakers, accessories, album covers, and collectibles and an archive of trademark graphics and patterns. Straddling the...
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  • Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip Hop Culture by Bynoe Knowles, Yvonne
    Yvonne Bynoe

    Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip Hop Culture

    Hip Hop music is comprised of several art forms: 1) MC-ing or rapping 2)B-boying or breakdancing 3)Deejaying (music) and 4) Graffiti art (visual art). This encyclopedia examines all four elements of Hip Hop Culture, providing students, scholars, and music fans with a complete history...
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  • Hip Hoptionary TM: The Dictionary of Hip Hop Terminology by Westbrook, Alonzo
    Alonzo Westbrook

    Hip Hoptionary TM: The Dictionary of Hip Hop Terminology

    The bumpin' book for hip-hop disciples (a.k.a. fiends), songwriters, all other writers, pop culture fans, linguists, and parents who are just trying to figure out what their kids are saying. The inventive sounds of hip-hop (which became America's number two music genre in 2001,...
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  • The Chican@ Hip Hop Nation: Politics of a New Millennial Mestizaje by McFarland, Pancho
    Pancho McFarland

    The Chican@ Hip Hop Nation: Politics of a New Millennial Mestizaje

    The population of Mexican-origin peoples in the United States is a diverse one, as reflected by age, class, gender, sexuality, and religion. Far from antiquated concepts of mestizaje, recent scholarship has shown that Mexican@/Chican@ culture is a mixture of indigenous, African, and Spanish and...
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  • Tupac Shakur: Politics and Spirituality by Whalen, William
    William Whalen

    Tupac Shakur: Politics and Spirituality

    TUPAC SHAKURSPIRITUALITY AND POLITICSBy William WhalenTupac Shakur (1971-1996) is one of the great hip-hop stars. Still a hugely influential figure in the music world, there is much more to Tupac Shakur than his controversial media image suggests. This new book aims to interpret and...
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  • Random Bars: Poetry By An Original B-Boy by Wilder, Blake
    Blake Wilder

    Random Bars: Poetry By An Original B-Boy

    This eclectic anthology of poems are the brainchild of an authentic B-Boy, inspired by thirty five years of revolutionary's in spoken words such as The Last Poets, Rakim, KRS-1, Tupac, Nas, and Saul Williams. In Random Bars there is a militancy of Pro-Black thought...
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  • Deathlife: Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations of Blackness by Pinn, Anthony B.
    Anthony B. Pinn

    Deathlife: Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations of Blackness

    In Deathlife, Anthony B. Pinn analyzes hip hop to explore how Blackness serves as a framework for defining and guiding the relationship between life and death in the United States. Pinn argues that white supremacy and white privilege operate based on the right to...
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  • The History of Hip Hop: Volume 5 by Reese, Eric
    Eric Reese

    The History of Hip Hop: Volume 5

    "Riding the Beats of the New Decade: The Hip Hop to Trap Voyage"*** Author of "Rapper's Delight" essay currently archived at the Library of Congress ****** Guest speaker of BBC2 Radio "Rapper's Delight 40th Anniversary" by DJ Trevor Nelson - September 2019 ***Join Eric...
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  • Sell Beats: The guide for music producers who want to make money online by Beatz, Dolby
    Dolby Beatz

    Sell Beats: The guide for music producers who want to make money online

    Sell Beats: The guide for music producers who want to make money onlineLike all music producers you love what you do, but you can't turn a hobby into a job?This book is for you: practical and immediately applicable tools to start selling beats online...
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  • The Grime Trivia Book: 600+ quiz questions + more covering 20 years of Grime by , Chiino
    Chiino

    The Grime Trivia Book: 600+ quiz questions + more covering 20 years of Grime

    We're over 20 years deep into this Grime thing. A lot has happened. It went from a fresh new sound in London to a culture that people around the world wanted a slice of. Crews popped up all over the country in the 2000s....
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  • Hip Hop Ain't Dead: It's Livin' in the White House by Richmond, Sanford
    Sanford Richmond

    Hip Hop Ain't Dead: It's Livin' in the White House

    The book, Hip Hop Ain't Dead: It's Livin' In the White House, is about a man, Barack Obama, who made history. By first, becoming the first Black President in the history of the United States, and second, shattering the mold of conventional politics by...
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  • HIP-HOP History (Book 2 of 3): The Incorporation of Hip-Hop: Circa 1990-1999 by Bank$, Antwan 'Ant'
    Antwan 'Ant' Bank$

    HIP-HOP History (Book 2 of 3): The Incorporation of Hip-Hop: Circa 1990-1999

    Let's take it back to the seventiesWhen Rap was born and made emcees. But before they could even bless the MicIt would be the DJ that rocked the night From the Message that rained down from Sugar HillTo the beat from chic that spun...
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  • Hip-Hop History (Book 3 of 3): The Incorporation of Hip-Hop: Circa 2000 -2010 by Bank$, Antwan 'Ant'
    Antwan 'Ant' Bank$

    Hip-Hop History (Book 3 of 3): The Incorporation of Hip-Hop: Circa 2000 -2010

    Hip-Hop at it's core is authentic and unapologetic without those two attributes, you ain't Hip-Hop If you feel like you're disrespecting someone, when you say the word nigga, you're definitely not Hip-Hop. So, don't even put yourself in that space, especially if you feel...
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  • A$ap Yams: Making of a Mob by Hawes, Byron
    Byron Hawes

    A$ap Yams: Making of a Mob

    An extremely rare and intimate look into the extraordinary life and death of legendary A$AP Mob founder A$AP Yams and the internationally acclaimed music and art collective that includes luminaries A$AP Rocky and A$AP Ferg. Never before has the history been told in words...
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  • That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader by Forman, Murray
    Murray Forman

    That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader

    This newly expanded and revised third edition brings together the most important and up-to-date hip-hop scholarship in one comprehensive volume.Author: Murray FormanISBN-10: 1032403551ISBN-13: 9781032403557Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/24/2023Pages: 768Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.93lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.56d
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  • Rise of a Killah by Killah, Ghostface
    Ghostface Killah

    Rise of a Killah

    The story of the celebrated rapper and the iconic Wu-Tang Clan, told by one of its founding members Dennis Coles--aka Ghostface Killah--is a co-founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, a legendary hip hop group who established themselves by breaking all the rules, taking their music...
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  • Hilltop Hoods' The Calling by Rodger, Dianne
    Dianne Rodger

    Hilltop Hoods' the Calling

    The success of the Hip-Hop album The Calling (2003) by the Hilltop Hoods was a major event on the timeline of Hip-Hop in Australia. It launched a formerly 'underground' scene into the spotlight, radically transforming the group members' lives and creating new opportunities for...
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  • Rapper's Deluxe: How Hip Hop Made the World by Boyd, Todd
    Todd Boyd

    Rapper's Deluxe: How Hip Hop Made the World

    '50 years later, hip hop's influence has never been stronger. This book is proof of that - a must have for collectors, artists, dreamers, and hip hop heads everywhere.' - Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean), record producer and rapperA visual and cultural history of hip...
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  • Music Video and the Politics of Representation by Railton, Diane
    Diane Railton

    Music Video and the Politics of Representation

    How can we engage critically with music video and its role in popular culture? What do contemporary music videos have to tell us about patterns of cultural identity today? Based around an eclectic series of vivid case studies, this fresh and timely examination is...
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  • Hip Hop on Film: Performance Culture, Urban Space, and Genre Transformation in the 1980s by Monteyne, Kimberly
    Kimberley Monteyne

    Hip Hop on Film: Performance Culture, Urban Space, and Genre Transformation in the 1980s

    Early hip hop film musicals have either been expunged from cinema history or excoriated in brief passages by critics and other writers. Hip Hop on Film reclaims and reexamines productions such as Breakin' (1984), Beat Street (1984), and Krush Groove (1985) in order to...
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  • Cardi B's Invasion of Privacy by Duma
    Duma

    Cardi B's Invasion of Privacy

    The apex of critical praise and commercial success is a metric achieved by a select few. In 2020, Cardi B became synonymous with "record breaking" as her debut album Invasion of Privacy went five times platinum and became the longest charting record by a...
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  • Queering the Western Art Music Canon: A Call for Inclusivity and Representation by Sylvan Song
    Sylvan Song

    Queering the Western Art Music Canon: A Call for Inclusivity and Representation

    The Western art music canon is a collection of musical works that are considered to be the most important and influential in the history of Western music. It is typically defined by a focus on European composers and musical traditions, and it has been...
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  • Lusophone Hip-hop: 'Who We Are' and 'Where We Are': Identity, Urban Culture and Belonging by Martins, Rosana
    Rosana Martins

    Lusophone Hip-hop: 'Who We Are' and 'Where We Are': Identity, Urban Culture and Belonging

    This book brings multiple sites of lusophony together, and illuminates how mobile configurations of people, technologies and hip-hop creativities are best understood as compositions of ubiquitous identities, dispersed communities and syncretic networks. Significantly, the chapters highlight identity narratives that clash with the city, yet...
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  • Egostrip Book 1 by Lish, Dan
    Dan Lish

    Egostrip Book 1

    Egostrip Book 1 is a beautifully designed collection of Dan Lish's stunning character illustrations from the world of hip hop and beyond. The Egostrip project began on Dan's daily commute to work, where he chose to draw his favorite musicians in little black books....
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  • Don't Sweat the Technique: A Performer's Guide to Hip-Hop and Rap by Foster, Melissa L.
    Melissa L. Foster

    Don't Sweat the Technique: A Performer's Guide to Hip-Hop and Rap

    Don't Sweat the Technique equips aspiring performers, musical artists, singers, and hobbyists with the tools and knowledge needed to become a better rapper. Written in simple language and filled with many exercises, this book helps build techniques and unlocks solutions to common stumbling blocks...
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  • Tupac Shakur: Spirituality and Politics by Whalen, William
    William Whalen

    Tupac Shakur: Spirituality and Politics

    TUPAC SHAKURSPIRITUALITY AND POLITICSBy William WhalenTupac Shakur (1971-1996) is one of the great hip-hop stars. Still a hugely influential figure in the music world, there is much more to Tupac Shakur than his controversial media image suggests. This new book aims to interpret and...
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  • Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South by Miles, Corey J.
    Corey J. Miles

    Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South

    Where exactly does the South begin and end? Current maps are too rigid to account for the ways Black people have built the South while being simultaneously excluded from it. Drawing from the different ways Black artists in the 2-5-2 area code in North...
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  • Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South by Miles, Corey J.
    Corey J. Miles

    Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South

    Where exactly does the South begin and end? Current maps are too rigid to account for the ways Black people have built the South while being simultaneously excluded from it. Drawing from the different ways Black artists in the 2-5-2 area code in North...
    $99.00
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