Music-Genres & Styles-Soul & R&B

""Songs of Kiwanis: With Words and Music of Songs for All Occasions"" is a comprehensive collection of songs compiled by the International Committee on Music. This book contains a wide variety of songs that can be used for different occasions, including meetings, conferences, celebrations,...

Popular music and its listeners are strongly associated with newness and youth. Young people can stay up late dancing to the latest hits and use cutting-edge technology for listening to and sharing fresh music. Many young people incorporate their devotion to new artists and...

Popular music and its listeners are strongly associated with newness and youth. Young people can stay up late dancing to the latest hits and use cutting-edge technology for listening to and sharing fresh music. Many young people incorporate their devotion to new artists and...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural AnalysisAuthor: Jeff Todd TitonISBN-10: 0807844829ISBN-13: 9780807844823Publisher: University of North Carolina PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/1995Pages: 340Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.64lbsSize: 10.01h x 7.03w x 1.03d

Nelson George and Alan Leeds have assembled the first comprehensive collection of writings about the late, great Godfather of Soul, creating a fascinating mosaic of the man and the musician. Known as the hardest-working man in show business, James Brown embodied rhythm and blues,...

Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change: Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders by Ousseina Alidou examines how a new generation of novelists, popular songwriters, and musical performers in contemporary Hausa society are using their creative works to effect social...

The first biography of soul pioneer Isaac Hayes, whose groundbreaking music provided the foundation for hip-hop and a new racial paradigm.Within the stoned soul picnic of Black music icons in the '60s and '70s, only one could bill himself without a blush as Moses,...

Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change: Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders by Ousseina Alidou examines how a new generation of novelists, popular songwriters, and musical performers in contemporary Hausa society are using their creative works to effect social...

Author: Morgan P. BrowningISBN-10: 8878219924ISBN-13: 9798878219921Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2024Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.13d

In Move On Up, Aaron Cohen tells the remarkable story of the explosion of soul music in Chicago. Together, soul music and black-owned businesses thrived. Record producers and song-writers broadcast optimism for black America's future through their sophisticated, jazz-inspired productions for the Dells and...

The Isley Brothers' 3+3, dissects The Isleys' 50-year-old undisputed masterwork, an album that firmly established their music dynasty on a global scale, as well as heralding the boldest run of genre-defiant albums of their 67-year career. The 1973 watershed was their first multiplatinum release...

The blues was born in the Mississippi Delta, and since that fateful night in 1903 when W. C. Handy heard the mournful sound of a pocketknife sliding over the strings of an acoustic guitar and the plaintive song of a long-forgotten musician in the...

Author: Martin E. HornISBN-10: 1587216493ISBN-13: 9781587216497Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/20/2000Pages: 372Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.08h x 5.07w x 0.92d

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). This fantastic collection provides a retrospective of 18 classics from '60s soul superstar Otis Redding. Includes: Amen * Chained and Bound * Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song) * The Happy Song * Hard to Handle * I've Been Loving You Too Long *...

Sam Cooke was the most important soul singer in history and the inventor of soul music. Even today, his music endures with cover recordings by artists from all genres of the recording industry. His legacy continues with this album-matching folio containing songs spanning more...

Lyrics and Love Songs is a book written by Albert Pike that is a collection of various love poems and lyrics. The book is filled with romantic and sentimental verses that express the various emotions and feelings that come with love. The poems are...

Chords of the Zither is a book written by Clinton Scollard and published in 1910. The book is a collection of poems that explore the themes of love, nature, and spirituality. The title of the book is a reference to the zither, a musical...

Folk music of the 1960s and 1970s was a genre that was always shifting and expanding, yet somehow never found room for so many. In the sounds of soul-folk, Black artists like Terry Callier and Linda Lewis began to reclaim their space in the...

Black Women's Liberation Movement Music argues that the Black Women's Liberation Movement of the mid-to-late 1960s and 1970s was a unique combination of Black political feminism, Black literary feminism, and Black musical feminism, among other forms of Black feminism.This book critically explores the ways...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

Let the Music Play: How R&B Fell In Love With 80s Synths is the overlooked story of how R&B, disco and funk were transformed by the explosion of synths and other music tech in the era of ghetto blasters, shoulder pads and Ronald Reagan....

Hailed as an "American counter-culture classic, " this "funny" and candid musical memoir offers a delicious glimpse into the 1930s jazz scene (The Wall Street Journal) Mezz Mezzrow was a boy from Chicago who learned to play the sax in reform school and pursued...

In Feenin, Alexander Ghedi Weheliye traces R&B music's continuing centrality in Black life since the late 1970s. Focusing on various musical production and reproduction technologies such as auto-tune and the materiality of the BlackFem singing voice, Weheliye counteracts the widespread popular and scholarly narratives...

Featuring 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 The girl group sound, made famous and unforgettable by acts like...

Black Women's Liberation Movement Music argues that the Black Women's Liberation Movement of the mid-to-late 1960s and 1970s was a unique combination of Black political feminism, Black literary feminism, and Black musical feminism, among other forms of Black feminism.This book critically explores the ways...

I Hear a Symphony opens new territory in the study of Motown's legacy, arguing that the music of Motown was indelibly shaped by the ideals of Detroit's postwar black middle class; that Motown's creative personnel participated in an African-American tradition of dialogism in rhythm...

Whether introduced via cassette, CD's or digital download, for most of us 90's R&B provided the soundtrack to our lives, from childhood and young adult life, good times and hard times, falling in love, heartbreak, weddings, vacations, losing loved ones, and of so much...

The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, and the making of a comedic film classic that helped shape our popular culture"They're not going to catch us," Dan Aykroyd as Elwood Blues tells his brother...

Author: Otis WilliamsISBN-10: 1665201886ISBN-13: 9781665201889Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/24/2020Format: MP3 CD

P.P. Arnold's story is that of a rich and varied life. From her early musical origins in powerhouse church gospel, the talented singer's career began when she joined the Ike & Tina Turner Revue at the age of just seventeen. But little did the...

The Commandments of R&B Drumming is a historical and in-depth study of R&B drumming, from soul to funk to hip-hop, written by world-renowned session & live drummer Zoro (Lenny Kravitz, Bobby Brown, Sean Lennon). Topics include practice tips, developing the funky bass drum and...

What does it mean to be in the groove?Winner of the 2007 Irving Lowens Book Award from the Society for American MusicWinner of IASPM's 2007 International Book AwardIn this exploration of the funk groove and its unique sounds, author Anne Danielsen takes an in-depth...

Featuring 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 The girl group sound, made famous and unforgettable by acts like...

Greeting Readers!We're thrilled to announce that Ingram Street is this month's cover star on Pump it up magazine! You need to know about Minquel and Woody, a popular R&B duo, if you want to be hip to the latest music! Pump it up magazine...

In this extraordinary reconstruction of the origins of the blues, historian Marybeth Hamilton demonstrates that the story as we know it is largely a myth. Following the trail of characters like Howard Odum, who combed Mississippi's back roads with a cylinder phonograph to record...

By the author of, "My Two Sense," comes "Prunus Serotina Erotic Tales." Peter Cherry's book gives a sensual, humorous, sexy and charming adventure of melodic and romantic stories and sonnets. Author: Peter CherryISBN-10: 8988062922ISBN-13: 9798988062929Publisher: Angelic Reign Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 05/05/2023Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 7.48h...

"My Two Sense," the fascinating poetry writing debut by Peter Cherry gives a stylish, poetic tone; accompanied with rhythmic entertaining tales of his thoughts, and opinions. Author: Peter CherryISBN-10: 8988062906ISBN-13: 9798988062905Publisher: Angelic Reign Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 05/05/2023Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 7.48h x 4.72w x 0.25dLarge...

"Daniel Bedrosian has done a wonderful job of a seemingly impossible task of reconstructing this history--finding everybody who's been a part of, involved with, or in any way left their fingerprint on what has become the P-Funk."-- George Clinton George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic collective (P-Funk)...

In Terminated for Reasons of Taste, veteran rock critic Chuck Eddy writes that "rock'n'roll history is written by the winners. Which stinks, because the losers have always played a big role in keeping rock interesting." Rock's losers share top billing with its winners in...

A melding of many types of music such as ragtime, spiritual, jug band, and other influences came together in what we now call the blues. Blues: A Regional Experience is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference book of blues performers yet published, correcting many...

If you've ever felt the blues, sang the blues, or simply love rhythm and blues, Dr. Syleecia Thompson's tell-all book will make you appreciate this nearly 70-year-old music genre even more. This insider's narration reveals the dark side of the industry and what an...

Spaced Out Magazine releases it's latest issue with it's new name. No longer Spaced Out, SOM Magazine is the source for entertainment and business news. This issue covers a photo tribute to the late Prince along with details on his upcoming tribute at the...

Author: Anthony C. DavisISBN-10: 1469198223ISBN-13: 9781469198224Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/25/2012Pages: 94Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d

Remembered for his flamboyant stage presence and his innovative and distinctive music videos, Prince (born Prince Rogers Nelson) is still widely regarded as one of the greatest musicians of all time, known for his eclectic music style, which blended elements of funk, rock, R&B,...

Music of Louisiana was at the heart of rock-and-roll in the 1950s. Most fans know that Jerry Lee Lewis, one of the icons, sprang out of Ferriday, Louisiana, in the middle of delta country and that along with Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley he...

Roll With It is a firsthand account of the precarious lives of musicians in the Rebirth, Soul Rebels, and Hot 8 brass bands of New Orleans. These young men are celebrated as cultural icons for upholding the proud traditions of the jazz funeral and...

This new series, co-sponsored with The Center for Black Music Research of Columbia College, seeks to increase our understanding of black music genres and their importance to the cultures of the Atlantic world, including their influence on African musical styles. Books in the series...

Following 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 conscience, and street portraiture meets fantastical comic art in this dazzling anthology of...

Growing up around music, young George was inspired to piece together a makeshift drum set and teach himself to play as he practiced in the dark, dank basement of his rundown New Jersey townhouse. He soon joined forces with his friends to form a...