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- Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary. Sasha Geffen. University of Texas Press, 2020. Geffen’s 2020 book is a gem. Glitter Up the Dark chronicles and argues for pop music’s critical role in disrupting dominant gender expressions and norms.
- The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s. Emily J. Lordi. Duke University Press, 2020. Though in some ways more an aesthetic survey than history, Lordi’s The Meaning of Soul may be the most important, game-changing book on soul—the music, the concept, and its history—ever published.
- Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music. Ann Powers. Dey Street, 2017. Powers is easily one of the most important music writers of the last few decades, and in 2017 she published the best contemporary survey text on music history.
- Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop. Danyel Smith. Rock Lit 101, 2022. Smith’s Shine Bright is more autobiographical and less scholarly than, for example, such excellent books as Maureen Mahon’s 2020 survey, Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll, or Daphne A. Brooks’ 2021 book on archives of Black female creativity, Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound.
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Nov 1, 2023 · The Roots of R&B: A Historical Overview. To understand contemporary R&B, it’s essential to delve into its historical roots. R&B, which stands for Rhythm and Blues, emerged in the United States during the early 1940s. It was initially used to describe music that combined elements of jazz, gospel, and blues.
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Joel Whitburn is the world's leading authority on charted music. The reference books published by his company, Record Research, contain the facts and stats of every song and album to appear on the charts of music-trade magazines over their long histories, namely Billboard, and includes Radio & Records, Cash Box, and Music Vendor / Record World.
