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Duke Ellington's America. By Harvey G. Cohen. What is my book about? The most thorough, nuanced portrait yet of this towering figure, Duke Ellington’s America highlights Ellington’s importance as a historical figure as well as arguably America’s greatest composer.
Nov 22, 2022 · The best music books, whether they are history, cultural criticism, memoir, or some hybrid of all three, give you new ears with which to listen. What follows is a list of favorites from 2022...
- Pitchfork
Nov 20, 2023 · Every year there are countless books released about music—2023 alone included dishy memoirs from Britney Spears, Barbra Streisand, and Sly Stone, plus a big-deal, authorized bio on Tupac. In...
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Dec 29, 2021 · Hanif Abdurraqib, ‘A Little Devil in America’. Poet, critic, author (and Rolling Stone contributor) Hanif Abdurraqib weaves together music criticism, American history, emotional memoir, and...
Dec 23, 2022 · Reads That Rock. The Best Music Books of 2022. A history of hip-hop in Atlanta, the definitive Chuck Berry bio, the story of women in country music, and much more. By. Jonathan Bernstein,...
Jun 22, 2021 · There are pauses along the way to talk about books such as Louis Armstrong’s “Swing That Music” (1936), Woody Guthrie’s “Bound for Glory” (1943), LeRoi Jones’s “Blues People” (1963), Greil...
Oct 17, 2005 · In chronicling American music's bountiful heritage, this "superb book presents the whole sweep of U.S. cultivated and traditional music―from 16th-century Native American music through late 20th-century hiphop culture."
- Richard Crawford
