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  • B Jenkins

    by Fred Moten, Charles McGovern, Josh Kun ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is named after the poet’s mother, who passed away in 2000. It is both an elegy and an inquiry into many of the themes that Moten has explored throughout his career: language, music, performance, improvisation, and the black radical aesthetic and political tradition. In Moten’s verse, the arts, scholarship, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Selling Sound

    The Rise of the Country Music Industry

    by Diane Pecknold, Charles McGovern, Ronald Radano ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    Few expressions of popular culture have been shaped as profoundly by the relationship between commercialism and authenticity as country music has. While its apparent realism, sincerity, and frank depictions of everyday life are country’s most obvious stylistic hallmarks, Diane Pecknold demonstrates that commercialism has been just as powerful a cultural narrative in its development. Listeners have ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Beyond Exoticism

    Western Music and the World

    by Timothy D. Taylor, Charles McGovern, Ronald Radano ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    In Beyond Exoticism, Timothy D. Taylor considers how western cultures’ understandings of racial, ethnic, and cultural differences have been incorporated into music from early operas to contemporary television advertisements, arguing that the commonly used term “exoticism” glosses over such differences in many studies of western music. Beyond Exoticism encompasses a range of musical genres and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Soul Covers

    Rhythm and Blues Remakes and the Struggle for Artistic Identity (Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Phoebe Snow)

    by Michael Awkward, Charles McGovern, Ronald Radano ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    Soul Covers is an engaging look at how three very different rhythm and blues performers—Aretha Franklin, Al Green, and Phoebe Snow—used cover songs to negotiate questions of artistic, racial, and personal authenticity. Through close readings of song lyrics and the performers’ statements about their lives and work, the literary critic Michael Awkward traces how Franklin, Green, and Snow crafted ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    Urban identities in fictional drama

    by Peter Billingham ...
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  • Born to Love, Cursed to Feel

    by Samantha Holmes ...
    Born to Love, Cursed to Feel is about love—the good, the bad, and the confusing. It touches on morals and how when emotions are involved it's not as black and white. The poetry is frequently written in a narrative manner that evocatively pulls you in and makes you feel. This book is about falling in love, bad decisions, and ultimately growth. The essence of it all is to show that no matter how far ... Read more

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  • A Beautiful Composition of Broken

    by r.h. Sin ...
    A Beautiful Composition of Broken is inspired by some of the events expressed artistically by Samantha King in the bestseller Born to Love, Cursed to Feel. It serves as a poetic documentary of the lives of people who have been mistreated, misunderstood, and wrongfully labeled in a way that limits them in this world. The author's most personal volume yet, A Beautiful Composition of Broken builds a ... Read more

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    by Brian Coleman ...
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    A Biography

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  • Planting Gardens in Graves

    by r.h. Sin ...
    r.h. Sin returns with a force in Planting Gardens in Graves: a powerful collection of poetry that hones in on the themes dearest to his readers. This original volume celebrates connection, mourns heartbreak, and above all, empowers its readers to seek the love they deserve. ... Read more

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  • Things I Carry Around

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