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  • Segregating Sound

    Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow

    by Ronald Radano, Josh Kun, Karl Hagstrom Miller ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    In Segregating Sound, Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, Miller chronicles how southern music—a fluid complex of sounds and styles in practice—was reduced to a series of distinct ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • African Rhythms

    The Autobiography of Randy Weston

    by Randy Weston, Willard Jenkins, Ronald Radano, Josh Kun ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    The pianist, composer, and bandleader Randy Weston is one of the world’s most influential jazz musicians and a remarkable storyteller whose career has spanned five continents and more than six decades. Packed with fascinating anecdotes, African Rhythms is Weston’s life story, as told by him to the music journalist Willard Jenkins. It encompasses Weston’s childhood in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • 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

  • Mexican American Mojo

    Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968

    by Anthony Macías, Ronald Radano, Josh Kun ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    Stretching from the years during the Second World War when young couples jitterbugged across the dance floor at the Zenda Ballroom, through the early 1950s when honking tenor saxophones could be heard at the Angelus Hall, to the Spanish-language cosmopolitanism of the late 1950s and 1960s, Mexican American Mojo is a lively account of Mexican American urban culture in wartime and postwar Los ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Listen Again

    A Momentary History of Pop Music

    by W. T. Lhamon Jr., Marybeth Hamilton, Josh Kun, Ned Sublette ...
    Arguing that pop music turns on moments rather than movements, the essays in Listen Again pinpoint magic moments from a century of pop eclecticism, looking at artists who fall between genre lines, songs that sponge up influences from everywhere, and studio accidents with unforeseen consequences. Listen Again collects some of the finest presentations from the celebrated Experience Music Project Pop ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Buena Vista in the Club

    Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana

    by Geoffrey Baker, Ronald Radano, Josh Kun ...
    Series series Refiguring American music
    In Buena Vista in the Club, Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaetón. While Cuban officials initially rejected rap as “the music of the enemy,” leading figures in the hip hop scene soon convinced certain cultural institutions to accept and then promote rap as part of Cuba’s national culture. ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Tijuana Dreaming

    Life and Art at the Global Border

    Edited by Josh Kun, Fiamma Montezemolo ...
    Tijuana Dreaming is an unprecedented introduction to the arts, culture, politics, and economics of contemporary Tijuana, Mexico. With many pieces translated from Spanish for the first time, the anthology features contributions by prominent scholars, journalists, bloggers, novelists, poets, curators, and photographers from Tijuana and greater Mexico. They explore urban planning in light of Tijuana ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Tide Was Always High

    The Music of Latin America in Los Angeles

    Edited by Josh Kun ...
    In 1980, the celebrated new wave band Blondie headed to Los Angeles to record a new album and along with it, the cover song “The Tide Is High,” originally written by Jamaican legend John Holt. Featuring percussion by Peruvian drummer and veteran LA session musician “Alex” Acuña, and with horns and violins that were pure LA mariachi by way of Mexico, “The Tide Is High” demonstrates just one of the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Black and Brown in Los Angeles

    Beyond Conflict and Coalition

    Edited by Josh Kun, Laura Pulido ...
    Black and Brown in Los Angeles is a timely and wide-ranging, interdisciplinary foray into the complicated world of multiethnic Los Angeles. The first book to focus exclusively on the range of relationships and interactions between Latinas/os and African Americans in one of the most diverse cities in the United States, the book delivers supporting evidence that Los Angeles is a key place to study ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Hip Hop Desis

    South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness

    by Nitasha Tamar Sharma, Ronald Radano, Josh Kun ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    Hip Hop Desis explores the aesthetics and politics of South Asian American (desi) hip hop artists. Nitasha Tamar Sharma argues that through their lives and lyrics, young “hip hop desis” express a global race consciousness that reflects both their sense of connection with Blacks as racialized minorities in the United States and their diasporic sensibility as part of a global community of South ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • A Stab in the Dark

    by Facundo Bernal ...
    Translated by Anthony Seidman ...
    Series series LARB Classics
    Facundo Bernal's A Stab in the Dark (Palos de ciego) is a poetic chronicle of the struggles and joys of the Spanish-speaking community in Los Angeles and in the burgeoning border town of Mexicali during the early 1920s. Sharply satirical yet deeply empathetic, Bernal’s poems are both a landmark of Chicano literature and a captivating read. Anthony Seidman's energetic translation — the first into ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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