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The Beyoncé effect : essays on sexuality, race and feminism / by Trier-Bieniek, Adrienne M.,editor.(CARDINAL)553248;
Includes bibliographical references and index"This collection of new essays presents a detailed study of the music and persona of Beyoncé--arguably the world's biggest pop star. Topics include: the body politics of respectability; feminism, empowerment and gender in Beyoncé's lyrics; black female pleasure; and the changing face of celebrity motherhood"--
Subjects: Beyoncé, 1981-; Sex in music.; Feminism and music.; Music and race.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sing for your life [large print] : a story of race, music, and family / by Bergner, Daniel,author.(CARDINAL)339629;
The touching, triumphant story of a young black man's journey from violence and despair to one of the world's most elite artistic institutions. In 2011, at the age of twenty-four, Ryan won a nationwide competition hosted by New York's Metropolitan Opera. Today, he is a rising star performing major roles at the Met and Europe's most prestigious opera houses.
Subjects: Biographies.; Large print books.; Green, Ryan Speedo.; African American singers; Bass-baritones;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Sing for your life : a story of race, music, and family / by Bergner, Daniel,author.(CARDINAL)339629;
The touching, triumphant story of a young black man's journey from violence and despair to one of the world's most elite artistic institutions. In 2011, at the age of twenty-four, Ryan won a nationwide competition hosted by New York's Metropolitan Opera. Today, he is a rising star performing major roles at the Met and Europe's most prestigious opera houses.
Subjects: Biographies.; Green, Ryan Speedo.; Bass-baritones; African American singers;
Available copies: 17 / Total copies: 17
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Dixie lullaby : a story of music, race, and new beginnings in a new South / by Kemp, Mark.(CARDINAL)272558;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-278) and index.Mourning in America, 1968-1973. Death of a king ; The crossroads ; Déjà voodoo -- Pride in the name of anger, 1974-1981. Down south boogie ; Rednecks, White Socks, and hard rock & roll ; Jive talkin' ; Shut up and get on the plane -- Reconstruction of the fables, 1982-1992. Punk rock in cowboy boots ; Guitar town ; Again-- and again-- ; Learning to crawl.
Subjects: Rock music; Music and race.; Music; North Caroliniana.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 9
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Blackbird : how Black musicians sang the Beatles into being - and sang back to them ever after / by Kapurch, Katie,1983-author.(CARDINAL)883425; Smith, Jon Marc,author.(CARDINAL)837391;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : change the history : the blackbird in song, story, and transatlantic flight -- Flee (free) as a bird : the legacy of the ring shout, flying Africans, and gospel in Black music and the Beatles -- Sing a song of blackbird : pre-twentieth-century transatlantic flights in Black music, the Beatles, and Liverpool -- I'm a little blackbird : Florence Mills, blackbirds of the Harlem Renaissance, and the Beatles' jazz age predecessors -- Flying across the ocean : Lead Belly, "Grey goose," and the Beatles' Liverpool skiffle scene -- You can fly away : Lord Woodbine and Lord Kitchener, "Yellow bird," and calypso in the Beatles' Liverpool club scene -- You ain't ever gonna fly : Nina Simone's "Blackbird" and revolutionary responses to the Beatles -- A blackbird on a white album : Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Diana Ross, and other winged inspirations in and around 1968 -- Like a bird up in the sky : Billy Preston flies to the Beatles in London and circles back to LA with "Blackbird" -- Y'all ready girls? : "Blackbird" soars in San Francisco with Sylvester, two tons o' fun, and the band -- I was just seeing myself singing : Bettye LaVette on interpreting the Beatles and singing a bridge of blackbirds -- Conclusion : twenty-first-century "Blackbird" in Paul McCartney's legend, for #BlackLivesMatter, and into transoceanic flightpaths."Presents a history of the influence of Black musicians on the Beatles, exploring musical and storytelling legacies full of rich but contested symbolism and the transatlantic circulation of diaspora African arts, tropes, and symbols"--
Subjects: Music criticism and reviews.; Songs.; Beatles.; Beatles.; African Americans; Birds; Music and race.; Popular music; Popular music;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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A guest in the house of hip-hop : how rap music taught a kid from Kentucky what a white ally should be / by Hess, Mickey,1975-author.(CARDINAL)484938;
Includes bibliographical references.Introduction: What should a white ally do? -- Don't push it too far -- Why white kids should listen to hip-hop -- "It's about class, not race" (No it's not) -- Hip-hop comes to campus -- Political correctness and white identity -- Racial essentialism -- Professors and rappers -- "Where we are is who we are" -- Sit down--Censorship, grandstanding, and shutting your mouth -- Who will tell hip-hop's story? -- Revisionist history -- Education is the apology."Born in rural Kentucky, Mickey Hess grew up listening to the militant rap of Public Enemy while living in a place where the state song still included the word "darkies." Listening to hip-hop made Hess think about what it meant to be white, while the environment in small-town Kentucky encouraged him to avoid or even mock such self-examination. With America's history of cultural appropriation, we've come to mistrust white people who participate deeply in black culture, but backing away from black culture is too easy a solution. As a white professor with a longstanding commitment to teaching hip-hop music and culture, Hess argues that white people have a responsibility to educate themselves by listening to black voices and then teach other whites to face the ways they benefit from racial injustices."--Back cover.
Subjects: Hess, Mickey, 1975-; Music and race; Rap (Music);
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Instruments of desire : the electric guitar and the shaping of musical experience / by Waksman, Steve.(CARDINAL)658657;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-367), discography (pages 320-323), and index.Playing with sound : Charlie Christian, the electric guitar, and the Swing Era -- Pure tones and solid bodies : Les Paul's new sound -- Mister Guitar : Chet Atkins and the Nashville sound -- Racial distortions : Muddy Waters, Chuch Berry, and the electric guitar in Black popular music -- Black sound, black body : Jimi Hendrix, the electric guitar, and the meanings of blackness -- Kick out the jams : the MC5 and the politics of noise -- Heavy music : cock rock, colonialism, and Led Zeppelin.
Subjects: Electric guitar; Popular music; Gender identity in music.; Sex in music.; Music and race.; Guitarists.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The product of our souls : the sound and sway of James Reese Europe's Society Orchestra. by Europe's Society Orchestra,performer.; Europe, James Reese,1881-1919,conductor,composer.(CARDINAL)526383; Kingston, Kathleen,performer.; Murray, Billy,performer.; Jones, Ada,performer.; Roberts, Bob,1879-1930,performer.; Indestructible Band,performer.; Metropolitan Military Band,performer.; National Promenade Band,performer.; Prince's Band,performer.; Van Eps Trio,performer.; Victor Military Band,performer.;
James Reese Europe's Society Orchestra ; Ada Jones ; Metropolitan Military Band ; Prince's Band ; Van Eps Trio ; National Promenade Band ; Indestructible Band ; Bob Roberts ; Victor Military Band ; Kathleen Kingston & Billy Murray.Selections recorded 1913-1914.
Subjects: Jazz.; Dance music.; Dance orchestras.; Big bands.; African Americans; Ragtime music.; Music and race.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Whose blues? : facing up to race and the future of the music / by Gussow, Adam,author.(CARDINAL)853932;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-307), discography (pages 309-310) and index (pages 311-320).Starting the conversation -- Blues conditions -- Blues feelings and "real bluesmen" -- Blues expressiveness and the blues ethos -- W.C. Handy and the "birth" of the blues -- Langston Hughes and the scandal of early blues poetry -- Zora Neale Hurston in the Florida jooks -- Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, and the Southern blues violences -- The blues revival and the black arts movement -- Giving it all away : blues harmonica education in the digital age -- Turnaround."Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of 'Crazy blues' set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for 'race records.' Not long after, such records also brought black blues performance to an expanding international audience. A century later, the mainstream blues world has transformed into a multicultural and transnational melting pot, taking the music far beyond the black southern world of its origins. But not everybody is happy about that. If there's 'No black. No white. Just the blues,' as one familiar meme suggests, why do some blues people hear such pronouncements as an aggressive attempt at cultural appropriation and an erasure of traumatic histories that lie deep in the heart of the music? Then again, if 'blues is black music,' as some performers and critics insist, what should we make of the vibrant global blues scene, with its all-comers mix of nationalities and ethnicities?"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Blues (Music); Music and race; African Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A change is gonna come : music, race & the soul of America / by Werner, Craig Hansen,1952-(CARDINAL)159609;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-397) and index.
Subjects: Music.; African Americans; African Americans; Music and race.; Popular music;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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