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  • In the Hour of Chaos: Art and Activism with Public Enemy's Chuck D Volume 6 by D, Chuck
    Chuck D

    In the Hour of Chaos: Art and Activism with Public Enemy's Chuck D Volume 6

    A profound meditation on hip hop's transformative power, In the Hour of Chaos takes us deep into the mind of the genre's most unabashed revolutionary. This book is not an autobiography. It's not a manifesto. It's a razor-sharp investigation into hip hop and rap...
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  • The Music Is Black: A British Story by Springer, Jacqueline
    Jacqueline Springer

    The Music Is Black: A British Story

    Epic in scope and personal recollection, The Music is Black is the story of British imperial and colonial histories, the African diaspora, and contemporary British social history put into song Black British music has been the soundtrack to periods of profound political, social, cultural,...
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  • Nigerian Hip-Hop: Race, Knowledge, and the Poetics of Resistance by Gbogi, Tosin
    Tosin Gbogi

    Nigerian Hip-Hop: Race, Knowledge, and the Poetics of Resistance

    Author: Tosin GbogiISBN-10: 0197782035ISBN-13: 9780197782033Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/31/2025Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.14w x 0.78d
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  • Don't Look Away by Bournes, Micah
    Micah Bournes

    Don't Look Away

    Returning from poetry to music, this collection is a song by song breakdown of Micah Bournes' hip hop protest album, "Til We All Free." Examining and exploring each track on the album, Micah offers insights into what is behind each song. Times is heavy,...
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  • Hip-Hop Style and Identity in Toronto: Music Pedagogy from the Cypher by Millares, Myrtle D.
    Myrtle D. Millares

    Hip-Hop Style and Identity in Toronto: Music Pedagogy from the Cypher

    What happens when Hip-Hop's African American origin story travels around the world and lands in Toronto, Ontario, Canada?Set amidst Toronto's increasingly inter-cultural communities, B-boy Jazzy Jester, MC LolaBunz, and DJ Ariel detail the trajectories of their artistic development, honoring Hip-Hop's translocated history while remixing...
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  • Legends of Rap: 15 Masters of the Verse by Hoces, Jj
    Jj Hoces

    Legends of Rap: 15 Masters of the Verse

    Legends of Rap: 15 Masters of the Verse is a journey through the living history of a genre that has transformed music and culture for over five decades. This book doesn't seek to rank artists or crown idols, but rather to offer a close...
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  • Hip Hop Studies and Queer Black Feminism: Volume 7 by Richardson, Elaine B.
    Elaine B. Richardson

    Hip Hop Studies and Queer Black Feminism: Volume 7

    Hip Hop Studies and Queer Black Feminism presents a dynamic and much-needed fresh analysis of Black gendering and racialized sexualities in the sphere of Hip Hop. Editors Elaine B. Richardson, Gwendolyn D. Pough, and Treva B. Lindsey bring together established and rising scholars to...
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  • Hip-Hop and Comics by Howard, Sheena C.
    Sheena C. Howard

    Hip-Hop and Comics

    Contributions by Lea Beka, Collin M. Bright, Justin D Burton, Amy Chu, John P. Craig, Michael B. Norton Dando, Jayanti Datta, Brea M. Heidelberg, Kathryn Hobson, Sheena C. Howard, Johnny Jones, Riggs Morales, Spenser Nellis, Patrick A. Reed, Michael Sales, Daniel Silver, Matthew Teutsch,...
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  • Hip-Hop and Comics by Howard, Sheena C.
    Sheena C. Howard

    Hip-Hop and Comics

    Contributions by Lea Beka, Collin M. Bright, Justin D Burton, Amy Chu, John P. Craig, Michael B. Norton Dando, Jayanti Datta, Brea M. Heidelberg, Kathryn Hobson, Sheena C. Howard, Johnny Jones, Riggs Morales, Spenser Nellis, Patrick A. Reed, Michael Sales, Daniel Silver, Matthew Teutsch,...
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  • The Organic Globalizer: Hip Hop, Political Development, and Movement Culture by Malone, Christopher
    Christopher Malone

    The Organic Globalizer: Hip Hop, Political Development, and Movement Culture

    The Organic Globalizer is a collection of critical essays which takes the position that hip-hop holds political significance through an understanding of its ability to at once raise cultural awareness, expand civil society's focus on social and economic justice through institution building, and engage...
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  • The Periodic Table of Hip Hop by Kulkarni, Neil
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    Neil Kulkarni

    The Periodic Table of Hip Hop

    Welcome to The Periodic Table of Hip Hop. Instead of hydrogen to helium, here you'll find James Brown to Kanye West - 94 artists that have defined Hip Hop arranged following the logic of The Periodic Table of Elements. MCs, DJs, rappers and producers...
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  • Phat Beats, Dope Rhymes by Maxwell, Ian
    Ian Maxwell

    Phat Beats, Dope Rhymes

    How Aussies came to belong to the hip-hop nation.Ian Maxwell's sophisticated story of Australia's hip-hop scene follows the lives of a small, influential group of rappers from Sydney's Westside in the early 1990s. Maxwell conveys the excitement of the scene and the struggles of...
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  • Being Dope: Hip Hop and Theory Through Mixtape Memoir by Carson, A. D.
    A. D. Carson

    Being Dope: Hip Hop and Theory Through Mixtape Memoir

    Author: A. D. CarsonISBN-10: 0197772668ISBN-13: 9780197772669Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/10/2025Pages: 432Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.10d
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  • Being Dope: Hip Hop and Theory Through Mixtape Memoir by Carson, A. D.
    A. D. Carson

    Being Dope: Hip Hop and Theory Through Mixtape Memoir

    Author: A. D. CarsonISBN-10: 019777265XISBN-13: 9780197772652Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/10/2025Pages: 432Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.73lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.13d
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  • Hypnotic Music Secrets: How The Stars Make Music IRRESISTIBLE! by Glover, Khaliq
    Khaliq Glover

    Hypnotic Music Secrets: How The Stars Make Music IRRESISTIBLE!

    "Hypnotic Music Secrets" is written by Grammy award-winning engineer/producer Khaliq Glover also known as Khaliq-O-Vision based on his vast experience of working with the world's top recording artists. Some of his clients include Michael Jackson, Prince, Herbie Hancock, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Marcus Miller,...
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  • Rebel Music: Resistance Through Hip Hop and Punk by Parmar, Priya
    Priya Parmar

    Rebel Music: Resistance Through Hip Hop and Punk

    Arising from the street corners and underground clubs, Rebel Music: Resistance through Hip Hop and Punk, challenges standardized schooling and argues for equity, peace, and justice. Rebel Music is an important, one-of-a-kind book that takes readers through fun, radical, educational chapters examining Hip Hop...
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  • Songs in the Key of MP3: The New Icons of the Internet Age by Inscoe-Jones, Liam
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    Liam Inscoe-Jones

    Songs in the Key of MP3: The New Icons of the Internet Age

    Author: Liam Inscoe-JonesISBN-10: 1399609637ISBN-13: 9781399609630Publisher: White RabbitLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/13/2026Pages: 368Format: Paperback
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  • Obsessed with Bass: The Essential History of Miami Bass, 1985-1993 by Nemec, Aaron
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    Aaron Nemec

    Obsessed with Bass: The Essential History of Miami Bass, 1985-1993

    Late one Miami night in 1985, Amos Larkins II was mixing "Commin' In Fresh" by Double Duce while also partying in the studio with a stripper. He was so distracted he forgot to review the levels before sending the track for mastering. The next...
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  • The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-On-Crime Era by McCann, Bryan J.
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    Bryan J. McCann

    The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-On-Crime Era

    Illustrates the ways that the "war on crime" became conjoined--aesthetically, politically, and rhetorically--with the emergence of gangsta rap as a lucrative and deeply controversial subgenre of hip-hop In The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era, Bryan J. McCann...
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  • Egostrip Book 2 by Lish, Dan
    Dan Lish

    Egostrip Book 2

    Egostrip Book 2 is a beautifully designed, expansive continuation of Dan Lish's visionary character illustrations that pay homage to the vibrant world of Hip Hop and beyond. This stunning collection features over 170 illustrations, paintings, and murals that capture the essence of Hip Hop's...
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  • Anthems: Community, Land, and Song by Love, Nancy S.
    Nancy S. Love

    Anthems: Community, Land, and Song

    An examination of struggles for national sovereignty and social justice as seen through patriotic anthems and songs of resistance.Anthems are songs of loyalty and devotion with religious or quasi-religious meanings, typically associated with nation-states. Singing patriotic songs together encourages a sense of shared identity...
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  • Murda', Misogyny, and Mayhem: Hip-Hop and the Culture of Abnormality in the Urban Community by Spencer, Zoe
    Zoe Spencer

    Murda', Misogyny, and Mayhem: Hip-Hop and the Culture of Abnormality in the Urban Community

    Spencer unwaveringly exposes the harmful effects of hip hop as a regulated industry, music, and culture. Her careful analysis allows the reader to examine the relationship between the presentation of hip hop and the prevalence of murder, misogyny, and mayhem in the urban community.Author:...
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  • Hip-Hop's Greatest Beef: Kendrick vs. Drake: The Full Timeline by Sneh, Tension
    Tension Sneh

    Hip-Hop's Greatest Beef: Kendrick vs. Drake: The Full Timeline

    From Kendrick Lamar's explosive verse on 'Control' to Drake's UMG petition, this book dives deep into one of the most captivating rivalries in modern hip-hop. Through lyrical dissections, cultural analysis, and personal reflections, the story of Drake and Kendrick Lamar unfolds in a way...
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  • Write Lines: Adventures in Rap Journalism by Emery, Andrew
    Andrew Emery

    Write Lines: Adventures in Rap Journalism

    Having failed at rapping, what's next for an endlessly passionate rap nerd? In this sequel to acclaimed memoir Wiggaz With Attitude, it turns out what's next for is a sometimes controversial career in rap journalism. Write Lines: Adventures in Rap Journalism tells the tale...
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  • Bust a Move: Matt Dike, Delicious Vinyl, and the Hip-Hop Hits That First Conquered Pop by Relic, Peter
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    Peter Relic

    Bust a Move: Matt Dike, Delicious Vinyl, and the Hip-Hop Hits That First Conquered Pop

    Coast hip hop into the American mainstream and produced the hits that dominated the 80s through early 2000s, with previously unseen material, photos, and exclusive interviews - including the only in-depth, in-person interview with reclusive creator Matt Dike. In 1987, hip-hop was at a...
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  • Religion in Hip Hop by Miller, Monica R.
    Monica R. Miller

    Religion in Hip Hop

    Now a global and transnational phenomenon, hip hop culture continues to affect and be affected by the institutional, cultural, religious, social, economic and political landscape of American society and beyond. Over the past two decades, numerous disciplines have taken up hip hop culture for...
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  • This Thug's Life by Shakur, Mopreme
    Mopreme Shakur

    This Thug's Life

    The first-ever insider account of the Shakur family, the iconic hip hop group T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E., and the life and death Tupac Shakur - written by Mopreme Shakur, the legendary rapper's big brother and eldest son of Black liberation activist Mutulu Shakur. Maurice. Little Mutulu....
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Global Rap by Bramwell, Richard
    Richard Bramwell

    The Cambridge Companion to Global Rap

    Rap has remapped the way we think about music. For more than fifty years its poetics, performance and political power has resonated across the globe. This Companion offers an array of perspectives on the form, from the fields of sociology, linguistics, musicology, psychology, literary...
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  • Ideologies of Marginality in Brazilian Hip Hop by Pardue, D.
    D. Pardue

    Ideologies of Marginality in Brazilian Hip Hop

    Based on more than five years of anthropological fieldwork in Sao Paulo, Brazil, this book highlights race, class, gender and territory to argue that Brazillian hip hoppers are subjects rather than objects of history and everyday life. This is the first ethnography in English...
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  • Hip Hop and Political Voice for Young South Sudanese Australians: Born to Stand Out by Williams, Sarah J.
    Sarah J. Williams

    Hip Hop and Political Voice for Young South Sudanese Australians: Born to Stand Out

    Hip Hop and Political Voice for Young South Sudanese Australians: Born to Stand Out explores the building of political voice of young South Sudanese Australians to resist racialising discourses, particularly through hip hop. Presented as an ethnography, Sarah J. Williams draws on empirical evidence...
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  • Brazilian Hip Hoppers Speak from the Margins: We's on Tape by Pardue, D.
    D. Pardue

    Brazilian Hip Hoppers Speak from the Margins: We's on Tape

    Based on more than five years of anthropological fieldwork in São Paulo, Brazil, this book highlights race, class, gender and territory to argue that Brazilian hip hoppers are subjects rather than objects of history and everyday life. This is the first ethnography in English...
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  • Blowin' Up: Rap Dreams in South Central by Lee, Jooyoung
    Jooyoung Lee

    Blowin' Up: Rap Dreams in South Central

    Dr. Dre. Snoop Dogg. Ice Cube. Some of the biggest stars in hip hop made their careers in Los Angeles. And today there is a new generation of young, mostly black, men busting out rhymes and hoping to one day find themselves "blowin' up"--getting...
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  • The Hip Hop Sticker Book: 200+ Fresh Rap Stickers by Mark 563
    Mark 563

    The Hip Hop Sticker Book: 200+ Fresh Rap Stickers

    The Hip Hop Sticker Book is a must-have for all hip hop heads and sticker lovers! Featuring more than 200 fresh high-quality stickers, this book showcases amazing artwork by renowned artist Mark 563, capturing your favorite rappers in bold, unique illustrations. The exceptional collection...
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  • Baptized in Dirty Water: Reimagining the Gospel According to Tupac Amaru Shakur by White Hodge, Daniel
    Daniel White Hodge

    Baptized in Dirty Water: Reimagining the Gospel According to Tupac Amaru Shakur

    Tupac Amaru Shakur was considered a Hip Hop prophet. His spiritual journey has not had much attention given to it until now. This book looks at Tupac's gospel message from a Hip Hop context. Tupac presents a theological message needed now even twenty-plus years...
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  • Grime: Documenting the Scene's Rise and Reign by Keefe, Roony
    Roony Keefe

    Grime: Documenting the Scene's Rise and Reign

    Through archival material, experience the 140BPM beating heartbeat of grime as told by a pioneer of the scene - not just as a music genre, but as a living, breathing culture that continues to thrive, inspire, and boldly challenge the status quo. 'There are...
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  • Listen to Hip Hop!: Exploring a Musical Genre by Fonseca, Anthony J.
    Anthony J. Fonseca

    Listen to Hip Hop!: Exploring a Musical Genre

    With a focus on 50 defining artists, songs, and albums, Listen to Hip Hop! Exploring a Musical Genre provides an overview of hip-hop music for scholars and fans of the genre.This title explores non-rap hip hop music, and as such it serves as a...
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  • Hip Hop Reader, The, a Longman Topics Reader by Strode, Tim
    Tim Strode

    Hip Hop Reader, The, a Longman Topics Reader

    Composition and hip hop may seem unrelated, but the connection isn't hard to make: Hip hop and rap rely on a complex of narrative practices that have clear ties to some of the best American essay writing. A Hip Hop Reader brings together work...
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  • Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime by Hancox, Dan
    Dan Hancox

    Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime

    A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, PITCHFORK, NPR, METRO AND HERALD SCOTLAND BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018 'The definitive grime biography' NME 'A landmark genre history' Pitchfork The year 2000. As Britain celebrates the new millennium, something is stirring in the crumbling council estates of inner-city London....
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Global Rap by Bramwell, Richard
    Richard Bramwell

    The Cambridge Companion to Global Rap

    Rap has remapped the way we think about music. For more than fifty years its poetics, performance and political power has resonated across the globe. This Companion offers an array of perspectives on the form, from the fields of sociology, linguistics, musicology, psychology, literary...
    $29.99
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  • The History of Hip Hop: Quiz Book by Reese, Eric
    Eric Reese

    The History of Hip Hop: Quiz Book

    Think you know hip hop? Here's your test to prove it.From the birth of the culture in the Bronx to today's viral global hits, this is the ultimate test for true heads, crate diggers, and anyone who lives and breathes hip hop. Packed with...
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  • Remember the Times: A Memoir by Riley, Teddy
    Teddy Riley

    Remember the Times: A Memoir

    Grammy Award-winning R&B and hip-hop legend Teddy Riley recounts his journey from growing up in the projects in Harlem to inventing the genre New Jack Swing, selling out shows at Madison Square Garden, and creating music for Michael Jackson, Snoop Dogg, Pharrell, and more....
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  • The Disturbing Profane: Hip Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred by Winters, Joseph R.
    Joseph R. Winters

    The Disturbing Profane: Hip Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred

    In The Disturbing Profane, Joseph R. Winters explores how hip hop's religiosity is found in qualities associated with the dark sacred. Rather than purity and wholeness, this expression of the sacred signifies death and pleasure, opacity and contamination, exorbitance and anguish. Winters brings religious...
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  • The Disturbing Profane: Hip Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred by Winters, Joseph R.
    Joseph R. Winters

    The Disturbing Profane: Hip Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred

    In The Disturbing Profane, Joseph R. Winters explores how hip hop's religiosity is found in qualities associated with the dark sacred. Rather than purity and wholeness, this expression of the sacred signifies death and pleasure, opacity and contamination, exorbitance and anguish. Winters brings religious...
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  • Hip-Hop Rivalries: East Coast Versus West Coast by Nji, Njasang
    Njasang Nji

    Hip-Hop Rivalries: East Coast Versus West Coast

    "... the author details how various hip-hop feuds began and ended and analyzes the lyrics of the dis tracks that resulted from them." - Library JournalIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times.In A Tale of Two Cities, the duality...
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  • I'm Looking for T.I.: Dreams II Reality by Jackson, Corey Corey J.
    Corey Corey J. Jackson

    I'm Looking for T.I.: Dreams II Reality

    Meet Corey J., A young man born into poverty on the North Side of Jackson Mississippi, with big Dreams and a vision to turn those dreams into a reality. In this compelling story, Corey J. details how he didn't let being raised in the...
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  • The Essentials of Hip-Hop Drumming: Master The Art of Breakbeats, New Jack Swing, Boom Bap, Drunk Grooves & Trap by Grondona, Giuseppe
    Giuseppe Grondona

    The Essentials of Hip-Hop Drumming: Master The Art of Breakbeats, New Jack Swing, Boom Bap, Drunk Grooves & Trap

    Master the Art of Hip-Hop Drumming and Play with Authentic GrooveDo your hip-hop grooves sound stiff and mechanical? Struggling to capture the feel of Dilla Time and unquantized beats? Want to make your acoustic drumming sound like an MPC or 808?The Essentials of Hip-Hop...
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  • In My Remaining Years by Grae, Jean
    Jean Grae

    In My Remaining Years

    A collection of darkly humorous, intensely personal essays by cult fave and multi-hyphenate artist Jean Grae In My Remaining Years, by creative juggernaut Jean Grae, debunks the myth that coming-of-age narratives should be reserved for the kids, providing a much-needed rallying cry for those...
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  • Pro Tools for Film and Video by Angell, Dale
    Dale Angell

    Pro Tools for Film and Video

    This step-by-step guide for editing sound to picture using Pro Tools starts by explaining the Pro Tools systems and covers all key audio topics, including equipment, sound, music, effects, output and mixing tools, to give users the skills needed to work on any project...
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  • Verbal Imagery: Transcendental Industry by Wade the Wordsmith
    Wade the Wordsmith

    Verbal Imagery: Transcendental Industry

    You've just found a lyric pulse. It's a monumental discovery. A living, breathing, noted, literature specie able to work beyond the five natural senses of physical beings. A grammar entity with a transcendent dialect communicated in a fluent flow of sentences, phrases, verses, choruses...
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  • Mothership Connected: The Women of Parliament-Funkadelic by Neblett, Seth
    Seth Neblett

    Mothership Connected: The Women of Parliament-Funkadelic

    An oral history with the women of Parliament-Funkadelic, from forming the band to landing the mothership. Parliament-Funkadelic is perhaps the greatest funk band ever assembled. Yet at the time of the group's induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, none of the...
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