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Author:Allan Slutsky
Standing in the Shadows of Motown Book/Online Audio [With 2]
(Guitar Book). Bassist James Jamerson was the embodiment of the Motown spirit and groove the invisible entity whose playing inspired thousands. His tumultuous life and musical brilliance are explored in depth through hundreds of interviews, 49 transcribed musical scores, two hours of recorded all-star...- $39.99
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Author:Robert Gordon
It Came from Memphis: Updated and Revised
Vienna in the 1880s. Paris in the 1920s. Memphis in the 1950s. These are the paradigm shifts of modern culture. Memphis then was like Seattle with grunge or Brooklyn with hip-hop-except the change was more than musical: Underground Memphis embraced black American culture when...- $22.95
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Author:Roben Jones
Memphis Boys: The Story of American Studios
Memphis Boys chronicles the story of the rhythm section at Chips Moman's American Studios from 1964, when the group began working together, until 1972, when Moman shut down the studio and moved the entire operation to Atlanta. Utilizing extensive interviews with Moman and the...- $50.00
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Author:David Freeland
Ladies of Soul
American soul music of the 1960s is one of the most creative and influential musical forms of the twentieth century. With its merging of gospel, R&B, country, and blues, soul music succeeded in crossing over from African American culture into the general pop culture....- $35.00
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Author:Frank Hoffmann
Rhythm and Blues, Rap, and Hip-Hop
Influenced by the blues as well as West African and African-American sounds, rhythm and blues, rap, and hip-hop have become popular and influential forms of music around the world. Featuring soulful lyrics, hard-driving beats, and infectious rhythms, these genres form a rich branch of...- $21.95
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Author:Stephanie Phillips
Why Solange Matters
Growing up in the shadow of her superstar sister, Solange Knowles became a pivotal musician in her own right. Defying an industry that attempted to bend her to its rigid image of a Black woman, Solange continually experimented with her sound and embarked on...- $18.95
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Author:John Warren
OUR SOUl MUSIC JOURNEYS: A Collection of Personal Soul Stories
This is John Warren an (Australian soul music lover) 2nd book titled '' Our Soul Music Journeys '' which will be released in December 2021. Being dyslexic made it very difficult writing a book so Soul music lovers I have met on my music...- $17.18
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Author:Adrian Matejka
Standing on the Verge and Maggot Brain
A collaboration of visual art and poetry inspired by Funkadelic's classic albums Standing on the Verge of Getting It On and Maggot Brain. Adrian Matejka's (Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry for The Big Smoke) new book Standing On the Verge & Maggot Brain is...- $16.95
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Author:Vladimir Bogdanov
All Music Guide to Soul: The Definitive Guide to R&B and Soul
This comprehensive guide is a must-have for the legions of fans of the beloved and perennially popular music known as soul and rhythm & blues. A member of the definitive All Music Guide series, the All Music Guide to Soul offers nearly 8 500...- $28.99
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Author:Howard Priestley
Love Factory: The History of Holland Dozier Holland
2022 Winner of the Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research - Association of Recorded Sound Collections ARSC It has long been acknowledged that Berry Gordy Jr and his Motown Empire put Detroit on the International musical map but it was the creative...- $23.50
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Author:Emily J. Lordi
The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s
In The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept. In the 1960s, Lordi argues, soul came to signify a cultural belief in black resilience, which was enacted through musical practices--inventive cover versions, falsetto vocals, ad-libs, and...- $26.95
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Author:Bobby Rush
I Ain't Studdin' YA: My American Blues Story
Experience music history with this memoir by one of the last of the genuine old school Blues and R&B legends, the Grammy-winning dynamic showman Bobby Rush. This memoir charts the extraordinary rise to fame of living blues legend, Bobby Rush. Born Emmett Ellis, Jr....- $29.00
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Author:David A. Less
Memphis Mayhem: A Story of the Music That Shook Up the World
Memphis gave birth to music that changed the world -- Memphis Mayhem is a fascinating history of how music and culture collided to change the state of music forever "David Less has captured the essence of the Memphis music experience on these pages in...- $21.95
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Author:Mac Rebennack
Under a Hoodoo Moon: The Life of the Night Tripper
Under a Hoodoo Moon is one of rock's most original and infectious autobiographies. In its pages, Dr. John, the alchemist of New Orleans psychedelic funk, tells his story, and what a story it is: of four decades on the road, on the charts, in...- $22.99
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Author:George Clinton
Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard on You?: A Memoir
**ONE OF THE BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ROLLING STONE**The captivating memoir from "the emperor of intergalactic funk" (NPR) and most influential pop artists of our time--known for over forty R&B hit singles--George Clinton of Parliament-Funkadelic.George Clinton began his musical career in...- $18.99
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Author:Alan Walden
Southern Man: Music & Mayhem in the American South: A Memoir
"We developed reputations real fast. We treated our entertainers right. We got them paid. Other agents and promoters and managers showed them the money. We got them the money. We brought respect to the African American artist in America. We brought them prestige. We...- $24.95
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Author:Carla Jean Whitley
Muscle Shoals Sound Studio: How the Swampers Changed American Music
An estimated four hundred gold records have been recorded in the Muscle Shoals area. Many of those are thanks to Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, dubbed "the Swampers." Some of the greatest names in rock, R&B and blues laid...- $31.99
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Author:Jessica Lipsky
It Ain't Retro: Daptone Records & the 21st-Century Soul Revolution
Soul is the most powerful expression of American music--a distinct combination of roots, migration, race, culture, and politics packaged together for your dancing pleasure. But if you thought the sounds of Motown or Stax Records died along with 8-tracks and macramé, you'd be wrong....- $22.95
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Author:Carolyn McHugh
Whitney Houston: The Greatest Love of All
Whitney Houston was certified as the most awarded female artist of all time by Guinness World Records and sold over 200 million records worldwide. Houston released seven studio albums and two soundtrack albums and is regarded as one of the greatest artists and female...- $29.95
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Author:Rick James
The Confessions of Rick James: "Memoirs of a Super Freak"
This is the true and complete accounting of Rick James' life written by Rick James himself. Beginning with his childhood and into the spotlight of his famous and troubled life. Rick James shares a fascinating account of his rise, fall and rise to his...- $18.95
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Author:Mark Ribowsky
Ain't Too Proud to Beg: The Troubled Lives and Enduring Soul of the Temptations
The first and only definitive biography of legendary Motown group, the TemptationsThe Temptations are an incomparable soul group, with dozens of chart-topping hits such as My Girl and Papa Was a Rollin Stone. From the sharp suits, stylish choreography, and distinctive vocals that epitomized...- $29.99
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Author:Alyssa Favreau
Janelle Monáe's the Archandroid
In Janelle Monáe's full-length debut, the science fiction concept album The ArchAndroid, the android Cindi Mayweather is on the run from the authorities for the crime of loving a human. Living in 28th century Metropolis, Cindi fights for survival, soon realizing that she is...- $14.95
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Author:Pearl Cleage
Bruce W. Talamon. Soul. R&b. Funk. Photographs 1972-1982
Talamon saw it all during the golden age of soul, R&B, and funk. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, this young African American photographer from Los Angeles found himself backstage with an all-access pass to the heart of the music scene. He caught his...- $70.00
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Author:Robert Palmer
Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
Blues is the cornerstone of American popular music, the bedrock of rock and roll. In this extraordinary musical and social history, Robert Palmer traces the odyssey of the blues from its rural beginnings, to the steamy bars of Chicago's South Side, to international popularity,...- $18.00
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Author:Joaquim Paulo
Funk & Soul Covers
Following the success of Jazz Covers, this epic volume of groove assembles over 500 legendary covers from a golden era in Black music. Psychedelia meets Black Power, sexual liberation meets social conscience, and street portraiture meets fantastical cartoon in this dazzling anthology of visualized...- $70.00
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Author:Greg Kot
I'll Take You There: Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers, and the March Up Freedom's Highway
"A biography that will send readers back to the music of Mavis and the Staple Singers with deepened appreciation and a renewed spirit of discovery" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)--from the acclaimed music journalist and author featured prominently in the new HBO documentary Mavis!This is...- $18.00
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Author:Alex Jeffery
Donna Summer's Once Upon a Time
Contradicting assumptions that disco albums are shallow and packed with filler, Donna Summer's double album Once Upon A Time stands out as a piece that delivers on its promise of an immaculately crafted journey from start to finish. A new interpretation of the Cinderella...- $14.95
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Author:Alfred Music
The Funkmasters: The Great James Brown Rhythm Sections 1960-1973 [With 2 CD's]
In this unique rhythm section workbook, 23 James Brown classics have been transcribed, broken down into individual lessons, and meticulously recreated on two hours of recordings. Featuring legendary grooves from the guitarists, bassists, and drummers who ignited the Godfather of Soul for over three...- $29.95
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Author:Emily J. Lordi
The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s
In The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept. In the 1960s, Lordi argues, soul came to signify a cultural belief in black resilience, which was enacted through musical practices--inventive cover versions, falsetto vocals, ad-libs, and...- $102.95
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Author:Mark Ribowsky
Black Moses: The Hot-Buttered Life and Soul of Isaac Hayes
The first biography of soul pioneer Isaac Hayes, whose groundbreaking music provided the foundation for hip-hop and a new racial paradigm. "Black men could finally stand up and be men because here's Black Moses; he's the epitome of Black masculinity. Chains that once represented...- $28.00
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Author:Colin Fleming
Sam Cooke's Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963
Shelved for over 20 years, Sam Cooke's Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963, stands alongside Otis Redding's Live in Europe and James Brown's Live at the Apollo as one of the finest live soul albums ever made. It also reveals a musical, spiritual,...- $14.95
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Author:Diana Finlay Hendricks
Delbert McClinton: One of the Fortunate Few
Much has happened with Delbert McClinton since the first edition of Delbert McClinton: One Of The Fortunate Few was released in 2017. That year, Rolling Stone called him "The Godfather of Americana Music," and in 2019, he received the Americana Music Association Lifetime Achievement...- $19.95
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Author:Rickey Vincent
Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers' Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music
Connecting the black music tradition with the black activist tradition, Party Music brings both into greater focus than ever before and reveals just how strongly the black power movement was felt on the streets of black America. Interviews reveal the never-before-heard story of the...- $19.95
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Author:Ayanna Dozier
Janet Jackson's the Velvet Rope
The question of control for Black women is a costly one. From 1986 onwards, the trajectory of Janet Jackson's career can be summed up in her desire for control. Control for Janet was never simply just about her desire for economic and creative control...- $14.95
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Author:Susan Whitall
Women of Motown: An Oral History (Second Edition)
The second edition of Women of Motown by author Susan Whitall contains new chapters and information, updating this critically-acclaimed oral history of the ladies who made Motown a sound heard round the world. Originally published to glowing reviews in 1998, the first edition has...- $24.95
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Author:Chris Williams
Wax Poetics Issue 65 (Special-Edition Hardcover): A Tribe Called Quest b/w David Bowie
Wax Poetics Issue 65 features 21 pages dedicated to A Tribe Called Quest's debut album, People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, including an oral history with original founding members Q-Tip, Phife Dawg (in his final interview), Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and Jarobi, as...- $29.99
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Author:Adam White
Motown: The Sound of Young America
The music of Motown defined an era. From the Jackson 5 and Diana Ross to Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson, Berry Gordy and his right-hand man, Barney Ales, built the most successful independent record label in the world. Not only did Motown represent the...- $45.00
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Author:Nelson George
Where Did Our Love Go?: The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound
Nelson George's chronicle of Motown Records' rise and fall remains a classic account of an essential American music company and its dynamic founder Berry Gordy Jr. Gordy's uncanny instinct for finding extraordinary talent--from performers and musicians to songwriters and producers--packed the label's roster with...- $26.95
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Author:Giles Oakley
The Devil's Music: A History of the Blues
Superbly researched and vividly written, The Devil's Music is one of the only books to trace the rise and development of the blues both in relation to other forms of black music and in the context of American social history as experienced by African...- $16.95
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Author:Simon Pratt
The Neo-Soul Guitar Book
The Neo-Soul Guitar Book is a one-stop shop for the multi-faceted style of Neo-Soul guitar playing. In recent times Neo-Soul has emerged as a driving force in modern music, with notable players such as Mark Lettieri (three-time Grammy award winner) and Tom Misch reinventing...- $19.99
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Author:Stuart Cosgrove
Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul
WINNER OF THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 2018In the 1950s and 1960s, Memphis, Tennessee, was the launch pad of musical pioneers such as Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Al Green and Isaac Hayes, and by 1968 was a city synonymous with soul music....- $14.95
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Author:Doug Saint Carter
Jackie Wilson: The Black King of Rock 'n Roll
Known as Mr. Excitement, he was the greatest combination of a singer and a showman the music world has ever known. He was the eleventh artist elected into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. Jackie Wilson had one of the largest fan clubs...- $28.95
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Author:Roben Jones
Memphis Boys: The Story of American Studios
Memphis Boys chronicles the story of the rhythm section at Chips Moman's American Studios from 1964, when the group began working together, until 1972, when Moman shut down the studio and moved the entire operation to Atlanta. Utilizing extensive interviews with Moman and the...- $35.00
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Author:Anthony Vitti
Funk Bass Fills: For Funk, R&b, Soul & Hip-Hop [With CD (Audio)]
(Berklee Guide). This book by Berklee bass prof Anthony Vitti will help you make your bass lines more creative, unique and memorable. Tap into the groove and evolve your bass lines by using fills. This book brings you beyond the basics and helps you...- $24.99
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Author:Douglas Wolk
James Brown's Live at the Apollo
In this remarkable book, Douglas Wolk brings to life an October evening in 1962, at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem - an evening at the height of Cold War tensions. In great detail, Wolk pieces together what took place (and what was recorded) that...- $14.95
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Author:Various Authors
Wax Poetics Issue 18 [Parliament-Funkadelic] (Paperback Reprint)
Parliament-Funkadelic can hardly be summed up in a few sentences. Wax Poetics digs deep to trace the sprawling history of this supergroup, from its doo-wop roots to its freaked-out, drug-laden rock sessions, and finally onto the best-known (and best-selling) period of space boogie. re:...- $29.99
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Author:Carla Jean Whitley
Muscle Shoals Sound Studio: How the Swampers Changed American Music
An estimated four hundred gold records have been recorded in the Muscle Shoals area. Many of those are thanks to Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, dubbed "the Swampers."Some of the greatest names in rockAuthor: Carla Jean WhitleyISBN-10: 1626192391ISBN-13: 9781626192393Publisher:...- $23.99
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Author:Dave Thompson
Come and Get These Memories: The Story of Holland-Dozier-Holland
Brian Holland, Edward Holland, and Lamont Dozier, known as Holland-Dozier-Holland or H-D-H, were the greatest songwriting team in American pop music history. Seventy of the songs they wrote reached the Billboard Top 40, with 15 of these reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot...- $28.99
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Author:Robert Gordon
Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a monument to racial harmony in blighted south Memphis during the civil rights movement. Their success soon pits the siblings against each other, and the brother abandons his...- $21.00
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Author:Glenn Letsch
R&B Bass - A Guide to the Essential Styles and Techniques Book/Online Audio [With CD (Audio)]
(Bass Method). The Hal Leonard R&B Bass Method is your complete guide to learning the styles and techniques of rhythm and blues bass. This book and Online Audio pack uses actual classic R&B, Motown, soul, and funk songs to teach you how to groove...- $19.99
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