Books to Make My Theology a Little Less White

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Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health
Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Cross and the Lynching Tree
The Cross and the Lynching Tree 4.50 avg rating — 6,060 ratings
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Black Theology and Black Power
Black Theology and Black Power 4.35 avg rating — 704 ratings
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The Spirituals and the Blues
The Spirituals and the Blues 4.26 avg rating — 325 ratings
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Prophesy Deliverance!
Prophesy Deliverance! 4.19 avg rating — 224 ratings
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God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse 4.26 avg rating — 639 ratings
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Bonhoeffer's Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance
Bonhoeffer's Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance 4.52 avg rating — 360 ratings
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Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America
Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America 4.26 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
The Civil War as a Theological Crisis 4.17 avg rating — 1,064 ratings
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Black Prophetic Fire
Black Prophetic Fire 4.15 avg rating — 375 ratings
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Mississippi Praying: Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975
Mississippi Praying: Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975 3.82 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Lining Out the Word: Dr. Watts Hymn Singing in the Music of Black Americans (Volume 8)
Lining Out the Word: Dr. Watts Hymn Singing in the Music of Black Americans (Volume 8) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Howard Thurman: Philosophy, Civil Rights, and the Search for Common Ground
Howard Thurman: Philosophy, Civil Rights, and the Search for Common Ground really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Howard Thurman: Essential Writings (Modern Spiritual Masters Series)
Howard Thurman: Essential Writings (Modern Spiritual Masters Series) 4.41 avg rating — 81 ratings
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God of the Oppressed
God of the Oppressed 4.33 avg rating — 1,182 ratings
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Jesus and the Disinherited
Jesus and the Disinherited 4.50 avg rating — 6,699 ratings
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Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia
Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South
Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South 4.14 avg rating — 407 ratings
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We Who Believe in Freedom
We Who Believe in Freedom 4.46 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Were You There?: Godforsakenness in Slave Religion (Bishop Henry McNeal Turner/Sojourner Truth Series in Black Religion)
Were You There?: Godforsakenness in Slave Religion (Bishop Henry McNeal Turner/Sojourner Truth Series in Black Religion) 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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We'll Understand It Better By and By: Pioneering African American Gospel Composers (The "Wade in the Water" Series)
We'll Understand It Better By and By: Pioneering African American Gospel Composers (The "Wade in the Water" Series) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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A Peculiar People: Slave Religion and Community-Culture Among the Gullahs (The American Social Experience, 6)
A Peculiar People: Slave Religion and Community-Culture Among the Gullahs (The American Social Experience, 6) 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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No Mirrors in My Nana's House: Musical CD and Book
No Mirrors in My Nana's House: Musical CD and Book 4.17 avg rating — 383 ratings
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Singing in the African American Tradition - Volume 2: Building a Vocal Community
Singing in the African American Tradition - Volume 2: Building a Vocal Community 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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We Are One: Book and Musical CD
We Are One: Book and Musical CD 3.65 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Roosevelt's Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on FDR
Roosevelt's Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on FDR 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Fire in My Bones: Transcendence and the Holy Spirit in African American Gospel (Contemporary Ethnography)
Fire in My Bones: Transcendence and the Holy Spirit in African American Gospel (Contemporary Ethnography) 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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African American Heritage Hymnal: 575 Hymns, Spirituals, and Gospel Songs
African American Heritage Hymnal: 575 Hymns, Spirituals, and Gospel Songs 4.65 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Anointed to Sing the Gospel: The Levitical Legacy of Thomas A. Dorsey
Anointed to Sing the Gospel: The Levitical Legacy of Thomas A. Dorsey 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life (American Made Music Series)
Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life (American Made Music Series) 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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An Illustrated History of Gospel
An Illustrated History of Gospel 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Faces of Praise!: Photos and Gospel Inspirations to Encourage and Uplift
Faces of Praise!: Photos and Gospel Inspirations to Encourage and Uplift 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds: Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music
Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds: Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church
The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Great Gospel Songs Of Thomas A. Dorsey Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords
Great Gospel Songs Of Thomas A. Dorsey Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Mek Some Noise: Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad (Music of the African Diaspora) (Volume 11)
Mek Some Noise: Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad (Music of the African Diaspora) (Volume 11) 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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People Get Ready!: A New History of Black Gospel Music
People Get Ready!: A New History of Black Gospel Music 4.06 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times
The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times 4.05 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Downhome Gospel: African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country
Downhome Gospel: African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Let Freedom Swing: Collected Writings on Jazz, Blues, and Gospel
Let Freedom Swing: Collected Writings on Jazz, Blues, and Gospel 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Best-Loved Negro Spirituals: Complete Lyrics to 178 Songs of Faith (Dover Books On Music: Folk Songs)
Best-Loved Negro Spirituals: Complete Lyrics to 178 Songs of Faith (Dover Books On Music: Folk Songs) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Negro Slave Songs in the United States
Negro Slave Songs in the United States 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Blues People: Negro Music in White America
Blues People: Negro Music in White America 4.15 avg rating — 2,386 ratings
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Negro Folk Music, U.S.A.
Negro Folk Music, U.S.A. 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Messengers: Portraits of African American Ministers, Evangelists, Gospel Singers and Other Messengers of the Word.
Messengers: Portraits of African American Ministers, Evangelists, Gospel Singers and Other Messengers of the Word. really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy
Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy 4.26 avg rating — 381 ratings
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From Jubilee to Hip Hop: Readings in African American Music
From Jubilee to Hip Hop: Readings in African American Music 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Songs of Blind Folk: African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness
The Songs of Blind Folk: African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance
Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance 4.23 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Treasury of African American Heroes: Follow the drinking gourd, John Henry
Treasury of African American Heroes: Follow the drinking gourd, John Henry 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Drop on Down in Florida: Field Recordings of African American Traditional Music 1977-1980
Drop on Down in Florida: Field Recordings of African American Traditional Music 1977-1980 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895 (American Made Music Series)
Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895 (American Made Music Series) 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics: The Lawrence Gellert Story (American Folk Music and Musicians Series)
African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics: The Lawrence Gellert Story (American Folk Music and Musicians Series) 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Hidden in the Mix: The African American Presence in Country Music
Hidden in the Mix: The African American Presence in Country Music 3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings
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African American Music Trails of Eastern North Carolina
African American Music Trails of Eastern North Carolina really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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African-American Entertainment in Atlanta
African-American Entertainment in Atlanta 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Sacred Steel: Inside an African American Steel Guitar Tradition (Music in American Life
Sacred Steel: Inside an African American Steel Guitar Tradition (Music in American Life 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Preachin' the Blues: The Life & Times of Son House
Preachin' the Blues: The Life & Times of Son House 4.15 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Say No to the Devil: The Life and Musical Genius of Rev. Gary Davis
Say No to the Devil: The Life and Musical Genius of Rev. Gary Davis
by: Ian Zack
4.34 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Oh What a Beautiful City: A Tribute to Reverend Gary Davis
Oh What a Beautiful City: A Tribute to Reverend Gary Davis 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Rev. Gary Davis: Blues Guitar
Rev. Gary Davis: Blues Guitar 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music 4.18 avg rating — 5,619 ratings
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My Soul Is a Witness: The Message of the Spirituals in Word And Song
My Soul Is a Witness: The Message of the Spirituals in Word And Song 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War
Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War 4.31 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Banjo: America’s African Instrument
The Banjo: America’s African Instrument 4.36 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South
Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South 4.14 avg rating — 78 ratings
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On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom
On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom 4.03 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records
Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race, and Defiance
My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race, and Defiance 4.20 avg rating — 959 ratings
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Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll
Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll 3.99 avg rating — 1,088 ratings
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Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke
Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke 4.08 avg rating — 1,054 ratings
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Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom 4.24 avg rating — 2,349 ratings
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Spirits That Dwell in Deep Woods: The Prayer and Praise Hymns of the Black Religious Experience
Spirits That Dwell in Deep Woods: The Prayer and Praise Hymns of the Black Religious Experience it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage (Brown Thrasher Books)
Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage (Brown Thrasher Books) 4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands (Brown Thrasher Books)
Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands (Brown Thrasher Books) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Gullah Cultural Legacies: A Synopsis of Gullah Traditions, Customary Beliefs, Art Forms and Speech on Hilton Head Island and Vicinal Sea Islands in South Carolina and Georgia
Gullah Cultural Legacies: A Synopsis of Gullah Traditions, Customary Beliefs, Art Forms and Speech on Hilton Head Island and Vicinal Sea Islands in South Carolina and Georgia 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island, Georgia
God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island, Georgia 4.32 avg rating — 358 ratings
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They Heard Georgia Singing
They Heard Georgia Singing 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Blind Tom: The Post-Civil War Enslavement of a Black Musical Genius
Blind Tom: The Post-Civil War Enslavement of a Black Musical Genius 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Blind Tom, the Black Pianist-Composer (1849-1908): Continually Enslaved
Blind Tom, the Black Pianist-Composer (1849-1908): Continually Enslaved 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Ballad of Blind Tom, Slave Pianist
The Ballad of Blind Tom, Slave Pianist 3.83 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Judge Jackson and the Colored Sacred Harp
Judge Jackson and the Colored Sacred Harp 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power
Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South
Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South 3.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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My Country, Too: The Other Black Music
My Country, Too: The Other Black Music 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Music of Black Americans: A History
The Music of Black Americans: A History 4.28 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Souled American: How Black Music Transformed White Culture
Souled American: How Black Music Transformed White Culture 4.03 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s
Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s 3.90 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Just Before Jazz
Just Before Jazz 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Nothing but Love in God's Water: Volume I: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
Nothing but Love in God's Water: Volume I: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Big Star Fallin' Mama: Five Women in Black Music
Big Star Fallin' Mama: Five Women in Black Music 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement
How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement 3.97 avg rating — 61 ratings
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What's the Use of Walking If There's a Freight Train Going Your Way?: Black Hoboes & Their Songs
What's the Use of Walking If There's a Freight Train Going Your Way?: Black Hoboes & Their Songs really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Black Soundscapes White Stages: The Meaning of Francophone Sound in the Black Atlantic (The Callaloo African Diaspora Series)
Black Soundscapes White Stages: The Meaning of Francophone Sound in the Black Atlantic (The Callaloo African Diaspora Series) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Doin' the Charleston: Black Roots of American Popular Music & the Jenkins Orphanage Legacy
Doin' the Charleston: Black Roots of American Popular Music & the Jenkins Orphanage Legacy 3.78 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Rip it Up: The Black Experience in Rock 'n' Roll
Rip it Up: The Black Experience in Rock 'n' Roll 3.65 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Blacks, Whites, and Blues
Blacks, Whites, and Blues 3.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919
Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Black Music Of Two Worlds
Black Music Of Two Worlds 3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Black Music
Black Music 4.10 avg rating — 531 ratings
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