Beyoncé Cowboy Carter Reading List

1.
My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future
My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 375 ratings
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Jazz
Jazz 3.90 avg rating — 36,223 ratings
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August Lane
August Lane 4.37 avg rating — 208 ratings
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Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History
Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History 4.01 avg rating — 228 ratings
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A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde 3.99 avg rating — 43,959 ratings
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Goodbye Earl
Goodbye Earl 3.50 avg rating — 5,377 ratings
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The New Black West: Photographs from America's Only Touring Black Rodeo
The New Black West: Photographs from America's Only Touring Black Rodeo 4.42 avg rating — 64 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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She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs
She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs 3.81 avg rating — 6,282 ratings
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Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks 4.37 avg rating — 1,032 ratings
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Dolly Parton Songteller: My Life in Lyrics: My Life in Lyrics
Dolly Parton Songteller: My Life in Lyrics: My Life in Lyrics 4.02 avg rating — 26,760 ratings
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On the Rooftop
On the Rooftop 3.22 avg rating — 11,716 ratings
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Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions (American Music Series)
Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions (American Music Series) 4.22 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop 4.05 avg rating — 1,089 ratings
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The Chitlin' Circuit: And the Road to Rock 'n' Roll
The Chitlin' Circuit: And the Road to Rock 'n' Roll 3.97 avg rating — 497 ratings
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Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson
Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson 4.13 avg rating — 355 ratings
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Country Music: An Illustrated History
Country Music: An Illustrated History 4.53 avg rating — 399 ratings
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The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States
The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States 4.30 avg rating — 145 ratings
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God's Country
God's Country 4.12 avg rating — 1,115 ratings
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Every Kiss a War
Every Kiss a War 4.38 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Black Cowboys of the Old West: True, Sensational, And Little-Known Stories From History, First Edition
Black Cowboys of the Old West: True, Sensational, And Little-Known Stories From History, First Edition 3.98 avg rating — 195 ratings
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The Compton Cowboys: The New Generation of Cowboys in America's Urban Heartland
The Compton Cowboys: The New Generation of Cowboys in America's Urban Heartland 3.87 avg rating — 1,271 ratings
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Dark Trail
Dark Trail 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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It's a Long Story: My Life
It's a Long Story: My Life 4.13 avg rating — 9,724 ratings
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Broken Ranks
Broken Ranks really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western
Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western
by: Mia Mask
4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev 3.82 avg rating — 32,777 ratings
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A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance 4.59 avg rating — 9,717 ratings
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Gabriel's Story
Gabriel's Story 3.88 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Black Futures
Black Futures 4.56 avg rating — 1,183 ratings
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Black Cowboys of Rodeo: Unsung Heroes from Harlem to Hollywood and the American West
Black Cowboys of Rodeo: Unsung Heroes from Harlem to Hollywood and the American West 4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Ghetto Cowboy
Ghetto Cowboy
by: G. Neri
3.92 avg rating — 2,936 ratings
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Polo Cowboy
Polo Cowboy
by: G. Neri
4.12 avg rating — 49 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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Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States
Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States 4.54 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow
Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow 4.22 avg rating — 95 ratings
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America 4.70 avg rating — 38,096 ratings
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Ride or Die: A Feminist Manifesto for the Well-Being of Black Women
Ride or Die: A Feminist Manifesto for the Well-Being of Black Women 4.10 avg rating — 367 ratings
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African American Women of the Old West
African American Women of the Old West 3.92 avg rating — 120 ratings
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In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528-1990
In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528-1990 4.07 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll
Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll 4.43 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Banjo Roots and Branches
Banjo Roots and Branches 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters
Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters 4.32 avg rating — 50 ratings
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My Country: The African Diaspora's Country Music Heritage
My Country: The African Diaspora's Country Music Heritage 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Arhoolie Records Down Home Music: The Stories and Photographs of Chris Strachwitz
Arhoolie Records Down Home Music: The Stories and Photographs of Chris Strachwitz 4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Going Back to T-Town: The Ernie Fields Territory Big Band (Volume 2) (Greenwood Cultural Center Series in African Diaspora History and Culture)
Going Back to T-Town: The Ernie Fields Territory Big Band (Volume 2) (Greenwood Cultural Center Series in African Diaspora History and Culture) 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies
Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies 4.34 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Night Train to Nashville: The Greatest Untold Story of Music City
Night Train to Nashville: The Greatest Untold Story of Music City 3.79 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Woman Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives (American Music Series)
Woman Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives (American Music Series) 3.84 avg rating — 185 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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Blackberries, Blackberries
Blackberries, Blackberries 4.16 avg rating — 499 ratings
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We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy
We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy 4.34 avg rating — 385 ratings
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Mounted: On Horses, Blackness, and Liberation
Mounted: On Horses, Blackness, and Liberation 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Coal
Coal 4.67 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner
The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner 3.49 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Longest Ride
The Longest Ride 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Will's Race for Home
Will's Race for Home 4.16 avg rating — 533 ratings