Black Music
4. 
The Supremes: A Saga of Motown Dreams, Success, and Betrayal
by:
Mark Ribowsky
3.83 avg rating — 130 ratings 
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Spirits That Dwell in Deep Woods: The Prayer and Praise Hymns of the Black Religious Experience
by:
Wyatt Tee Walker
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 7. 
Midnight Lightning: Jimi Hendrix and the Black Experience
by:
Greg Tate
3.73 avg rating — 37 ratings 
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Happy in the Service of the Lord: African-American Sacred Vocal Harmony
by:
Kip Lornell
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 10. 
Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions (American Music Series) 4.22 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Union Divided: Black Musicians' Fight for Labor Equality
by:
Leta E. Miller
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 13. 
Man in the Music: The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson
by:
Joseph Vogel
4.59 avg rating — 576 ratings 
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Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical
by:
Judith E. Smith
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings 17. 
Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days
by:
Bill Whitfield
3.88 avg rating — 1,460 ratings 17. 
The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s
by:
Emily J. Lordi
4.55 avg rating — 29 ratings 19. 
You are Not Alone: Michael: Through a Brother's Eyes
by:
Jermaine Jackson
4.33 avg rating — 1,255 ratings 19. 
Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll
by:
Maureen Mahon
4.43 avg rating — 93 ratings 21. 
To Do This, You Must Know How: Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition
by:
Lynn Abbott
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 22. 
It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him
by:
Justin Tinsley
4.20 avg rating — 1,152 ratings 22. 
Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
by:
Danyel Smith
4.05 avg rating — 1,089 ratings 
25. 
Heart & Soul: A Celebration of Black Music Style in America 1930-1975
by:
Bob Merlis
4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings 27. 
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)
by:
Hanif Abdurraqib
4.46 avg rating — 6,391 ratings 27. 
A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance
by:
Hanif Abdurraqib
4.59 avg rating — 9,718 ratings 
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Way Up North in Dixie: A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem
by:
Howard L. Sacks
3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings 33. 
Sweat the Technique: Revelations on Creativity from the Lyrical Genius
by:
Rakim
4.07 avg rating — 1,188 ratings 33. 
Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War
by:
Dena J. Epstein
4.31 avg rating — 36 ratings 
39. 
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
by:
Angela Y. Davis
4.28 avg rating — 1,707 ratings 41. 
Remembering Whitney: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Night the Music Stopped
by:
Cissy Houston
3.99 avg rating — 1,752 ratings 41. 
Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop
by:
Yuval Taylor
3.74 avg rating — 121 ratings 
43. 
People Get Ready!: A New History of Black Gospel Music
by:
Robert Darden
4.06 avg rating — 32 ratings 
45. 
Blind Tom, the Black Pianist-Composer (1849-1908): Continually Enslaved 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
47. 
Sing To Me: My Story of Making Music, Finding Magic, and Searching for Who's Next
by:
L.A. Reid
3.99 avg rating — 602 ratings 47. 
Black Beauty, White Heat: A Pictorial History of Classic Jazz, 1920-1950
by:
Frank Driggs
4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings 
51. 
Smokey Robinson: Grateful and Blessed, Words + Music
by:
Smokey Robinson
4.29 avg rating — 533 ratings 
53. 
Doctors of Rhythm Lib/E: Hip Hop's Greatest Producers Speak
by:
Jake Brown
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 53. 
Doin' the Charleston: Black Roots of American Popular Music & the Jenkins Orphanage Legacy
by:
Mark R. Jones
3.78 avg rating — 187 ratings 
55. 
The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop 3.87 avg rating — 30 ratings
57. 
Hidden in the Mix: The African American Presence in Country Music
by:
Diane Pecknold
3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings 
60. 
Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919
by:
Tim Brooks
4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings 
62. 
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
64. 
Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920-1940
by:
Robin D. Moore
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings 
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What's the Use of Walking If There's a Freight Train Going Your Way?: Black Hoboes & Their Songs
by:
Paul Garon
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 70. 
The Marathon Don't Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle
by:
Rob Kenner
4.46 avg rating — 1,127 ratings 70. 
How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement
by:
Ruth Feldstein
3.97 avg rating — 61 ratings 72. 
Standing In The Shadows Of Motown: The Life And Music Of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson
by:
Dr. Licks
4.53 avg rating — 303 ratings 72. 
74. 
Where Did Our Love Go? The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound
by:
Nelson George
3.93 avg rating — 238 ratings 75. 
With Billie: A New Look at the Unforgettable Lady Day
by:
Julia Blackburn
3.88 avg rating — 380 ratings 76. 
Nothing but Love in God's Water: Volume I: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
by:
Robert Darden
4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings 77. 
Come and Get These Memories: The Story of Holland-Dozier-Holland
by:
Edward Holland
3.92 avg rating — 106 ratings 77. 
Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America
by:
Andrew Ward
4.26 avg rating — 35 ratings 
79. 
Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz (American Made Music Series)
by:
Lynn Abbott
4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings 
83. 
Souled American: How Black Music Transformed White Culture
by:
Kevin Phinney
4.03 avg rating — 34 ratings 
86. 
Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life (American Made Music Series)
by:
Alan Young
4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings 88. 
My Country: The African Diaspora's Country Music Heritage
by:
Pamela E. Foster
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 88. 
The Last 'Darky': Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
90. 
Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills
by:
Renée Watson
4.28 avg rating — 1,052 ratings 
93. 
Blacks in Blackface: A Sourcebook on Early Black Musical Shows: 2 Volumes
by:
Henry T. Sampson
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 95. 
Searching for Robert Johnson: The Life and Legend of the "King of the Delta Blues Singers"
by:
Peter Guralnick
3.88 avg rating — 741 ratings 
99. 
Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South 3.12 avg rating — 8 ratings