Black Music
101. 
Dancing to a Black Man's Tune: A Life of Scott Joplin (Missouri Biography Series)
by:
Susan Curtis
3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings 101. 
Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers' Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music
by:
Rickey Vincent
4.53 avg rating — 34 ratings 
103. 
Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power
by:
Aaron Cohen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 54 ratings 
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Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson
by:
Bruce Conforth
4.20 avg rating — 716 ratings 106. 
Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way
by:
Caseen Gaines
4.10 avg rating — 192 ratings 
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
by:
Jeff Chang
4.14 avg rating — 5,536 ratings 109. 
Beale Black and Blue: Life and Music on Black America's Main Street
by:
Margaret McKee
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 111. 
Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap
by:
Ben Westhoff
4.35 avg rating — 1,909 ratings 
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Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
115. 
Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms
by:
Kira Thurman
4.46 avg rating — 39 ratings 
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From Staircase to Stage: The Story of Raekwon and the Wu-Tang Clan
by:
Raekwon
4.24 avg rating — 859 ratings 
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Musical Crossroads: Stories Behind the Objects of African American Music 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Singing in the Spirit: African-American Sacred Quartets in New York City
by:
Ray Allen
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 126. 
A Sick Life: TLC 'n Me: Stories from On and Off the Stage
by:
Tionne Watkins
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 737 ratings 126. 
The Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville (American Made Music Series)
by:
Lynn Abbott
3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings 128. 
Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
by:
Dan Charnas
4.55 avg rating — 4,358 ratings 
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From Jubilee to Hip Hop: Readings in African American Music
by:
Kip Lornell
3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 
133. 
The Songs of Blind Folk: African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness
by:
Terry Rowden
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 135. 
The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop
by:
Jonathan Abrams
4.23 avg rating — 668 ratings 135. 
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Roosevelt's Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on FDR
by:
Guido Van Rijn
3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings 139. 
Fire in My Bones: Transcendence and the Holy Spirit in African American Gospel (Contemporary Ethnography)
by:
Glenn Hinson
3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings 139. 
Ain't Too Proud To Beg: The Troubled Lives and Enduring Soul of The Temptations
by:
Mark Ribowsky
4.05 avg rating — 126 ratings 141. 
A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism
by:
Paul Youngquist
3.99 avg rating — 100 ratings 
143. 
Drop on Down in Florida: Field Recordings of African American Traditional Music 1977-1980
by:
Dwight Devane
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 143. 
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
by:
Judith Tick
3.68 avg rating — 386 ratings 
147. 
Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895 (American Made Music Series)
by:
Lynn Abbott
4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings 
149. 
Sacred Steel: Inside an African American Steel Guitar Tradition (Music in American Life
by:
Robert L. Stone
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings 149. 
Didn't We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston
by:
Gerrick Kennedy
3.82 avg rating — 618 ratings 151. 
Downhome Gospel: African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
151. 
Parental Discretion Is Advised: The Rise of N.W.A and the Dawn of Gangsta Rap
by:
Gerrick Kennedy
4.16 avg rating — 293 ratings 153. 
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My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future
by:
Alice Randall
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 375 ratings 155. 
Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia
by:
Art Rosenbaum
4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music (Volume 13)
by:
Amiri Baraka
3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings 159. 
Singing in the African American Tradition - Volume 2: Building a Vocal Community 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
160. 
African American Music Trails of Eastern North Carolina
by:
Sarah Bryan
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 161. 
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The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America
by:
Larry Tye
4.06 avg rating — 226 ratings 
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Get a Shot of Rhythm and Blues: The Arthur Alexander Story
by:
Richard Younger
4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings