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Playing the Changes

Jazz at an African University and on the Road

Darius Brubeck, Catherine Brubeck

£19.99

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University of Illinois Press

9 July 2024

At the Vanguard of Vinyl

A Cultural History of the Long-Playing Record in Jazz

Darren Mueller

£24.99

Paperback

Duke University Press Books

15 March 2024

The Dark Tree

Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles

Steven L. Isoardi

£23.99

Paperback

Duke University Press Books

8 September 2023

The Williamsburg Avant-Garde

Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront

Cisco Bradley

£23.99

Paperback

Duke University Press Books

21 March 2023

A Pure Solar World

Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism

Paul Youngquist

£19.99

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University of Texas Press

7 March 2023

Musical Landscapes in Color

Conversations with Black American Composers

William C. Banfield, Michael Abels, H. Leslie Adams, Lettie Beckon Alston, Thomas J Anderson, Dwight Andrews, Regina Harris Baiocchi, David Baker, William C. Banfield, Ysaye Maria Barnwell, Billy Childs, Noel DaCosta, Anthony Davis, George Duke, Leslie Dunner, Donal Fox, Adolphus Hailstork, Jester Hairston, Herbie Hancock, Jonathan Holland, Anthony Kelley, Wendell Logan, Bobby McFerrin, Dorothy Rudd Moore, Jeffrey Mumford, Gary Powell Nash, Stephen Newby, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Michael Powell, Patrice Rushen, George Russell, Kevin Scott, Evelyn Simpson-Curenton, Hale Smith, Billy Taylor, Frederick C Tillis, George Walker, James Kimo Williams, Julius Williams, Tony Williams, Olly Wilson, Michael Woods

£23.99

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University of Illinois Press

21 February 2023

Ain't But a Few of Us

Black Music Writers Tell Their Story

Willard Jenkins

£21.99

Paperback

Duke University Press Books

2 December 2022

Soundtrack to a Movement

African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism

Richard Brent Turner

£23.99

Paperback

NYU Press

27 April 2021

The Lady Swings

Memoirs of a Jazz Drummer

Dottie Dodgion, Wayne Enstice

£17.99

Paperback

University of Illinois Press

29 March 2021

Universal Tonality

The Life and Music of William Parker

Cisco Bradley

£23.99

Paperback

Duke University Press Books

12 February 2021

Jumping the Color Line

Vernacular Jazz Dance in American Film, 1929–1945

Susie Trenka

£29.99

Paperback

John Libbey Publishing

2 February 2021

Sounds from the Other Side

Afro–South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music

Elliott H. Powell

£17.99

Paperback

University of Minnesota Press

3 November 2020

Lift Every Voice and Swing

Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century

Vaughn A. Booker

£27.99

Paperback

NYU Press

21 July 2020

Punctuations

How the Arts Think the Political

Michael J. Shapiro

£28.99

Paperback

Duke University Press Books

22 November 2019

Why Lhasa de Sela Matters

Fred Goodman

£12.99

Paperback

University of Texas Press

11 November 2019

Henry Cow

The World Is a Problem

Benjamin Piekut

£23.99

Paperback

Duke University Press Books

27 September 2019

Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz

Katherine Baber

£21.99

Paperback

University of Illinois Press

16 March 2019

Queering Kansas City Jazz

Gender, Performance, and the History of a Scene

Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone

£35.00

Hardcover

Nebraska

1 November 2018

Live at The Cellar

Vancouver’s Iconic Jazz Club and the Canadian Co-operative Jazz Scene in the 1950s and ‘60s

Marian Jago, Don Thompson

£25.99

Paperback

UBC Press

15 October 2018

Jazz As Critique

Adorno and Black Expression Revisited

Fumi Okiji

£18.99

Paperback

Stanford University Press

4 September 2018

Tropical Riffs

Latin America and the Politics of Jazz

Jason Borge

£20.99

Paperback

Duke University Press Books

7 March 2018

Dizzy, Duke, Brother Ray, and Friends

On and Off the Record with Jazz Greats

Lillian Terry

£19.99

Paperback

University of Illinois Press

3 November 2017

Jazz Internationalism

Literary Afro-Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Black Music

John Lowney

£21.99

Paperback

University of Illinois Press

16 October 2017

Fats Waller

Maurice Waller, Anthony Calabrese

£13.99

Paperback

University of Minnesota Press

22 August 2017

Circular Breathing

The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain

George McKay

£31.00

Paperback

Duke University Press Books

23 November 2005

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