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Crate Missions

The Art and Archive of Hip Hop Beat-Making

By Jason D. Rawls
Foreword by Pete Rock
Subjects: Music, African American Studies
Series: Tracking Pop

Reframing sampling as research and storytelling

A New History of Black Pittsburgh

Advancing the Case for Reparatory Justice

By Joe William Trotter, Esther Bush, Laurence Glasco, Benjamin Houston, Patricia Pugh Mitchell, Tony Norman, Rob Ruck, and Carla A. Young
Subjects: African American Studies, History, African American History

Making the case for reparatory justice in both material and nonmaterial terms

Emotional Signals

Auto-Tune, Melodyne, and the Cultural Politics of Pitch Correction

By Catherine Provenzano
Subjects: Music, Music Composition, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, African American Studies
Series: Tracking Pop

Problem Solved!

The Music and Theater of The Negro Problem

By Stew Stewart, Heidi Rodewald
Edited by Brandon Woolf
Contributions by Scott Kurashige, and Tavia Nyong'o
Subjects: Music, Theater and Performance, African American Studies
Series: Critical Performances

Reparation and World Remaking

Edited by Elise Klein, Erin Fitz-Henry, and Rachel Hughes
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, African American Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies

An interdisciplinary approach to fundamentally reordering the structures of colonialism, slavery, and racial capitalism

Black Song

A Manifesto for Music and Justice

By Singing Justice Collective, Louise Toppin, Naomi Andre, Stephen A. Berrey, Tyrese Byrd, Mark Allan Clague, Caroline Helton, Traci L. Lombré, Samantha Williams, Cody Jones, Christie Finn, and Thomas Hampson
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Connecting music and history to engage more deeply and respectfully with Black musical traditions

Black Power Praxis

Theory, Practice, and Activist Intellectuals in Detroit's Black Power Movement

By Matt Birkhold
Subjects: African American Studies, History, African American History, Cultural Studies, Activism

A close look at how social movements rise and fall

Out for Glamour in Africa

A History of Black Urban Femininities in Drum Magazine

By Wanjiru G. Mbure
Subjects: African Studies, Media Studies, Journalism, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, African American Studies, Urban Studies, Caribbean Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Renegotiating Black femininities through Drum magazine

The Ella E. Hall Recipe Book

By Ella E. Hall
Foreword by Jessica Kenyatta Walker & Susan Wineberg
Subjects: Cookbooks, African American Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Food and Drink

A personal collection of recipes and culinary experiments

Curriculum of the Mind

By Stevie “Dr. View” Johnson & The Space Program
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Sociology, African American Studies
Series: Tracking Pop

Dreaming of freedom through sound

Hurt, Baby, Hurt

By William Walter Scott, III
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Race and Ethnicity, African American Studies

Starting the 1967 Detroit Rebellion

Prince, Musical Genre, and the Construction of Racial Identity

By Griffin Woodworth
Subjects: Music, Musicology, African American Studies
Series: Tracking Pop

The legacy of the music legend

A Domestic Cook Book

Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen

By Malinda Russell
Subjects: Cookbooks, African American Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Food and Drink

Bringing new life to the oldest known published cookbook written by an African American woman

Readying the Revolution

African American Theater and Performance from Post-World War II to the Black Arts Movement

By Jonathan Shandell
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A critical history of Black culture post-World War II that helped cultivate the spirit of Black revolutionary theater

Teaching Difficult Topics

Reflections from the Undergraduate Music Classroom

Edited by Olivia R. Lucas & Laura Moore Pruett
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Reflections from college music instructors offering various approaches to inclusive, supportive pedagogy in the classroom

Owning My Masters (Mastered)

The Rhetorics of Rhymes & Revolutions

By A.D. Carson
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Music, Musicology
Series: Tracking Pop

Using hip hop to create new theory

The Revolution Will Be Improvised

The Intimacy of Cultural Activism

By Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance

An examination of revolutionary intimacy-making, experimental performance, and art activism during the civil rights movement

Lessons in Gratitude

A Memoir on Race, the Arts, and Mental Health

By Aaron P Dworkin
Subjects: Memoir, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Ann Arbor/University of Michigan, African American Studies
Series: Campus Voices: Stories of Excellence from the University of Michigan

A tale of persistence, passion, and music

Rock This Way

Cultural Constructions of Musical Legitimacy

By Mel Stanfill
Subjects: Music, Popular Music, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, African American Studies

What remixes, covers, mash-ups, and parodies say about the perceived legitimacy of music making

Racing the Great White Way

Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway

By Katie N. Johnson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How artists of color challenged racist stereotypes on the Broadway stage

On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone

By Philip Ewell
Subjects: Music, Music Theory, African American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Exposing the racial injustices of music theory

For the Culture

Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice

By Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey & Adolphus Belk
Subjects: Music, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Examines the relationship between social justice, Hip-Hop culture, and resistance

Being Human during COVID

By Kristin Ann Hass
Subjects: American Studies, African American Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Middle and Near Eastern Studies

What the humanities can teach us about COVID-19

Sampling and Remixing Blackness in Hip-Hop Theater and Performance

By Nicole Hodges Persley
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, American Studies, Music

Explores expressions of Blackness in Hip-Hop performance by non-African American artists

Land of Opportunity

One Family's Quest for the American Dream in the Age of Crack

By William M. Adler
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes

The story of the Chambers brothers’ crack cocaine empire and the city that made them

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