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Freedom, Rhythm & Sound: Chapter Two
Freedom, Rhythm & Sound: Chapter Two
SOUL JAZZ BOOKS
ISBN  9781916359840

Flexi, 11.75 x 11.75 in. / 208 pgs / 500 color. | 11/25/2025 | In stock  |   US $49.95


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Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall to Reggaetón
Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall to Reggaetón
Edited with text by Carla Acevedo-Yates. Foreword by Madeleine Grynsztejn. Text by Julian Henriques, Sonjah Stanley Niaah, Juan Rivera, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, nibia pastrana santiago.

Published with Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

This bilingual (English/Spanish) book is the first critical volume to cover the complexity of Caribbean popular music through the lens of contemporary art, including the ways musical and social >>more

DelMonico Books
ISBN 9781636811758
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Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 304 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 04/21/2026 Awaiting stock


Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures
Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures
Edited by John Reynolds, Tiny Robinson. Text by Jack Kerouac, Glenn O’Brien, Mason Roberson, Pete Seeger, Tom Waits, et al. Poems by Tyehimba Jess.

This is a new edition of Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures, the rich visual biography of legendary Louisiana blues musician Lead Belly, originally published by Steidl in 2007. Here is a treasure trove of >>more

Steidl
ISBN 9783958297036
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Hbk, 9 x 11.75 in. / 256 pgs / 56 color / 110 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/02/2026 Awaiting stock


Lee Scratch Perry: Black Ark
Lee Scratch Perry: Black Ark
Text by Ishion Hutchinson, David Katz, Kodwo Eshun, John Corbett.

A 600-page tribute to one of the most famous locales in music history, Black Ark is a detailed inventory of photographs and writings from the Black Ark Studios in Kingston, Jamaica, where producer Lee “Scratch” >>more

Edition Patrick Frey
ISBN 9783907236666
US $75.00 CAN $110.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 656 pgs / 269 color / 43 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/21/2026 Awaiting stock


Tariq Abdulhakim: A Melody Between Past and Present
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Tariq Abdulhakim (ca. 1920–2012) is widely recognized as the leader of Saudi music's renewal and development. His collaborations with other Saudi and Arab musicians helped transform the genre from simple traditional melodies to a more >>more

Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836652754
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Hbk, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 208 pgs / 270 color.
Pub Date: 04/21/2026 Awaiting stock


The Listening Biennial Reader, Vol. 2
The Listening Biennial Reader, Vol. 2
Edited with text by Rebecca Collins, Brandon LaBelle. Text by Miguel Buenrostro, Wanda Canton, Henry Ivry, Nanna Hauge Kristensen, Margarida Mendes, Sara Mikolai, Mhamad Safa, Luísa Santos, James Webb.

Following an iteration of the Listening Academy held in Bergen, the second volume of The Listening Biennial Reader is dedicated to the creative yet critical methodology of "infralistening"—a kind of listening into both histories and >>more

Errant Bodies Press
ISBN 9783982772103
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Flexi, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 192 pgs / 23 b&w.
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Unearthing the Music
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This monumental volume is the analog component of an international project initiated in Portugal, an online archive for experimental and underground protest sounds from the latter half of the 20th century. This archive covers sounds >>more

Spector Books
ISBN 9783959055406
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 624 pgs / 300 b&w.
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