How America has constructed the figure of the visually impaired black performer over the last 150 years...

Miles to Go is a frank and intimate exploration of Davis’s eccentric working life, drug habits, paranoia, depression, and subsequent recovery. Murphy explores Davis’s troubled relationship with his children and the controversial role Cicely Tyson played in his life. The...

On Ma Journey Now Leader...

A groundbreaking study of "coon songs" and ragtime in black musical comedies, circus sideshows, and tented minstrel shows...

"The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music — through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but...

Originally published in 1867, this book is a collection of songs of African-American slaves. A few of the songs were written after the emancipation, but all were inspired by slavery. The wild, sad strains tell as the sufferers themselves could,...

Includes 22 terrific Motown masterpieces arranged for easy guitar with tab: ABC * Ain't No Mountain High Enough * Ain't Too Proud to Beg * Baby I Need Your Lovin' * Baby Love * Ben...

Explores the cultural and psychological features that are common to all forms of black music.BooknewsScholars of psychology, social sciences, and music examine African American music to look for clues to the subjective processes that have fostered African Americans' personal stability...

Within the Hmong American community, mothers and aunts of teenagers use bangles, lace and traditional handwork techniques to create dazzling displays reflecting the gender and ethnicity of their sons and daughters, nieces and nephews, as they participate in an annual...

Faith Ringgold has produced an amazingly diverse body of work, from oils to collages, thangkas to masks, posters to children's books. She is most famous for her quilts, which combine painting, fabric, and narrative text. She has been awarded sixteen...