Expressively Black aims to illustrate and illuminate the expressive quality of the life and culture of Afro-Americans. This new volume is a collection of essays exploring the different aspects of the Black cultural experience, and includes chapters on black style,...

28 gems from the Motown catalog, including: Ain't No Mountain High Enough * Baby I Need Your Lovin' * Baby Love * Endless Love * Get Ready * I Heard It Through the Grapevine...

One of the most influential singers and songwriters of all time, Sam Cooke was among the first to blend gospel music and secular themes—the early foundation of soul music. He was the opposite of Elvis: a black performer who appealed...

Essays analyzing the impact of African American music and its European reverberations...

In 2002, Gee’s Bend burst into international prominence through the success of Tinwood’s Quilts of Gee’s Bend exhibition and book, which revealed an important and previously invisible art tradition from the African American South. Critics and popular audiences alike marveled...

Boyle and Bunie (history, Boston College) look at the early life and career of actor/singer/political activist Robeson up to the outbreak of World War II. The authors attempt to integrate his many identities to explain his evolution as a performer...

This book examines the clothing worn by African Americans in the southern United States during the thirty years before the American Civil War. Drawing on a wide range of sources, most notably oral narratives recorded in the 1930s, this rich...

Compelling, detailed you-are-there account of racial violence in upper New York State in the summer of 1949. A landmark event in the civil rights movement. 10 illustrations. ...

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"Beginning with the arts produced in the Colonial period, Dr. Lewis documents and interprets the flow of creative productions of an important segment of the American population. Her book shows that the range of art produced by African American artists...