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African American Music Appreciation Month

The RCC Library has gathered books and films to celebrate African American Music Appreciation month.

Go to Kanopy, Academic Video Online, EBSCO eBooks, and Ebook Central to browse more titles.

Ebooks

African American Music
African American Musicians

Digging : The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music by Amiri Baraka
ISBN: 9780520257153
Publication Date: 2009
I Am Hip-Hop : Conversations on the Music and Culture by Andrew Rausch
ISBN: 9780810877917
Publication Date: 2011
Keep on Pushing : Black Power Music From Blues to Hip-hop by Denise Sullivan
ISBN: 9781556528170
Publication Date: 2011
The Power of Black Music by Samuel A. Floyd; Samuel A. Floyd
ISBN: 9780195109757
Publication Date: 1996
Pulse of the People : Political Rap Music and Black Politics by Lakeyta M. Bonnette
ISBN: 9780812246841
Publication Date: 2015
What Is This Thing Called Jazz? : African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists by Eric Porter
ISBN: 9780520232969
Publication Date: 2002

Monk's Music by Gabriel Solis
ISBN: 9780520252011
Publication Date: 2007
Thriller by Nelson George
ISBN: 9780306818783
Publication Date: 2010
The Words and Music of Ice Cube by Gail Hilson Woldu
ISBN: 9780275990435
Publication Date: 2008

Streaming Videos

Documentaries
Movies

Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song

Jimi and Sly: The Skin I'm In

Grace Jones

Mavis!

Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap

The History of Black Music, Part 1

The History of Black Music, Part 2

The Amazing Nina Simone

Morris from America

The Harder They Come