Rhythm and Blues - books


AIRSHAFTS, LOUDSPEAKERS AND THE HIP-HOP SAMPLE - CONTEXT AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSICAL AESTHETICS.

Baker, Houston A. Black Studies, Rap and the Academy. Chicago. 1993.

Benjaminson, Peter. The story of Motown. New York: Grove Press, 1979.

Berry, Jason, Jonathan Foose and Tad Jones. Up From the Cradle of Jazz -
New Orleans Music Since World War II. New York: Da Capo Press.

Chilton, John. Let the Good Times Roll: The Story of Louis Jordan and His 
Music. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Costello, Mark and David Foster Wallace. Signifying Rappers: Rap and
Race in the Urban Present. New York, 1990.

Fernando, S. H., Jr. The New Beats: Exploring the Music Culture and 
Attitudes of Hip-Hop. NY: Doubleday, 1995.

Fox, Ted. Showtime at the Apollo. New York: Da Capo Press.

George, Nelson. The Death of Rhythm & Blues. New York: Penguin/Plume, 
1988.

Guralnick, Peter. Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern
Dream of Freedom (1986).
A history of Southern black popular music.

Hardy, Phil and Dave Laing. The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular
Music. London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1990.

Kowalewski, Zbigniew. The Revolutionary Message of Rap Music. San
Francisco. 1993.

Lamaison, Jean-Louis. Soul Music. Paris: Rock and Folk Albin-Michel.

Larkin and Rochelle. Soul Music! New York: Lancer Book.

McCoy, Judy. Rap Music in the 1980s. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1992.

Nelson, Havelock and Michael A. Gonzales. Bring the Noise: A Guide to Rap
Music and Hip-Hop Culture. New York. 1991.

Otis, Johnny. Upside your head, rhythm and blues on Central Avenue. 1993.

Shaw, Arnold. The World of Soul. New York: Cowles Book Company, 1970.

Shaw, Arnold. Honkers and shouters: the golden years of rhythm and blues.
New York: Macmillan, 1977.
Important for the early years of rock'n'roll, coming from R&B.

Stanley, Lawrence A., ed. Rap, The Lyrics - The Words to Rap's Greatest
Hits. New York: Penguin Books, 1993.

Van Der Merwe, Peter. Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of
Twentieth-Century Popular Music. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1989.

Wilmer, Valerie. The Story Of The New Jazz. Westport, Connecticut: Lawrence
Hill and Company, 1980.

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