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Cosmic Scholar
He was an anthropologist, a filmmaker, a painter, a folklorist, a mystic, and a walking encyclopedia. He taught Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe about the occult, swapped drugs …
Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth
"Revelatory . . . one of the most briskly revealing pieces of jazz biography that I've read." --Richard Brody, The New Yorker When Billie Holiday first stepped into a recording …
Space is the Place
This ground-breaking biography is as much about Sun Ra's music as it is about his passionate, often wildly unorthodox views on the galaxy, black people and spiritual matters. With …
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith
Named one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New Yorker and The New York Times' Dwight Garner"The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . John Szwed] allows …
Billie Holiday
Today, Billie Holiday is an icon - an artist whose voice has weathered countless shifts in public taste, and whose impact on contemporary music is unquestionable.
Space Is the Place
Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra—aka Herman Blount—was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed …
Billie Holiday
Today, Billie Holiday is an icon an artist whose voice has weathered countless shifts in public taste, and whose impact on contemporary music is unquestionable. But when …
Folksongs and Their Makers
Three prominent folklorists wrote these essays in the 1970s about Dorrance Weir of upstate New York and his song "Take that Night Train to Selma," Joe Scott of Maine and his song …
Black Gods of the Metropolis
Stemming from his anthropological field work among black religious groups in Philadelphia in the early 1940s, Arthur Huff Fauset believed it was possible to determine the likely …
Man Who Recorded the World
Writer, musicologist, archivist, singer, DJ, filmmaker, record, radio and TV producer, Alan Lomax was a man of many parts. Without him the history of popular music would have been …