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Rhythm & Blues A guide to some of the best music biz books.
Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations
Written by a young, English college professor, this hefty but never boring book tells the story of how R&B and the civil rights movement intersected in the 1950s and 1960s and beyond. 2175 hits | added on 03.23.04 Honkers & Shouters: The Golden Years of Rhythm and Blues
A bit dated as it cuts off in the late 1970s, but still one of the best histories of the genre with interpolated interviews with pioneer figures. 2034 hits | added on 03.23.04 The Death of Rhythm & Blues Published in the late 1980s, it remains the best brief introduction to R&B. 2298 hits | added on 03.23.04
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