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Race: book examples

The Role of Music in European Integration by Albrecht Riethmüller (Editor)
Call Number: ML3917.E85 R65 2017
ISBN: 9783110477528
Eurocentrism and multiculturalism since the Second World War.
Negro Soy Yo: hip hop and raced citizenship in neoliberal Cuba by Marc D. Perry
Call Number: ML3486.C82 P47 2016
ISBN: 9780822358855
Situates hip hop within a long history of Cuban racial politics.
The Hip Hop and Obama Reader by Travis L. Gosa
Call Number: ML3531.H54 2015
An examination of hip hop's potential to effect social change in the 21st century.
Nothing but Love in God's Water by Robert F. Darden
Call Number: ML3556.D33 2014 v.1-2
Volume 1: Black sacred music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement. Volume 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit-Ins to Resurrection City.
Singing for Equality by Cheryl C. Boots
Call Number: ML3917.U6 B66 2013
Hymns in the American antislavery and Indian rights movements, 1640-1855.
Listen, Whitey! by Pat Thomas
Call Number: ML3792.M67 T56 2012
The sights and sounds of Black power, 1965-1975. Includes rare recordings of speeches, interviews and music by noted activists.

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African Americans music
Black power
Hip-hop political aspects
Hip-hop social aspects
Music race
Music political aspects
Music social aspects

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Race: score example

Slave Songs of the United States by William Francis Allen (Compiler)
Call Number: M1670 .A42 2007
Collection of 136 songs compiled in 1867.

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African Americans music
Slaves music
Spirituals songs

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Race: audio and video examples

All hail the queen by Queen Latifah
Call Number: PhonCD P Q31 all
One of the first politically conscious female rappers.
Fear of a black planet by Public Enemy
Call Number: PhonCD P P96 fear
Influential and controversial New York rap act that attained massive cultural significance.
Home invasion by Ice-T
Call Number: PhonCD P Ic2 home
One of the most outspoken rappers from the 80s West Coast hip-hop scene, and one of the founding fathers of gangster rap.
Say it loud! a celebration of Black music in America.
Call Number: PhonCD F G3701.A3.S395 (6 CDs)
Kanopy streaming video (MIT access)
See categories Music for Social Change; Documentaries; Race & Class Studies; Hip-Hop. Examples:
I am not your Negro: James Baldwin and race in America.
Strange fruit: the biography of a song. The first documentary exploring the history and legacy of the Billie Holiday classic.
Tupak Shakur in his last interview.
Sound of the Soul a portrait of Fez, Morocco, an historically open-minded and tolerant Arab city, with its annual Fez Festival of World Music.

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African Americans music
Blues music
Gospel music
Rap music
Rock music 1981-1990

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