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RACE MUSIC 21: ETUDES/GROOVES/INTERLUDES

Guthrie Ramsey, author of "Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop," announces his new album RACE MUSIC 21, based on the themes from his book.
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Uncovering Stand-Up Comedy’s Feminist Media History

Hattie Noel was a trailblazer of the stand-up comedy form. While the visual archive shows her constrained in the controlling images of Disney’s hippo and Hollywood’s maid, her comedy albums tell a different story of Black representation.
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UC Press's Music Subject Collection

UC Press is pleased to offer our complete list of music journals packaged together as a collection.
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Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago

by Anna Maria Busse Berger (Editor), Henry Spiller (Editor)
Mar 2025
Open Access

Sounds of Survival: Polish Music and the Holocaust

by J. Mackenzie Pierce (Author)
May 2025

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Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago

by Anna Maria Busse Berger (Editor), Henry Spiller (Editor)
Mar 2025
Open Access

How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Radio, Rap, and Race

by Amy Coddington (Author)
Jul 2024
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Sounding the Indian Ocean: Musical Circulations in the Afro-Asiatic Seascape

by Jim Sykes (Author), Julia Suzanne Byl (Author)
Aug 2023
Open Access