Recs if you like Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday...

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from artists to songs to streaming, a list of nonfiction works on the ins and outs and cultural impact of all things music

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How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy

Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist

Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion

What to read after watching Sinners

by foring

39 books

Finally watched Sinners (2025) written and directed by Ryan Coogler Starting list from thebookclub.eu on ig and ft. domdeereads ♡

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Freedom’s Guides

by kishmish

24 books

academic & theory-heavy Black Feminist, Queer, & Critical Race texts. suggestions and/or corrections always welcome!

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But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

society & music

by dotts

34 books

books about music & its social aspects that I want to read (excluding biographies), but lots of suggestions aren't on pb yet! note: v much american-focused

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Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution

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