Re: [acid-jazz] Recommended Music Reading?

From: Caleb Taft (tonearm_at_gmail.com)
Date: 2005-06-07 00:04:44

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    I would also add (for music):
    But Beautiful by Geoff Dyer
    A fictional and existential portrait of jazz and musicians
    Black Noise by Tricia Rose
    Probably the best serious book written on Hip Hop

    my 2 cents
    caleb

    On 6/2/05, Padilla, John E. <jpadilla_at_utep.edu> wrote:
    >
    > Last summer I read a ton and so now I'm lacking in ideas about what or
    > who to read about.
    > What should I be reading?
    > Here are some of my recommendations.
    > Beneath the Underdog- Charles Mingus
    > Love Saves the Day- Tim Lawrence
    > Fela: From West Africa to West Broadway- Trever Schoonmaker
    > John Coltrane- Bill Cole
    > Performing "Out there" -David G. Such
    > Black, blanc, beur : rap music and hip-hop culture in the francophone
    > world- Alain-Philippe Durand
    >