Princess Noire : the tumultuous reign of Nina Simone / by Cohodas, Nadine

Table of Contents: “…: September 1947-May 1950 -- Prelude to a fugue : June 1950-May 1954 -- The arrival of Nina Simone : June 1954-June 1956 -- Little girl blue : July 1956-December 1958 -- A fast rising star : 1959 -- Simone-ized : 1960 -- You can't let them humiliate you : January 1961-December 13, 1961 -- Respect : December 14, 1961-December 1962 -- Mississippi goddam : 1963 -- Don't let me be misunderstood : 1964 -- My skin is black : 1965 -- Images : 1966 -- My only groove is moods : 1967 -- Black gold : 1968 -- To be young, gifted and black : 1969 -- I have become more militant : 1970 -- Definite vibrations of pride : 1971 -- This ain't no Geraldine up here : 1972 -- Where my soul has gone : 1973-1976 -- I am not of this planet : 1977-1978 -- Loving me is not enough : 1979-1981 -- Fodder on her wings : 1982-1988 -- Nina's back-- again : 1989-1992 -- A single woman : 1993-1999 -- The final curtain : 2000-2003.…”

I put a spell on you : the autobiography of Nina Simone / by Simone, Nina, 1933-2003

Step it up and go : the story of North Carolina popular music, from Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk / by Menconi, David

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : March 1991 -- Linthead pop : Charlie Poole, the father of mill-town rock (and the first rock star) -- Step it up and go : Blind Boy Fuller, Durham, and the Piedmont blues -- Through the airwaves : Arthur Smith in Charlotte -- Rocket man : Earl Scruggs and the birth of bluegrass -- From gospel to rhythm and blues : the "5" Royales and the rise of a new African American sound -- The American folk revival comes to North Carolina : Doc Watson -- Breaking color lines at the beach : the Embers and beach music -- The eight-track era of rock and roll : Nantucket's long way to the top -- Combo corner : Mitch Easter's Winston-Salem -- Chapel Hill : the "next Seattle" era -- How to make it in the music business without really trying : Colonial, Sugar Hill, and Merge Records -- Y'alternative : the rise of Americana -- Salvation songs : the Avett Brothers -- Songs of immigrants and emigrants : from Nina Simone to the Kruger Brothers -- Hip-hop goes to college : 9th Wonder and Little Brother -- Famous on television : Scotty McCreery, Clay Aiken, Fantasia Barrino, and American idol -- Epilogue : September 2013.…”

Icons of Black music / by Greig, Charlotte, 1954-

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Angels of the night : popular female singers of our time / by Mellers, Wilfrid Howard, 1914-

Table of Contents: “…From tent show to cabaret: the word and the horn: Ruth Etting, Ethel Waters, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Carmen McCrae, Pearl Bailey, Abbey Lincoln, Betty Carter -- Soul, Motown, and the fusion of sacred and profane: Odetta, Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, The Loving Sisters, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Diana Ross and the Supremes, The Pointer Sisters, Esther Phillips, Roberta Flack, Randy Crawford, Donna Summer, Deniece Williams, Angela Bofill -- II. …”

The poetry of soul. by Nicholas, A. X., 1943-

Table of Contents: “…(The King of love is dead) / Bobby Taylor -- Mississippi goddam / Nina Simone -- Blacklash blues / Langston Hughes ; Nina Simone -- Old Jim Crow / Nina Simone; Jackie Alper ; Ron Vander Groeb -- A change is gonna come / Sam Cooke -- Message from a black man / Norma J. …”

Kick out the jams : jibes, barbs, tributes, and rallying cries from 35 years of music writing / by Marsh, Dave

How it feels to be free : black women entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement / by Feldstein, Ruth, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Performing civil rights -- "The world was on fire": making New York City subcultures -- "Africa's musical ambassador": Miriam Makeba and the "voice of Africa" in the United States -- "More than just a jazz performer": Nina Simone's border crossings -- "No one asks me what I want": Abbey Lincoln, Diahann Carroll, and the promise of integration in popular culture -- "So beautiful in those rags": Cicely Tyson, popular culture, and African American history in the 1970s.…”

Poor gal : the cultural history of Little Liza Jane / by Gutstein, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Johnson : "Oh, goodbye Liza Jane" -- From the New Orleans levee to the Hampton Institute : "Little Liza Jane" ad infinitum -- Intermission number two : the literary "Liza Jane" of Charles Chesnutt, Jean Toomer, and Margaret Walker -- You went a-driving with Mister Brown : the Tin Pan Alley publishing bonanza -- Poor gal -- I'se got a gal and you got none : a countess-composer and an actress-aviatrix popularize "Li'l Liza Jane" -- Intermission number three : Effie Lee Newsome's "Charcoal, Leddy, charcoal" and Betty Vincent's "Problems of the heart" -- "Liza Jane" meets the media : film, animation, radio, television -- The Lomaxes -- The constellation that connects Langston Hughes and David Bowie, Antonín Dvořák and Nina Simone -- Portrait of a young enslaved woman standing still in the cathedral silence of the deep woods after a dance -- Appendix 1. …”

The philosophy of modern song / by Dylan, Bob, 1941-

She bop : the definitive history of women in popular music / by O'Brien, Lucy

Blackbird : how Black musicians sang the Beatles into being - and sang back to them ever after / by Kapurch, Katie, 1983-, Smith, Jon Marc

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : change the history : the blackbird in song, story, and transatlantic flight -- Free (free) as a bird : the legacy of the ring shout, flying Africans, and gospel in Black music and the Beatles -- Sing a song of blackbird : pre-twentieth-century transatlantic flights in Black music, the Beatles, and Liverpool -- I'm a little blackbird : Florence Mills, blackbirds of the Harlem Renaissance, and the Beatles' jazz age predecessors -- Flying across the ocean : Lead Belly, "Grey goose," and the Beatles' Liverpool skiffle scene -- You can fly away : Lord Woodbine and Lord Kitchener, "Yellow bird," and calypso in the Beatles' Liverpool club scene -- You ain't ever gonna fly : Nina Simone's "Blackbird" and revolutionary responses to the Beatles -- A blackbird on a white album : Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Diana Ross, and other winged inspirations in and around 1968 -- Like a bird up in the sky : Billy Preston flies to the Beatles in London and circles back to LA with "Blackbird" -- Y'all ready girls? …”

Anthem : social movements and the sound of solidarity in the African diaspora / by Redmond, Shana L.

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Making notes : music of the Carolinas /

Table of Contents: “…King / Phillip Brown ; Loonis, Alec & the great American songbook / Jerry Shinn ; Nina Simone put a spell on us / Charles Blackburn Jr. ; Link Wray / Brendan McKennedy ; Peg Leg Jackson : the last medicine show / Jerry Bledsoe ; Hope Nicholls / Courtney Devores ; Gary Erwin: Charleston's "Shrimp City Slim" / Clair DeLune ; Tommy Faile : crackerjack country / Jack Dillard ; Little Eva / Mick Patrick & Malcolm Baumgart ; Dad, Sam Moss and me / Peter Holsapple ; Richard "Big Boy" Henry / Janet Hartman ; Gina Stewart : go your own way /Sheila Saints ; Maurice Williams / Ann Wicker ; Hip-hop in the Carolinas / Clyde Smith ; Pink Anderson / Peter Cooper ; Carlisle Floyd / K. …”

The meaning of soul : Black music and resilience since the 1960s / by Lordi, Emily J., 1979-

33 revolutions per minute : a history of protest songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day / by Lynskey, Dorian

Table of Contents: “…Billie Holiday, "Strange fruit", 1939: The birth of the popular protest song ; Woody Guthrie, "This land is your land", 1944: Woody Guthrie's America ; Zilphia Horton, Frank Hamilton, Guy Carawan, and Pete Seeger, "We shall overcome", 1947-1963: The power of the people's song ; Bob Dylan, "Masters of war", 1963: The abdication of Bob Dylan ; Nina Simone, "Mississippi Goddam", 1964: The struggle for civil rights -- 1965-1973. …”

That's the joint! : the hip-hop studies reader /

Table of Contents: “…Perry -- Hooligans and heroes: Youth identity and hip-hop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania / Alex Perullo -- Native tongues: A roundtable on hip-hop's global indigenous movement / a roundtable curated by Cristina Veran, with Darryl "DLT" Thompson, Litefoot, Grant Leigh Saunders, Mohammed Yunus Rafiq, and Jaas -- Part IV: "I'll be Nina Simone defecating on your microphone". Hip-hop and gender / Mark Anthony Neal -- I used to be scared of the dick: queer women of color and hip-hop masculinity / Andreana Clay -- "Cover your eyes as I describe a scene so violent": violence, machismo, sexism, and homophobia / Michael Eric Dyson and Byron Hurt -- "The king of the streets": Hip hop and the reclaiming of masculinity in Jerusalem's Shu'afat refugee camp / Ela Greenberg -- Scared straight: Hip-hop, outing, and the pedagogy of queerness / Marc Lamont Hill -- Empowering self, making choices, creating spaces: black female identity via rap music performance / Cheryl L. …”

The best of Broadside 1962-1988 anthems of the American underground from the pages of Broadside magazine /