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. …”

We pursue our magic : a spiritual history of Black feminism / by Magloire, Marina

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Rebel music

NinaLisa / by Prédour, Thomas, Silveira, Isnelle da

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Heroes : 15 classic tracks.

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

How to go mad without losing your mind : madness and Black radical creativity / by Bruce, La Marr Jurelle, 1981-

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Black journal.

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Mojo presents Love will tear you apart 15 hand-picked tracks of hurt, pain & despair.

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

Little leaders : bold women in Black history / by Harrison, Vashti

Table of Contents: “…Wells -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Alma Woodsey Thomas -- Alice Ball -- Bessie Coleman -- Augusta Savage -- Marian Anderson -- Josephine Baker -- Mahalia Jackson -- Rosa Parks -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Mamie Phipps Clark -- Katherine Johnson -- Shirley Chisholm -- Althea Gibson -- Maya Angelou -- Nichelle Nichols -- Nina Simone -- Audre Lorde -- Raven Wilkinson -- Wilma Rudolph -- Marcelite Harris -- Angela Davis -- Octavia E. …”

Maiden voyage /

Table of Contents: “…Come into my life / Nona Hendryx (5:22) -- Four women / Nina Simone (4:54) -- Maiden voyage / Jean Hancock, Herbie Hancock (8:26) -- Buy and sell / Laura Nyro (5:29) -- Future news blues / Nnenna Freelon (4:43) -- Until it's time for you to go / Buffy Sainte-Marie (6:00) -- Women be wise / Sippie Wallace (8:08) -- Sepia wing / Nnenna Freelon, Marian McPartland (5:46) -- Pick yourself up / Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern (4:09) -- I won't dance / Dorothy Fields ... …”
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Music innovators /

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Black Performance Theory /

Table of Contents: “…Scott -- Hi-fidelity black -- "Rip it up": excess and ecstasy in Little Richard's sound / Tavia Nyong'o -- Don't stop 'til you get enough: presence, spectacle, and good feeling in Michael Jackson's This is it / Jason king -- Afro-sonic feminist praxis: Nina Simone and Adrienne Kennedy in high fidelity / Daphne A. …”
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She bop : the definitive history of women in popular music / by O'Brien, Lucy

Liberation and the Cosmos : Conversations with the Elders, Revised Edition / by Holmes, Barbara Ann, 1943-

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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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Sound, music, affect : theorizing sonic experience /

Table of Contents: “…Non-cochlear sound : on affect and exteriority / Will Schrimshaw ; Felt as thought, or musical abstraction and the semblance of affect / eldritch Priest ; My mother's scream / Patricia Ticineto Clough -- Hearing, playing, feeling : music and the organizaiton of affect. So transported : Nina Simone, 'My sweet Lord' and the (un)folding of affect / Richard Elliott ; (I can't get no) affect / John Mowitt ; Listening to the talking cure : Sprechstimme, hypnosis, and the sonic organization of affect / Clara Latham -- Affects of turbulence. …”
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I can't talk about the trees without the blood / by Clark, Tiana

Table of Contents: “…About the Trees; After Apollo; After Agon; After Orpheus; The Rime of Nina Simone; III. Without the Blood; BBHMM; First Tree, at Church Camp; First Blood; Self-Portrait as First Kiss; What the Blood Does…”
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