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