Re: [acid-jazz] Recommended Music Reading?

From: Michael Greenleaf (mikey_at_suntzusound.com)
Date: 2005-06-07 07:23:05

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    Last Night a Dj Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey
    by Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton

    > 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
    >>
    >