Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection (Orejuela Fernando)(Paperback)

Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection (Orejuela Fernando)(Paperback)

Music has always been integral to the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, with songs such as Kendrick Lamar's 'Alright,' J. Cole's 'Be Free,' D'Angelo and the Vanguard's 'The Charade,' The Game's 'Don't Shoot,' Janelle Monae's 'Hell You Talmbout,' Usher's 'Chains,' and many others

When We Say Black Lives Matter (Clarke Maxine Beneba)(Paperback / softback)

A timely, powerful and much-needed picture book exploring the background to the Black Lives Matter movement for young

When We Say Black Lives Matter (Clarke Maxine Beneba)(Pevná vazba)

A timely, powerful and much-needed picture book exploring the background to the Black Lives Matter movement for young

The Politics of Care (Boston Review)(Paperback)

A vital collection bringing together Black Lives Matter and COVID-19 from the acclaimed political and literary magazine Boston Review. From the COVID-19 pandemic to uprisings over police brutality, we are living in the greatest social crisis of a generation. But the roots of these latest

Participatory Ideology: From Exclusion to Involvement (Beresford Peter)(Paperback)

The COVID-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter movement and renewed action against climate change all highlight the increasing gulf between narrowly based dominant political ideologies and popular demands for social justice, global health, environmentalism and human rights. This book examines for the

Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment (Davis Angela J.)(Paperback)

A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation's most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars. Policing the Black Man explores and critiques

Deep Purple: A Matter Of Fact (Bloom Jerr)(Paperback)

A Matter Of Fact is the perfect companion to Deep Purple's music. Full of bizarre, obscure and amazing facts that have surrounded the band throughout its career of over forty years. If you have ever had disagreements with fellow fans about various facts or want to test the biggest fan on just how

Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview (King Martin Luther)(Paperback / softback)

As the Black Lives Matter movement gains momentum, and books like Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me and Claudia Rankine's Citizen swing national attention toward the racism and violence that continue to poison our communities, it's as urgent now as ever to celebrate Martin Luther King,

Double Lives in Art and Pop Music (Heiser Jorg)(Paperback)

Exploring the relationship between art and pop music over the last fifty years.Why did Andy Warhol decide to enter the music business by producing the Velvet Underground, and what did the band expect to gain in return? What made Yoko Ono use the skills she developed in the artistic avant-garde in

Matter of Black Lives (Cobb Jelani)(Paperback)

A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and

Mysteries of Black Holes and Dark Matter (Labrecque Ellen)(Paperback / softback)

Purpose of Power - From the co-founder of Black Lives Matter (Garza Alicia)(Paperback / softback)

In a powerful exploration of recent racial history, the cofounder of Black Lives Matter examines the moment we're in, how we got here and how together we can build movements to create a just and equal world.Black Lives Matter began as a hashtag when Alicia Garza wrote what she calls 'a love letter

Everyone Loves Live Music: A Theory of Performance Institutions (Holt Fabian)(Paperback)

Every year, millions of music fans come from far and wide to swarm parks and arenas to hear their favorite bands at festivals such as Lollapalooza, Coachella, and Glastonbury. How did these and countless other festivals across the globe evolve into glamorous pop culture events and create powerful

Electrolyte (Memon Maimuna)(Paperback)

Written in spoken word poetry and underscored entirely by original music created live, Electrolyte is an explosive piece of gig-theatre exploring grief, depression and

500 Words: Black Lives Matter (Various Various)(Paperback / softback)

Almost 6,000 children, aged between 5-13, submitted stories expressing their personal experiences, tales of empathy, learning and respect, building on the international conversation around Black Lives

Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (Thomas Sheree R.)(Paperback)

Dark Matter is the first and only series to bring together the works of black SF and fantasy writers. The first volume was featured in the New York Times, which named it a Notable Book of the

Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (Delgado Richard)(Paperback)

Updated to include the Black Lives Matter movement, the presidency of Barack Obama, the rise of hate speech on the Internet, and moreSince the publication of the first edition of Critical Race Theory in 2001, the United States has lived through two economic downturns, an outbreak of terrorism, and

To Boulez and Beyond (Peyser Joan)(Paperback)

Joan Peyser offers a history of twentieth century music through the lives and works of its greatest composers in To Boulez and Beyond. Peyser provides historical context and suggests psychological insight for these masters, including Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern of the Second Viennese School; their

Bohemian Lives: Three Extraordinary Women: Ida Nettleship, Sophie Brzeska and Fernande Olivier (Licence Amy)(Paperback)

Ida Nettleship was a flamboyant Bohemian who gave up a promising artistic career to marry Augustus John. She had five pregnancies in just six years, lived with Augustus and his mistress in a m nage trois, and died exhausted in childbirth aged thirty. Ida's story of unconventional love is equalled

Live This Book (Chatfield Tom)(Paperback / softback)

Do you want to spend more quality time with the people, ideas and passions that matter most in your life? This book helps you explore your beliefs, ambitions, friendships, memories and flights of

My Nine Lives: A Memoir of Many Careers in Music (Fleisher Leon)(Paperback)

My Nine Lives is a powerful and stirring memoir of one of the greatest pianists of the postwar era--an inspiring tale of courage, compassion, and triumph over outstanding odds. At the peak of his career, celebrated pianist Leon Fleisher suddenly lost the use of two fingers on his right hand

Fucked at Birth: Recalibrating the American Dream for the 2020s (Maharidge Dale)(Paperback)

This is a book ripped from the headlines, from Black Lives Matter to recently thriving downtowns stripped of office workers and service workers. Those catching the brunt of it all, those with the steepest hills to climb, may have been fucked at birth. But for everyone, as Maharidge observes, the

Other Lives: Mind and World in Indian Buddhism (Kachru Sonam)(Paperback)

Human experience is not confined to waking life. Do experiences in dreams matter? Humans are not the only living beings who have experiences. Does nonhuman experience matter? The Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu, writing during the late fourth and early fifth centuries C.E., argues in his work The

Black Stories Matter: Brave Leaders and Activists (Miller J.P.)(Paperback / softback)

Biographies of famous and inspiring black people, from artists to inventors, who broke down barriers to change the world we live