University of Illinois Press

Rich in detail and analysis, this book is perhaps one of the most comprehensive in rap music scholarship. . . . Certain to become one of the classic books in hip-hop scholarship — Journal of American Folklore More…

Black Women in Music provides valuable and lucid evidence for the fact that music making has historically been and continues to be an arena in which black American women explore and create identities... — Women & Music More…

Hymnologists and sacred harp singers will delight in this book. Highly recommended — Choice More…

Jazzing is a veritable whirlwind of congruent, conflicting and overlapping points of view. From Greenland's wide-angle vantage point . . . the listening to, presenting, writing about, photographing,... — All About Jazz More…

These ten essays, most drawn from these conferences, present a range of interesting and creative discussions of classical and popular music at the time — Choice More…