BLACK SONIC EVOLUTIONS 2023 x BLACK CINEMA COLLECTIVE

recommended reads x LOVING ROOM: diaspora books + salon

curated by owner, kristina clark

Titles available via the LOVING ROOM 

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we read FINDING FELA

• Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity by Tsitsi Ella Jaji

• The African Imagination in Music by Kofi Agawu

• Fela Anikulapo Kuti: Afrobeat, Rebellion, and Philosophy by Adeshina Afolayan (August 2023)

• Fela: From West Africa to West Broadway ed. by Trevor Schoonmaker

• For the Women and the Nation: Funmilayo Ransome Kuti of Nigeria by Cheryl Johnson-Odim & Nina Emma Mba

• Queens of Afrobeat: Women, Play, and Fela Kuti’s Music Rebellion by Dotun Ayobade (March 2024)

we read BLACK MUSIC MONTH

grown folks

• Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds by Jayna Brown

• Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday by Angela Y. Davis

• The Cricket: Black Music in Evolution ed. By Larry Neal

• Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader by Greg Tate

• Meals, Music, and Muses: Recipes from My African American Kitchen by Alexander Smalls

• Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers' Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music by Rickey Vincent

young ones

• A is for Aretha by Leslie Kwan

• Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange

• Nina: A Story of Nina Simone by Traci Todd 

• The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars by Carole Boston Weatherford