• The History of Jazz —Ted Gioia
• Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History — Robert Walser
• Miles, the Autobiography — Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe
• Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews — Arthur Taylor
• Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie — Count Basie and Albert Murray
• What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists — Eric Porter
• The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records — Ashley Kahn
• Charlie Parker: His Music and Life — Carl Woideck
• The John Coltrane Companion: Five Decades of Commentary — Carl Woideck
• Music Is My Mistress — Duke Ellington
• Blues People; Negro Music in White America — Amiri Baraka
• The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States — Samuel A. Floyd, Jr.
• Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature — Emily J. Lordi
• Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America — Tricia Rose
• Groove Music, the Art and Culture of the Hip-hop DJ — Mark Katz
• Sounding Race in Rap Songs — Loren Kajikawa
• Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-hop Generation — Jeff Chang
• Music of the Common Tongue: Survival and Celebration in African American Music — Christopher Small
• Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop — Imani Perry
• Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow — Karl Hagstrom Miller
• Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class — Eric Lott
• Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race — Maureen Mahon
• Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class — Robin D. G. Kelley
• Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture — Michael Eric Dyson
• The New Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness — Michelle Alexander
• The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America — Khalil Gibran Muhammad
• Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness across the Disciplines — Kimberlé Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel HoSang and George Lipsitz
• The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics — George Lipsitz
