Books Read So Far for This Blog/Subject Area

Edward Burra, John Rothenstein, Tate Gallery, 1973

Mythologies, Raymond Barthes, Paladin, 1972

Prince, The First Decade, Per Nielson

Dream Boogie - The Triumph of Sam Cooke, Peter Guralinck, Little Brown & Co, 2005

Holler if You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur, Michael Eric Dyson, Basic Civitas Books, 2003

Prince: A Thief in the Temple, Brian Morton, Canongate, 2007


Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult and Imitation in American Popular Culture, John Strausaugh, Tarcher/Penguin, 2006

Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and Post-War Pop, Charles Shaar Murray, Faber & Faber, 2005

A Student's Guide to Methodology, Peter Clough, Cathy Nutbrown, Sage, 2003

Trouble Man: The Life and Death of Marvin Gaye, Steve Turner, Penguin 1999

Manchester, England, Dave Haslam, 4th Estate, 1999

Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking From Black Culture, Greg Tate. Broadway Books, 2003.

Michael Jackson The Visual Documentary, Adrian Grant, Omnibus Press, 2005

Trapped: Michael Jackson and the Crossover Dream, Dave Marsh, Pan, 1986

Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in 19th Century Blackface Minstrelsy, Anne Marie Bean, ed. Wesleyan University Press, 1996

Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic, Marc Anthony Neal, Routledge, 2002

The Life of Sammy Davis Jr in Black and White, Wil Haygood, Aurum Presss 2003

On Michael Jackson, Margo Jefferson, Pantheon, 2006

Rap Attack, David Tripp

The Rough Guide to Soul


The Trials of Michael Jackson, Lynton Guest

Moonwalk, Michael Jackson, Heinemann, 1988

Michael Jackson Conspiracy, Aphrofite jones, iUnivesre. 2007

Justin: The Biography, Sean Smith, Simon & Schuster, 2003

'Invented by Horror: The Gothic and African American Literary Ideology in Native Son', James Smethusrt, African American Review (article)

Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said, Chatto & Windus, 1993

The Tao of Muhammed Ali, Davis Miller, Vintage

The Michael Jackson Story, Nelson George, Dell, 1984.

Simply the Guest: The Autobiography, David Guest with Gary Jenkins, Headline 2007

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