In jazz circles, players and listeners with "e;big ears"e; hear and engage complexity in ...

Ranging from Los Angeles to Havana to the Bronx to the U.S.-Mexico border and from klezmer to hip...

In 1980, the celebrated new wave band Blondie headed to Los Angeles to record a new album and alo...

Black and Brown in Los Angeles is a timely and wide-ranging, interdisciplinary foray into ...

Tijuana Dreaming is an unprecedented introduction to the arts, culture, politics, and economics o...

The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is na...

African Rhythms is the autobiography of the important jazz pianist, composer and band leader Rand...

Stretching from the years during the Second World War when young couples jitterbugged across the ...

Hip Hop Desis explores the aesthetics and politics of South Asian American (desi) hip hop artists...

Arguing that pop music turns on moments rather than movements, the essays in Listen Again pinpoin...

A hybrid of reggae and rap, reggaeton is a music with Spanish-language lyrics and Caribbean aesth...

In Segregating Sound, Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to t...