Arthur Kempton

Arthur Kempton, the author of Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music, is a fellow at the Institute for African-American Research at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. (March 2006)

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July 14, 2005: Street Diva

With Billie by Julia Blackburn

June 10, 1999: The Fall of The Black Empires

To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown: An Autobiography by Berry Gordy

Berry, Me, and Motown by Raynoma Gordy Singleton

An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad by Claude Andrew Clegg III

May 20, 1999: The Lost Tycoons

To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown: An Autobiography by Berry Gordy

Berry, Me, and Motown by Raynoma Gordy Singleton

An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad by Claude Andrew Clegg III.

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The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church by Michael W. Harris

Got to Tell it: Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel by Jules Schwerin

April 11, 1991: Native Sons

The Cocaine Kids: The Inside Story of a Teenage Drug Ring by Terry Williams

Raw Recruits by Alexander Wolff, by Armen Keteyian

The Source: The Rap Music Decade, 1980–1990 edited by Jonathan Shecter, edited by David Mays