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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‘Hey, It’s Me’
March 9, 2006
Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke
by Peter Guralnick
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Street Diva
July 14, 2005
With Billie
by Julia Blackburn
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The Fall of The Black Empires
June 10, 1999
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 Lost Tycoons
May 20, 1999
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
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How Far from Canaan?
April 21, 1994
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
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Native Sons
April 11, 1991
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, 19801990 edited by Jonathan Shecter, edited by David Mays