Black Studies: Pop, Soul, R&B, Motown

Motown : music, money, sex, and power by Gerald Posner

Dancing in the street : Motown and the cultural politics of Detroit by Suzanne E. Smith

Where did our love go? : the rise and fall of the Motown sound by Nelson George

The Supremes : a saga of Motown dreams, success and betrayal by Mark Ribowsky

Mary Wells : The Tumultuous Life of Motown's First Superstar by Peter Benjaminson

The Lost Supreme : The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard by Peter Benjaminson

Motown : the view from the bottom by Jack Ashford

Room full of mirrors : a biography of Jimi Hendrix by Charles R. Cross

Presence and pleasure : the funk grooves of James Brown and Parliament by Anne Danielsen

Cultural codes : makings of a Black music philosophy : an interpretive history from spirituals to hip hop by William C. Banfield; Bill Banfield

98% Funky Stuff : My Life in Music by Maceo Parker

Thriller : the musical life of Michael Jackson by Nelson George

Out of Sight : The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895 by Lynn Abbott; Doug Seroff

Singing in My Soul : Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age by Jerma A. Jackson

Sweet soul music : rhythm and blues and the southern dream of freedom by Peter Guralnick

Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul by James McBride

Otis Redding : an unfinished life by Jonathan Gould

Ladies of Soul by David Freeland

A House on Fire : The Rise and Fall of Philadelphia Soul by John A. Jackson

The Death of Rhythm and Blues by Nelson George

Just My Soul Responding : Rhythm And Blues, Black Consciousness And Race Relations by Brian Ward

California Soul : Music of African Americans in the West by Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje (Editor); Eddie S. Meadows (Editor)