2 books The Beat Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip Hop. Sometimes locally known as the most evolved form of funk, it is the funkiest form of black popular music unembraced by the cultural mainstream, perhaps known as well in Europe and the Far East as it is across the United States. In short, it is a book about an expression of blackness, and a celebration and reflection of life in the black neighborhoods. The Beat chronicles the development and popularity of Go Go music since its evolution in the early 1970s, when Chuck Brown left a Latin band to form the seminal Go Go band Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers. His new band fused funk with disco's non-stop music ethic and added the additional percussionists that he had grown to love playing polyrhythmic Latin music. To this mixture Brown fused one of the oldest formats in black American music, call and response, which so many of his fans were familiar with from church. This unique mixture eventually became known as Go Go, and by 1979 it had gone national.

Trouble Funk, E. U. (Experience Unlimited), Junkyard Band, Little Benny and the Masters, and Go Go Mickey. DJs, such as Donnie Simkins, promoters, like Ken Moore, and pioneer producers, such as Max Kidd and Maurice Shorter, Includes a list of recommended recordings,

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Triksta. Life and Death and New Orleans Rap..Acclaimed music writer Nik Cohn’s love of hip-hop goes back to its beginnings, and his love of New Orleans even further. On the surface he’s the least likely candidate for a rap impresario. But with his signature charm and passion, he plunges headfirst into the wards, clubs, and projects of New Orleans, opening up a world closed to most outsiders: a journey into the heart of the hip-hop dream, and into larger question of racial identity in America. Published here with an afterword that chronicles how Katrina altered the lives of those he met) Triksta now stands as an elegy to a city, its music, and its people.

Both ex-library softcovers with usual stamps and stickers and in good condition.