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For Black Music Appreciation month in June, Penguin Random House Education is celebrating influential Black musicians and artists. We have provided a selection of books that include a range of music topics, from blues to hip-hop to jazz to pop, and musicians and artists who have brought entertainment to their communities and beyond, and inspired

You can search for books across this discipline through our course lists, which cover applied music, music appreciation, music fundamentals, music history, and music theory.    Applied Music Music Appreciation Music Fundamentals Music History Music Theory  

Excerpted from Bessie Smith: A Poet’s Biography of a Blues Legend by Jackie Kay   There are some people whose voices ring out across the centuries, who, even after they have gone, possess a strange ability to still be effortlessly here. Bessie’s voice has that quality. Unsettled most of her life, she still unsettles. Try