Book of Donmon Teith

Jazz, America's original art form, can be a catalyst for creative and spiritual development. With its unique emphasis on improvisation, jazz offers new paradigm

Drawing on his background as an ethnomusicologist as well as years of experience as an accomplished jazz musician, Paul Austerlitz argues that jazz—and the wo

Grounded essays on jazz as a unifying and transcendent force.

In this first musicological history of rap music, Cheryl L. Keyes traces the genre's history from its roots in West African bardic traditions, the Jamaican danc

Consciousness has been described as one of the most mysterious things in the universe. Scientists, philosophers, and commentators from a whole range of discipli