★Soul Jazz Books

Large-format hardback from Soul Jazz on the sleeves of Folkways Records, most by designer Ronald Clyne: hundreds of covers for Woody Guthrie, John Cage, Lead Belly, Allen Ginsberg and many more.

At the start of the 1960s, jazz entered a unique period of revolution as African-American musicians redefined the art form in the context of the Civil Rights Movement, Afro-centric rhythm and thought and an ideology of black economic empowerment. Joh…

The birth of hip hop in New York: rare images of the bands, the MCs and DJs, the artists and the fans, from Afrika Bambaataa and Run-DMC to Keith Haring and the Rock Steady Crew. This book features more than 150 rarely seen images documenting the ris…