Here you can find discussion questions from our previously read books. The archive is organized by year.
2020
- Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
- Ken Burns, Jazz
2019
- Jennifer Lynn Stoever, The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening
- Adam Gussow, Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition
- Katrina Hazzard Gordon, Jookin: The Rise of Social Dance Formation in African American Culture
- James Segrest and Mark Hoffman, Moanin’ At Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin’ Wolf
2018
- Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name
- Robert Palmer, Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History, from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago’s South Side to the World
- Oliver, Wendy and Lindsay Guarino, Jazz Dance: A History of the Roots and Branches
- Simone, Nina with Stephen Cleary, I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone
- Morrison, Toni, Jazz
2017
- Dred Scott’s Revenge: A Legal History of Race and Freedom in America by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
- Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues, A Musical History
- Jean and Marshall Stearns, Jazz Dance
- Blues All Around Me, The Autobiography of B.B. King by B.B. King with David Ritz
2016
- Elijah Wald, Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
- Angela Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude ‘Ma’ Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holliday
- Jacqui Malone, Steppin’ on the Blues
- August Wilson, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
