Discussion Questions Archive

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
• Sidney Bechet, Treat It Gentle: An Autobiography

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