2024 Music Book Club Events

Season 3

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26

Rob Swift + Rasul A. Mowatt preview The City of Hip-Hop: New York City, The Bronx, and a Peace Meeting (Routledge, December 17) at noon PT/3pm ET/8pm GMT [Zoom link]

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8

Gina Arnold, Route 666: On the Road to Nirvana (an updated ebook will be released in October) at noon PT/3pm ET/8pm GMT [Zoom link]

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15

Richard Evans, Listening to the Music the Machines Make - Inventing Electronic Pop 1978-1983 (Omnibus Press) at noon PT/3pm ET/8pm GMT [Zoom link]

Past Events Audio Archive

Dan Charnas, Dilla Time (1/28/24)

Danyel Smith, Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop (2/7/24)

Lance Scott Walker, DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution (2/25/24)

DJ Disciple, The Beat, the Scene, the Sound: A DJ’s Journey through the Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of House Music in New York City (2/21/24)

Shawn Reynaldo, First Floor Volume 1: Reflections on Electronic Music Culture (3/17/24)

Soren Baker, Chronicles of the Juice Man: A Memoir (co-written with Juicy J) (3/20/24)

Scott Woods, Prince and Little Weird Black Boy Gods (3/24/24)

DJ Paulette, Welcome to the club: The life and lessons of a Black woman DJ (4/7/24)

Will Hermes, Lou Reed: King of New York (4/24/24)

Dr. Regina N. Bradley, Chronicling Stankonia and An OutKast Reader (6/2/24)

Lori Tucker-Sullivan, I Can’t Remember if I Cried: Rock Widows on Life, Love, and Legacy(6/9/24)

Deborah Paredez, American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous (6/19/24)

Ann Powers, Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell (6/26/24)

Kid Congo Powers and Chris Campion, Some New Kind of Kick (7/21/24)

Kathy Iandoli, God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop (7/28/24)

Alison Fensterstock and Ann Powers, NPR’s How Women Made Music (10/13/24)

S.H. Fernando Jr., The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast (11/8/24) at Green Apple Books on the Park in San Francisco

Past Events Video Archive at 48 Hills

DJ Paulette on Welcome to the Club: The Life and Lessons of a Black Woman DJ (4/7/24)

Scott Woods on Prince and Little Weird Black Boy Gods (3/24/24)

Soren Baker on Chronicles of the Juice Man (3/20/24)

Shawn Reynaldo on First Floor Vol. 1: Reflections on Electronic Music Culture (3/17/24)

Lance Scott Walker on DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution (2/25/24)

DJ Disciple on The Beat, the Scene, the Sound: A DJ's Journey through the Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of House Music in New York City (2/21/24)

Danyel Smith on Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop (2/7/24)

Dan Charnas on Dilla Time (1/28/24)