Season 3 Lineup Is Here!
If you haven’t yet attended one of our live author conversations on Zoom, there are seven more opportunities to do so this year, including our first in-person event in San Francisco! My good friend and co-producer Carly Eiseman and I are thrilled to announce our Season 3 lineup today:
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13
Alison Fensterstock + Ann Powers, How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music (HarperOne) at noon PT/3pm ET/8pm GMT [Zoom link]
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23
Spencer Kornhaber, On Divas: Persona, Pleasure, Power (Atlantic Editions) at noon PT/3pm ET/8pm GMT [Zoom link]
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8
S.H. Fernando Jr., The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast (Astra House) at 7pm at Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 Ninth Avenue, San Francisco [We will stream if possible; info TBD]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16
Tamara Palmer (that’s me!), Bay Area Rap Birthday Party at noon PT/3pm ET/8pm GMT (a digital version of my Bay Area Rap book that inspired the launch of this club will be available 11/1 and 11/16 is my actual birthday!) [Zoom link]
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]
Catch up on past Music Book Conversations
You can now listen to the audio recordings of all our brilliant Season 1 and 2 author conversations!
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)
More treats
• Music Book Club’s upcoming events calendar
• 1 Album A Day Art by Music Book Club co-producer Carly Eiseman