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Don't Deny My Name
Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition

Lorenzo Thomas
Edited and with an Introduction by Aldon Lynn Nielsen

Winner: 2008 American Book Award given by the Before Columbus Foundation

Reflections on the relationships between black American intellectuals and African American  musical traditions from blues to hip hop

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Praise for the Book

"One rarely encounters a book that has the potential to change one's thinking in major ways. This is such a book."
—Choice