Nelson George, Author Putnam Publishing Group $24.95 (284p) ISBN 978-0-399-13865-2
A well-known critic of popular culture ( Buppies, B-Boys, Baps & Bohos ) George's first attempt at fiction is unfortunately clumsy. Dwayne Robinson, an aspiring music critic and intellectual bad boy from Brownsville (via St. John's University),...
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Nelson George. Akashic, $15.95 trade paper (280p) ISBN 978-1-61775-586-6
Having covered rhythm and blues in 2015’s The Lost Treasures of R&B, George explores funk in his fine fourth novel featuring D Hunter, New York bodyguard and, by virtue of his jobs and interests, music historian. When D’s 72-year-old grandfather,...
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Nelson George. Akashic, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-61775-316-9
George’s lively third D Hunter mystery (after 2011’s The Plot Against Hip-Hop) takes bodyguard and musical-history authority D back to Brooklyn, where he grew up, after his Manhattan security company fails. On D’s last day in his Soho office,...
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Nelson George. Morrow, $27.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-222103-2
The iconic music-and-dance television show that defined the look and moves of Black America gets a fond though unfocused retrospective in this nostalgic history. Music historian George (The Death of Rhythm and Blues) recounts Soul Train’s run as a...
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Nelson George. Akashic, $15.95 trade paper (220p) ISBN 978-1-61775-024-3
George (City Kid), a prolific cultural critic, attempts to squeeze 40 years of hip-hop and urban culture into this uneven noir, which centers on the stabbing of Dwayne Robinson, a middle-aged music critic and black intellectual with a career similar
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Nelson George, Author Viking Books $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-87153-7
George (The Death of Rhythm and Blues) calls this wide-ranging history of hip-hop a ""book of memory"" and compares his relationship with the music to a love affair. A portrait not just of the music but of the whole culture coalescing around beats...
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Nelson George, Author Putnam Publishing Group $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-14169-0
African American pop music may have no more eloquent champion than George (Urban Romance, 1994), but in this ambitious attempt to fictionalize two decades worth of hip music history, the author's extensive knowledge of the field crowds his...
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Nelson George, Author Simon & Schuster $11 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-79712-6
In this notable history of the role of African Americans in basketball, George contends that black players have remade the sport to the point where they have become its very soul. Photos. (Jan.)
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Nelson George, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (329p) ISBN 978-0-06-016724-0
Village Voice columnist George has already established his scholarly depth and his gift for stylish, finger-on-the-pulse reporting on black music with his The Death of Rhythm & Blues and Where Did Our Love Go? The Rise & Fall of the Motown Sound ....
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Nelson George, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (261p) ISBN 978-0-06-016723-3
Black players have remade basketball, becoming the very soul of the game; such is the thesis of George ( The Michael Jackson Story ) in this notable history of the role of African Americans on the court. He shows that as early as the 1920s, Marques...
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Nelson George, Author Plume Books $8.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-525-48510-0
``Here are perceptive summations of the contributions of such star creative performers as Chuck Berry, James Brown, Aretha Franklin and Michael Jackson, as well as of lesser-known musicians, and of the links between black social and economic affairs
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Nelson George, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (250p) ISBN 978-0-312-86698-3
George, an editor at Billboard and author of The Michael Jackson Story, recounts the story of Motown Records, founded by Berry Gordy in Detroit in 1959 and now located in Hollywood. In the end, the author concludes, ""Motown became just another...
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Nelson George, Author McGraw-Hill/Contemporary $0 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8092-5004-2
Billboard rhythm and blues columnist George follows his bestselling The Michael Jackson Story with this account of New Edition's rapid rise from the streets of Roxbury in Boston to superstardom. The five teens in the group began by recreating the...
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Nelson George, Author Touchstone Books $12 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7432-0443-9
The author of The Death of Rhythm and Blues and Hip Hop America both nominated for National Book Critics Circle Awards in nonfiction turns to fiction once again (One Woman Short, etc.), producing a titillating if unsatisfying novel of buppie angst....
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Nelson George, Author Noble Press Inc $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-879360-36-5
George's debut novel is about the relationship between a young music critic from working-class Brooklyn and an Ivy League graduate at Columbia. (Apr.)
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Nelson George, Author Pantheon Books $18.95 (222p) ISBN 978-0-394-55238-5
Slicing through the main layers of the world of R & B, George, music critic for Billboard and Playboy , profiles his personal heroes in the recent history of black musicespecially in the evolution of black radio, the growth of independent record...
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Nelson George, Author . Viking $25.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-670-02036-2
In his vivid and charming memoir, novelist and screenwriter George (Hip Hop America
) recounts incidents from an eventful life that has ranged from a tough upbringing by his single mother in Brooklyn in the 1960s to a career of assorted writing gigs
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Nelson George, Author . Touchstone $13 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7432-3552-5
Emmy-winning TV producer George examines the ambition, deception, corruption and pervasive drug culture that lurk on the underside of the music world in this noirish thriller, which opens with the kidnapping of pop singer Night, the protagonist of...
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Nelson George, Author . Viking $23.95 (242p) ISBN 978-0-670-03275-4
Black Americans in the 1980s became figures of influence as never before, while a conservative government sought to chip away at hard-won advances, and the twin plagues of AIDS and crack began to blight the lives of millions of ordinary citizens....
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Nelson George, Author . Touchstone $12 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7432-3551-8
Best known for his nonfiction (Hip Hop America
and The Death of Rhythm and Blues
were both nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award), George is also a talented novelist (One Woman Short, etc.). In his fifth novel, he chronicles the...
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Nelson George, Author, N. George, Author HarperCollins Publishers $22 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-017120-9
According to the publisher, this book caps George's trilogy on black popular culture, after Elevating the Game, on basketball, and The Death of Rhythm and Blues, on music. But even the author acknowledges that Blackface is ``more a memoir than a...
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Nelson George, Author, Jim Fricke, Editor, Charlie Ahearn, Editor . Da Capo $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-306-81184-5
Based on the "Hip-Hop Nation" exhibit at Seattle's Experience Music Project and the project's ongoing Oral History Program, this history of the beginnings of hip-hop in 1970s New York City is a lavishly illustrated and lovingly...
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Nelson George. Akashic, $16.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-61775-809-6
In George’s smart fifth D Hunter mystery (after 2017’s To Funk and Die in L.A.), D, a former bodyguard turned talent manager in L.A., signs hip-hop artist Lil Daye and gets him a lucrative deal to promote a liquor brand being touted by entrepreneur...
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