5 Top music books like Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power by Aaron Cohen

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Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power

By: Aaron Cohen

3.98

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A Chicago Tribune Book of 2019, Notable Chicago Reads A Booklist Top 10 Arts Book of 2019 A No De…

If you liked the music plot in Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power by Aaron Cohen , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Dreams to Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul by Mark Ribowsky

1. Dreams to Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul

By: Mark Ribowsky

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year (Nonfiction) Finalist for the Marfield Prize, National Award… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. The Chrysalids

By: John Wyndham

3.93

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A world paralysed by genetic mutation John Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of … read more

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"We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that."

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

"Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for"

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

"The living form defies evolution at its peril; if it does not adapt, it will be broken. The idea of completed man is the supreme vanity: the finished image is a sacrilegious myth."

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

"... the more complex they made their world, the less capable they were of dealing with it. They had no means of consensus. They learnt to co-operate constructively in small units; but only destructiv…"

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

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3. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

By: Emil Ferris

4.56

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monstersis… read more

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4. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more

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5. How Not To Be a Boy

By: Robert Webb

2.76

Format: 320 pages,

RULES FOR BEING A MAN Don't Cry; Love Sport; Play Rough; Drink Beer; Don't Talk About Feelings But … read more

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6. Three-Martini Lunch

By: Suzanne Rindell

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the author of the "thrilling" (The Christian Science Monitor) novel The Other Typist comesan e… read more

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7. This Is Memorial Device

By: David Keenan

3.64

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

This Is Memorial Device, the debut novel by David Keenan, is a love letter to the small towns of La… read more

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8. The Lost City of the Monkey God

By: Douglas Preston

3.93

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering jour… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within by Rory Stewart

9. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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10. How They Broke Britain

By: James O'Brien

4.29

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

By: James Kaplan

4.35

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
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12. The Waiting

By: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

4.43

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

The story begins with a mother's confession... sisters permanently separated by a border during the… read more

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13. Acting Class

By: Nick Drnaso

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant and suspenseful follow-up to the Booker-nominated graphic novel Sabrina."Every single p… read more

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14. This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

By: Susan Rogers

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secret… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America by Will Sommer

15. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America

By: Will Sommer

4.09

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

The definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, ho… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Taxtopia: How I Discovered the Injustices, Scams and Guilty Secrets of the Tax Evasion Game by The Rebel Accountant

16. Taxtopia: How I Discovered the Injustices, Scams and Guilty Secrets of the Tax Evasion Game

By: The Rebel Accountant

4.37

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

In TAXTOPIA a rogue accountant breaks ranks to share his journey from clueless naïf to skilled tax … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend

17. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

By: Camilla Townsend

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingd… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only s…"

-Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

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18. The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War

By: Jeff Sharlet

4.02

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An unmatched guide to the religious dimensions of American politics, Jeff Sharlet journeys into cor… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007) by Dan Ozzi

19. Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007)

By: Dan Ozzi

4.40

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well tol… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power by Aaron Cohen

20. Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power

By: Aaron Cohen

3.98

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A Chicago Tribune Book of 2019, Notable Chicago Reads A Booklist Top 10 Arts Book of 2019 A No De… read more

Similar categories in Aaron Cohen's Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power book and Aaron Cohen's Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power

  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. War

By: Bob Woodward

4.43

Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"President Trump had secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use as the virus spread rapidly through Russia."

-Bob Woodward, War

"Overall, Hamas killed more than 1,200 Israelis and dragged more than 240 hostages and back across the border into underground tunnels in Gaza. It was the deadliest attack in Jewish history since the …"

-Bob Woodward, War

"The second high-profile Trump critis was retired General Stanley McChrystal, who had commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan a decade earlier. McChrystal had recently appeared on CNN and called…"

-Bob Woodward, War

"In the 2020 election, Trump received 74 million votes, more than any presidential candidate in history with the exception of Joe Biden, who won 81 million votes. Biden secured the Electoral College w…"

-Bob Woodward, War

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Mark Ribowsky

3.67

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The Lost City of the Monkey God

Douglas Preston

3.93

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Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

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4.29

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4.36

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James O'Brien

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