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Welcome to all HBCU representatives, and thank you for your support of Marcus Bookstores.

With your purchase of The Freedom Guide for Music Creators, you will empower your students to master the fundamentals of the music business, and give them access to strategies and resources they will not hear about except through your actions today.  When your students receive The Freedom Guide for Music Creators, they will learn:

How the music business will try to put them through a taste of some of the hardest parts of the African American experience since the end of slavery — and what they can do to protect themselves

How to get each and every one of their compositions works the copyright registration they need at the lowest possible cost — AND the address and contact info of EVERY copyright office IN THE WORLD

How to handle SAMPLING — the right way, not the wrong way

How to get the proper licenses to cover ANY song — quickly and cost-effectively

What things they need to have in EVERY record contract — and the very things that will STEAL A MUSICIAN BLIND if not caught

The NUMBER ONE, time-honored, sure-fire way to build a fan base that lasts, no matter what fads and technology come and and go

And much more — all in a easy-to-read, concise format that lends itself to immediate action!

Thank you so much for your patronage of Marcus Bookstores — we appreciate working with you to educate Black musicians everywhere about how to handle their music business!  Order now, and change the lives of the talented young musicians you serve for the better — forever!

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From Process to Print: The Graphic Works by Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden, illustrator
Mary Lee Corlett, essay

From Process to Print: Graphic Works by Romare Bearden celebrates the etchings, aquatints, collagraphs, photo projections, lithographs, and screenprints of one of America’s most important twentieth-century artists. More than seventy-five full-color reproductions demonstrate Bearden’s printmaking process as he worked and reworked particular images, themes, and techniques; illuminate how his thinking and approaches were shaped through collaborations with master printmakers, especially Robert Blackburn; and evidence Bearden’s extraordinary facility for weaving into every art form a rich tapestry of literary, biblical, mythological, popular-culture, and Western and non-Western themes shaped by his African American cultural experiences.

Cloth
35.00

American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold’s Paintings of the 1960s

Thom Collins, Tracy Fitzpatrick, Michelle Wallace, Faith Ringgold

Faith Ringgold (born 1930) is famed today as the progenitor of the African-American story-quilt revival of the late 1970s, but her story begins much earlier, with her “American People Series” of 1963. These once influential paintings, and the many political posters and murals she created throughout the 1960s, have largely disappeared from view, being routinely omitted from art historical discourse over the past 40 years. “American People, Black Light” is the first examination of Ringgold’s earliest radical and pioneering explorations of race, gender and class. Undertaken to address the social upheavals of the 1960s, these are the works through which Ringgold found her political voice. “American People, Black Light” offers not only clear insight into a critical moment in American history, but also a clear account of what it meant to be an African American woman making her way as an artist at that time.

Paper
30.00

Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist

Susan Earle, Renee Ater, Kinishasha Conwill, David Driskell, Robert Hemenway, Amy Kirchke

In paintings, murals, and book illustrations, Aaron Douglas (1899-1979) produced the most powerful visual legacy of the Harlem Renaissance, prompting the philosopher and writer Alain Locke to dub him the “Father of Black American Art.” Working from a politicized concept of personal identity and a utopian vision of the future, the artist made a lasting impact on American art history and on the nation’s cultural heritage. Douglas’s role, as well as that of the Harlem Renaissance in general, in the evolution of American modernism deserves close scholarly attention, which it finally receives in this beautifully illustrated book. Douglas combined Egyptian ideology with angular Cubist rhythms and seductive Art Deco dynamism in portraying African and African American imagery. The result was a radically new utopian visual vocabulary that evoked both current realities and hopes for a better future. Presenting more than ninety illustrations of Douglas’s works and the commentary of leading critics and historians, this book focuses on the artist’s career from the 1920s through the 1940s in relation to American modernism. Its authors argue that Douglas’s bold work opened doors for African American artists in Harlem and beyond, and that it invited a dialogue with modernism that put African American life, labor, and freedom, along with African traditions and motifs, at its center. New information emerges from these pages, reflecting the rich interchange between the visual arts, music, dance, literature, and politics that shaped Douglas’s work and also defined the Harlem Renaissance.

Cloth
60.00

Jacob Lawrence: The Complete Prints (1963-2000): A Catalogue Raisonne

Peter Nesbett

Beginning with his first published print in 1963, Jacob Lawrence produced a body of prints that is both highly dramatic and intensely personal. This new edition of Jacob Lawrence: Thirty Years of Prints (1963-1993) includes 19 new prints produced by Lawrence since 1993, including 7 from the Toussaint L’Ouverture series. The book includes an essay by Patricia Hills.
In his graphic work, as in his paintings, Lawrence turned to the lessons of history and to his own experience. From depictions of civil rights confrontations to scenes of daily life, these images present a vision of a common struggle toward unity and equality, a universal struggle seated in the depths of the human consciousness.

Paper
24.95

Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas

Emory Douglas

The Black Panther Party for Self Defense, formed in the aftermath of the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, remains one of the most controversial movements of the 20th-century. Founded by the charismatic Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, the party sounded a defiant cry for an end to the institutionalized subjugation of African Americans. The Black Panther newspaper was founded to articulate the party’s message and artist Emory Douglas became the paper’s art director and later the party’s Minister of Culture. Douglas’ artistic talents and experience proved a powerful combination: his striking collages of photographs and his own drawings combined to create some of the era’s most iconic images, like that of Newton with his signature beret and large gun set against a background of a blood-red star, which could be found blanketing neighborhoods during the 12 years the paper existed.This landmark book brings together a remarkable lineup of party insiders who detail the crafting of the Black Panther Party’s visual identity.

Paper
35.00

Double Up

Jules Allen

A native of San Francisco, Jules graduated from art school and headed for New York to photograph African-American culture and for many years has taught at Queensborough Community College.

“I wanted to show a culture of activity. I was tired of seeing photographs of Black people sitting on the porch doing nothing, being victimized, being dependent. We do things,” said Mr. Allen in an interview with Davis Gonzales of The New York Times. In the 1980s, Mr. Allen went to be trained in Gleason’s Gym, the oldest, active boxing gym in the country. The story and images found in Double Up are a result of Allen’s work with the renowned boxing, master-trainer, Bobby McQuillen, who also worked with Sugar Ray Robinson, and Muhammad Ali.

He had also trained Miles Davis and Mr. Allen is a huge fan Miles’ coolosity. “That’s all it took for me! He invited me to train. I said, ‘What’s the value in somebody like me training?’ And he said, ‘Son, whatever you do, you’ll do it better if you train with me.’ He told me about what he did, how to breathe, how to move. And then I started seeing a photographic sensibility reveal itself to me.” Double Up is the result of Jules Allen’s keen capture of beauty in black and white photographs of Geason’s.

In one image, a man lifts his pants leg to reveal a revolver in an ankle holster. “That cat did 15 years in the joint for murder,” Mr. Allen said. “He used to tell me, ‘You come here like you’re sophisticated. But you don’t know this world. You’re sophisticated outside, with schoolbooks. But you don’t know what you’re doing here.’ All I could say was, ‘You’re right. You’re right.’” But he learned. His pictures show champions.

Allen, the recipient of numerous grants and awards, has been widely exhibited in the U.S. and abroad. His photographs are included in numerous museums, inclusive of the Museum of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian, the National Gallery, the Schomburg Center for Culture & Research and others.

Cloth
55.00

Two Ibis

Billy Richardson
29,000

Tree and Wind

Billy Richardson

4700

Riding a Ball

Billy Richardson
16,000