Sy Black's duty is simple. He has been chosen to guard the Border between the living and the dead and to make sure no one crosses over. For any reason. The Ball

Published in 1980, Blacks in Blackface was the first and most extensive book up to that time to deal exclusively with every aspect of all-African American music

An NPR 2023 "Books We Love" Pick • A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and mod

Contains music.