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Two books examine how we listen to music and why it resonates with us

NPR's Book of the Day

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Black Country Music - Listening for Revolutions

In her new book, Royster explores the way in which listening to country music can be loaded for black people. A discomfort she compares to coming out. She says that outsider status even applied to black performers like Charlie Pride.

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