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Books like In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: a Jonathan Rosenbaum Reader

Explore 24 books like In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: a Jonathan Rosenbaum Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum — a handpicked selection united by Jazz, Film, Genres & Styles, and History & Criticism.

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Top related books to In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: a Jonathan Rosenbaum Reader

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: a Jonathan Rosenbaum Reader.

Play the Way You Feel The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film

Kevin Whitehead

Themes: Jazz • Film • Genres & Styles

A Little Devil in America In Praise of Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

Anti-music Jazz and Racial Blackness in German Thought Between the Wars

Mark Christian Thompson

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

His Eye Is On The Sparrow An Autobiography

Ethel Waters

Themes: Jazz • Film • Genres & Styles

The Last Days of Roger Federer And Other Endings

Geoff Dyer

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

Les Misérables The Story So Far of the World’s Longest Running Musical

Benedict Nightingale

Themes: Film • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

BAG “point from which Creation Begins” : the Black Artists’ Group of St. Louis

Benjamin Looker

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

Hitchcock and Herrmann The Friendship and Film Scores That Changed Cinema

Steven C. Smith

Themes: Film • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

Musicals The Definitive Illustrated Story

Themes: Film • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

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The Blues Brothers An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic

Daniel De Visé

Themes: Film • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

#11

Bowie at 75

Martin Popoff

Themes: Film • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

#12

Chita A Memoir

Chita Rivera

Themes: Film • Genres & Styles • Performing Arts

#13

My Name Is Barbra

Barbra Streisand

Themes: Film • Genres & Styles • Performing Arts

#14

Love Songs The Hidden History

Ted Gioia

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

#15

New Orleans Jazz Fest A Pictorial History

Michael Proctor Smith

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

#16

Boysie’s Horn The History of Jazz in Wilmington in the 20th Century

Steven Leech

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

#17

The Jazz Cadence of American Culture — Robert G. O’Meally

Robert G. O'Meally

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

#18

Swinging the Vernacular Jazz and African American Modernist Literature

Michael Borshuk

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

#19

The Amplified Come as You are The Story of Nirvana

Michael Azerrad

Themes: Genres & Styles • History & Criticism • Literary Criticism

#20

The Buzzard Inside the Glory Days of WMMS and Cleveland Rock Radio: A Memoir

John Gorman

Themes: Genres & Styles • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

#21

Films and British National Identity From Dickens to Dad’s Army

Jeffrey Richards

Themes: Film • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

#22

Hollywood Harmony Musical Wonder and the Sound of Cinema

Frank Lehman

Themes: Film • Genres & Styles • History & Criticism

#23

Cinema Speculation

Quentin Tarantino

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

#24

By Myself and Then Some

Lauren Bacall

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Jazz, Film, Genres & Styles — the same threads that run through In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: a Jonathan Rosenbaum Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum. Among the authors featured: Kevin Whitehead, Hanif Abdurraqib, Mark Christian Thompson, Ethel Waters, and others.

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