Gilles Peterson Bücher

With transgender rights at the forefront of American discourse, the misconception persists that today's transgender children are a new phenomenon facing unprecedented challenges. This work dispels that myth by revealing a hidden twentieth-century history where transgender children not only existed but played a pivotal role in the medicalization of gender long before the term "transgender" was coined. It traces the journey from the early 1900s, when children with "ambiguous" sex sought medical help, through the 1930s, when transgender individuals began consulting doctors for sex alteration, to the 1960s and '70s, when institutionalization allowed transgender children to access hormones and gender confirmation. The author meticulously reconstructs the medicalization and racialization of children's bodies, emphasizing the exclusion of Black and trans children of color from historical narratives. By placing race at the core of the analysis, the work challenges existing frameworks in transgender studies. Drawing from extensive archival research, including personal letters from children to doctors and relevant medical literature, it illuminates the lives of transgender children in the early twentieth century—a time when the concept of transgender was not yet defined but undeniably present in the experiences of children and their families.

The first comprehensive exploration of Cuban record sleeve design, this book showcases hundreds of rare vinyl records from the early 1960s following the Cuban Revolution until 1985, when the collapse of the Soviet Union ended vinyl manufacturing in Cuba. The artwork reflects Cuba's rich cultural and musical heritage alongside the political impact of revolutionary communism. Over the last century, Cuban music has evolved into a diverse array of styles—rumba, mambo, son, salsa—at an impressive pace. Since the 1940s, many Cuban musicians migrated to the US, influencing North American music; notable figures like bandleader Machito ignited New York's jazz and Latin scene, while drummer Chano Pozo's collaboration with Dizzy Gillespie birthed Latin jazz. Following the 1959 Revolution, the government nationalized American-owned nightclubs and established a state-run recording industry, leading to the emergence of new musical styles, including the Nueva Trova movement. The 1980s brought further innovation in modernist jazz, salsa, and Afro-Cuban folkloric music. Richly illustrated with hundreds of color images, this work chronicles the history of Cuban record cover art, featuring many examples previously unseen outside the island.

A new flexibound edition of a Soul Jazz Records classic publication. This is a unique collection of cover artwork of revolutionary jazz released in the USA in the 1970s, a time of great political and social importance for African- American artists. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and John Coltrane loom large as self-determination, economic power and musical freedom led to artists finding new paths both musical and economic. Away from the mainstream, many of these musicians chose to take control of their economic worth by recording, releasing and distributing their own material. Thirty years later and these artefacts are a striking reflection of the time, pre-desktop publishing, and pre-internet, these small-run (sometimes as low as 500 copies), self-made sleeves are as iconic and historically important as the revolution of D.I.Y. culture that sprang out of punk. Soul Jazz Records have produced many releases relating to this music and this book is the first ever collection of this amazing artwork. It comes with a large introduction contextualizing the music and artwork and relating how the music came about along with interviews with many of the people involved. There is also a CD/LP released by Soul Jazz Records to coincide with the deluxe book, featuring many of the artists that appear in the book.