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Real Hip Hop Gangsters: Music, Money and Murder
$18.75 Add to cartGangsters were brought into the game; not the other way around. The first real gangsters in entertainment entered the film industry via the gangster, Al Capone who co-produced the 1932 version of Scar
- Author: Scott, Rebecca Holly Hood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: August 15, 2012
- ISBN10: 1479131229
- Language: English
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Nas’s Illmatic
$14.95 Add to cartNas was playing a role on Illmatic, even if it was himself. By constructing this persona, Nas not only laid out his own career for the next decade plus, but the careers of dozens of other rappers who
- Series: 33 1/3 #64
- Author: Gasteier, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0826429076
- Language: English
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Rock*: A Mainstream Alternative History of Alternative Mainstream Music
$32.50 Read moreKaleidoscopic culture critic Chuck Klosterman rewrites the history of reality, built off a question that has never been asked or (in all likelihood) even considered: What if Phillip K. Dick’s The Man
- Author: Klosterman, Chuck
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 22 2026
- ISBN10: 0306837994
- Language: English
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Volcanic Tongue: A Time-Travelling Evangelist’s Guide to Late 20th-Century Underground Music
$19.99 Read moreVolcanic Tongue presents the first ever collection of multi-award-winning author David Keenan’s music writings. Keenan has been writing about music since publishing his first fanzine, inspired by The … [more below]
- Author: Keenan, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1399624962
- Language: English
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The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments
$25.00 Read moreImagined instruments reveal how we shape music–and how music shapes us.
The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments is a guided tour through centuries of instruments that never existed. From ancient- Author: Loughridge, Deirdre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: July 08 2026
- ISBN10: 1836391854
- Language: English
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Punk in 50 Pieces: Punk Rock, Post-Punk, New Wave, and the Five Years That Changed Pop Music Forever
$29.99 Read more“This is an irresistible book that will spark a thousand arguments–and that’s just on the day it’s published. I’m already making my list. I haven’t had so much fun with a work of criticism in years.”
- Author: Dettmar, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 0063396750
- Language: English
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Made on Earth for Rising Stars: The Electro-Harmonix Story
$55.00 Add to cartFollow the untold story of how one of America’s greatest companies changed our culture and our music with their unorthodox devices.
In 1968, Mike Matthews founded Electro-Harmonix (EHX) and began assem
- Author: Scott, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 548
- Publish Date: June 23 2026
- ISBN10: 9798992483857
- Language: English
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Emo Revival: Community, Diy, and Rebirth in Post-Hardcore and Emo (2008-2018)
$26.95 Read moreThe story of the reinvention of punk rock’s most misunderstood subgenre, featuring Algernon Cadwallader, Title Fight, Modern Baseball, and the dozens of other bands who saved emo from implosion.
Emo d
- Author: Sacher, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 196804325X
- Language: English
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Days of Miracle and Wonder: Paul Simon and the Trials and Triumphs of Graceland
$30.00 Read moreThe definitive story of the making and legacy of Graceland, Paul Simon’s still-beloved, career-topping 1986 album, drawn from extensive research and exclusive interviews with nearly 100 participants a… [more below]
- Author: Kahn, Ashley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 11 2026
- ISBN10: 1668206757
- Language: English
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Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC
$39.95 Add to cartThe first history of the fanzines that emerged from Washington, DC’s highly influential punk community
DIY culture has always been at the heart of DC’s thriving punk community. As Washington, DC’s punk
- Author: Davis, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1647126355
- Language: English
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Music: The Definitive Visual History
$50.00 Add to cartA complete and harmonious history of music, from prehistory to the present day!
Have you ever wondered how blues influenced rock music? Or why jazz took a more Latin-American approach? Classical or ro- Series: DK Definitive Visual Encyclopedias
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0744058341
- Language: English
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The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music
$29.99 Add to cartIn American popular music, we often glorify rebellious artists and “outlaws.” But in The Midnight Special, Colin Asher tells a deeper story about the criminal justice system’s impact on our musicians,
- Author: Asher, Colin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 30 2026
- ISBN10: 1324051396
- Language: English
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Let the People Hear It: One Hundred Years of Concerts at the Library of Congress
$37.43 Add to cartSince 1925, the Library of Congress has presented one of the most prestigious and innovative concert series in the United States. Philanthropist Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge founded the series with the
- Series: Collection Close-Ups
- Author: Brown-Cáceres, Nicholas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 25 2026
- ISBN10: 0844495948
- Language: English
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Reggaeton. Lo Que Siempre Quisiste Saber: Perreo, Dembow, Bad Bunny Y M?s (Spanish Edition)
$19.95 Add to cartDesde las calles de Puerto Rico hasta los escenarios m?s grandes del mundo, el reggaet?n ha transformado la m?sica.
Este libro te lleva en un viaje a trav?s de un g?nero que ha roto barreras y ha unido… [more below]- Author: Cuartas, Andrea Yepes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 6287634863
- Language: Spanish
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Rooted: How Black and Brown People Created Classical Music
$10.00 Add to cartThis highly captivating book takes readers on a journey through the history of classical music. However, author and music educator Vincent Sneed demonstrates that this history does not begin in Europe
- Author: Sneed, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: November 26 2025
- ISBN10: 9798295438738
- Language: English
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The Cello Who Loved Me: An accidental pilgrimage to master the world’s most beautiful instrument
$20.00 Add to cartA surprise recital while walking the Camino de Santiago turns into another kind of pilgrimage: to learn to play the cello.
George, 71, is nearing completion of this ancient route across Spain when he
- Author: Sorensen, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 9798999877116
- Language: English
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Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000
$35.00 Add to cart“An essential book for this moment.”
The definitive history of LGBTQ music, from Stonewall to RuPaul, and its impact on culture and American life From the underground dancefloors of th
–Rob Sheffield- Author: Walters, Barry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217059829
- Language: English
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This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika, and the Third Reich
$29.95 Add to cartOVER THE LAST SEVEN DECADES, ome of rock ‘n’ roll’s most celebrated figureheads have flirted with the imagery and theater of the Third Reich. From Keith Moon and Vivian Stanshall kitting themselves o
- Author: Rachel, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1636142850
- Language: English
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Us V. Them: The Age of Indie Music and a Decade in New York (2004-2014)
$30.00 Add to cartA sweeping and in-depth history of the Brooklyn music scene over ten years in Bloomberg’s New York, from a writer and concert producer who had a front-row view of it all
In the tradition of Just Kids- Author: Givony, Ronen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 141977526X
- Language: English
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With a Little Help from Their Friends: The Beatles and the People Who Made Them
$30.00 Add to cartA surprising, charming, and kaleidoscopic history of the Beatles, told through 100 people close to them
The story of the Beatles is more than just their omnipresent songs and their iconic albums. It’s- Author: Maconie, Stuart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1419789570
- Language: English
