History & Criticism - General
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J Dilla’s Donuts
$14.95 Read moreFrom a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James “J Dilla” Yancey crafted a set of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed thei
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Ferguson, Jordan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1623561833
- Language: English
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Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo’s Hidden History
$30.00 Read moreIn an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo’s key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters
- Author: Gaddy, Kristina R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0393866807
- 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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Good Rockin’ Tonight: Sun Records and the Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll
$21.99 Add to cartMemphis, Tennessee. The early 1950s. The Mississippi rolls by, and there’s a train in the night. Down on Beale Street there’s hard-edged blues, on the outskirts of town they’re pickin’ hillbilly boogi
- Author: Escott, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0312081995
- Language: English
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The Jive 95: An Oral History of America’s Greatest Underground Rock Radio Station, Ksan San Francisco
$32.95 Read moreThe Jive 95: An Oral History of America’s Greatest Underground Rock Radio Station, KSAN San Francisco is an oral history of America’s first hippie underground FM station which broadcast the countercul… [more below]
- Author: Rosenfeld, Hank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 149307086X
- Language: English
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Music: A Subversive History
$22.99 Add to cart“A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched” (Los Angeles Times) global history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions.
Histories of music overwhelmingly su- Author: Gioia, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1541644379
- Language: English
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Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever
$20.00 Add to cartA vivid, dramatic account of how half a dozen kinds of modern music–punk rock, art rock, disco, salsa, rap, minimalist classical–emerged in new forms and cross-pollinated all at once in the middle
- Author: Hermes, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: September 04, 2012
- ISBN10: 0374533547
- Language: English
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Then Sings My Soul: 150 of the World’s Greatest Hymn Stories
$24.99 Add to cartHave you ever wanted to learn more about hymns, but weren’t sure where to start? In this follow-up to his bestselling original book, pastor Robert J. Morgan shares the incredible stories behind 150 be
- Series: Then Sings My Soul #02
- Author: Morgan, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0785251685
- Language: English
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Harmonograph: A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music
$8.95 Read moreWhy did Pythagoras pause outside a Blacksmith’s workshop? Can the nature of Harmony really be understood visually? Why do harmonies leave gaps or ‘commas’ when added together? In this charming pocket … [more below]
- Series: Wooden Books North America Editions
- Author: Ashton, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1952178045
- Language: English
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Play All Night!: Duane Allman and the Journey to Fillmore East
$28.00 Add to cartThe origin story of a groundbreaking album
The 1971 Allman Brothers Band album At Fillmore East was a musical manifesto years in the making. In Play All Night!, Bob Beatty dives deep into the
- Author: Beatty, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 0813069505
- Language: English
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Master of Reality
$14.95 Add to cartBlack Sabbath’s Master of Reality has maintained remarkable historical status over several generations; it’s a touchstone for the directionless, and common coin for young men and women who’ve felt exc… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #56
- Author: Darnielle, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0826428991
- Language: English
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Backstage & Beyond Volume 1: 45 Years of Classic Rock Chats & Rants
$25.00 Add to cartJim Sullivan spent 26 years writing about music for the Boston Globe and two decades more writing for national publications. He has interviewed and reviewed countless musicians, many of them multiple
- Author: Sullivan, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798985658989
- Language: English
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Krautrock
$19.95 Read moreKrautrock is not a music genre. Krautrock is a way of life. Its sonic diversity and global reach belie the common culture from where it emerged. This is a band-by-band history.
In May 1945, the Allies- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3
- Author: Gu, Marshall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 16 2023
- ISBN10: 9798765103296
- Language: English
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Stomp and Shout: R&B and the Origins of Northwest Rock and Roll
$29.95 Add to cartLong before the world discovered grunge, the Pacific Northwest was already home to a singular music culture. In the late 1950s, locals had codified a distinct offshoot of rockin’ R&B, and a surprising
- Author: Blecha, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0295751258
- Language: English
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Rolling Stone: The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
$50.00 Add to cartFrom Rolling Stone, the definitive and beautiful companion book to one of the most popular and hotly debated lists in the music world.
In partnership with Abrams, Rolling Stone has created an oversiz- Author: Rolling Stone
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1419758772
- Language: English
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
$26.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year
Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007
Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007
A Wa- Author: Ross, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 14, 2008
- ISBN10: 0312427719
- Language: English
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Revolutions in American Music: Three Decades That Changed a Country and Its Sounds
$35.00 Add to cartHow did a European social dance craze become part of an American presidential election? Why did the recording industry become racially divided? Where did rock ‘n’ roll really come from? And how do all
- Author: Broyles, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 20, 2024
- ISBN10: 0393634205
- Language: English
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It Came from Memphis: Updated and Revised
$22.95 Add to cartVienna in the 1880s. Paris in the 1920s. Memphis in the 1950s. These are the paradigm shifts of modern culture. Memphis then was like Seattle with grunge or Brooklyn with hip-hop-except the change was
- Author: Gordon, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: November 10, 2020
- ISBN10: 1733350152
- Language: English
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All the Years Combine: The Grateful Dead in Fifty Shows
$18.95 Read moreA Grateful Dead concert, Ray Robertson argues, is life.
Like life, it can be alternately compelling and lackluster; familiar and foreign; occasionally sublime and sometimes insipid. Although the Grate
- Author: Robertson, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1771965703
- Language: English
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Listen: On Music, Sound and Us
$30.00 Read more“I’m not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I’m here to change your mind about your mind.”
There are countless books on music with much anal- Author: Faber, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1335000623
- Language: English
