History & Criticism - General
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How Black Music Took Over the World
$30.00 Add to cartOne of the world’s greatest bassists lays down the heart of Black music, revealing how its rhythmic structures and the long history of the African diaspora made it the world’s most popular form
Why- Author: Gibbs, Melvin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1541603249
- Language: English
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I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution
$22.00 Add to cartRemember When All You Wanted Was Your MTV? The perfect gift for the music fan or child of the eighties in your life.
Named One of the Best Books of 2011 by NPR – Spin – USA Today – CNBC – Pitchfork –- Author: Tannenbaum, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 25 2012
- ISBN10: 0452298563
- Language: English
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Freedom, Rhythm & Sound: Chapter Two: Revolutionary Jazz Original Cover Art 1965-83
$49.95 Add to cartAlbum sleeve art from a transformative era in America’s radical jazz culture, plus covers for recordings by Black poets, civil rights activists and experimental musicians
Just over 15 years ago, Soul J
- Author: Baker, Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1916359841
- Language: English
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The Pharcyde’s Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
$14.95 Read moreAs immediately believable as they were cartoonish, as much an inner city cipher as a suburban boys gang, the foursome that made up the Pharcyde were the most relatable MCs to ever pass the mic. On the
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Barker, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1501321277
- Language: English
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The History of Music in Fifty Instruments
$24.95 Read more“Although the title makes it sound like a reference book, it is so much more than that. The style of writing is engaging and informative. The layout is attractive, with beautiful illustrations, photo
- Author: Wilkinson, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 23 2026
- ISBN10: 022810341X
- Language: English
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Close to the Edge: The Story of Yes
$19.99 Add to cartThe 40-year story of the rock band Yes reveals the rows, bust-ups and personal tensions, the twists, surprises, humour and drama of their lives together. Welch talks to members past and present and tr… [more below]
- Author: Welch, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 184772132X
- Language: English
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Sonic Sewer Volume 1: A Vinyl Obsessive’s Guided Tour Through Music History
$19.95 Add to cartAfter 34 individual issues, 8 collected books, and 25 years, author Robin Bougie’s celebrated cult movie magazine Cinema Sewer came to a lamented finish — but out of the ashes rises a new titan of th… [more below]
- Series: Sonic Sewer #1
- Author: Bougie, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1913051390
- Language: English
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Why Bob Dylan Matters, Revised Edition
$18.99 Add to cart“The coolest class on campus” – The New York Times
***Revised and updated with a new Afterword from the author.***
When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. S
- Author: Thomas, Richard F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0062937987
- Language: English
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Sound System: The Political Power of Music
$24.95 Add to cart‘Fascinating’ Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2
‘A thrilling trip’ Maxi Jazz, Faithless
Musicians have often wanted to change the world. From underground innovators to pop icons, many believe in the politi
- Author: Randall, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0745351336
- Language: English
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A Century of Music Under the Stars: A History of the Mann Center for the Performing Arts and Robin Hood Dell
$40.00 Read moreEveryone has a memorable story about attending a performance at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts or the Robin Hood Dell–“the Mann” and “the Dell” to their many patrons. Lavishly illustrated wi… [more below]
- Author: McCarthy, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1439924333
- Language: English
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Bach: The Cello Suites
$20.00 Add to cartOriginally dismissed as curiosities, J. S. Bach’s Cello Suites are now understood as the pinnacle of composition for unaccompanied cello. This handbook examines how and why Bach composed these highly … [more below]
- Series: New Cambridge Music Handbooks
- Author: Klorman, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: September 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1009054597
- Language: English
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Desert Dreams: The Music, Style, and Allure of Coachella
$24.99 Add to cartImmerse yourself in the music, the fashion, and the hype of one of the biggest music festivals in the world.
Coachella is considered one of the most profitable and widely attended music festivals, wi- Author: Bain, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0760397554
- Language: English
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The Hours Are Long, But the Pay Is Low: A Curious Life in Independent Music
$24.95 Add to cart“The music business is not a meritocracy: it is a crapshoot taking place in a septic tank balanced on the prow of the Titanic, a venal snake pit where innovation, creativity, and honest business pract… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0252088964
- 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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Deliver Me from Nowhere (Movie Tie-In): The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska
$20.00 Add to cartThe fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, revealing its pivotal role in Springsteen’s career–now with a new afterword
Soon to be a major motion- Author: Zanes, Warren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217088645
- Language: English
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Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive cultural criticism, illuminating how streaming is reshaping- Author: Pelly, Liz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1668083515
- Language: English
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Synths, Sax and Situationists: The French Musical Underground 1968-1978
$31.00 Add to cartAt the dawn of the ’70s, in a country still reeling from the aftershocks of World War 2, an underground movement of rock musicians resolved to tear it all up and start again.
Welcome to France, 1968.
- Author: Thompson, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 534
- Publish Date: August 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0645492809
- Language: English
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Don’t Stop: Why We (Still) Love Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours
$29.00 Add to cartThe author of The Holy or the Broken and former editor-in-chief of Vibe brings his “thoughtful and illuminating” (The New York Times) insight to Fleetwood Mac’s iconic album Rumours, celebrating its s… [more below]
- Author: Light, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 166805437X
- Language: English
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Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters: Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage
$41.93 Add to cartIn Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters, songwriter, scholar, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of black women singers in US musical theatre between 1900 and 1970. Asare shows how a v… [more below]
- Series: Refiguring American Music
- Author: Asare, Masi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 147803095X
- Language: English
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Music from Elsewhere: Haunting Tunes from the Afterlife, Alien Worlds and Occult Realms
$22.95 Read moreA compendium of other musics, channelled from the spirit world, the fairy kingdom, outer space, secret societies and occult lodges.
This unique collection of esoteric earworms gathers, and reproduces,- Author: Skinner, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1913689212
- Language: English
