History & Criticism - General
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Buzz Me in: Inside the Record Plant Studios
$39.95 Add to cartIn the seventies, Record Plant studios was at the heart of the largest boom in record production in music history. With studios in New York, Los Angeles, and Sausalito, and a fleet of remote recording
- Author: Porter, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 500028699
- Language: English
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Gliders Over Hollywood: Airships, Airplay, and the Art of Rock Promotion
$24.95 Add to cartGliders Over Hollywood tells the exhilarating true story of a blue-collar kid nicknamed ‘Rap’ who grew up in thrall to rock’n’roll, then found himself right in the middle of many of his heroes’ lives
- Author: Rappaport, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 191682918X
- Language: English
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And the Roots of Rhythm Remain
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the legendary producer of Nick Drake, R.E.M., Toots and the Maytals, and Pink Floyd and author of White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s comes a riveting, world-spanning tour de force illumina
- Series: ZE #6
- Author: Boyd, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798988670056
- Language: English
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Room 100: Sid, Nancy, and the Night Punk Rock Died
$26.95 Add to cartRoom 100 chronicles the tragic story of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, punk rock’s very own Romeo and Juliet. Through a wealth of archival material, plus new and exclusive interviews from rock luminar… [more below]
- Author: Pollack, Jesse P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 149305063X
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Music: From Bone Flutes to Synthesizers, Hildegard of Bingen to Beyonc? – 5,000 Years of Instrument and Song
$16.95 Add to cartNo other art is as popular–or pervasive–as music. With just a few clicks, anyone can cue up (and critique) Chopin or Cher, The Bangles or The Beatles–even the brand-new Beyonc?. But things weren’t
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Ford, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893030525
- Language: English
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Roll with It: Oasis in Photographs 1994-2002
$40.00 Add to cart‘Sheehan captures the rise and fall of Oasis over a wild decade’
‘Enough to make you mad fer it all over again’
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-ROLLING STONE RELIVE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL HISTORY THROUGH THE LENS OF LEGENDARY PHOTO- Author: Sheehan, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1035429012
- Language: English
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Run the Song: Writing about Running about Listening
$18.00 Add to cartA revelatory exploration of the relationship between music and running by one of our foremost music writers
Out the front door, across the street, down the hill, and into Van Cortlandt Park in the Bron- Author: Ratliff, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1644453282
- Language: English
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Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey
$22.00 Add to cartFreshly revised and chock-full of new, vibrant stories, Last Night a DJ Saved My Life is the “lively and . . . necessary” (New York Times Book Review), and first and foremost definitive history of the
- Author: Brewster, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0802163904
- Language: English
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You Don’t Know Me But You Don’t Like Me: Phish, Insane Clown Posse, and My Misadventures with Two of Music’s Most Maligned Tribes
$18.99 Add to cartOne of Rolling Stone’s 20 Best Music Books of 2013When memoirist and head writer for The A.V. Club Nathan Rabin first set out to write about obsessed music fans, he had no idea the journey would take … [more below]
- Author: Rabin, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1451626886
- Language: English
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Music and Technology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMark Katz surveys the age-old interrelationship between music and technology, from prehistoric musical instruments to today’s digital playback devices.
This Very Short Introduction takes an expansive- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Katz, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0199946981
- Language: English
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Shoegaze
$19.95 Add to cartWhat the hell is shoegaze? A scene? A movement? A sound? Back in the Nineties, many would have said the so-called genre was entirely fabricated. The term itself, an offensive piss-take given by the no
- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3
- Author: Pinkard, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 03 2024
- ISBN10: 9798765103418
- Language: English
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Extraordinary Records
$81.67 Add to cartThis electrifying vinyl edition creates a new and edgy definition for “album art.” Produced in collaboration with Colors magazine, it brings together more than 500 remarkable records from the collecti
- Author: Benedetti, Alessandro
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: April 19 2024
- ISBN10: 3836595001
- Language: English
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Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties
$18.99 Add to cartTHE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A COMPLETE UNKNOWN. One of the music world’s pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan “went electric” at the Newport Folk Fe
- Author: Wald, Elijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062366696
- Language: English
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60 Songs That Explain the ’90s
$21.99 Add to cartONE OF PITCHFORK’S BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2023
Now in paperback, a companion to the #1 music podcast on Spotify, this book takes readers through the greatest hits that define a weirdly undefinable decad- Author: Harvilla, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1538759470
- Language: English
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Down on the Corner: Adventures in Busking & Street Music
$24.95 Add to cartDown On The Corner is the story of music performed on the streets, in subways, in parks, in schoolyards, on the back of flatbed trucks, and beyond, from the 1920s to the present day.
One day around 197
- Author: Baker, Cary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1916829104
- Language: English
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Carole King’s Tapestry
$14.95 Add to cartCarole King’s Tapestry is both an anthemic embodiment of second-wave feminism and an apotheosis of the Laurel Canyon singer-songwriter sound and scene. And these two elements of the album’s historic s
- Series: 33 1/3 #153
- Author: Glass, Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1501355627
- Language: English
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Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II
$14.95 Add to cartExtravagantly opaque, willfully vaporous — Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II, released by the estimable British label Warp Records in 1994, rejuvenated ambient music for the Internet Age
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Weidenbaum, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 13 2014
- ISBN10: 1623568900
- Language: English
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Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
$14.95 Read moreIn the first decade of the twenty-first century, Kanye West created the most compelling body of pop music by an American artist during the period. Having risen from obscurity as a precocious producer
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Graves, Kirk Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 19 2014
- ISBN10: 1623565421
- Language: English
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The Cricket: Black Music in Evolution, 1968-69
$35.00 Read moreA rare document of the 1960s Black Arts Movement featuring Albert Ayler, Amiri Baraka, Milford Graves, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor and many more, The Cricket fostered critical and political dialogue for Blac
- Author: Spellman, A. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1953691102
- Language: English
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Love’s Forever Changes
$14.95 Read moreConceived as the last testament of a charismatic recluse who believed he was about to die, ‘Forever Changes’ is one of the defining albums of an era. Here, Andrew Hultkrans explores the myriad depths … [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Hultkrans, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0826414931
- Language: English
