History & Criticism - General
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Declassified: A Low-Key Guide to the High-Strung World of Classical Music
$27.00 Read more“A refreshingly fun guide” that reads “as if you’re a fly on the wall in conservatory auditions, cutthroat competitions and the obsessive practice routines of professional musicians.” (The New York Ti… [more below]
- Author: Warsaw-Fan Rauch, Arianna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 059333146X
- Language: English
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The Great Psychic Outdoors: Adventures in Low Fidelity
$14.95 Read moreExplores the weird world of lo-fi music to investigate its revolutionary potential and its ability to subvert what we think music can do.
Homemade records, tape-hiss worship and a taste for a very pec- Author: Monacelli, Enrico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1914420608
- Language: English
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Tonight It’s a World We Bury: Black Metal, Red Politics
$14.95 Read more- Author: Peel, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1914420365
- Language: English
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Bone Music: Soviet X-Ray Audio
$34.95 Read moreStories of the secret underground Cold War-era Soviet music subculture that distributed forbidden music on used hospital x-rays.
During the Cold War era, the songs that Soviet citizens could listen to- Author: Coates, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1913689476
- Language: English
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Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital
$32.50 Add to cartThe definitive history of the rise and heyday of the revolutionary Greenwich Village music scene, based on new research and first-hand interviews with many of its legendary performers
Although Greenw- Author: Browne, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0306827638
- Language: English
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A Tribe Called Quest’s People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
$14.95 Add to cartOne of the finest hip-hop albums ever made, A Tribe Called Quest’s debut record (featuring stone-cold classics like “Can I Kick It?” and “Bonita Applebum”) took the idea of the boasting hip-hop male a
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Taylor, Shawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 20 2007
- ISBN10: 0826419232
- Language: English
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How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music
$40.00 Add to cartDrawn from NPR Music’s acclaimed, groundbreaking series Turning the Tables, the definitive book on the vital role of Women in Music–from Beyonc? to Odetta, Taylor Swift to Joan Baez, Joan Jett to Dol
- Author: National Public Radio, Inc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0063270331
- Language: English
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Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation
$32.95 Add to cart–A Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year
–An Uncut Book of the Year
–Long-Listed for the Penderyn Music Book Prize
–A Louder Than War Book of the Year
–A Blitzed Magazine Book of the YearIn 1979, … [more below]
- Author: Rachel, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1636141897
- Language: English
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Century of Song: 101 Songs That Shaped American Music
$29.99 Add to cartDiscover the Music that Changed Everything
Embark on a complex and inspiring journey through the last 101 years as told through some of the most memorable hits and the artists behind them. Noah Lefevr- Author: LeFevre, Noah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 9798890031235
- Language: English
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Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age
$32.00 Read moreThe hegemony of finance compels a new orientation for everyone and everything: companies care more about the moods of their shareholders than about longstanding commercial success; governments subordi
- Series: Zone / Near Futures
- Author: Feher, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 26 2018
- ISBN10: 1942130120
- Language: English
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Oasis’ Definitely Maybe
$14.95 Read moreOasis’s incendiary 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe managed to summarize almost the entire history of post-fifties guitar music from Chuck Berry to My Bloody Valentine in a way that seemed effortless
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Niven, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1623564239
- Language: English
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Amazing Grace
$14.95 Read moreFor two days in January 1972, Aretha Franklin sang at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles while tape recorders and film cameras rolled. Everyone there knew the event had the potent
- Series: 33 1/3 #84
- Author: Cohen, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 06 2011
- ISBN10: 1441148884
- Language: English
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Dusty Springfield’s Dusty in Memphis
$14.95 Read moreDusty in Memphis, Dusty Springfield’s beautiful and bizarre magnum opus, remains as fine a hybrid of pop and rhythm and blues as has ever been made. In this remarkable book, Warren Zanes explores his
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Zanes, Warren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 131
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0826414923
- Language: English
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Massive Attack’s Blue Lines
$14.95 Read moreIn 1991, a loose-knit collective released a record called Blue Lines under the name Massive Attack, splicing together American hip-hop and soul with the sounds of the British underground. With its mar
- Series: 33 1/3 #140
- Author: Bourland, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1501339699
- Language: English
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Beatles for Sale on Parlophone Records
$69.98 Read moreBeatles For Sale on Parlophone Records covers all of the singles, albums and extended play discs issued by the Beatles in the U.K. from 1962 through 1970. Each record is given a separate chapter, whic… [more below]
- Author: Spizer, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 444
- Publish Date: October 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0983295700
- Language: English
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Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture
$18.95 Read moreIn the 1970s, as the disco tsunami engulfed America, the question, Do you wanna dance? became divisive, even explosive. What about this music made it such hot stuff? In her incisive history, Alice Ech
- Author: Echols, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 21 2011
- ISBN10: 0393338916
- Language: English
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1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music
$25.00 Add to cartA lively chronicle of the year that shaped popular music forever, with an all new Spotify appendix
More than half a century ago, friendly rivalry between musicians turned 1965 into the year rock evol- Author: Jackson, Andrew Grant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1250181712
- Language: English
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Retromania
$32.99 Add to cartOne of The Telegraph‘s Best Music Books 2011
We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake- Author: Reynolds, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 19 2011
- ISBN10: 0865479941
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Western Music
$34.00 Add to cartEngaging, clear and informative, this is the story of western music – of its great composers and also of its performers and listeners, of changing ideas of what music is and what it is for. Paul Griff… [more below]
- Author: Griffiths, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0521133661
- Language: English
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Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives
$15.99 Add to cartColm T ib n on Joni Mitchell – James Wood on The Who – Stacey D’Erasmo on Kate Bush – Daniel Handler on Eurythmics – Lisa Dierbeck on the Pretenders – Clifford Chase on the B-52s . . . and other write
- Author: Terzian, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 23 2009
- ISBN10: 0061579742
- Language: English
