History & Criticism - General
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Depeche Mode’s 101
$14.95 Read moreDepeche Mode’s 101 is, at first glance, a curious thing: a live double-album by a synth band. A recording of its “Concert for the Masses,” 101 marks the moment when doomy, cultish, electronic Depeche
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Valle, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1501390325
- Language: English
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Time’s Echo: Music, Memory, and the Second World War
$19.00 Add to cartA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES, NPR – WINNER OF THREE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS – Finalist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction – A stirring account of how music bears witness … [more below]
- Author: Eichler, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 052556344X
- Language: English
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Tainted Love: From Nina Simone to Kendrick Lamar
$20.95 Add to cartThe first book-length inquiry into the twisted romantic ballad, giving a sense of both its history and contemporary currency.
Titled after Soft Cell’s version of the original 1965 Gloria Jones track,- Author: Coles, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 3956796586
- Language: English
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The Island Book of Records Volume I: 1959-68
$150.00 Read moreThe Island Book of Records brings the early years of this iconic record label to life.
A fifteen-year labour of love, the volumes will fully document the analogue era of Island. Offering a comprehensi- Author: Storey, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 16 2023
- ISBN10: 152617376X
- Language: English
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A Scene in Between (Revised Edition)
$29.99 Read moreA revised edition of this cult classic photographic exploration of 1980s music and fashion, alongside hundreds of never-seen-before photographs that will delight both fans of Sam Knee’s work and new m
- Author: Knee, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1800660162
- Language: English
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The Story of Motown
$17.95 Read more- In 2018, ITV Studios and Reelz will release a documentary about the Supremes on which Peter Benjaminson will appear
- Also in 2018, CNN will broadcast a four-part series about Detroit in 1963. Benjaminso
- Author: Benjaminson, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 13, 2018
- ISBN10: 1947856235
- Language: English
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Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo’s Hidden History
$18.99 Add to cartIn 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074485
- Language: English
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Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, Csny, and the Lost Story of 1970
$21.99 Add to cartSet against a backdrop of world-changing historical and political events, Fire and Rain tells the extraordinary story of one pivotal year in the lives and music of four legendary artists, and reveals … [more below]
- Author: Browne, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: July 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0306820722
- Language: English
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Life of a Song: Volumes 1 and 2
$14.99 Read moreDiscover the stories behind the songs THE LIFE OF A SONG contains the stories of 100 songs exploring each song’s biography and how they took on a new life following their release. Packed with intrigui… [more below]
- Author: Dalley, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1399800582
- Language: English
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Record Store Day: The Most Improbable Comeback of the 21st Century
$20.00 Read moreRecord Store Day: the Most Improbable Comeback of the 21st Century provides the official inside story on how Record Store Day managed to revive the vinyl format from oblivion over the past fifteen yea… [more below]
- Author: Jaffee, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1644282550
- Language: English
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The Cure FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the Most Heartbreakingly Excellent Rock Band the World Has Ever Known
$37.43 Add to cartThe Cure FAQ is a complete analysis of the band’s forty-plus year career, delving into each one of their albums with fresh commentary and insight.
- Series: FAQ
- Author: Gerard, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1617137073
- Language: English
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They Might Be Giants’ Flood
$14.95 Read moreFor a few decades now, They Might Be Giants’ album Flood has been a beacon (or at least a nightlight) for people who might rather read than rock out, who care more about science fiction than Slayer, w
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Reed, S. Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 21 2013
- ISBN10: 162356915X
- Language: English
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Post: A Look at the Influence of Post-Hardcore-1985-2007
$23.95 Add to cartPOST is a look at how post-hardcore/emo music developed since its unintentional inception in the mid-1980s. With each chapter broken up by influential band or label, it focuses on a broad style of ind… [more below]
- Author: Grubbs, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: September 23 2008
- ISBN10: 0595518354
- Language: English
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The Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers
$15.99 Add to cartThis is a compelling and inspiring look at spiritual beliefs that influenced some of the world’s greatest composers, now revised and expanded with eight additional composers.
- Author: Kavanaugh, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 19 1996
- ISBN10: 0310208068
- Language: English
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From Dixie to Rocky Top: Music and Meaning in Southeastern Conference Football
$34.95 Add to cartListen as you read! From Dixie to Rocky Top: Book Playlist, now on Spotify.
The first book to explore the history of college fight songs as a culturally important phenomenon, From Dixie to Rocky Top- Author: Tipton, Carrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0826506399
- Language: English
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Hole’s Live Through This
$14.95 Read moreCourtney Love has never been less than notorious. Her intelligence, ambition and appetite for confrontation have made her a target in a music industry still dominated by men. As Kurt Cobain’s wife she
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Crawford, Anwen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1623563771
- Language: English
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Listen to This
$27.00 Add to cartOne of The Telegraph‘s Best Music Books 2011
Alex Ross’s award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing- Author: Ross, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0312610688
- Language: English
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Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo
$29.99 Read moreThis entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Vald?s, Arsenio Rodr?guez, Benny Mor?, and P?rez Prado. It offe… [more below]
- Author: Sublette, Ned
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1556526326
- Language: English
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Grateful Dead’s Workingman’s Dead
$14.95 Read moreReleased in 1970, Workingman’s Dead was the breakthrough album for the Grateful Dead, a cold-water-shock departure from the Acid Test madness of the late ’60s. It was the band’s most commercially and
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Poole, Buzz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 21 2016
- ISBN10: 1628929243
- Language: English
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Björk’s Homogenic
$14.95 Add to cartIn recent years, Bj rk’s artistry has become ever more ambitious and ever more respected. With the release of her conceptual app-album Biophilia in 2011, and a huge retrospective exhibition at New Yor… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: MacKay, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1501322745
- Language: English
