History & Criticism - General
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The Grunge Diaries: Seattle, 1990-1994
$41.93 Add to cartA detailed chronicle of the rise and fall of the grunge music scene in Seattle and beyond.
- Author: Thompson, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1493055690
- Language: English
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101 Fascinating Canadian Music Facts
$14.99 Add to cart101 true stories to surprise and delight Canadian music fans.
Did you know that Serena Ryder played the quietest concert ever from the ocean floor during low tide at Fundy National Park? Or that “I’ll … [more below]
- Series: 101 Fascinating Facts #2
- Author: McPherson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1459751582
- Language: English
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Musical Revolutions: How the Sounds of the Western World Changed
$35.00 Read moreFrom the critically acclaimed author of Temperament, a narrative account of the most defining moments in musical history–classical and jazz–all of which forever altered Western culture
“A fascinati- Author: Isacoff, Stuart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0525658637
- Language: English
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Opera Encore: Collected Essays on the Grand Art
$22.00 Add to cartFor over twenty years, Joseph A. Kestner wrote for Opera News and other publications. Collected for the first time, Kestner’s essays explore the creation, influence, context, and meaning of the world’
- Author: Kestner, Joseph A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 9798986601502
- Language: English
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Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs
$26.95 Add to cartTwo classic collections of freedom songs, We Shall Overcome (1963) and Freedom Is A Constant Struggle (1968), are reprinted here in a single edition which includes a major new introduction by the edit… [more below]
- Author: Carawan, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1588381935
- Language: English
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Patti Smith’s Horses
$14.95 Add to cartDescribed as the perfect fusion of poetry and garage band rock and roll (the original concept was “rock and Rimbaud”), Horses belongs as much to the world of literary and cultural criticism as it does… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #55
- Author: Shaw, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0826427928
- Language: English
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A Million Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity
$27.95 Read moreWhat is the origin of music? In the last few decades this centuries-old puzzle has been reinvigorated by new archaeological evidence and developments in the fields of cognitive science, linguistics, a
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Tomlinson, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1890951528
- Language: English
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XO
$14.95 Add to cartMany albums could be cited to support the claim that great suffering yields great art. Elliott Smith’s XO should not be one of them. Smith’s 1998 major label debut defies the “tortured singer-songwrit… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #63
- Author: Lemay, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0826429009
- Language: English
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Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the beloved host and creator of NPR’s All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts comes an essential oral history of modern music, told in the voices of iconic and up-and-coming musicians, includ
- Author: Boilen, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0062344455
- Language: English
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Last Night’s Fun: A Book about Irish Traditional Music
$19.00 Add to cartLast Night’s Fun’s is a sparking celebration of music and life that is itself a literary performance of the highest order. Carson’s inspired jumble of recording history, poetry, tall tales, and polemi
- Author: Carson, Ciaran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0865475318
- Language: English
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Chasing Chopin: A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions
$19.00 Add to cartA modern take on a classical icon: this “luminous book” (Susan Orlean, New York Times bestselling author of The Library Book) tells the story of when, where, and how Chopin composed his most famous wo… [more below]
- Author: LaFarge, Annik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1501188720
- Language: English
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The BeatTips Manual: The Art of Beatmaking, The Hip Hop/Rap Music Tradition, and The Common Composer
$44.95 Add to cart‘The BeatTips Manual’ (Amir Said) is the definitive study of the art of beatmaking (hip hop production). Brilliantly divided into five major parts – a riveting History part, an extensive Instruction (… [more below]
- Author: Said, Amir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 604
- Publish Date: November 17 2013
- ISBN10: 0989398609
- Language: English
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Blood, Fire, Death: The Swedish Metal Story
$29.95 Add to cartIn the early 1990s, Swedish death metal revolutionized the international music scene. Suddenly, the mild-mannered Scandinavian country found itself at the forefront of a new movement with worldwide im… [more below]
- Series: Extreme Metal
- Author: Johannesson, Ika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1627310673
- Language: English
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Jacksonville and the Roots of Southern Rock
$26.95 Add to cartThe enduring achievement and legacy of a rock movement
Florida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for Florida Nonfiction
The Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd helped usher in a new kind of southern music
- Author: Fitzgerald, Michael Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0813080355
- Language: English
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Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock’s Darkest Day
$18.99 Add to cartIn this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones’ infamous Altamont c
- Author: Selvin, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0062444263
- Language: English
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From the Basement: A History of Emo Music and How It Changed Society (Music History and Punk Rock Book, for Fans of Everybody Hurts, Smas
$18.99 Add to cartThis book aims to teach… Why this era of music is important and should not be overlooked. That it is a legitimate genre that is a significant part of the story of rock. Deep insights into how the sc… [more below]
- Author: Markarian, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 164250114X
- Language: English
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Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World’s Rarest 78 RPM Records
$18.00 Add to cart“A thoughtful, entertaining history of obsessed music collectors and their quest for rare early 78 rpm records” (Los Angeles Times), Do Not Sell at Any Price is a fascinating, complex story of preserv… [more below]
- Author: Petrusich, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 145166706X
- Language: English
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Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History
$13.99 Add to cartRagtime, the jaunty, toe-tapping music that captivated American society from the 1890s through World War I, forms the roots of America’s popular musical expression. But the understanding of ragtime an… [more below]
- Author: Berlin, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 150402981X
- Language: English
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Neutral Milk Hotel’s in the Aeroplane Over the Sea
$14.95 Add to cartOf all the recordings to emerge from the Athens-via-Denver collective called Elephant 6, Neutral Milk Hotel’s second album is the one that has worked its way under the most skins. Magnet magazine name… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #29
- Author: Cooper, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 119
- Publish Date: November 16 2005
- ISBN10: 082641690X
- Language: English
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Becoming Almost Famous: My Back Pages in Music Writing and Life
$28.48 Add to cartThis volume collects many of the best articles from veteran Rolling Stone writer Ben Fong-Torres. While many will recognize Ben as he was portrayed in Cameron Crowe’s hit film Almost Famous, his thoug… [more below]
- Author: Fong-Torres, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 087930880X
- Language: English
