History & Criticism - General
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Lou Reed’s Transformer
$14.95 Add to cartTransformer, Lou Reed’s most enduringly popular album, is described with varying labels: it’s often called a glam rock album, a proto-punk album, a commercial breakthrough for Lou Reed, and an album a… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #131
- Author: Furman, Ezra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 19 2018
- ISBN10: 1501323059
- Language: English
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Let’s Do It: The Birth of Pop Music: A History
$22.00 Add to cartThe must-read music book of the year–and the first such history bringing together all musical genres to tell the definitive narrative of the birth of Pop from 1900 to the mid-1950s.
Pop music didn’t- Author: Stanley, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364633
- Language: English
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ACT Naturally: The Beatles on Film
$37.43 Add to cartThe film legacy of the Beatles is explored in this exciting inside-look at the group and their music-making process.
- Author: Matteo, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1493059017
- Language: English
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Lightning Striking: Ten Transformative Moments in Rock and Roll
$22.99 Add to cart“We have performed side-by-side on the global stage through half a century…. In Lightning Striking, Lenny Kaye has illuminated ten facets of the jewel called rock and roll from a uniquely personal a
- Author: Kaye, Lenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 62449214
- Language: English
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HarperCollins College Outline History of Western Music
$17.00 Add to cartProf. Hugh Miller’s History of Music was first published in 1947, and quickly became a reference for students of music history worldwide. This thorough revision incorporates new knowledge on music, an
- Series: HarperCollins College Outline
- Author: Miller, Hugh M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: August 14 1991
- ISBN10: 0064671070
- Language: English
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Pink Moon
$14.95 Read morePink Moon explores how Nick Drake’s third and final album has puttered and purred its way into a new millennium. Features interviews with producer Joe Boyd, string arranger Robert Kirby, and even the
- Series: 33 1/3 #51
- Author: Petrusich, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0826427901
- Language: English
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Portishead’s Dummy
$14.95 Add to cartAn album which distilled a genre from the musical, cultural, and social ether, Portishead’s Dummy was such a complete artistic achievement that its ubiquitous successes threatened to exhaust its own p
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Wheaton, Rj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 06 2011
- ISBN10: 1441194495
- Language: English
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Under the Table and Screaming Volume One: Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar
$15.00 Read moreUnder the Table and Screaming is a multi-volume series exploring the history and legacy of the local music scene in Charlottesville, VA. From literally underground shows in DIY basements to the racial
- Author: O’Hare, Erin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988058700
- Language: English
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Widespread Panic in the Streets of Athens, Georgia
$21.95 Add to cartIn April 1998, legendary southern jam band Widespread Panic held a free open-air record release show in downtown Athens, Georgia, its homebase. No one involved could have known that the predicted crow
- Series: Music of the American South #3
- Author: Lamb, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: April 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0820354139
- Language: English
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I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women at Factory Records
$32.99 Add to cartFactory Records has become the stuff of legend. The histories of the label have been told from many perspectives, from visual catalogues and memoirs to exhibitions. Yet no in-depth history has ever be
- Author: Golden, Audrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1399606182
- Language: English
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The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes
$21.99 Add to cartPreviously published as Invisible Republic and already considered a classic of modern American cultural criticism, this is an updated edition of Greil Marcus’s acclaimed book on the secret music made
- Author: Marcus, Greil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0312572913
- Language: English
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Angelo Badalamenti’s Soundtrack from Twin Peaks
$14.95 Add to cartWhen Twin Peaks debuted on the ABC network on the night of April 8, 1990, thirty-five million viewers tuned in to some of the most unusual television of their lives. Centered on an eccentric, coffee-l
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Norelli, Clare Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1501323016
- Language: English
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Talking Heads’ Fear of Music
$14.95 Add to cartIt’s the summer of 1979. A fifteen-year-old boy listens to WNEW on the radio in his bedroom in Brooklyn. A monotone voice (it’s the singer’s) announces into dead air in between songs “The Talking Head
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Lethem, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1441121005
- Language: English
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Why Bob Dylan Matters
$19.99 Add to cart“The coolest class on campus” – The New York Times
When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many others questioned the choice. How co
- Author: Thomas, Richard F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062685740
- Language: English
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The Monkees: Made in Hollywood
$23.00 Read moreA Variety Best Music Book of 2023
The Monkees represent a vital problem for rock and pop: is it the music that matters o
The behind-the-scenes story of the controversial 1960s made-for-tv rock band.- Series: Reverb
- Author: Kemper, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147077
- Language: English
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Beethoven in the Bunker: Musicians Under the Nazi Regime
$25.99 Read moreThis compelling survey examines the remarkable relationship between the Nazis and classical music through the stories of musicians, composers, and conductors across the political spectrum.
May 1945. A- Author: Brouwers, Fred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1635423295
- Language: English
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A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
$27.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – A sweeping, genre-bending “masterpiece” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) exploring Black art, music, and culture in all their glory and complexity–from Soul Train, Aretha Fr… [more below]
- Author: Abdurraqib, Hanif
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1984801198
- Language: English
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Art Record Covers. 40th Ed.
$35.00 Add to cartSince the dawn of modernism, visual and music production have had a particularly intimate relationship. From Luigi Russolo’s 1913 Futurist manifesto L’Arte dei Rumori (The Art of Noise) to Marcel Duch
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Spampinato, Francesco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 23 2021
- ISBN10: 3836588161
- Language: English
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Red Rocks: The Concert Years
$50.00 Add to cartIn 1906, Denver’s Pietro Satriano and his 25-piece brass band became the first musical act to perform at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, then christened the Garden of the Titans. Over a century later, Denver … [more below]
- Author: Brown, G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0991566874
- Language: English
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Accidentally Like a Martyr: The Tortured Art of Warren Zevon
$24.99 Add to cartWarren Zevon songs are like chapters in a great American novel. Its story lies in the heart of his – and our – psyche. The lines are blurred. We never seem to know if we are looking in a mirror or pee… [more below]
- Author: Campion, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: June 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1617136727
- Language: English
