Genres & Styles - General
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Tonight the Music Seems So Loud: The Meaning of George Michael
$29.95 Read more- Author: Sanghera, Sathnam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897101177
- Language: English
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Plunderphonics
$19.95 Add to cartFeaturing interviews with John Oswald, Negativland, and others and drawing on a wealth of research on copyright and intellectual property, Plunderphonics explores the impact of a genre that made illeg
- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3
- Author: Blackwell, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765119488
- Language: English
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Tuning In: Experiencing Music in Psychedelic States
$24.95 Add to cartThe first authoritative study of the important role of music in psychedelic use and the ways in which psychedelics provide unprecedented access to the deeper mysteries of music.
Tuning In is the first
- Author: Gelberg, Steven J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798855801118
- Language: English
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Screen to Screen: The Poster Art of Austin City Limits
$45.00 Add to cartFrom Billie Eilish to Cassandra Wilson, Elvis Costello to Pearl Jam, many of the world’s most beloved musicians have entertained us on Austin City Limits. And for the past couple of decades, each per
- Author: Austin City Limits
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: March 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1477331867
- Language: English
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Blondie’s Parallel Lines
$14.95 Read moreBlondie’s Parallel Lines mixed punk, disco and radio-friendly FM rock with nostalgic influences from 1960s pop and girl group hits. This 1978 album kept one foot planted firmly in the past while remai
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: McLeod, Kembrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 24 2016
- ISBN10: 150130237X
- Language: English
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You’re with Stupid: Kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music
$26.95 Read more2023 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, Association for Recorded Sound Collections
An insider’s look at how Chicago’s underground music industry transformed indie rock- Series: American Music
- Author: Adams, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1477321209
- Language: English
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Ludwig Van Beethoven: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartProposes a new way of listening to Beethoven by understanding his music as an expression of his entire self, not just the iconic scowl
Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional c- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bonds, Mark Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0190051736
- Language: English
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Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music
$21.95 Add to cartAn engaging inside view of experimental music
Composer and performer Alvin Lucier brings clarity to the world of experimental music as he takes the reader through more than a hundred groundbreaking mus
- Author: Lucier, Alvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0819574929
- Language: English
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Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History of Library Music
$55.00 Read moreIn the heyday of low-budget television and scrappy genre filmmaking, producers who needed a soundtrack for their commercial entertainments could reach for a selection of library music: LPs of stock re… [more below]
- Author: Hollander, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1944860126
- Language: English
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Early Music: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrom Gregorian chant to Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti, the music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods is both beautiful and intriguing, expanding our horizons as it nourishes our souls. In … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Kelly, Thomas Forrest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0199730768
- Language: English
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Rasta Time
$16.99 Add to cartRasTa Time is Kathy Arlyn Sokol’s personal journey with the King of Reggae Bob Marley, which has spanned over four decades. Her journey takes us from Kansas and Japan, where she first met and toured w… [more below]
- Author: Sokol, Kathy Arlyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: December 02 2022
- ISBN10: 194947254X
- Language: English
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Extreme Music: From Silence to Noise and Everything in Between
$29.95 Read moreExpand your aural and sensory experiences with Extreme Music. An exploration of tomorrow’s sounds (and silences) today.
Michael Tau had spent years obsessed by the extremes of musical expression. Extr
- Author: Tau, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1627311246
- Language: English
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Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the chief architect of the Pandora Radio’s Music Genome Project comes a definitive and groundbreaking examination of why we respond to music the way we do.
Everyone loves music. But what is it th- Author: Gasser, Nolan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1250057221
- Language: English
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On Connection
$12.95 Add to cartStaggering talent Kae Tempest’s first work of non-fiction: a meditation on the power of creative connection.
Beneath the surface we are all connected . . . This is a meditation on the power of creati- Author: Tempest, Kae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 571370438
- Language: English
