Music Business
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The Ramones’ Ramones
$14.95 Read moreWhat could be more punk rock than a band that never changed, a band that for decades punched out three-minute powerhouses in the style that made them famous? The Ramones’ repetition and attitude inspi… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #20
- Author: Rombes, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: February 18 2005
- ISBN10: 0826416713
- Language: English
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Wire’s Pink Flag
$14.95 Add to cartIn contrast with many of their punk peers, Wire were enigmatic and cerebral, always keeping a distance from the crowd. Although Pink Flag appeared before the end of 1977, it was already a meta-comment… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #62
- Author: Neate, Wilson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0826429149
- Language: English
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Everybody’s Ukulele Christmas Book 1
$7.50 Read moreThe perfect Christmas book for ukulele students of all ages. Included are 36 Christmas classics, appearing in order of level of difficulty. Each song is presented with the melody in a five-line staff … [more below]
- Series: Everybody’s Ukulele Method
- Author: Lynch, Ukulele Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 999
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1619281155
- Language: English
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Neil Young’s Harvest
$14.95 Add to cartNeil Young’s Harvest is one of those strange albums that has achieved lasting success without ever winning the full approval of rock critics or hardcore fans. Even Young himself has been equivocal, de
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Inglis, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 127
- Publish Date: September 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0826414958
- Language: English
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Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA
$14.95 Add to cartWhen Bruce Springsteen went back on the road in 1984, he opened every show by shouting out, “one, two, one, two, three, four,” followed by the droning synth chords of “Born in the U.S.A.” Max Weinberg
- Series: 33 1/3 #27
- Author: Himes, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: August 19 2005
- ISBN10: 0826416616
- Language: English
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Rolling Stones’ Some Girls
$14.95 Add to cartIt’s October 1977, and the Rolling Stones are in a Paris recording studio. They’re under siege. Keith Richards’s legal troubles after his arrest for heroin possession threaten the band’s future, and t
- Series: 33 1/3 #81
- Author: Patell, Cyrus R. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 09 2011
- ISBN10: 1441192808
- Language: English
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U2’s Achtung Baby: Meditations on Love in the Shadow of the Fall
$14.95 Add to cartStephen Catanzarite takes a close look at what many consider to be U2’s most fully formed album through the prisms of religion, politics, spirituality, and culture, illuminating its previously unexplo… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #49
- Author: Catanzarite, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0826427847
- Language: English
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Pretty Hate Machine
$14.95 Add to cartWhat is the world that Nine Inch Nails made, and what was the world that made Nine Inch Nails? These are the questions at the heart of this study of the band’s 1989 debut, Pretty Hate Machine.
The alb- Series: 33 1/3 #78
- Author: Carr, Daphne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0826427898
- Language: English
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Music of the Statler Brothers
$29.00 Read moreTHE MUSIC OF THE STATLER BROTHERS is an in-depth look at the musical career of The Statler Brothers’s forty-year reign as country music’s premier group. Lead singer, Don Reid, writes about each song e… [more below]
- Series: Music and the American South
- Author: Reid, Don
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 423
- Publish Date: August 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0881467510
- Language: English
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Nyhc: New York Hardcore 1980-1990
$29.95 Add to cart- Author: Rettman, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 16 2014
- ISBN10: 1935950126
- Language: English
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Rickenbacker Electric 12-String: The Story of the Guitars, the Music, and the Great Players
$32.95 Read moreThe definitive history of the world’s most famous 12-string electric guitar. When the Byrds recorded their hit version of Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man ” they popularized a new sound in pop music: the e… [more below]
- Author: Bacon, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0879309881
- Language: English
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A Curious Mix of People: The Underground Scene of ’90s Austin
$27.95 Read moreA twisting path through Austin’s underground music scene in the twentieth century’s last decade, narrated by the people who were there.
It’s 1990 in Austin, Texas. The next decade will be a tipping poi
- Author: Beets, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1477328130
- Language: English
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Harlem World: How Hip Hop’s Super Showdown Changed Music Forever
$26.95 Read moreA thrilling narrative history of how one rap battle in New York transformed American culture forever.
July 3, 1981, was a pivotal night for the future of America’s newest art form: hip hop. In New York
- Author: Mael, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 142144688X
- Language: English
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A Little History of Music
$15.00 Add to cartA superbly engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present
Music excites and moves us perhaps more than any other art form. From a Neanderthal’s bone flute to the festivals o- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Philip, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300279086
- Language: English
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Here Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening
$35.00 Add to cartA kaleidoscopic history of the Grateful Dead that explores the American counterculture through the life of iconoclastic frontman Jerry Garcia, and his merry band
In 1965, in Palo Alto, Jerry Garcia op- Author: Newton, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0593447050
- Language: English
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The Basic Guide to How to Read Music
$27.00 Add to cartThe Basic Guide to How to Read Music will teach you the principles of reading music in staff notation quickly and painlessly. If you could once read music but have forgotten how, it will refresh your … [more below]
- Author: Cooper, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 13 1985
- ISBN10: 0399511229
- Language: English
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Riders in the Sky: Romancing the West with Music and Humor
$30.00 Read more” . . . Bobbie and Bill Malone secure the Riders’ rightful place in country music history, recounting the story of their remarkable journey, which simultaneously entertained millions of people and rev
- Author: Malone, Bobbie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1648432859
- Language: English
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Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion
$29.00 Add to cartThe definitive history of twenty-first-century indie rock–from Iron & Wine and Death Cab for Cutie to Phoebe Bridgers and St. Vincent–and how the genre shifted the musical landscape and shaped a gen
- Author: Deville, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1250363381
- Language: English
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The Science of Music: A Practical Look at Music Theory
$34.99 Add to cartMusic theory done as a science. No more gatekeeping. It is an upgrade and contains unique views and a more accurate representation of reality for music based on some interesting findings. This is a be
- Author: Van Wert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: June 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9798990789807
- Language: English
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Independent as F***: Underground Hip-Hop from 1995-2005
$20.00 Add to cartFor a glorious ten-year period from 1995 to 2005, hip-hop music received a much-needed shot in the arm from a generation of determined and wildly creative rappers and producers. They rallied against t… [more below]
- Author: Pedroche, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1913231879
- Language: English
