American Music
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Mothership Connected: The Women of Parliament-Funkadelic
$34.95 Add to cartAn oral history with the women of Parliament-Funkadelic, from forming the band to landing the mothership.
Parliament-Funkadelic is perhaps the greatest funk band ever assembled. Yet at the time of the
- Series: American Music
- Author: Neblett, Seth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1477332677
- Language: English
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Someday All the Adults Will Die!: The Birth of Texas Punk
$29.95 Add to cartA deep dive into the early days of punk in Austin, Texas, this oral history immerses readers in a diverse and influential music scene.
Texas has always teemed with music and counterculture. When punk
- Series: American Music
- Author: Blashill, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1477332472
- Language: English
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The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
$27.95 Add to cartA memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us.
When Wilco’s 2007 album Sky Blue Sky was infamously criticized as “dad rock,” Niko Stratis was a twenty-five-year-old closeted t
- Series: American Music
- Author: Stratis, Niko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1477331484
- Language: English
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Band People: Life and Work in Popular Music
$29.95 Add to cartA close look at the lives of working musicians who aren’t the center of their stage.
Secret (and not-so-secret) weapons, side-of-the-stagers, rhythm and horn sections, backup singers, accompanists–th
- Series: American Music
- Author: Nicolay, Franz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1477323538
- Language: English
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Where the Devil Don’t Stay: Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers
$27.95 Add to cartIn 1996, Patterson Hood recruited friends and fellow musicians in Athens, Georgia, to form his dream band: a group with no set lineup that specialized in rowdy rock and roll. The Drive-By Truckers, as
- Series: American Music
- Author: Deusner, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1477318046
- Language: English
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Chuco Punk: Sonic Insurgency in El Paso
$21.95 Read moreAn immersive study of the influential and predominantly Chicanx punk rock scene in El Paso, Texas.
Punk rock is known for its daring subversion, and so is the West Texas city of El Paso. In Chuco Punk
- Series: American Music
- Author: López, Tara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 147732481X
- Language: English
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Woman Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives
$18.95 Add to cartFull-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton, k.d. lang to Taylor Swift–these artists provided pi
- Series: American Music
- Author: Gleason, Holly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1477322582
- Language: English
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Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary
$21.95 Read moreWhy has music so often served as an accomplice to transcendent expressions of gender? Why did the query “is he musical?” become code, in the twentieth century, for “is he gay?” Why is music so inheren
- Series: American Music
- Author: Geffen, Sasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 147731878X
- Language: English
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Fangirls: Scenes from Modern Music Culture
$17.95 Read more“To be a fan is to scream alone together.” This is the discovery Hannah Ewens makes in Fangirls: how music fandom is at once a journey of self-definition and a conduit for connection and camaraderie;
- Series: American Music
- Author: Ewens, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1477322094
- Language: English
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Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions
$24.95 Read more2023 Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
2023 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, Association for Recorded Sound Collections
2023 The Jud- Series: American Music
- Author: Royster, Francesca T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1477326499
- Language: English
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DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution
$29.95 Add to cartDJ Screw, a.k.a. Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop forever. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed a revolutionary mixing technique known as chopped and screwed.
- Series: American Music
- Author: Walker, Lance Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1477325131
- Language: English
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John Prine: In Spite of Himself
$21.95 Add to cartWith a range that spans the lyrical, heartfelt songs “Angel from Montgomery,” “Sam Stone,” and “Paradise” to the classic country music parody “You Never Even Called Me by My Name,” John Prine is a son
- Series: American Music
- Author: Huffman, Eddie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 147732593X
- Language: English
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Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest
$16.95 Add to cartA New York Times Best Seller
2019 National Book Award Longlist, Nonfiction
2019 Kirkus Book Prize Finalist, Nonfiction
A February IndieNext Pick
Named A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by Buzzfeed, N- Series: American Music
- Author: Abdurraqib, Hanif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1477316485
- Language: English
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Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan
$35.00 Add to cart“ONE OF THE SHARPEST, FUNNIEST, AND BEST BOOKS EVER ABOUT ANY ROCK ARTIST”–Rolling Stone
“WEIRD AND WONDROUS”–New York Times
“I ADORED IT”–Michael Chabon
A literary and visual exploration of the songs
- Series: American Music
- Author: Pappademas, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1477324992
- Language: English
