Bloomsbury Academic
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Koji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack
$14.95 Add to cartKoji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros. (1985) score redefined video game music. With under three minutes of music, Kondo put to rest an era of bleeps and bloops-the sterile products of a lab environment-repla
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Schartmann, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1628928530
- Language: English
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Living Colour’s Time’s Up
$14.95 Read moreThe iconic Black rock band Living Colour’s Time’s Up, released in 1990, was recorded in the aftermath of the spectacular critical and commercial success of their debut record Vivid. Time’s Up is a mus
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Mack, Kimberly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1501377515
- Language: English
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Little Richard’s Here’s Little Richard
$14.95 Read moreFrom male bisexuality to religion in pop, Little Richard spent the 1950s pioneering ideas that are still too challenging for the mainstream. As a Black multimillionaire rock star, he was the most exci
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Bassett, Jordan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1501389114
- Language: English
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Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew
$14.95 Add to cartIt was 1969, and Miles Davis, prince of cool, was on the edge of being left behind by a dynamic generation of young musicians, an important handful of whom had been in his band. Rock music was flying
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Grella, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 22 2015
- ISBN10: 162892943X
- Language: English
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Madonna’s Erotica
$14.95 Read moreEveryone wanted Madonna’s 1992 album Erotica to be a scandal. In the midst of a culture war, conservatives wanted it to be proof of the decline of family values. The target of conservative loathing, g
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Dango, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1501388991
- Language: English
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J Dilla’s Donuts
$14.95 Read moreFrom a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James “J Dilla” Yancey crafted a set of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed thei
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Ferguson, Jordan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1623561833
- Language: English
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Body Count’s Body Count
$14.95 Read moreOn Ice-T’s 1991 classic O.G. Original Gangster, he introduced his all-Black hardcore band Body Count with lead guitarist Ernie C, bringing them on the first-ever Lollapalooza tour that summer. The nex
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Apatoff, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1501389076
- Language: English
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Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed
$19.95 Add to cartContemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Zizek’s guide to surplus (and
- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1350409391
- Language: English
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The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
$29.00 Read moreThe Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present – and draws out lessons for the age to come.
The age of print is a grand exception in history. Fo- Author: Jarvis, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1501394827
- Language: English
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Krautrock
$19.95 Read moreKrautrock is not a music genre. Krautrock is a way of life. Its sonic diversity and global reach belie the common culture from where it emerged. This is a band-by-band history.
In May 1945, the Allies- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3
- Author: Gu, Marshall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 16 2023
- ISBN10: 9798765103296
- Language: English
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Killing Hope: Us Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
$27.95 Read moreIn Killing Hope, William Blum, author of the bestselling Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower, provides a devastating and comprehensive account of America’s covert and overt military a… [more below]
- Author: Blum, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: July 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1350348198
- Language: English
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John Prine’s John Prine
$14.95 Read moreHe is known as the Mark Twain of American songwriting, a man who transformed the everyday happenings of regular people into plainly profound statements on war, industrialization, religion, and the hum
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Osmon, Erin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1501379232
- Language: English
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Duran Duran’s Rio, Limited Edition: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Classic Album
$19.95 Read moreThis limited printing, hardcover 40th anniversary edition includes:
-an exclusive new interview with lead singer Simon Le Bon
-a Rio timeline
-a newly designed book cover by Rio album sleeve designer,- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Zaleski, Annie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 01 2022
- ISBN10: 9798765100233
- Language: English
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Madvillain’s Madvillainy
$14.95 Add to cartThis book celebrates Madvillainy as a representation of two genius musical minds melding to form one revered supervillain. A product of circumstance, the album came together soon after MF DOOM’s resur
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Hagle, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1501389238
- Language: English
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Freedom: A Disease Without Cure
$28.00 Read moreWe are all afraid that new dangers pose a threat to our hard-won freedoms, so what deserves attention is precisely the notion of freedom.
The concept of freedom is deceptively simple. We think we unde- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 135035712X
- Language: English
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Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy
$27.00 Read moreAs European empires crumbled in the 20th century, the power structures that had dominated the world for centuries were up for renegotiation. Yet instead of a rebirth for democracy, what emerged was a
- Author: Provost, Claire
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1350269980
- Language: English
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Kendrick Lamar’s to Pimp a Butterfly
$14.95 Add to cartBreaking the global record for streams in a single day, nearly 10 million people around the world tuned in to hear Kendrick Lamar’s sophomore album in the hours after its release. To Pimp a Butterfly
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Maner, Sequoia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1501377477
- Language: English
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This Thing Called Life: Prince, Race, Sex, Religion, and Music
$26.95 Add to cartWhat were Prince’s politics? What did he believe about God? And did he really forsake the subject-sex-that once made him the most subversive superstar of the Reagan era? In this illuminating thematic
- Author: Vogel, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1501333984
- Language: English
