Ethnomusicology
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By: Harris, Craig
Rise Up!: Indigenous Music in North America
$29.95PaperbackAdd to cartMusic historian Craig Harris explores more than five hundred years of Indigenous history, religion, and cultural evolution in Rise Up! Indigenous Music in North America. More than powwow drums and woo… [more below]
- Author: Harris, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 1, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496236157
- Language: English
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By: Peeples, Rebekah
Unchanged Trebles: What Boy Choirs Teach Us about Motherhood and Masculinity
$28.95HardcoverAdd to cartBoy choirs are one of the oldest musical traditions in the Western world. While audiences admire boy singers for their distinctive treble notes, boys who sing in soprano voices have to contend with th… [more below]
- Author: Peeples, Rebekah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1978844565
- Language: English
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By: Vale, V.
Search & Destroy: The Complete Archive
$24.95PaperbackRead moreThe collected run of the groundbreaking and iconoclastic zine.
From 1977 to 1979, Search & Destroy chronicled the birth of San Francisco’s punk scene with an intensity and vision that transformed musi- Author: Vale, V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1965874266
- Language: English
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By: Gerrard, Alice
Custom Made Woman: A Life in Traditional Music
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartAlice Gerrard, an award-winning and storied folk and bluegrass musician for over 50 years, is one of the notable few women in a heavily male genre. Custom Made Woman tells Gerrard’s story through the
- Series: American Music: New Roots
- Author: Gerrard, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1469690365
- Language: English
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By: Pronko, Michael
A Guide to Jazz in Japan
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cartFusing historical depth, cultural nuance, and travel insight into one beautifully written volume, A Guide to Jazz in Japan takes you through one of the most vibrant jazz scenes in the world. More than
- Author: Pronko, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1942410379
- Language: English
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Music Autoethnographies: Making Autoethnography Sing/Making Music Personal
$39.95PaperbackAdd to cartMusic Autoethnographies explores an intersection of autoethnographic approaches with studies of music. Written through the eyes, ears, emotions, experiences and stories of music and autoethnography pr… [more below]
- Author: Bartleet, Brydie-Leigh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 02 2010
- ISBN10: 1921513403
- Language: English
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Women Behind The Mic: Curators of The Culture Volume Two “The Hip-Hop Edition”
$16.99PaperbackAdd to cartWOMEN BEHIND THE MIC:
Curators of The Culture
Volume Two “The Hip-Hop Edition”
Volume Two “The Hip-Hop Edition” from the WOMEN BEHIND THE MIC series contains the stories of 21 veteran executives who
- Author: Brookshire, Lajoyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1584410086
- Language: English
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By: Questlove
Hip-Hop Is History
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartThis is a book only Questlove could have written: a perceptive and personal reflection on the first half-century of hip-hop.
When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn’t expected to become the c- Author: Questlove
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0374614075
- Language: English
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From the Bronx to the Bosphorus: Klezmer and Other Displaced Musics of New York
$34.95HardcoverAdd to cartDiscover the vibrant journey of music from New York’s melting pot to the mystical shores of the Bosphorus
From the Bronx to the Bosphorus explores the vibrant, yet largely concealed, musical culture o- Author: Feldman, Walter Zev
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1531509762
- Language: English
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Sonic Meditations
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartPauline Oliveros (1932-2016) Pauline Oliveros’ life as a composer, performer and humanitarian was about opening her own and others’ sensibilities to the universe and facets of sounds. Her career spann… [more below]
- Author: Oliveros, Pauline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: November 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1088038530
- Language: English
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By: Questlove
Hip-Hop Is History
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartThis is a book only Questlove could have written: a perceptive and personal reflection on the first half-century of hip-hop.
When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn’t expected to become the c- Author: Questlove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1250390540
- Language: English
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By: Huffman, Eddie
Doc Watson: A Life in Music
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartArthel “Doc” Watson (1923-2012) is arguably one of the most influential musicians Appalachia has ever produced. A musician’s musician, Doc grew up on a subsistence farm in the North Carolina mountains… [more below]
- Series: American Music: New Roots
- Author: Huffman, Eddie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1469680351
- Language: English
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By: Baker, Cary
Down on the Corner: Adventures in Busking & Street Music
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cartDown On The Corner is the story of music performed on the streets, in subways, in parks, in schoolyards, on the back of flatbed trucks, and beyond, from the 1920s to the present day.
One day around 197
- Author: Baker, Cary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1916829104
- Language: English
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By: Murphy, Ben
Ears to the Ground: Adventures in Field Recording & Electronic Music
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartFrom the cacophonous surrounds of London to the sea stacks of Orkney, via the abandoned military facilities of the Suffolk coast and the watery expanses of the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, from the qu… [more below]
- Author: Murphy, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1913231526
- Language: English
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By: Coleman, Brian
Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
$27.50PaperbackRead moreA Tribe Called Quest – Beastie Boys – De La Soul – Eric B. & Rakim – The Fugees – KRS-One – Pete Rock & CL Smooth – Public Enemy – The Roots – Run-DMC – Wu-Tang Clan – and twenty-five more hip-hop imm… [more below]
- Author: Coleman, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 12 2007
- ISBN10: 0812977750
- Language: English
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By: Sawyer, Charles
B.B. King: From Indianola to Icon: A Personal Odyssey with the “King of the Blues”
$45.00HardcoverRead moreThis book documents a great American story, that of B.B. King, the “King of the Blues,” and one of America’s most important popular musicians. With fascinating images and history–most published for t… [more below]
- Author: Sawyer, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0764363859
- Language: English
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By: Barton, Adriana
Wired for Music: A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound
$27.95HardcoverRead more“Beautifully written… a riveting account of how melodies and rhythms connect us, and help us deal with alienation and anxiety.”–Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score
In this ca
- Author: Barton, Adriana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1771645547
- Language: English
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Whale Music: Thousand Mile Songs in a Sea of Sound
$27.95PaperbackRead moreThe marvelous sonic world of whales, from the perspective of music and science.
Whale song is an astonishing world of sound whose existence no one suspected before the 1960s. Its discovery has forced- Author: Rothenberg, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1949597253
- Language: English
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By: Barg, Lisa
Queer Arrangements: Billy Strayhorn and Midcentury Jazz Collaboration
$24.95PaperbackRead moreQueer Arrangements is a new study of Billy Strayhorn that examines his music and career at the intersection of jazz and Black queer history
The legacy of Black queer composer, arranger, and pianist Bil
- Series: Music / Culture
- Author: Barg, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 081950064X
- Language: English
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By: Blanchard, Keith
Reverberation: Do Everything Better with Music
$27.50HardcoverRead moreIn Reverberation, Keith Blanchard explores how music is a universal human experience that’s been with us since the dawn of time. You’ve listened to music all your life . . . but have you ever wondered… [more below]
- Author: Blanchard, Keith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1419761897
- Language: English













