History & Criticism
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Living with the Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus with Garcia and the Grateful Dead
$19.95 Add to cartThis memoir chronicles the Grateful Dead’s seminal years: 1965-1985.
- Author: Scully, Rock
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 28 2001
- ISBN10: 0815411634
- Language: English
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Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
$21.99 Add to cartThis masterful explorationof American roots music–country, rockabilly, and the blues–spotlights the artists who created a distinctly American sound, including Ernest Tubb, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Elvis … [more below]
- Author: Guralnick, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0316332747
- Language: English
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S.T.P.: A Journey Through America with the Rolling Stones
$21.99 Add to cart“One of the greatest rock books ever written.” — GQ
Thirty years ago, the Rolling Stones swept America, taking Exile on Main Street to Main Streets across the nation. Everyone held their breath to s- Author: Greenfield, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0306811995
- Language: English
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Dark Star: An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia
$17.99 Add to cartFor more than thirty years, Jerry Garcia was the musical and spiritual center of the Grateful Dead, one of the most popular rock bands of all time. In Dark Star, the first biography of Garcia publishe
- Author: Greenfield, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0061715727
- Language: English
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Masters of Tonewood: The Hidden Art of Fine Stringed-Instrument Making
$24.95 Add to cartThe wood used by master craftsmen to create many of the world’s legendary stringed instruments–violins and cellos, mandolins and guitars–comes from seven near-mythic European forests. In his latest
- Author: Greene, Jeffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0813947464
- Language: English
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Along Comes the Association: Beyond Folk Rock and Three-Piece Suits
$20.00 Read moreAlong Comes The Association is the story of how Russ Giguere and his fellow band members in the legendary and influential pop group The Association came together to create unparalleled music, with suc… [more below]
- Author: Giguere, Russ
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1644283581
- Language: English
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They Just Seem a Little Weird: How Kiss, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz Remade Rock and Roll
$17.99 Add to cartA veteran music journalist explores how four legendary rock bands–KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz–laid the foundation for two diametrically opposed subgenres: hair metal in the ’80s and grun
- Author: Brod, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0306845229
- Language: English
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Teenage Wasteland: The Who at Winterland, 1968 and 1976
$45.00 Read moreIn February 1968 and March 1976, the Who performed shows in the same venue, almost ten years apart: San Francisco’s Winterland. Generally considered as two marginal years in the Who’s career, they are
- Author: Genzolini, Edoardo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 28, 2024
- ISBN10: 0764367358
- Language: English
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The Wildwood Days of Doo Wop
$39.99 Add to cartJourney back through American mid-century Doo Wop motel architecture, with the largest collection and in one of the birthplaces of rock n’ roll – Wildwood, New Jersey!… Learn about the legend and fo
- Author: Jasorka, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218240165
- Language: English
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Unlicensed: Bootlegging as Creative Practice
$28.95 Add to cartIn-depth discussions on bootlegging and its myriad definitions in the creative world
Over the last few decades, the term “bootlegging”–a practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringers–
- Author: Schwartz, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 9493246299
- Language: English
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Diaghilev’s Empire
$20.00 Add to cartA Best Book of the Year at The New Yorker and The Telegraph
“Amusing and assertive . . . [Christiansen’s] delight is infectious.” –Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times Book Review Rupert Christiansen- Author: Christiansen, Rupert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872537
- Language: English
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Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era
$27.00 Add to cart- Author: Emerson, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037773
- Language: English
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Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music
$44.99 Add to cartA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title
In the late 1960s, with popular culture hurtling forward on the sounds of rock music, some brave musicians looked back instead, trying to recover the los- Author: Young, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: May 10 2011
- ISBN10: 0865478562
- 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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Up-Tight: The Velvet Underground Story
$16.95 Add to cartThe Velvet Underground is arguably one of the most influential American rock bands ever. Based on interviews with former members Lou Reed, John Cale, and Sterling Morrison, as well as others from Andy… [more below]
- Author: Bockris, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 06 2003
- ISBN10: 0815412851
- Language: English
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Cinema Symbolism 2: More Esoteric Imagery in Popular Movies
$32.95 Add to cartFinally The much anticipated sequel to Cinema Symbolism is here Cinema Symbolism 2: More Esoteric Imagery in Popular Movies explores the hidden symbolism and esoteric imagery in such movies as Crims
- Author: Sullivan, Robert W., IV
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 668
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0692847359
- Language: English
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Got a Revolution!: The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane
$25.99 Add to cartThe most successful and influential rock band to emerge from San Francisco during the 1960s, Jefferson Airplane created the sound of a generation. Their smash hits “Somebody to Love” and “White Rabbit… [more below]
- Author: Tamarkin, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0671034049
- Language: English
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Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead’s American Adventure
$22.99 Add to cartNational Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Carol Brightman brings the Grateful Dead and their history to life in this fascinating and “cogent, intelligent look at the Dead and the structure of … [more below]
- Author: Brightman, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0671011170
- Language: English
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Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen
$26.99 Add to cartA fully updated edition of David J. Skal’s Hollywood Gothic, “The ultimate book on Dracula” (Newsweek).
The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the moder- Author: Skal, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 18 2004
- ISBN10: 0571211585
- Language: English
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Fosse
$21.99 Add to cartNow the FX limited series Fosse/Verdon starring Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams with Lin-Manuel Miranda executive producing.
“Wasson is a smart and savvy reporter, and his book abounds with color- Author: Wasson, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: November 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0544334612
- Language: English
