History & Criticism
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The Cambridge Music Guide
$70.83 Add to cartThe Cambridge Music Guide is for all those who love music and wish to know more about its colorful history, development and theory. Superbly illustrated, the Guide is a comprehensive tour of every asp… [more below]
- Author: Sadie, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 546
- Publish Date: April 05 1990
- ISBN10: 0521399424
- Language: English
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The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt
$49.58 Add to cartArvo P rt is one of the most influential and widely performed contemporary composers. Around 1976 he developed an innovative new compositional technique called ‘tintinnabuli’ (Latin for ‘sounding bell… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Companions to Music
- Author: Shenton, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: May 17 2012
- ISBN10: 0521279100
- Language: English
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History of Film
$25.95 Add to cartIn this lively and up-to-date analysis, David Parkinson traces the evolution of the moving image from the earliest shadow shows to the digital filmmaking of the twenty-first century. Covering the key … [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Parkinson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: October 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0500204101
- Language: English
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Japanese No Masks: With 300 Illustrations of Authentic Historical Examples
$14.95 Add to cart120 full-page plates of magnificent, elaborately carved, museum-quality masks worn by actors playing gods, warriors, beautiful women, feudal lords, and supernatural beings. Captions.
- Series: Dover Books on Fine Art
- Author: Perzynski, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: June 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0486440141
- Language: English
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Hear Me Talkin’ to YA
$24.99 Read more“Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.” — Charlie Parker
“What is jazz? The rhythm — the feeling.” — Coleman Hawkins
“The bes- Series: Dover Books on Music
- Author: Shapiro, Nat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 01, 1966
- ISBN10: 0486217264
- Language: English
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes: From Science to the Supernatural, the Many Mysteries of Indiana Jones
$15.95 Add to cartCould you really use a bullwhip to swing across a chasm? Or rip out a man’s heart without killing him? At last, here is the book that finally answers the Indiana Jones-related questions that have trou… [more below]
- Author: Gresh, Lois H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0470225564
- Language: English
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Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture
$18.95 Add to cartIn the 1970s, as the disco tsunami engulfed America, the question, Do you wanna dance? became divisive, even explosive. What about this music made it such hot stuff? In her incisive history, Alice Ech
- Author: Echols, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 21 2011
- ISBN10: 0393338916
- Language: English
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French Cinema: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIt is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until World War 1, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompas… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Andrew, Dudley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0198718616
- Language: English
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33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day
$25.00 Add to cartFrom one of the most prominent music critics writing today, a page-turning and wonderfully researched history of protest music in the twentieth century and beyond
Nowhere does pop music collide more dr
- Author: Lynskey, Dorian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: April 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0061670154
- Language: English
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From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy
$27.99 Read more“From culture writer and GQ contributor Scott Meslow, an in-depth celebration of the romantic comedy’s modern golden era and its role in our culture, tracking the genre from its heyday in the ’80s and… [more below]
- Author: Meslow, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0063026295
- Language: English
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Forbidden Beat: Perspectives on Punk Drumming
$20.00 Read moreWhether they’re self-taught bashers or technical wizards, drummers are the thrashing, crashing heart of our favorite punk bands. In Forbidden Beat, some of today’s most respected writers and musicians… [more below]
- Author: Lauden, S. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1644282275
- Language: English
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Murder by Design: The Unsane Cinema of Dario Argento
$50.00 Add to cartThis book covers the films of Dario Argento, Italy’s acknowledged master of horror and suspense, has made a career out of exploring the macabre poetry of images of violent death. He did not, however,
- Author: Howarth, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1644301156
- Language: English
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Harp Making in Late-Georgian London
$72.99 Add to cartAt the end of the eighteenth century, after the French Revolution, the centre of pedal-harp making moved from Paris to London. There, building on the work of its Bavarian originators and Parisian deve
- Author: Baldwin, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: August 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1527265110
- Language: English
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Protest. Pictogram Activism
$24.95 Add to cartThe art of protest through an impressive collection of 400 downloadable copyright-free images with politically and socially engaged content that can be used in T-shirts, posters, fanzines, stationery,
- Author: Feliz, Un Mundo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 8417656332
- Language: English
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Behind the Album
$49.95 Read moreFeaturing 21 designers and studios passionate about music, this collection showcases the best in album design across a myriad of genres. Paired with insightful interviews and essays, the projects in B… [more below]
- Author: Publications, Sandu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 3943330532
- Language: English
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Family Crests of Japan
$18.95 Add to cartFind the beauty and meaning of over 850 family crests found in Japanese tradition
- Author: Stone Bridge Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1933330309
- Language: English
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In Search of Wagner
$24.95 Add to cartWritten in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe’s most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis. Measuring key elements of Wagner’s oeuvre with patent … [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Adorno, Theodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 09 2009
- ISBN10: 1844673448
- Language: English
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As If!: The Oral History of Clueless as Told by Amy Heckerling and the Cast and Crew
$20.99 Add to cartWill we ever get tired of Clueless? Ugh, as if!Acclaimed pop culture journalist Jen Chaney celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the classic film’s release in the first book of its kind, weaving tog… [more below]
- Author: Chaney, Jen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1476799083
- Language: English
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Christopher Lee: The Loneliness of Evil
$30.00 Add to cartWhen Sir Christopher Lee passed away at the age of 93 in 2015, it was truly the end of an era. He was the last of the great horror stars.
This book is a comprehensive overview of Lee’s work in the hor… [more below]
- Author: Mosley, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1644301288
- Language: English
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Black and Blue: Jazz Stories
$17.95 Read moreAuthor and radio personality Stanley P饌n is a jazz scholar who takes us seamlessly and knowledgeably through the history of the music, stopping at a number of high points along the way. He gets behind
- Author: Péan, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1550656112
- Language: English
