History & Criticism
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Brainteasers for Broadway Geniuses: 500 Puzzlers to Perplex Even the Biggest Fans
$34.43 Add to cartFilichia presents brainteasers that require more than an ordinary knowledge of Broadway facts that will send even the most seasoned theater lovers looking for answers.
- Author: Filichia, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493074954
- Language: English
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The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real
$29.95 Add to cartThe Matrix conveys the horror of a false world made of nothing but perceptions. Based on the premise that reality is a dream controlled by malevolent forces, it is one of the most overtly philosophica… [more below]
- Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy #3
- Author: Irwin, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 28 2002
- ISBN10: 081269502X
- Language: English
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Your Person Doesn’t Belong To You
$14.95 Add to cart“Your Person Doesn’t Belong To You is a transformative work, immersed in the intermittence, light, and expansion of character as embodied and voiced by Jeanne d’Arc — who here is a composite of hist
- Author: Campos, Isabel Sobral
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: July 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0692150293
- Language: English
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Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo’s Hidden History
$18.99 Add to cartIn an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo’s key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters
- Author: Gaddy, Kristina R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074485
- Language: English
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Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues and Rock ‘n’ Roll
$21.99 Add to cartThis vivid celebration of blues and early rock ‘n’ roll includes some of the first and most illuminating profiles of such blues masters as Muddy Waters, Skip James, and Howlin’ Wolf; excursions into t… [more below]
- Author: Guralnick, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0316332720
- Language: English
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Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, Csny, and the Lost Story of 1970
$21.99 Add to cartSet against a backdrop of world-changing historical and political events, Fire and Rain tells the extraordinary story of one pivotal year in the lives and music of four legendary artists, and reveals … [more below]
- Author: Browne, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: July 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0306820722
- Language: English
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Stanley Kubrick: A Biography
$25.99 Add to cartStanley Kubrick, director of the acclaimed films Path of Glory, Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket, is arguably one of th… [more below]
- Author: LoBrutto, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 606
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0306809060
- Language: English
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The Jazz Cadence of American Culture
$35.00 Add to cartA comprehensive collection of essays, speeches, and interviews on the impact of jazz on other arts, on politics, and on the rhythm of everyday life, including an essay on poet and novelist James Weldo
- Series: Film and Culture
- Author: O’Meally, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0231104499
- Language: English
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Life of a Song: Volumes 1 and 2
$14.99 Add to cartDiscover the stories behind the songs THE LIFE OF A SONG contains the stories of 100 songs exploring each song’s biography and how they took on a new life following their release. Packed with intrigui… [more below]
- Author: Dalley, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1399800582
- Language: English
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Record Store Day: The Most Improbable Comeback of the 21st Century
$20.00 Read moreRecord Store Day: the Most Improbable Comeback of the 21st Century provides the official inside story on how Record Store Day managed to revive the vinyl format from oblivion over the past fifteen yea… [more below]
- Author: Jaffee, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1644282550
- Language: English
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Too Fast to Live Too Young to Die: Punk & Post Punk Graphics 1976-1986
$45.00 Read morePraise for the Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die exhibition:
“A fascinating look at how punk and new wave music met the eye” New York Times
“An absolute joy” Financial Times
The largest unique collec
- Author: Krivine, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 26 2020
- ISBN10: 1911641360
- Language: English
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The Cure FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the Most Heartbreakingly Excellent Rock Band the World Has Ever Known
$37.43 Add to cartThe Cure FAQ is a complete analysis of the band’s forty-plus year career, delving into each one of their albums with fresh commentary and insight.
- Series: FAQ
- Author: Gerard, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1617137073
- Language: English
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The Big Lebowski
$17.95 Read moreEthan and Joel Coen’s The Big Lebowski was released in 1998 to general bafflement. A decade on, it had become a cult classic and remains so over 20 years later, inspiring a thriving circuit of ‘Lebows
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Tyree, J. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1838719601
- Language: English
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A Short History of Cahiers Du Cinema
$24.95 Add to cartCahiers du Cin ma was the single most influential project in the history of film. Founded in 1951, it was responsible for establishing film as the ‘seventh art, ‘ equal to literature, painting or musi… [more below]
- Author: Bickerton, Emilie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1844677605
- Language: English
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Complicated Fun: The Birth of Minneapolis Punk and Indie Rock, 1974-1984 — An Oral History
$24.95 Add to cartIn the early 1970s, the Minneapolis music scene was no scene at all. Radio stations played Top 40 music; bars and clubs booked only rock cover bands and blues bands. Meanwhile, cities like New York, D
- Author: Collins, Cyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1681340321
- Language: English
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They Might Be Giants’ Flood
$14.95 Add to cartFor a few decades now, They Might Be Giants’ album Flood has been a beacon (or at least a nightlight) for people who might rather read than rock out, who care more about science fiction than Slayer, w
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Reed, S. Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 21 2013
- ISBN10: 162356915X
- Language: English
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I Am Charlie Wilson
$17.99 Add to cartThe long-awaited New York Times bestselling memoir of seven-time Grammy-nominated artist Charlie Wilson, the iconic R&B and Funk singer-songwriter-producer and former lead singer of The Gap Band–inte… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 1476790086
- Language: English
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Boom Chicago Presents the 30 Most Important Years in Dutch History
$64.93 Add to cart“It’s kind of crazy, the impact on culture so many Boom Chicago alums have had. Boom was where I became my best comedic self: the excitement of Amsterdam, the freedom of that environment, the letting … [more below]
- Author: Moskos, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1636141676
- Language: English
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French New Wave: A Revolution in Design
$59.95 Add to cartThe definitive celebration of the visual imagery of the French New Wave with its explosive and groundbreaking poster art
The French New Wave of the 1950s and 1960s is one of the most important movement
- Author: Nourmand, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0957261047
- Language: English
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If You’re Feeling Sinister
$14.95 Read moreIf You’re Feeling Sinister shows how Belle & Sebastian transformed themselves over the space of a decade, from a slightly shambolic cult secret into a polished, highly entertaining, mainstream pop gro… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #50
- Author: Plagenhoef, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: September 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0826428185
- Language: English
