Individual Composer & Musician
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Johnny Cash: The Life
$22.99 Add to cartThe national bestseller celebrated as “the ultimate Johnny Cash biography . . . Rock writer great Robert Hilburn goes deep.” — Rolling Stone
In this, the definitive biography of an American legend,- Author: Hilburn, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: November 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0316194743
- Language: English
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Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words
$37.99 Add to cartThe first lyricist to win the Pulitzer Prize, Ira Gershwin (1896-1983) has been hailed as one of the masters of the Great American Songbook, a period which covers songs written largely for Broadway an
- Author: Owen, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1324091819
- Language: English
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Hallowed by Their Name: The Unofficial Iron Maiden Bible
$59.99 Add to cartEmbark on a thrilling journey through the superlative recorded canon of one of the world’s most legendary heavy metal bands.
Music journalist Martin Popoff provides an intimate and scholarly look int… [more below]- Author: Popoff, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 666
- Publish Date: October 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0764368168
- Language: English
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Taylor Swift by the Book: The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Robert Frost’s road not taken on her debut album to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s albatross on The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift’s lyrics are filled with literary connections.
Make sure you- Author: Feder, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1683694740
- Language: English
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Remembranzas: Escenas de Una Vida Complicada
$19.95 Read moreBendecida con una voz extraordinaria templada al calor de su insobornable activismo, SinéadO’Connorirrumpió en la constelación de las grandes roqueras a finales de los ochenta, con una pompa que no… [more below]
- Author: O’Connor, Sinéad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 841840406X
- Language: Spanish
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Death Metal
$19.95 Read moreFeaturing exclusive interviews with key figures, from Napalm Death vocalist Barney Greenway to guitarist Bill Steer of Gentlemans Pistols, Carcass, and Napalm Death, this is your guide through the his
- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3
- Author: Coles, T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1501381016
- Language: English
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Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician
$15.00 Read moreFor fans of Bradley Cooper’s film Maestro, an appreciation that gives Bernstein his due as composer as well as conductor
Leonard Bernstein stood at the epicenter of twentieth-century American musical- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Shawn, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0300219857
- Language: English
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Words Without Music: A Memoir
$17.95 Read morePhilip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century classical music. Yet in Words Without Music, his critically acclaimed memoir, he creates an entirely new
- Author: Glass, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1631491431
- Language: English
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The Encyclopedia of Music: A Guide to the Greatest Composers and the Instruments of the Orchestra
$35.00 Add to cartA comprehensively illustrated reference to musical instruments and the history of the orchestra, and a guide to 100 classical composers from Bach to Xenakis, in a newly updated large-format edition.
Au… [more below]
- Author: Wade-Matthews, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0754835022
- Language: English
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Didn’t We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston
$28.00 Read moreDidn’t We Almost Have It All is a candid exploration of the genius, shame, and celebrity of Whitney Houston.
Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR . . . SO FAR by The New Yorker
Named a BEST BOOK OF THE MONT- Author: Kennedy, Gerrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1419749692
- Language: English
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One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band
$25.00 Read moreA New York Times Best seller
One Way Out is the powerful biography of The Allman Brothers Band, an oral history written with the band’s participation and filled with original, never-before-published- Author: Paul, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1250040507
- Language: English
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In His Own Write and a Spaniard in the Works
$22.00 Read moreAn omnibus edition of two works of John Lennon’s “fascinating…whimsy” (The Sunday Times, London) poetry, prose, and drawings that will “jolt you] into gusts of laughter” (The Guardian).
A humorous- Author: Lennon, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 1451611013
- Language: English
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The Modern Lovers’ the Modern Lovers
$14.95 Read moreFrom the “War on Hippies” to the Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle, the story of Modern Lovers is a high octane tale of Brutalist architecture, rock ‘n’ roll ambition and the struggle for identity in a chan
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Maloney, Sean L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: February 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1501322184
- Language: English
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John Cage: Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)
$24.00 Read more“Over 16 years, beginning in 1965, John Cage compiled anecdotes, observations and koanlike tales, originally typing everything on an IBM Selectric and using chance methods to determine the formatting
- Author: Cage, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1938221214
- Language: English
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Patti Smith on Patti Smith: Interviews and Encounters
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the moment Patti Smith burst onto the scene, chanting “Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine,” the irreverent opening line to Horses, her 1975 debut album, the punk movement had found its … [more below]
- Series: Musicians in Their Own Words
- Author: Levy, Aidan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0912777001
- Language: English
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A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism
$44.25 Read moreSurveying the range of Sun Ra’s extraordinary creativity, this book explores how the father of Afrofuturism brought “space music” to a planet in need of transformation, supporting the aspirations of b
- Series: Discovering America
- Author: Youngquist, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1477327282
- Language: English
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Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage
$32.95 Read moreBefore she knew she was Ukrainian, Soviet, or Jewish, Inna Faliks knew she was a musician. Growing up in the city of Odessa, the piano became her best friend, and she explored the brilliant, intricate
- Author: Faliks, Inna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1493071742
- Language: English
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Tom Petty’s Southern Accents
$14.95 Read moreBy 1985 Tom Petty had already obtained legendary status. He had fame. He had money. But he was restless, hoping to stretch his artistry beyond the confining format of songs like “The Waiting” and “Ref
- Series: 33 1/3 #139
- Author: Washburn, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: April 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1501333445
- Language: English
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The Complete David Bowie
$34.95 Read moreThe biggest edition yet – expanded and updated with 35,000 words of new material
Critically acclaimed in its previous editions, The Complete David Bowie is widely recognized as the foremost source of- Author: Pegg, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: December 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1785653652
- Language: English
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Decoding Despacito: An Oral History of Latin Music
$16.95 Read moreA behind the scenes look at the music that is currently the soundtrack of the globe, reported on and written by Leila Cobo, Billboard’s VP of Latin Music and the world’s ultimate authority on popular … [more below]
- Author: Cobo, Leila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0593081331
- Language: English
