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The Great American Songbook: 201 Favorites You Ought to Know (& Love)
$24.95 Read moreIn an age of ubiquitous music and countless new songs releasing every minute, the Great American Songbook endures. After all, the Songbook–that sprawling canon of popular songs, standards, and show t
- Author: Suskin, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493070940
- Language: English
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The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s
$26.95 Add to cartIn The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept. In the 1960s, Lordi argues, soul came to signify a cultural belief in black resilience, which was … [more below]
- Series: Refiguring American Music
- Author: Lordi, Emily J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1478009594
- Language: English
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Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
$28.95 Add to cartSince launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics. Flyboy 2 pro… [more below]
- Author: Tate, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0822361965
- Language: English
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Is There God After Prince?: Dispatches from an Age of Last Things
$18.00 Add to cartEssays considering what it means to love art, culture, and people in an age of accelerating disaster.
This is a book about loving things–books, songs, people–in the shadow of a felt, looming disast- Author: Coviello, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0226828085
- Language: English
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The Soundtrack of My Life
$22.00 Add to cartMusic legend Clive Davis recounts an extraordinary five-decade career in the music business, while also telling a remarkable personal story of encounters with some of the greatest musical artists of o
- Author: Davis, Clive
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 05, 2013
- ISBN10: 1476714797
- Language: English
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Why Mariah Carey Matters
$22.95 Read moreThe first book to critically examine the legacy of pop superstar Mariah Carey.
When it comes to Mariah Carey, star power is never in doubt. She has sold hundreds of millions of albums and cut more ch- Series: Music Matters
- Author: Chan, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 1477325077
- Language: English
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Oh, Didn’t They Ramble: Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music
$28.00 Add to cartWhat is American roots music? Any definition must account for a kaleidoscope of genres from bluegrass to blues, western swing to jazz, soul and gospel to rock and reggae, Cajun to Celtic. It must enco
- Author: Menconi, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1469674998
- Language: English
