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Nocturnes: and the Fascination of Night Music

Nocturnes: and the Fascination of Night Music

Author: Susan Tomes
ISBN: 9780300278897
Format: Hardback
$41.95

An engrossing history of the music of twilight and sleep, from the nocturnes of Field and Chopin to Max Richter...  Read More >>

Magnum Opus: The Unbelievable 15-Year Saga of Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy

Magnum Opus: The Unbelievable 15-Year Saga of Guns N'...

Author: James Greene Jr. (Freelance writer, Austin, TX, USA)
ISBN: 9781493074785
Format: Paperback
$44.99

For die-hard fans and curious newcomers alike, this is the definitive account of how Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy...  Read More >>

Mazzy Star’s So Tonight That I Might See

Mazzy Star’s So Tonight That I Might See

Author: Anthony Gomez III (University of Oklahoma, USA)
ISBN: 9798765133552
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Discusses how Mazzy Star become a call and response dream pop act that blended surrealism, sixties psychedelia,...  Read More >>

Stiff Little Fingers' Inflammable Material

Stiff Little Fingers' Inflammable Material

Author: Kevin Dunn (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA)
ISBN: 9798765133248
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Stiff Little Fingers' 1979 debut album Inflammable Material was a product of, and response to, the turbulent era...  Read More >>

Rush and 2112: Fifty Years

Rush and 2112: Fifty Years

Author: Daniel Bukszpan
ISBN: 9780760399231
Format: Hardback
$89.99

Rush and 2112: 50 Years is the definitive account of the most groundbreaking and enduring prog rock records of all...  Read More >>

Stuck in the '80s

Stuck in the '80s

Author: Steve Spears
ISBN: 9798994598306
Format: Paperback
$52.27

Have you ever wished you could talk with your '80s idols? Award-winning podcast creator and host Steve Spears...  Read More >>

Atypical Girl: Punk rock, Liverpool, and trying to be normal

Atypical Girl: Punk rock, Liverpool, and trying to be...

Author: Penny Kiley
ISBN: 9781846976919
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Set against the backdrop of the Liverpool music scene of the 1980s and beyond, this is a story about the search...  Read More >>

Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District

Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District...

Author: Pauline Fairclough (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9780197534946
Format: Paperback
$34.95

Shostakovich's lurid opera of sex, violence, and murder, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, is famous for being banned by...  Read More >>

Kiss '76: Twelve Months That Defined the Hottest Band in the Land

Kiss '76: Twelve Months That Defined the Hottest Band...

Author: Martin Popoff
ISBN: 9780760398845
Format: Hardback
$69.99

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A New Philosophy of Opera

A New Philosophy of Opera

Author: Yuval Sharon
ISBN: 9781324097808
Format: Paperback
$32.95

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The Cello Who Loved Me: An Accidental Pilgrimage to Master the World's Most Beautiful Instrument

The Cello Who Loved Me: An Accidental Pilgrimage to...

Author: George Sorensen
ISBN: 9798999877161
Format: Hardback
$79.20

George is nearing completion of the Camino when he attends a lecture and cello performance. He becomes enthralled...  Read More >>

Sounding Good: Advancing Cultural Sustainability and Social Justice through Music

Sounding Good: Advancing Cultural Sustainability and...

Author: Catherine Grant (music researcher and lecturer, music researcher and lecturer, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University)
ISBN: 9780197698440
Format: Paperback
$55.95

Like biological species and languages, many musical and other cultural practices around the world are at risk. In...  Read More >>

The Multiplicities of Hindustani Music: Re-envisioning a National Tradition

The Multiplicities of Hindustani Music: Re-envisioning...

Author: Anna Morcom (Mohindar Brar Sambhi Chair of Indian Music, Mohindar Brar Sambhi Chair of Indian Music, University of California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9780197825440
Format: Hardback
$304.95

The Multiplicities of Hindustani Music explores the dynamic social and economic world of North Indian raga-based...  Read More >>

Document and Eyewitness: An Intimate History of Rough Trade

Document and Eyewitness: An Intimate History of Rough...

Author: Neil Taylor
ISBN: 9781399634717
Format: Paperback
$45.00

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Prince's Minneapolis: A Biography of Sound and Place

Prince's Minneapolis: A Biography of Sound and Place...

Author: Rashad Shabazz
ISBN: 9781469690957
Format: Paperback
$57.99

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Rethinking Elvis

Rethinking Elvis

Author: Mark Duffett (Associate Professor, Communication, Screen & Performance, Associate Professor, Communication, Screen & Performance, University of Chester)
ISBN: 9780190094119
Format: Paperback
$63.95

In Rethinking Elvis, popular music scholars and historians look beyond Elvis' iconography to shine a light on the...  Read More >>

CCCP - Fedeli Alla Linea’s Affinità - Divergenze Fra Il Compagno Togliatti e Noi

CCCP - Fedeli Alla Linea’s Affinità - Divergenze Fra...

Author: Dr. Giacomo Bottà (Senior Researcher & Adjunct Professor, University of Turku, Finland)
ISBN: 9798765111260
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Tells the fascinating story of Affinità e Divergenze, a defining punk album that continues to challenge conventional...  Read More >>

Prince's Minneapolis: A Biography of Sound and Place

Prince's Minneapolis: A Biography of Sound and Place...

Author: Rashad Shabazz
ISBN: 9781469690940
Format: Hardback
$229.00

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CCCP - Fedeli Alla Linea’s Affinità - Divergenze Fra Il Compagno Togliatti e Noi

CCCP - Fedeli Alla Linea’s Affinità - Divergenze Fra...

Author: Dr. Giacomo Bottà (Senior Researcher & Adjunct Professor, University of Turku, Finland)
ISBN: 9798765111277
Format: Hardback
$120.00

Tells the fascinating story of Affinità e Divergenze, a defining punk album that continues to challenge conventional...  Read More >>

What Music Did: The Story of Numerocracy in the West

What Music Did: The Story of Numerocracy in the West...

Author: Tony Conrad ,  Patrick Nickleson
ISBN: 9780472057917
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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Ontology of the Musical Work: Scored Music, Jazz, Pop, and Rock

Ontology of the Musical Work: Scored Music, Jazz, Pop,...

Author: Laurent Cugny ,  Bérengère Mauduit
ISBN: 9781496861047
Format: Paperback
$80.99

A redefining of the musical work through a new theory of production and an elevation of recording's unique role...  Read More >>

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