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Passion is a Fashion: The Real Story of the Clash - Revised and Updated 50th Anniversary Edition

Passion is a Fashion: The Real Story of the Clash -...
Author: Pat Gilbert ISBN: 9781805704133 Format: Paperback	$24.99
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Jazz, Race, and Writing, 1945-1970

Jazz, Race, and Writing, 1945-1970
Author: Willis Salomon (Trinity University, USA) ISBN: 9781666909463 Format: Hardback	$180.00
Widens the context of our understanding of the “modern” American jazz of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s by looking at... Read More >>

Riding the Rollercoaster: How artists survive the music business to become the legends we love

Riding the Rollercoaster: How artists survive the music...
Author: Keith Jopling ISBN: 9781917516358 Format: Paperback	$32.99
Riding the Rollercoaster tells the story of how artists and bands carve out long and successful careers in the music... Read More >>

Marvin Gaye's I Want You

Marvin Gaye's I Want You
Author: Derrais Carter (University of Arizona, USA) ISBN: 9781501379062 Format: Paperback	$19.99
Marvin Gaye sang like he lived in bed. He could croon, deliver a political commentary, and sing to you like you... Read More >>

Us v. Them: The Age of Indie Music and a Decade in New York (2004-2014)

Us v. Them: The Age of Indie Music and a Decade in New...
Author: Ronen Givony ISBN: 9781419775260 Format: Hardback	$49.99
A sweeping and in-depth history of the Brooklyn music scene over ten years in Bloomberg's New York, from a writer... Read More >>

Ink on the Tracks: Rock and Roll Writing

Ink on the Tracks: Rock and Roll Writing
Author: Dr Adrian Grafe (Université d’Artois, France) , Dr. Andrew McKeown (Senior Lecturer, University of Poitiers, France) ISBN: 9798765101995 Format: Paperback	$59.99
This book embraces the multiplicity of forms of writing inspired by rock and roll. Exploring a diverse range of... Read More >>

Mediterranean Musicscapes in Contemporary Spain: From Mosaic to Net

Mediterranean Musicscapes in Contemporary Spain: From...
Author: Kiko Mora (Professor in the Department of Communication and Social Psychology, University of Alicante, Spain) ISBN: 9798765102152 Format: Paperback	$59.99
This volume focuses on the musicscapes that contest, critique, and rethink Mediterraneidad (Mediterraneaness) in... Read More >>

Minimalist Music

Minimalist Music
Author: George Grella, Jr. (Independent Scholar, USA) ISBN: 9798765123447 Format: Paperback	$29.99
Looks critically into the music's past, shows how the genre thrives across styles, and points the way toward minimalism's... Read More >>

Reimagining Panama's Musical and Cultural Narratives of Jazz: Panamanian Suite

Reimagining Panama's Musical and Cultural Narratives...
Author: Patricia Zarate de Perez ISBN: 9781793621856 Format: Paperback	$59.99
Narrates the complex relationship between Panama and the United States by tracing the paths of their music, tracking... Read More >>

Run-DMC and Raising Hell: 40 Years

Run-DMC and Raising Hell: 40 Years
Author: JayQuan ISBN: 9780760399781 Format: Hardback	$85.00
Run-DMC and Raising Hell examines one of the most influential hip-hop albums of all time with an authoritative text... Read More >>

Won't Back Down: Heartland Rock and the Fight for America

Won't Back Down: Heartland Rock and the Fight for America...
Author: Erin Osmon ISBN: 9781324051374 Format: Hardback	$52.95
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Roy Orbison: King of Hearts

Roy Orbison: King of Hearts
Author: Jeff Apter ISBN: 9780806544632 Format: Hardback	$55.00
The definitive biography of one of music history's most beloved, versatile, unforgettable icons-Roy Orbison, the... Read More >>

Swinging Against the Axis: Glenn Miller's WWII Army Air Forces Band at Yale

Swinging Against the Axis: Glenn Miller's WWII Army...
Author: Bill Tortolano , Dennis M. Spragg ISBN: 9781496862211 Format: Paperback	$57.99
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Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside Rock 'n' Roll

Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside Rock 'n' Roll...
Author: Danny Goldberg ISBN: 9798895150924 Format: Paperback	$41.37
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All Good Cretins Go To Heaven: The Enduring Spirit of the Ramones

All Good Cretins Go To Heaven: The Enduring Spirit of...
Author: Jenn L Beckwith , Gary Lynn Clevenger ISBN: 9781916864948 Format: Paperback	$66.00
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Swinging Against the Axis: Glenn Miller's WWII Army Air Forces Band at Yale

Swinging Against the Axis: Glenn Miller's WWII Army...
Author: Bill Tortolano , Dennis M. Spragg ISBN: 9781496862204 Format: Hardback	$229.00
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Lullabies of Death: Blood, Plague, and Hidden Horror in the Songs We Gave to Our Children

Lullabies of Death: Blood, Plague, and Hidden Horror...
Author: Heinrich Wilson , Victoria Van Halen ISBN: 9798235192621 Format: Paperback	$31.65
You sang these songs as a child. So did your parents. So did theirs. You had no idea what you were singing. Behind... 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
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Voicing Britannia: Opera, Gender, and Jews, 1760-1830

Voicing Britannia: Opera, Gender, and Jews, 1760-1830...
Author: Uri Erman (Lecturer, Lecturer, Shalem College, Jerusalem) ISBN: 9780197784044 Format: Hardback	$194.95
According to a widely held view in eighteenth-century Britain, Britons were inherently unmusical. Through a detailed... Read More >>

Music at the Threshold from the Sacred to the Dangerous

Music at the Threshold from the Sacred to the Dangerous...
Author: Sean Williams (Professor of Ethnomusicology, Professor of Ethnomusicology, The Evergreen State College) ISBN: 9780197761724 Format: Hardback	$369.60
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The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments

The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments
Author: Deirdre Loughridge , Thomas Patteson ISBN: 9781836391852 Format: Hardback	$39.99
Imagined instruments reveal how we shape music and how music shapes us. Read More >>

Queercore

Queercore
Author: Audrey Golden (Writer, USA) ISBN: 9798765125854 Format: Paperback	$29.99
Queercore revolutionized the possibilities of sonic kinship among self-identified queer in the 1980s and '90s, through... Read More >>

Vyšší Brod 42: A Unique Music Source from Pre-Hussite Bohemia

Vyšší Brod 42: A Unique Music Source from Pre-Hussite...
Author: Hana Vlhová-Wörner , Lenka Hlávková ISBN: 9788024659589 Format: Paperback	$65.95
An in-depth study of a medieval manuscript of songs from the Cistercian monastery in Vyšší Brod. Manuscript 42... Read More >>

Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000

Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000
Author: Barry Walters ISBN: 9798217059829 Format: Hardback	$92.40
""An essential book for this moment."" -Rob Sheffield The definitive history of LGBTQ music, from Stonewall to... Read More >>

Taylor's Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift

Taylor's Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor...
Author: Stephanie Burt ISBN: 9781399820622 Format: Paperback	$24.99
An original exploration and celebration of Taylor Swift charting her phenomenal career, from award-winning literary... Read More >>

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