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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

When nineteen-year-old Prince took the stage to perform “I Wanna Be Your Lover” on American Bandstand, those who...  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

When nineteen-year-old Prince took the stage to perform “I Wanna Be Your Lover” on American Bandstand, those who...  Read More >>

A New Philosophy of Opera

A New Philosophy of Opera

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

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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 >>

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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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: 9798999877116
Format: Paperback
$52.80

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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 >>

Let the People Hear It: One Hundred Years of Concerts at the Library of Congress

Let the People Hear It: One Hundred Years of Concerts...

Author: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres ,  David H. Plylar
ISBN: 9780844495941
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Since 1925, the Library of Congress has presented one of the most prestigious and innovative concert series in the...  Read More >>

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: 9781496861030
Format: Hardback
$254.00

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

Let the People Hear It: One Hundred Years of Concerts at the Library of Congress

Let the People Hear It: One Hundred Years of Concerts...

Author: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres ,  David H. Plylar
ISBN: 9780844495965
Format: Hardback
$104.00

Since 1925, the Library of Congress has presented one of the most prestigious and innovative concert series in the...  Read More >>

Opera Wars: Inside the World of Opera and the Battles for Its Future

Opera Wars: Inside the World of Opera and the Battles...

Author: Caitlin Vincent
ISBN: 9781668084069
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A blunt, irreverent, and at times wittily subversive backstage pass to a surprisingly contentious artform—one that...  Read More >>

Body of Work: How the album outplayed the algorithm and survived playlist culture

Body of Work: How the album outplayed the algorithm...

Author: Keith Jopling
ISBN: 9781917516334
Format: Paperback
$32.99

An alternative history of the album, focussing on the format’s turbulent life through the digital music era since...  Read More >>

Joy Division + New Order: Decades

Joy Division + New Order: Decades

Author: John Aizlewood
ISBN: 9781786751164
Format: Hardback
$59.99

The definitive illustrated story of Joy Division and New Order.  Read More >>

My Impossible Soul: The Metamodern Music of Sufjan Stevens

My Impossible Soul: The Metamodern Music of Sufjan Stevens...

Author: Dr Tom Drayton (University of East London, UK) ,  Joshua Kalin Busman (UNC Pembroke, USA)
ISBN: 9798216365549
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Explores the multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens from a broad range of perspectives including...  Read More >>

Integrating Music Across the Secondary Curriculum

Integrating Music Across the Secondary Curriculum

Author: Kristin Harney (Professor of Music Education, Professor of Music Education, Montana State University)
ISBN: 9780197821992
Format: Hardback
$369.60

Integrating Music Across the Secondary Curriculum supports middle school and high school teachers as they bring...  Read More >>

Punk Spirit!: An Oral History of Punk Rock, Spirituality, and Liberation

Punk Spirit!: An Oral History of Punk Rock, Spirituality,...

Author: John Malkin (author) ,  Penny Rimbaud
ISBN: 9798881802714
Format: Hardback
$50.00

A wide cast of punk musicians and artists provide surprising and thought-provoking insights into punk rock from...  Read More >>

Songs for Europe: The United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest: The 2000s

Songs for Europe: The United Kingdom at the Eurovision...

Author: Gordon Roxburgh
ISBN: 9781845832476
Format: Paperback
$43.96

This fifth volume looks at how the UK fared in the 2000s. There is in-depth coverage of those contests staged in...  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 >>

The Oxford Handbook of Spectral Music

The Oxford Handbook of Spectral Music

Author: Amy Bauer (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, University of California, Irvine) ,  Liam Cagney (Lecturer in Music, Lecturer in Music, BIMM University)
ISBN: 9780190633547
Format: Hardback
$419.95

The handbook presents a cross-section of current scholarly research on the spectral music movement and its legacy,...  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 >>

The BeatTips Manual: The Art of Beatmaking, The Hip Hop/Rap Music Tradition, and The Common Composer, 7th Edition: The Art of Beatmaking, The Hip Hop/Rap Music Tradition, and The Common Composer

The BeatTips Manual: The Art of Beatmaking, The Hip...

Author: Amir Said
ISBN: 9781644040218
Format: Paperback
$171.47

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Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe: Frontline Adventures Linking Punk, Reggae, Afrobeat and Jazz

Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe: Frontline Adventures...

Author: Vivien Goldman
ISBN: 9781399601757
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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L'Uomo Che Non Proiettava Ombra: Richard Ashcroft, The Verve e la necessità di non scomparire

L'Uomo Che Non Proiettava Ombra: Richard Ashcroft, The...

Author: Sorryboy
ISBN: 9798248338573
Format: Paperback
$48.15

C'è una voce, subito riconoscibile, che appena si ascolta ristabilisce le gerarchie. Non per volume, estensione...  Read More >>

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