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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 >>

Run-DMC and Raising Hell: 40 Years

Run-DMC and Raising Hell: 40 Years

Author: JayQuan
ISBN: 9780760399781
Format: Hardback
$85.00

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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: 9781496862211
Format: Paperback
$57.99

The unlikely story of how the American big band conductor raised morale and fought Nazis during World War II  Read More >>

Roy Orbison: King of Hearts

Roy Orbison: King of Hearts

Author: Jeff Apter
ISBN: 9780806544632
Format: Hardback
$55.00

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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

One of America’s leading music journalists on Heartland Rock’s glory days and its role in the populist politics...  Read More >>

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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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

The unlikely story of how the American big band conductor raised morale and fought Nazis during World War II  Read More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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: 9780197825457
Format: Paperback
$92.95

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

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 >>

When Heavy Became Mass

When Heavy Became Mass

Author: Fredd Carroll
ISBN: 9781972440018
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Thirty years. Nine chapters. One argument: heavy music was never just sound. It was structure, identity, and infrastructure-built...  Read More >>

When Heavy Became Mass

When Heavy Became Mass

Author: Fredd Carroll
ISBN: 9781972440001
Format: Hardback
$92.37

When Heavy Became Mass traces thirty years of heavy music as an argument about economics, culture, and sound. The...  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 >>

Operatic Infrastructures: Materiality and Meaning in 1890s London, Paris, and New York

Operatic Infrastructures: Materiality and Meaning in...

Author: Flora Willson
ISBN: 9780226846835
Format: Hardback
$90.95

An exploration of the fundamental relationship between opera and urban modernity in three iconic cities: London,...  Read More >>

BBC Proms 2026

BBC Proms 2026

Author: BBC Proms Publications
ISBN: 9781912114238
Format: Paperback
$25.85

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Quotes from the Road: The Wit and Wisdom of American Musicians

Quotes from the Road: The Wit and Wisdom of American...

Author: Robert Mugge
ISBN: 9781971400068
Format: Paperback
$64.02

A collection of interviews with American musicians, offering insights into their lives and careers, and serving...  Read More >>

Prison Song: Music and Incarceration in the United States

Prison Song: Music and Incarceration in the United States...

Author: David Metzer
ISBN: 9780472058044
Format: Paperback
$79.07

How musicians across genres have confronted the prison system over the last hundred years  Read More >>

The Rise and Rise of Ariana Grande: The Stories Behind the Songs, Tours and Making of an Icon

The Rise and Rise of Ariana Grande: The Stories Behind...

Author: Emily Zemler
ISBN: 9781788406390
Format: Hardback
$45.00

The definitive, untold story of Ariana Grande's artistic revolution, from musical theatre starlet to global pop...  Read More >>

The Story of Us: How the Taylor Swift Fandom Changed Our Lives

The Story of Us: How the Taylor Swift Fandom Changed...

Author: Olivia Levin
ISBN: 9781668092927
Format: Hardback
$49.99

We've had the time of our lives as Swifties, and now that story-full of boundless joy, unexpected friendships, cherished...  Read More >>

Prison Song: Music and Incarceration in the United States

Prison Song: Music and Incarceration in the United States...

Author: David Metzer
ISBN: 9780472078042
Format: Hardback
$195.36

How musicians across genres have confronted the prison system over the last hundred years  Read More >>

Richard Wagner's Political Ecology

Richard Wagner's Political Ecology

Author: Kirsten S. Paige
ISBN: 9780226843537
Format: Hardback
$82.95

A study of the deep history of the Wagnerian environmental imagination. Richard Wagner's operas are bursting with...  Read More >>

Quotes from the Road: The Wit and Wisdom of American Musicians

Quotes from the Road: The Wit and Wisdom of American...

Author: Robert Mugge
ISBN: 9781971400075
Format: Hardback
$98.34

A collection of quotes from 150 musicians, offering insights into their lives and careers, and serving as a companion...  Read More >>

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