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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

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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

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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

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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

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

The Ramones performed over twenty-two years across three decades until 1996. They loved and respected their fans,...  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: 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 >>

Brand New Beat: The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine

Brand New Beat: The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine...

Author: Peter Richardson
ISBN: 9780520399396
Format: Hardback
$45.95

How the iconic publication's unruly first decade rewrote the rules of journalism. Rolling Stone's first decade...  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 >>

The Sound of Thinking: A Listener's Companion to Conceptual Music

The Sound of Thinking: A Listener's Companion to Conceptual...

Author: Craig Dworkin
ISBN: 9780226847696
Format: Hardback
$303.60

A lively compendium of musical practices and compositions that upend notions of creativity and expressivity while...  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 >>

Tuning In: Acoustics of Emotion, Sound Archives, and Contemporary Aesthetics

Tuning In: Acoustics of Emotion, Sound Archives, and...

Author: Elisa Rusca ,  Paul-Henri Arni
ISBN: 9782889157327
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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