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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
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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 >>

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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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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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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Positively Fourth and Mercer: The Inside Story of New York’s Iconic Music Club, The Bottom Line

Positively Fourth and Mercer: The Inside Story of New...
Author: Allan Pepper (Music promoter, Englewood, NJ, USA) , Billy Altman (Journalist, Westchester County, NY, USA) ISBN: 9781493080144 Format: Hardback	$75.01
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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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

George Frideric Handel: Collected Documents

George Frideric Handel: Collected Documents
Author: Donald Burrows (The Open University, Milton Keynes) , Helen Coffey (The Open University, Milton Keynes) ISBN: 9781107080249 Format: Hardback	$514.80
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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
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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 >>

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 >>

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	$432.96
The Multiplicities of Hindustani Music explores the dynamic social and economic world of North Indian raga-based... 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
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