History & Criticism - General
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Desert Dreams: The Music, Style, and Allure of Coachella
$24.99 Add to cartImmerse yourself in the music, the fashion, and the hype of one of the biggest music festivals in the world.
Coachella is considered one of the most profitable and widely attended music festivals, wi- Author: Bain, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0760397554
- Language: English
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The Hours Are Long, But the Pay Is Low: A Curious Life in Independent Music
$24.95 Add to cart“The music business is not a meritocracy: it is a crapshoot taking place in a septic tank balanced on the prow of the Titanic, a venal snake pit where innovation, creativity, and honest business pract… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0252088964
- Language: English
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Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC
$39.95 Read moreThe first history of the fanzines that emerged from Washington, DC’s highly influential punk community
DIY culture has always been at the heart of DC’s thriving punk community. As Washington, DC’s punk
- Author: Davis, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1647126355
- Language: English
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Deliver Me from Nowhere (Movie Tie-In): The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska
$20.00 Add to cartThe fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, revealing its pivotal role in Springsteen’s career–now with a new afterword
Soon to be a major motion- Author: Zanes, Warren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217088645
- Language: English
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Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive cultural criticism, illuminating how streaming is reshaping- Author: Pelly, Liz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1668083515
- Language: English
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Synths, Sax and Situationists: The French Musical Underground 1968-1978
$31.00 Add to cartAt the dawn of the ’70s, in a country still reeling from the aftershocks of World War 2, an underground movement of rock musicians resolved to tear it all up and start again.
Welcome to France, 1968.
- Author: Thompson, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 534
- Publish Date: August 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0645492809
- Language: English
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Don’t Stop: Why We (Still) Love Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours
$29.00 Add to cartThe author of The Holy or the Broken and former editor-in-chief of Vibe brings his “thoughtful and illuminating” (The New York Times) insight to Fleetwood Mac’s iconic album Rumours, celebrating its s… [more below]
- Author: Light, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 166805437X
- Language: English
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Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters: Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage
$41.93 Add to cartIn Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters, songwriter, scholar, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of black women singers in US musical theatre between 1900 and 1970. Asare shows how a v… [more below]
- Series: Refiguring American Music
- Author: Asare, Masi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 147803095X
- Language: English
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Music from Elsewhere: Haunting Tunes from the Afterlife, Alien Worlds and Occult Realms
$22.95 Add to cartA compendium of other musics, channelled from the spirit world, the fairy kingdom, outer space, secret societies and occult lodges.
This unique collection of esoteric earworms gathers, and reproduces,- Author: Skinner, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1913689212
- Language: English
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The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI
$32.99 Add to cartWhat does it mean to be human in a world where machines, too, can be artists? The Uncanny Muse explores the history of automation in the arts and delves into one of the most momentous and controversia
- Author: Hajdu, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0393540839
- Language: English
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Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
$28.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive cultural criticism, illuminating how streaming is reshaping- Author: Pelly, Liz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1668083507
- Language: English
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I Can’t Remember If I Cried: Rock Widows on Life, Love, and Legacy
$34.95 Read moreThe stories of rock musicians who die young are the thing of lore and legend. Accidents, drug overdoses, plane crashes–all have taken the lives of male rock stars still in their primes. But what beca
- Author: Tucker-Sullivan, Lori
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1493084143
- Language: English
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Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska
$20.00 Add to cartThe fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, revealing its pivotal role in Springsteen’s career–in development as a major motion picture starring J… [more below]
- Author: Zanes, Warren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0593237439
- Language: English
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Let Me Take You Down: Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever
$22.95 Read moreThe conception, creation, recording, and significance of the Beatles’ “Penny Lane” and “Strawberry Fields Forever”
John Lennon wrote “Strawberry Fields Forever” in Almer?a, Spain, in fall 1966, and in
- Author: Cott, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1517914485
- Language: English
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A Hound Dog Tale: Big Mama, Elvis, and the Song That Changed Everything
$34.95 Add to cartThe release of the song “Hound Dog” in 1953 marked a turning point in American popular culture, and throughout its history, the hit ballad bridged divides of race, gender, and generational conflict. B
- Author: Wynne, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0807181145
- Language: English
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The Sound of Seattle: 101 Songs That Shaped a City
$22.95 Add to cartThis rockin’ paperback explores the musical evolution of Seattle through the lens of 101 songs spanning 80 years, examining the most prominent and important music and musicians to come out of our corn… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Eva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1632175142
- Language: English
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Shake It Up, Baby!: The Rise of Beatlemania and the Mayhem of 1963
$32.00 Add to cartA vivid, captivating account of the Beatles’s musical transformation throughout the pivotal year of 1963, as the world became caught up in the maelstrom of Beatlemania and its far-reaching cultural im… [more below]
- Author: McNab, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 163936658X
- Language: English
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Labelled with Love: A History of the World in Your Record Collection
$33.99 Add to cartA warm-hearted, reflective, musical odyssey through the record labels, bands and music which shaped our lives.
‘An instant classic and a required part of the library of anyone fascinated with the rec- Author: Bollen, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1803994339
- Language: English
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I Like People That Can’t Sing: Paul Nelson Interviews Leonard Cohen & Lucinda Williams
$29.99 Add to cartIn 1991, legendary but down-and-out rock critic Paul Nelson landed his dream assignment: fly from New York to Los Angeles and separately interview two of the most distinguished popular music artists: … [more below]
- Author: Avery, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 05 2025
- ISBN10: 9798875000560
- Language: English
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Frank Zappa’s America
$39.95 Add to cartFrom his early albums with the Mothers of Invention, Frank Zappa established a reputation as a musical genius who pushed the limits of culture throughout the 1960s and 1970s, experimenting with a blen
- Author: Morgan, Bradley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 02 2025
- ISBN10: 080718392X
- Language: English
