History & Criticism - General
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Extraordinary Records
$70.00 Add to cartThis electrifying vinyl edition creates a new and edgy definition for “album art.” Produced in collaboration with Colors magazine, it brings together more than 500 remarkable records from the collecti
- Author: Benedetti, Alessandro
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: April 19 2024
- ISBN10: 3836595001
- Language: English
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Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties
$18.99 Add to cartTHE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A COMPLETE UNKNOWN. One of the music world’s pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan “went electric” at the Newport Folk Fe
- Author: Wald, Elijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062366696
- Language: English
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60 Songs That Explain the ’90s
$21.99 Add to cartONE OF PITCHFORK’S BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2023
Now in paperback, a companion to the #1 music podcast on Spotify, this book takes readers through the greatest hits that define a weirdly undefinable decad- Author: Harvilla, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1538759470
- Language: English
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Down on the Corner: Adventures in Busking & Street Music
$24.95 Add to cartDown On The Corner is the story of music performed on the streets, in subways, in parks, in schoolyards, on the back of flatbed trucks, and beyond, from the 1920s to the present day.
One day around 197
- Author: Baker, Cary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1916829104
- Language: English
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Carole King’s Tapestry
$14.95 Read moreCarole King’s Tapestry is both an anthemic embodiment of second-wave feminism and an apotheosis of the Laurel Canyon singer-songwriter sound and scene. And these two elements of the album’s historic s
- Series: 33 1/3 #153
- Author: Glass, Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1501355627
- Language: English
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Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II
$14.95 Add to cartExtravagantly opaque, willfully vaporous — Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II, released by the estimable British label Warp Records in 1994, rejuvenated ambient music for the Internet Age
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Weidenbaum, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 13 2014
- ISBN10: 1623568900
- Language: English
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Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
$14.95 Add to cartIn the first decade of the twenty-first century, Kanye West created the most compelling body of pop music by an American artist during the period. Having risen from obscurity as a precocious producer
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Graves, Kirk Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 19 2014
- ISBN10: 1623565421
- Language: English
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The Cricket: Black Music in Evolution, 1968-69
$35.00 Read moreA rare document of the 1960s Black Arts Movement featuring Albert Ayler, Amiri Baraka, Milford Graves, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor and many more, The Cricket fostered critical and political dialogue for Blac
- Author: Spellman, A. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1953691102
- Language: English
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Love’s Forever Changes
$14.95 Read moreConceived as the last testament of a charismatic recluse who believed he was about to die, ‘Forever Changes’ is one of the defining albums of an era. Here, Andrew Hultkrans explores the myriad depths … [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Hultkrans, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0826414931
- Language: English
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Wendy Carlos’s Switched-On Bach
$14.95 Read moreSo much, popular and scholarly, has been written about the synthesizer, Bob Moog and his brand-name instrument, and even Wendy Carlos, the musician who made this instrument famous. No one, however, ha
- Series: 33 1/3 #141
- Author: Kheshti, Roshanak
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: October 31 2019
- ISBN10: 1501320289
- Language: English
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Jawbreaker’s 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
$14.95 Read moreTwo and a half decades on, Jawbreaker’s 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (1993-94) is the rare album to have lost none of its original loyalty, affection, and reverence. If anything, today, the cult of Jawbrea
- Series: 33 1/3 #130
- Author: Givony, Ronen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 19 2018
- ISBN10: 1501323091
- Language: English
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Statesman of the Piano: Jazz, Race, and History in the Life of Lou Hooper Volume 266
$37.95 Read moreOntario-born jazz pianist Lou Hooper (1894-1977) began his professional career in Detroit, accompanying blues singers such as Ma Rainey at the legendary Koppin Theatre. In 1921 he moved to Harlem, per… [more below]
- Series: Carleton Library
- Author: Mills, Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0228018803
- Language: English
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The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth – A BBC Radio 4 ‘Book of the Week’
$35.00 Read more“Michael Spitzer has pulled off the impossible: a Guns, Germs and Steel for music.” –Daniel Levitin
A colossal history spanning cultures, time, and space to explore the vibrant relationship between- Author: Spitzer, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1635576245
- Language: English
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Band’s Music from Big Pink
$14.95 Read more“Music From Big Pink is a moving book that succeeds not just in vividly evoking its time and place but in distilling one young man’s cliched and minor destiny into something approaching tragedy….Thi
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Niven, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 16 2005
- ISBN10: 082641771X
- Language: English
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I See the Rhythm
$12.95 Read moreCoretta Scott King Illustrator Award – American Library Association (ALA)
i see the rhythmis an inspiring celebration of African American music and the far-reaching impact it has had on the world.
From
- Author: Igus, Toyomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0892392126
- Language: English
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Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts After Cage: A “Minor” History
$31.00 Read moreTony Conrad is exemplary of the 1960s artist who remains inassimilable to canonic histories. Creator of the “structural” film, The Flicker, collaborator on Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures and Normal Lo
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Joseph, Branden W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 489
- Publish Date: August 23 2011
- ISBN10: 1890951870
- Language: English
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The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century
$32.00 Read moreA fascinating journey into global politics that made classical music a proxy for power, inadvertently creating the “sound of Hollywood,” and excluding hundreds of composers
“[Mauceri’s] writing is mo- Author: Mauceri, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0300233701
- Language: English
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Jack Bruce Composing Himself: The Authorised Biography
$24.95 Add to cartWhen Cream broke up in 1968 it was by no means a foregone conclusion that it would be Eric Clapton who would enjoy continued commercial success. After all, it was Jack Bruce who had the looks, and who
- Author: Shapiro, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1906002266
- Language: English
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Vinyl Me, Please: 100 Albums You Need in Your Collection
$29.95 Add to cartBrought to you by the subscription club of the same name, Vinyl Me, Please: 100 Albums You Need In Your Collection is a vibrant visual guide to curating must-have records for any music lover’s shelf.
- Author: Please
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1419725971
- Language: English
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Historic RCA Studio B
$19.95 Read moreHistoric RCA Studio B, “Home of 1 000 Hits ” is a landmark with a legacy built by some of the most important producers and artists in country and pop music. During a golden window, from 1957 to 1977, … [more below]
- Series: Distributed for the Country Music Foundation Press
- Author: Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0915608278
- Language: English
