History & Criticism - General
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LCD Soundsystem’s Sound of Silver
$14.95 Add to cartWhen LCD Soundsystem broke up in 2011, they left behind a small but remarkable catalog of music. On top of the genius singles and a longform composition for Nike, there was a trilogy of full-length al
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Leas, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 16 2016
- ISBN10: 1501325612
- Language: English
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Songs in the Key of Life
$14.95 Add to cartLike all double albums, Songs in the Key of Life is imperfect but audacious. If its titular concern – life – doesn’t exactly allow for rigid focus, it’s still a fiercely inspired collection of songs a
- Series: 33 1/3 #42
- Author: Lundy, Zeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0826419267
- Language: English
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Music Is Power: Popular Songs, Social Justice, and the Will to Change
$27.95 Read moreHonorable Mention, 2019 Foreword INDIES Awards – Performing Arts & Music
Popular music has long been a powerful force for social chang
Honorable Mention, Graphis 2021 Design Annual Competition- Author: Schreiber, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1978839022
- Language: English
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Dancing W/Welk
$24.95 Read more“Not long before embarking on a tour with his own band, author Chris Vondracek discovered the autobiography of Lawrence Welk, the most famous musician to emerge from the Dakotas. This memoir traces Vo… [more below]
- Author: Vondracek, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1941813410
- Language: English
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Smoky, Sweaty, Rowdy, and Loud: Tales of Cleveland’s Legendary Rock & Roll Landmarks
$15.95 Read moreLet’s head backstage at Cleveland’s legendary rock and roll landmarks as club owners, talent bookers, performers, promoters, and concertgoers share stories from the 1950s through 1990s about …
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- Author: Olszewski, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1598511041
- Language: English
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Spiderland
$14.95 Add to cartOf all the seminal albums to come out in 1991-the year of Nevermind, Loveless, Ten, and Out of Time, among others-none were quieter, both in volume and influence, than Spiderland, and no band more mys
- Series: 33 1/3 #75
- Author: Tennent, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 11 2010
- ISBN10: 144117026X
- Language: English
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The Great American Songbook: 201 Favorites You Ought to Know (& Love)
$24.95 Read moreIn an age of ubiquitous music and countless new songs releasing every minute, the Great American Songbook endures. After all, the Songbook–that sprawling canon of popular songs, standards, and show t
- Author: Suskin, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493070940
- Language: English
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Lamestains: Grunge, Sub Pop and the Music of the Loser
$25.00 Read moreA surprising history of Seattle’s Sub Pop Records, pioneer of grunge . . . and champion of losers.
This book is a critical history of Sub Pop Records, the Seattle independent rock label that launched- Author: Attfield, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1789147069
- Language: English
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Jesus Christ Superstar: Behind the Scenes of the Worldwide Musical Phenomenon
$36.95 Add to cartIn 1969, when Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice decided to write a rock opera about Jesus Christ, they had little idea they were about to embark on one of the most popular, boundary-pushing, and influe
- Author: Nassour, Ellis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1493068040
- Language: English
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Declassified: A Low-Key Guide to the High-Strung World of Classical Music
$27.00 Read more“A refreshingly fun guide” that reads “as if you’re a fly on the wall in conservatory auditions, cutthroat competitions and the obsessive practice routines of professional musicians.” (The New York Ti… [more below]
- Author: Warsaw-Fan Rauch, Arianna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 059333146X
- Language: English
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The Great Psychic Outdoors: Adventures in Low Fidelity
$14.95 Read moreExplores the weird world of lo-fi music to investigate its revolutionary potential and its ability to subvert what we think music can do.
Homemade records, tape-hiss worship and a taste for a very pec- Author: Monacelli, Enrico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1914420608
- Language: English
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Tonight It’s a World We Bury: Black Metal, Red Politics
$14.95 Read more- Author: Peel, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1914420365
- Language: English
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Bone Music: Soviet X-Ray Audio
$34.95 Read moreStories of the secret underground Cold War-era Soviet music subculture that distributed forbidden music on used hospital x-rays.
During the Cold War era, the songs that Soviet citizens could listen to- Author: Coates, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1913689476
- Language: English
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Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital
$32.50 Add to cartThe definitive history of the rise and heyday of the revolutionary Greenwich Village music scene, based on new research and first-hand interviews with many of its legendary performers
Although Greenw- Author: Browne, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0306827638
- Language: English
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A Tribe Called Quest’s People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
$14.95 Add to cartOne of the finest hip-hop albums ever made, A Tribe Called Quest’s debut record (featuring stone-cold classics like “Can I Kick It?” and “Bonita Applebum”) took the idea of the boasting hip-hop male a
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Taylor, Shawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 20 2007
- ISBN10: 0826419232
- Language: English
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How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music
$40.00 Add to cartDrawn from NPR Music’s acclaimed, groundbreaking series Turning the Tables, the definitive book on the vital role of Women in Music–from Beyonc? to Odetta, Taylor Swift to Joan Baez, Joan Jett to Dol
- Author: National Public Radio, Inc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0063270331
- Language: English
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Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation
$32.95 Add to cart–A Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year
–An Uncut Book of the Year
–Long-Listed for the Penderyn Music Book Prize
–A Louder Than War Book of the Year
–A Blitzed Magazine Book of the YearIn 1979, … [more below]
- Author: Rachel, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1636141897
- Language: English
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Century of Song: 101 Songs That Shaped American Music
$29.99 Add to cartDiscover the Music that Changed Everything
Embark on a complex and inspiring journey through the last 101 years as told through some of the most memorable hits and the artists behind them. Noah Lefevr- Author: LeFevre, Noah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 9798890031235
- Language: English
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Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age
$31.00 Read moreThe hegemony of finance compels a new orientation for everyone and everything: companies care more about the moods of their shareholders than about longstanding commercial success; governments subordi
- Series: Zone / Near Futures
- Author: Feher, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 26 2018
- ISBN10: 1942130120
- Language: English
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Oasis’ Definitely Maybe
$14.95 Add to cartOasis’s incendiary 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe managed to summarize almost the entire history of post-fifties guitar music from Chuck Berry to My Bloody Valentine in a way that seemed effortless
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Niven, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1623564239
- Language: English
