History & Criticism - General
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Amazing Grace
$14.95 Add to cartFor two days in January 1972, Aretha Franklin sang at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles while tape recorders and film cameras rolled. Everyone there knew the event had the potent
- Series: 33 1/3 #84
- Author: Cohen, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 06 2011
- ISBN10: 1441148884
- Language: English
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Dusty Springfield’s Dusty in Memphis
$14.95 Read moreDusty in Memphis, Dusty Springfield’s beautiful and bizarre magnum opus, remains as fine a hybrid of pop and rhythm and blues as has ever been made. In this remarkable book, Warren Zanes explores his
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Zanes, Warren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 131
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0826414923
- Language: English
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Massive Attack’s Blue Lines
$14.95 Read moreIn 1991, a loose-knit collective released a record called Blue Lines under the name Massive Attack, splicing together American hip-hop and soul with the sounds of the British underground. With its mar
- Series: 33 1/3 #140
- Author: Bourland, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1501339699
- Language: English
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Beatles for Sale on Parlophone Records
$69.98 Read moreBeatles For Sale on Parlophone Records covers all of the singles, albums and extended play discs issued by the Beatles in the U.K. from 1962 through 1970. Each record is given a separate chapter, whic… [more below]
- Author: Spizer, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 444
- Publish Date: October 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0983295700
- Language: English
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Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture
$18.95 Read moreIn the 1970s, as the disco tsunami engulfed America, the question, Do you wanna dance? became divisive, even explosive. What about this music made it such hot stuff? In her incisive history, Alice Ech
- Author: Echols, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 21 2011
- ISBN10: 0393338916
- Language: English
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Cokemachineglow: Writing Around Music 2005-2015
$18.95 Read moreIrreverent, cultishly adored, and dearly missed, the music writers at cokemachineglow produced some of the greatest, weirdest, funniest, sharpest criticism of the 21st century, and have gone on to wri
- Author: Purdom, Clayton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 1576879976
- Language: English
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1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music
$25.00 Add to cartA lively chronicle of the year that shaped popular music forever, with an all new Spotify appendix
More than half a century ago, friendly rivalry between musicians turned 1965 into the year rock evol- Author: Jackson, Andrew Grant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1250181712
- Language: English
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Retromania
$32.99 Add to cartOne of The Telegraph‘s Best Music Books 2011
We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake- Author: Reynolds, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 19 2011
- ISBN10: 0865479941
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Western Music
$32.00 Add to cartEngaging, clear and informative, this is the story of western music – of its great composers and also of its performers and listeners, of changing ideas of what music is and what it is for. Paul Griff… [more below]
- Author: Griffiths, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0521133661
- Language: English
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Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives
$15.99 Add to cartColm T ib n on Joni Mitchell – James Wood on The Who – Stacey D’Erasmo on Kate Bush – Daniel Handler on Eurythmics – Lisa Dierbeck on the Pretenders – Clifford Chase on the B-52s . . . and other write
- Author: Terzian, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 23 2009
- ISBN10: 0061579742
- Language: English
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Depeche Mode’s 101
$14.95 Read moreDepeche Mode’s 101 is, at first glance, a curious thing: a live double-album by a synth band. A recording of its “Concert for the Masses,” 101 marks the moment when doomy, cultish, electronic Depeche
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Valle, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1501390325
- Language: English
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Time’s Echo: Music, Memory, and the Second World War
$19.00 Add to cartA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES, NPR – WINNER OF THREE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS – Finalist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction – A stirring account of how music bears witness … [more below]
- Author: Eichler, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 052556344X
- Language: English
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Tainted Love: From Nina Simone to Kendrick Lamar
$20.95 Read moreThe first book-length inquiry into the twisted romantic ballad, giving a sense of both its history and contemporary currency.
Titled after Soft Cell’s version of the original 1965 Gloria Jones track,- Author: Coles, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 3956796586
- Language: English
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The Island Book of Records Volume I: 1959-68
$150.00 Read moreThe Island Book of Records brings the early years of this iconic record label to life.
A fifteen-year labour of love, the volumes will fully document the analogue era of Island. Offering a comprehensi- Author: Storey, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 16 2023
- ISBN10: 152617376X
- Language: English
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A Scene in Between (Revised Edition)
$29.99 Read moreA revised edition of this cult classic photographic exploration of 1980s music and fashion, alongside hundreds of never-seen-before photographs that will delight both fans of Sam Knee’s work and new m
- Author: Knee, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1800660162
- Language: English
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The Story of Motown
$17.95 Read more- In 2018, ITV Studios and Reelz will release a documentary about the Supremes on which Peter Benjaminson will appear
- Also in 2018, CNN will broadcast a four-part series about Detroit in 1963. Benjaminso
- Author: Benjaminson, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 13, 2018
- ISBN10: 1947856235
- Language: English
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Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo’s Hidden History
$18.99 Add to cartIn an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo’s key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters
- Author: Gaddy, Kristina R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074485
- Language: English
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Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, Csny, and the Lost Story of 1970
$16.99 Add to cartSet against a backdrop of world-changing historical and political events, Fire and Rain tells the extraordinary story of one pivotal year in the lives and music of four legendary artists, and reveals … [more below]
- Author: Browne, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: July 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0306820722
- Language: English
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Life of a Song: Volumes 1 and 2
$14.99 Read moreDiscover the stories behind the songs THE LIFE OF A SONG contains the stories of 100 songs exploring each song’s biography and how they took on a new life following their release. Packed with intrigui… [more below]
- Author: Dalley, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1399800582
- Language: English
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Record Store Day: The Most Improbable Comeback of the 21st Century
$20.00 Read moreRecord Store Day: the Most Improbable Comeback of the 21st Century provides the official inside story on how Record Store Day managed to revive the vinyl format from oblivion over the past fifteen yea… [more below]
- Author: Jaffee, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1644282550
- Language: English
