History & Criticism - General
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The Cure FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the Most Heartbreakingly Excellent Rock Band the World Has Ever Known
$37.43 Add to cartThe Cure FAQ is a complete analysis of the band’s forty-plus year career, delving into each one of their albums with fresh commentary and insight.
- Series: FAQ
- Author: Gerard, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1617137073
- Language: English
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They Might Be Giants’ Flood
$14.95 Read moreFor a few decades now, They Might Be Giants’ album Flood has been a beacon (or at least a nightlight) for people who might rather read than rock out, who care more about science fiction than Slayer, w
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Reed, S. Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 21 2013
- ISBN10: 162356915X
- Language: English
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Post: A Look at the Influence of Post-Hardcore-1985-2007
$23.95 Add to cartPOST is a look at how post-hardcore/emo music developed since its unintentional inception in the mid-1980s. With each chapter broken up by influential band or label, it focuses on a broad style of ind… [more below]
- Author: Grubbs, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: September 23 2008
- ISBN10: 0595518354
- Language: English
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The Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers
$15.99 Add to cartThis is a compelling and inspiring look at spiritual beliefs that influenced some of the world’s greatest composers, now revised and expanded with eight additional composers.
- Author: Kavanaugh, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 19 1996
- ISBN10: 0310208068
- Language: English
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From Dixie to Rocky Top: Music and Meaning in Southeastern Conference Football
$34.95 Add to cartListen as you read! From Dixie to Rocky Top: Book Playlist, now on Spotify.
The first book to explore the history of college fight songs as a culturally important phenomenon, From Dixie to Rocky Top- Author: Tipton, Carrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0826506399
- Language: English
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Hole’s Live Through This
$14.95 Add to cartCourtney Love has never been less than notorious. Her intelligence, ambition and appetite for confrontation have made her a target in a music industry still dominated by men. As Kurt Cobain’s wife she
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Crawford, Anwen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1623563771
- Language: English
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Listen to This
$27.00 Add to cartOne of The Telegraph‘s Best Music Books 2011
Alex Ross’s award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing- Author: Ross, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0312610688
- Language: English
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Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo
$29.99 Read moreThis entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Vald?s, Arsenio Rodr?guez, Benny Mor?, and P?rez Prado. It offe… [more below]
- Author: Sublette, Ned
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1556526326
- Language: English
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The Birth of the Bakersfield Sound: A Honky Tonk Attitude
$17.99 Add to cartLawton Jiles is a charter member of the Bakersfield Country Music Museum who led Buck Owens’ band in 1961 and 1962. He is a singer/songwriter who has had songs recorded by T. Texas Tyler, Patsy Cline,
- Author: Jiles, Lawton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: February 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1948282518
- Language: English
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Grateful Dead’s Workingman’s Dead
$14.95 Read moreReleased in 1970, Workingman’s Dead was the breakthrough album for the Grateful Dead, a cold-water-shock departure from the Acid Test madness of the late ’60s. It was the band’s most commercially and
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Poole, Buzz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 21 2016
- ISBN10: 1628929243
- Language: English
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Björk’s Homogenic
$14.95 Add to cartIn recent years, Bj rk’s artistry has become ever more ambitious and ever more respected. With the release of her conceptual app-album Biophilia in 2011, and a huge retrospective exhibition at New Yor… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: MacKay, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1501322745
- Language: English
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The Grunge Diaries: Seattle, 1990-1994
$41.93 Add to cartA detailed chronicle of the rise and fall of the grunge music scene in Seattle and beyond.
- Author: Thompson, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1493055690
- Language: English
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101 Fascinating Canadian Music Facts
$14.99 Add to cart101 true stories to surprise and delight Canadian music fans.
Did you know that Serena Ryder played the quietest concert ever from the ocean floor during low tide at Fundy National Park? Or that “I’ll … [more below]
- Series: 101 Fascinating Facts #2
- Author: McPherson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1459751582
- Language: English
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Musical Revolutions: How the Sounds of the Western World Changed
$35.00 Read moreFrom the critically acclaimed author of Temperament, a narrative account of the most defining moments in musical history–classical and jazz–all of which forever altered Western culture
“A fascinati- Author: Isacoff, Stuart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0525658637
- Language: English
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Opera Encore: Collected Essays on the Grand Art
$22.00 Add to cartFor over twenty years, Joseph A. Kestner wrote for Opera News and other publications. Collected for the first time, Kestner’s essays explore the creation, influence, context, and meaning of the world’
- Author: Kestner, Joseph A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 9798986601502
- Language: English
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Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs
$26.95 Add to cartTwo classic collections of freedom songs, We Shall Overcome (1963) and Freedom Is A Constant Struggle (1968), are reprinted here in a single edition which includes a major new introduction by the edit… [more below]
- Author: Carawan, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1588381935
- Language: English
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Patti Smith’s Horses
$14.95 Add to cartDescribed as the perfect fusion of poetry and garage band rock and roll (the original concept was “rock and Rimbaud”), Horses belongs as much to the world of literary and cultural criticism as it does… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #55
- Author: Shaw, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0826427928
- Language: English
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A Million Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity
$26.95 Read moreWhat is the origin of music? In the last few decades this centuries-old puzzle has been reinvigorated by new archaeological evidence and developments in the fields of cognitive science, linguistics, a
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Tomlinson, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1890951528
- Language: English
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The Beatles 100: One Hundred Pivotal Moments in Beatles History
$25.00 Read moreWas John Lennon meeting Paul McCartney more significant than John Lennon meeting Yoko Ono? Rubber Soul or Revolver? Which Wings album was Paul McCartney’s solo pinnacle?
In 100 brief chapters, John M.- Author: Borack, John M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1644282852
- Language: English
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XO
$14.95 Add to cartMany albums could be cited to support the claim that great suffering yields great art. Elliott Smith’s XO should not be one of them. Smith’s 1998 major label debut defies the “tortured singer-songwrit… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #63
- Author: Lemay, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0826429009
- Language: English
