History & Criticism - General
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Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the beloved host and creator of NPR’s All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts comes an essential oral history of modern music, told in the voices of iconic and up-and-coming musicians, includ
- Author: Boilen, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0062344455
- Language: English
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Last Night’s Fun: A Book about Irish Traditional Music
$19.00 Add to cartLast Night’s Fun’s is a sparking celebration of music and life that is itself a literary performance of the highest order. Carson’s inspired jumble of recording history, poetry, tall tales, and polemi
- Author: Carson, Ciaran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0865475318
- Language: English
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Chasing Chopin: A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions
$17.99 Add to cartA modern take on a classical icon: this “luminous book” (Susan Orlean, New York Times bestselling author of The Library Book) tells the story of when, where, and how Chopin composed his most famous wo… [more below]
- Author: LaFarge, Annik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1501188720
- Language: English
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The BeatTips Manual: The Art of Beatmaking, The Hip Hop/Rap Music Tradition, and The Common Composer
$44.95 Add to cart‘The BeatTips Manual’ (Amir Said) is the definitive study of the art of beatmaking (hip hop production). Brilliantly divided into five major parts – a riveting History part, an extensive Instruction (… [more below]
- Author: Said, Amir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 604
- Publish Date: November 17 2013
- ISBN10: 0989398609
- Language: English
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Blood, Fire, Death: The Swedish Metal Story
$29.95 Add to cartIn the early 1990s, Swedish death metal revolutionized the international music scene. Suddenly, the mild-mannered Scandinavian country found itself at the forefront of a new movement with worldwide im… [more below]
- Series: Extreme Metal
- Author: Johannesson, Ika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1627310673
- Language: English
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Jacksonville and the Roots of Southern Rock
$26.95 Add to cartThe enduring achievement and legacy of a rock movement
Florida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for Florida Nonfiction
The Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd helped usher in a new kind of southern music
- Author: Fitzgerald, Michael Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0813080355
- Language: English
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Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock’s Darkest Day
$18.99 Add to cartIn this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones’ infamous Altamont c
- Author: Selvin, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0062444263
- Language: English
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From the Basement: A History of Emo Music and How It Changed Society (Music History and Punk Rock Book, for Fans of Everybody Hurts, Smas
$18.99 Add to cartThis book aims to teach… Why this era of music is important and should not be overlooked. That it is a legitimate genre that is a significant part of the story of rock. Deep insights into how the sc… [more below]
- Author: Markarian, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 164250114X
- Language: English
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Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World’s Rarest 78 RPM Records
$18.00 Add to cart“A thoughtful, entertaining history of obsessed music collectors and their quest for rare early 78 rpm records” (Los Angeles Times), Do Not Sell at Any Price is a fascinating, complex story of preserv… [more below]
- Author: Petrusich, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 145166706X
- Language: English
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Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History
$13.99 Add to cartRagtime, the jaunty, toe-tapping music that captivated American society from the 1890s through World War I, forms the roots of America’s popular musical expression. But the understanding of ragtime an… [more below]
- Author: Berlin, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 150402981X
- Language: English
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Neutral Milk Hotel’s in the Aeroplane Over the Sea
$14.95 Add to cartOf all the recordings to emerge from the Athens-via-Denver collective called Elephant 6, Neutral Milk Hotel’s second album is the one that has worked its way under the most skins. Magnet magazine name… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #29
- Author: Cooper, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 119
- Publish Date: November 16 2005
- ISBN10: 082641690X
- Language: English
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Becoming Almost Famous: My Back Pages in Music Writing and Life
$28.48 Add to cartThis volume collects many of the best articles from veteran Rolling Stone writer Ben Fong-Torres. While many will recognize Ben as he was portrayed in Cameron Crowe’s hit film Almost Famous, his thoug… [more below]
- Author: Fong-Torres, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 087930880X
- Language: English
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Lou Reed’s Transformer
$14.95 Add to cartTransformer, Lou Reed’s most enduringly popular album, is described with varying labels: it’s often called a glam rock album, a proto-punk album, a commercial breakthrough for Lou Reed, and an album a… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #131
- Author: Furman, Ezra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 19 2018
- ISBN10: 1501323059
- Language: English
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Let’s Do It: The Birth of Pop Music: A History
$22.00 Add to cartThe must-read music book of the year–and the first such history bringing together all musical genres to tell the definitive narrative of the birth of Pop from 1900 to the mid-1950s.
Pop music didn’t- Author: Stanley, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364633
- Language: English
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ACT Naturally: The Beatles on Film
$37.43 Add to cartThe film legacy of the Beatles is explored in this exciting inside-look at the group and their music-making process.
- Author: Matteo, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1493059017
- Language: English
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Lightning Striking: Ten Transformative Moments in Rock and Roll
$22.99 Add to cart“We have performed side-by-side on the global stage through half a century…. In Lightning Striking, Lenny Kaye has illuminated ten facets of the jewel called rock and roll from a uniquely personal a
- Author: Kaye, Lenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 62449214
- Language: English
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HarperCollins College Outline History of Western Music
$17.00 Add to cartProf. Hugh Miller’s History of Music was first published in 1947, and quickly became a reference for students of music history worldwide. This thorough revision incorporates new knowledge on music, an
- Series: HarperCollins College Outline
- Author: Miller, Hugh M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: August 14 1991
- ISBN10: 0064671070
- Language: English
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A Scene in Between USA
$29.99 Read moreA pictorial history of 1980s alternative Americana featuring hundreds of previously unseen images of bands including: Faith, Rites of Spring, Dinosaur Jr, Embrace, Opal, Galaxie 500, Beat Happening, S
- Author: Knee, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1800660308
- Language: English
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Pink Moon
$14.95 Add to cartPink Moon explores how Nick Drake’s third and final album has puttered and purred its way into a new millennium. Features interviews with producer Joe Boyd, string arranger Robert Kirby, and even the
- Series: 33 1/3 #51
- Author: Petrusich, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0826427901
- Language: English
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Portishead’s Dummy
$14.95 Add to cartAn album which distilled a genre from the musical, cultural, and social ether, Portishead’s Dummy was such a complete artistic achievement that its ubiquitous successes threatened to exhaust its own p
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Wheaton, Rj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 06 2011
- ISBN10: 1441194495
- Language: English
