History & Criticism - General
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Under the Table and Screaming Volume One: Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar
$15.00 Add to cartUnder the Table and Screaming is a multi-volume series exploring the history and legacy of the local music scene in Charlottesville, VA. From literally underground shows in DIY basements to the racial
- Author: O’Hare, Erin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988058700
- Language: English
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Widespread Panic in the Streets of Athens, Georgia
$21.95 Add to cartIn April 1998, legendary southern jam band Widespread Panic held a free open-air record release show in downtown Athens, Georgia, its homebase. No one involved could have known that the predicted crow
- Series: Music of the American South #3
- Author: Lamb, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: April 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0820354139
- Language: English
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I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women at Factory Records
$32.99 Read moreFactory Records has become the stuff of legend. The histories of the label have been told from many perspectives, from visual catalogues and memoirs to exhibitions. Yet no in-depth history has ever be
- Author: Golden, Audrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1399606182
- Language: English
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The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes
$21.99 Add to cartPreviously published as Invisible Republic and already considered a classic of modern American cultural criticism, this is an updated edition of Greil Marcus’s acclaimed book on the secret music made
- Author: Marcus, Greil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0312572913
- Language: English
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Angelo Badalamenti’s Soundtrack from Twin Peaks
$14.95 Add to cartWhen Twin Peaks debuted on the ABC network on the night of April 8, 1990, thirty-five million viewers tuned in to some of the most unusual television of their lives. Centered on an eccentric, coffee-l
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Norelli, Clare Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1501323016
- Language: English
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Talking Heads’ Fear of Music
$14.95 Add to cartIt’s the summer of 1979. A fifteen-year-old boy listens to WNEW on the radio in his bedroom in Brooklyn. A monotone voice (it’s the singer’s) announces into dead air in between songs “The Talking Head
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Lethem, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1441121005
- Language: English
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Why Bob Dylan Matters
$19.99 Add to cart“The coolest class on campus” – The New York Times
When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many others questioned the choice. How co
- Author: Thomas, Richard F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062685740
- Language: English
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Nas’s Illmatic
$14.95 Add to cartNas was playing a role on Illmatic, even if it was himself. By constructing this persona, Nas not only laid out his own career for the next decade plus, but the careers of dozens of other rappers who
- Series: 33 1/3 #64
- Author: Gasteier, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0826429076
- Language: English
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The Monkees: Made in Hollywood
$19.95 Add to cartA Variety Best Music Book of 2023
The Monkees represent a vital problem for rock and pop: is it the music that matters o
The behind-the-scenes story of the controversial 1960s made-for-tv rock band.- Series: Reverb
- Author: Kemper, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147077
- Language: English
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Beethoven in the Bunker: Musicians Under the Nazi Regime
$25.99 Read moreThis compelling survey examines the remarkable relationship between the Nazis and classical music through the stories of musicians, composers, and conductors across the political spectrum.
May 1945. A- Author: Brouwers, Fred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1635423295
- Language: English
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A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
$27.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – A sweeping, genre-bending “masterpiece” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) exploring Black art, music, and culture in all their glory and complexity–from Soul Train, Aretha Fr… [more below]
- Author: Abdurraqib, Hanif
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1984801198
- Language: English
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Art Record Covers. 40th Ed.
$30.00 Read moreSince the dawn of modernism, visual and music production have had a particularly intimate relationship. From Luigi Russolo’s 1913 Futurist manifesto L’Arte dei Rumori (The Art of Noise) to Marcel Duch
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Spampinato, Francesco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 23 2021
- ISBN10: 3836588161
- Language: English
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Red Rocks: The Concert Years
$50.00 Add to cartIn 1906, Denver’s Pietro Satriano and his 25-piece brass band became the first musical act to perform at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, then christened the Garden of the Titans. Over a century later, Denver … [more below]
- Author: Brown, G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0991566874
- Language: English
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Accidentally Like a Martyr: The Tortured Art of Warren Zevon
$24.99 Add to cartWarren Zevon songs are like chapters in a great American novel. Its story lies in the heart of his – and our – psyche. The lines are blurred. We never seem to know if we are looking in a mirror or pee… [more below]
- Author: Campion, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: June 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1617136727
- Language: English
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J Dilla’s Donuts
$14.95 Add to cartFrom a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James “J Dilla” Yancey crafted a set of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed thei
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Ferguson, Jordan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1623561833
- Language: English
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Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo’s Hidden History
$30.00 Read moreIn 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0393866807
- Language: English
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Music: The Definitive Visual History
$50.00 Read moreA complete and harmonious history of music, from prehistory to the present day!
Have you ever wondered how blues influenced rock music? Or why jazz took a more Latin-American approach? Classical or ro- Series: DK Definitive Visual Encyclopedias
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0744058341
- Language: English
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Good Rockin’ Tonight: Sun Records and the Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll
$21.99 Add to cartMemphis, Tennessee. The early 1950s. The Mississippi rolls by, and there’s a train in the night. Down on Beale Street there’s hard-edged blues, on the outskirts of town they’re pickin’ hillbilly boogi
- Author: Escott, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0312081995
- Language: English
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The Jive 95: An Oral History of America’s Greatest Underground Rock Radio Station, Ksan San Francisco
$32.95 Read moreThe Jive 95: An Oral History of America’s Greatest Underground Rock Radio Station, KSAN San Francisco is an oral history of America’s first hippie underground FM station which broadcast the countercul… [more below]
- Author: Rosenfeld, Hank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 149307086X
- Language: English
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Music: A Subversive History
$22.99 Add to cart“A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched” (Los Angeles Times) global history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions.
Histories of music overwhelmingly su- Author: Gioia, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1541644379
- Language: English
