Bloomsbury Academic
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Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew
$14.95 Add to cartIt was 1969, and Miles Davis, prince of cool, was on the edge of being left behind by a dynamic generation of young musicians, an important handful of whom had been in his band. Rock music was flying
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Grella, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 22 2015
- ISBN10: 162892943X
- Language: English
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Madonna’s Erotica
$14.95 Add to cartEveryone wanted Madonna’s 1992 album Erotica to be a scandal. In the midst of a culture war, conservatives wanted it to be proof of the decline of family values. The target of conservative loathing, g
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Dango, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1501388991
- 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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Body Count’s Body Count
$14.95 Read moreOn Ice-T’s 1991 classic O.G. Original Gangster, he introduced his all-Black hardcore band Body Count with lead guitarist Ernie C, bringing them on the first-ever Lollapalooza tour that summer. The nex
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Apatoff, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1501389076
- Language: English
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Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed
$19.95 Add to cartContemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Zizek’s guide to surplus (and
- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1350409391
- Language: English
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The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
$29.00 Read moreThe Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present – and draws out lessons for the age to come.
The age of print is a grand exception in history. Fo- Author: Jarvis, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1501394827
- Language: English
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Krautrock
$19.95 Read moreKrautrock is not a music genre. Krautrock is a way of life. Its sonic diversity and global reach belie the common culture from where it emerged. This is a band-by-band history.
In May 1945, the Allies- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3
- Author: Gu, Marshall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 16 2023
- ISBN10: 9798765103296
- Language: English
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Killing Hope: Us Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
$27.95 Add to cartIn Killing Hope, William Blum, author of the bestselling Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower, provides a devastating and comprehensive account of America’s covert and overt military a… [more below]
- Author: Blum, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: July 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1350348198
- Language: English
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John Prine’s John Prine
$14.95 Add to cartHe is known as the Mark Twain of American songwriting, a man who transformed the everyday happenings of regular people into plainly profound statements on war, industrialization, religion, and the hum
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Osmon, Erin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1501379232
- Language: English
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Duran Duran’s Rio, Limited Edition: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Classic Album
$19.95 Read moreThis limited printing, hardcover 40th anniversary edition includes:
-an exclusive new interview with lead singer Simon Le Bon
-a Rio timeline
-a newly designed book cover by Rio album sleeve designer,- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Zaleski, Annie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 01 2022
- ISBN10: 9798765100233
- Language: English
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Madvillain’s Madvillainy
$14.95 Add to cartThis book celebrates Madvillainy as a representation of two genius musical minds melding to form one revered supervillain. A product of circumstance, the album came together soon after MF DOOM’s resur
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Hagle, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1501389238
- Language: English
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Freedom: A Disease Without Cure
$28.00 Add to cartWe are all afraid that new dangers pose a threat to our hard-won freedoms, so what deserves attention is precisely the notion of freedom.
The concept of freedom is deceptively simple. We think we unde- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 135035712X
- Language: English
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Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy
$27.00 Read moreAs European empires crumbled in the 20th century, the power structures that had dominated the world for centuries were up for renegotiation. Yet instead of a rebirth for democracy, what emerged was a
- Author: Provost, Claire
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1350269980
- Language: English
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Kendrick Lamar’s to Pimp a Butterfly
$14.95 Add to cartBreaking the global record for streams in a single day, nearly 10 million people around the world tuned in to hear Kendrick Lamar’s sophomore album in the hours after its release. To Pimp a Butterfly
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Maner, Sequoia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1501377477
- Language: English
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This Thing Called Life: Prince, Race, Sex, Religion, and Music
$31.45 Add to cartWhat were Prince’s politics? What did he believe about God? And did he really forsake the subject-sex-that once made him the most subversive superstar of the Reagan era? In this illuminating thematic
- Author: Vogel, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1501333984
- Language: English
