History & Criticism
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The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band
$19.99 Add to cartNow a Netflix original movie starring Machine Gun Kelly, Daniel Webber, Douglas Booth, and Iwan Rheon, directed by Jeff Tremaine.
“Without a doubt, it is the most detailed account of the awesome pleas
- Author: Lee, Tommy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 09, 2002
- ISBN10: 0060989157
- Language: English
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Real Hip Hop Gangsters: Music, Money and Murder
$18.75 Add to cartGangsters were brought into the game; not the other way around. The first real gangsters in entertainment entered the film industry via the gangster, Al Capone who co-produced the 1932 version of Scar
- Author: Scott, Rebecca Holly Hood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: August 15, 2012
- ISBN10: 1479131229
- Language: English
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El Libro de la M?sica Cl?sica (the Classical Music Book)
$27.99 Add to cartGrandes ideas, explicaciones sencillas
El libro de la m?sica cl?sica analiza con un lenguaje claro m?s de noventa obras de distintos compositores, unos legendarios y otros menos conocidos, e incluye d- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1465486747
- Language: Spanish
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Dancing with the Devil, how Puff burned the bad boys of Hip-Hop: Dancing with the Devil
$25.00 Add to cartHe has recorded with the biggest stars in the music business. He wrote many of the hits that made Sean “Puffy” Combs one of the richest men alive. On the surface, the multi-million dollar empire that … [more below]
- Author: Curry, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: February 02 2009
- ISBN10: 0615276504
- Language: English
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Star Wars Year by Year New Edition
$40.00 Add to cartDiscover everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Star Wars in this complete history of the most famous franchise in movie history.
Painstakingly researched and superbly illustrated, Star Wars_x212- Author: Baver, Kristin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0744028647
- Language: English
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The Way I Am
$32.00 Add to cartChart topping-and headline-making-rap artist Eminem shares his private reflections, drawings, handwritten lyrics, and photographs in his New York Times bestseller The Way I Am
Fiercely intelligent,- Author: Eminem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 27, 2009
- ISBN10: 0452296129
- Language: English
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My Lunches with Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles
$19.99 Add to cartBased on long-lost recordings between Orson Welles and Henry Jaglom, My Lunches with Orson presents a set of riveting and revealing conversations with America’s great cultural provocateur.
There have- Author: Biskind, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1250051703
- Language: English
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Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930â “1934
$26.95 Add to cartPre-Code Hollywood explores the fascinating period in American motion picture history from 1930 to 1934 when the commandments of the Production Code Administration were violated with impunity in a ser
- Series: Film and Culture
- Author: Doherty, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 27 1999
- ISBN10: 0231110952
- Language: English
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The McCartney Legacy: Volume 1: 1969 – 73
$35.00 Read moreIn this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY, VOL 1: 1969-73 captures the life of Paul McCartney in the years immediately following the dissolution of the Beatles, a period
- Author: Kozinn, Allan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0063000709
- Language: English
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Signs and Symbols: An Illustrated Guide to Their Origins and Meanings
$27.99 Add to cartSince when did certain hand gestures become offensive? And why are scales a symbol of justice?
For thousands of years, humans have communicated through a language of signs and symbols. From uniforms- Series: DK Compact Culture Guides
- Author: Bruce-Mitford, Miranda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0756633931
- Language: English
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Angry Blonde
$19.99$15.99 Add to cartToday’s hottest rapper’ the enigmatic Eminem’ delivers a provocative collection of his uncensored lyrics, complete with personal commentary on each controversial song.
Angry Blonde is the only offici
- Author: Eminem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0060934514
- Language: English
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The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk about When We Talk about Hip Hop–And Why It Matters
$26.90 Add to cartHow hip hop shapes our conversations about race — and how race influences our consideration of hip hop
Hip hop is a distinctive form of black art in America-from Tupac to the Pulitzer Prize-winning- Author: Rose, Tricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 02 2008
- ISBN10: 0465008976
- Language: English
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Original Gangstas: Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and the Birth of West Coast Rap
$21.99 Add to cart“Raw, authoritative, and unflinching … An elaborately detailed, darkly surprising, definitive history of the LA gangsta rap era.” — Kirkus, starred review
A monumental, revealing narrative history- Author: Westhoff, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 16, 2017
- ISBN10: 0316344850
- Language: English
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Tune in: The Beatles: All These Years
$24.00 Add to cartNow in paperback, Tune In is the New York Times bestseller by the world’s leading Beatles authority – the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy about the band that revolutionized music.
The Beatle- Author: Lewisohn, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1101903295
- Language: English
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The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song from Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
$25.99 Add to cartFrom Sugarhill Gang to NWA to Biggie to Kanye, The Rap Year Book takes readers on a journey that begins in 1979, widely regarded as the moment rap became recognized as part of the cultural and musical… [more below]
- Author: Serrano, Shea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1419718185
- Language: English
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The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop
$29.00 Add to cart“There has never been a better book about hip-hop…a record-biz portrait that jumps off the page.”–A.V. Club
The perfect read for music lovers and business aficionados alike, The Big Payback reveals- Author: Charnas, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0451234782
- Language: English
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Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
$21.99 Add to cartIt has been more than thirty-five years since Jimi Hendrix died, but his music and spirit are still very much alive for his fans everywhere. Charles R. Cross vividly recounts the life of Hendrix, from… [more below]
- Author: Cross, Charles R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0786888415
- Language: English
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Let the People Hear It: One Hundred Years of Concerts at the Library of Congress
$24.95 Add to cartSince 1925, the Library of Congress has presented one of the most prestigious and innovative concert series in the United States. Philanthropist Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge founded the series with the
- Series: Collection Close-Ups
- Author: Brown-Cáceres, Nicholas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 25 2026
- ISBN10: 0844495948
- Language: English
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The Emancipated Spectator
$19.95 Add to cartThe theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active… [more below]
- Author: Ranciere, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1788739647
- Language: English
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Reggaeton. Lo Que Siempre Quisiste Saber: Perreo, Dembow, Bad Bunny Y M?s (Spanish Edition)
$19.95 Add to cartDesde las calles de Puerto Rico hasta los escenarios m?s grandes del mundo, el reggaet?n ha transformado la m?sica.
Este libro te lleva en un viaje a trav?s de un g?nero que ha roto barreras y ha unido… [more below]- Author: Cuartas, Andrea Yepes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 6287634863
- Language: Spanish
