History & Criticism
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It Was Great To Say Hello To…: A Curious Radio Host’s Conversations With Actors, Authors, and Newsmakers
$20.00 Add to cartThis engaging book is much more than a collection of celebrity interviews; it’s a journey through pop culture, history, and the art of conversation. Ed’s signature introduction-and the title of this b
- Author: Kalegi, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1950544540
- Language: English
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James Brown’s Live at the Apollo
$14.95 Read moreIn this remarkable book, Douglas Wolk brings to life an October evening in 1962, at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem – an evening at the height of Cold War tensions. In great detail, Wolk pieces together … [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #13
- Author: Wolk, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 10 2004
- ISBN10: 0826415725
- Language: English
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What Design Can’t Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion
$25.00 Add to cartA witty, tongue-in-cheek discussion of design’s potentials and pitfalls
In focusing on creating preferable conditions, the discipline of design is optimistic by default. And yet, vernacular manifestati
- Author: Lorusso, Silvio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 9083350134
- Language: English
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Rise Up!: Broadway and American Society from ‘Angels in America’ to ‘Hamilton’
$32.95 Read morePenned by one of America’s best-known daily theatre critics and organized chronologically, this lively and readable book tells the story of Broadway’s renaissance from the darkest days of the AIDS cri
- Author: Jones, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1350071935
- Language: English
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The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs
$14.95 Add to cartA fully illustrated oral history of the Magnetic Fields’ 1999 triple album, 69 Love Songs – an album that was afforded “classic” status by many almost as soon as it was released. LD Beghtol’s book is
- Series: 33 1/3 #69
- Author: Beghtol, LD
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 03 2006
- ISBN10: 0826419259
- Language: English
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Carole King’s Tapestry
$14.95 Read moreCarole King’s Tapestry is both an anthemic embodiment of second-wave feminism and an apotheosis of the Laurel Canyon singer-songwriter sound and scene. And these two elements of the album’s historic s
- Series: 33 1/3 #153
- Author: Glass, Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1501355627
- Language: English
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Design{h}ers: A Celebration of Women in Design Today
$55.00 Add to cartWith the amount of progress humankind has made in attitudes and achievements to-date, the time cannot be more apt than now to celebrate how far women have come in the creative industry today.
DESIGN(H- Author: Victionary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 24 2019
- ISBN10: 9887903329
- Language: English
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Theatre of the Unimpressed: In Search of Vital Drama
$13.95 Add to cartHow dull plays are killing theatre and what we can do about it.
Had I become disenchanted with the form I had once fallen so madly in love with as a pubescent, pimple-faced suburban homo with braces?
- Series: Exploded Views
- Author: Tannahill, Jordan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 02 2015
- ISBN10: 1552453138
- Language: English
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Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop
$24.95 Add to cartFirst book on hip-hop sampling as a musical process, now with a new foreword and afterword
Winner of IASPM’s 2005 International Book Award
Based on ten years of research among hip-hop producers, Making
- Series: Music / Culture
- Author: Schloss, Joseph G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0819574813
- Language: English
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Star Trek: Designing the Final Frontier: How Midcentury Modernism Shaped Our View of the Future
$39.99 Add to cartCelebrate Star Trek: The Original Series and the show’s distinctive Midcentury modern design that would change design- and television-forever.
Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-1969) was the first- Author: Chavkin, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 168188562X
- Language: English
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Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II
$14.95 Add to cartExtravagantly opaque, willfully vaporous — Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II, released by the estimable British label Warp Records in 1994, rejuvenated ambient music for the Internet Age
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Weidenbaum, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 13 2014
- ISBN10: 1623568900
- Language: English
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The Buzzard: Inside the Glory Days of WMMS and Cleveland Rock Radio: A Memoir
$18.95 Add to cart“Essential reading for musicians, entertainment industry leaders, and music fans alike … John Gorman describes in exclusive, behind-the-scenes detail the state of rock ‘n’ roll from the early ’70s t
- Author: Gorman, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: August 27 2008
- ISBN10: 1598510517
- Language: English
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Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
$14.95 Add to cartIn the first decade of the twenty-first century, Kanye West created the most compelling body of pop music by an American artist during the period. Having risen from obscurity as a precocious producer
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Graves, Kirk Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 19 2014
- ISBN10: 1623565421
- Language: English
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The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen
$89.99 Add to cartThe ultimate guide to the productions of Irwin Allen, legendary creator of Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and The Time Tunnel.
Take a visual journey through the mi- Author: Bond, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 612
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1835411363
- Language: English
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Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film
$35.00 Add to cartA book that explores the great American novelist and playwright Edna Ferber, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Ficton, whose work was made into many Academy Award-winning movies; the writing of her con… [more below]
- Author: Gilbert, Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1524748439
- Language: English
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The McCartney Legacy: Volume 2: 1974 – 80
$35.00 Add to cartThe follow-up to The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1, the most complete work on the life and work of Paul McCartney ever published. Volume 2 continues to paint the portrait of one of the world’s greatest m
- Author: Kozinn, Allan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 006300075X
- Language: English
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High and Rising: A Book about de la Soul
$29.99 Add to cartA stunning cultural biography of De La Soul, the era-defining hip-hop trio that touched millions of lives and changed rap forever.
De La Soul burst onto the scene with the release of their groundbreaki
- Author: Moore, Marcus J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0358494885
- Language: English
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Believe: The Untold Story Behind Ted Lasso, the Show That Kicked Its Way Into Our Hearts
$32.00 Add to cartThe definitive book on the TV show Ted Lasso, written by New York Times journalist and editor Jeremy Egner, celebrating the show’s improbable rise and cultural impact while never losing sight of the h… [more below]
- Author: Egner, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0593476069
- Language: English
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Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation
$29.99 Add to cartJim O’Heir, who played Jerry (or Garry or Larry) on Parks and Recreation and co-hosts the hit podcast Parks and Recollection, brings fans a heartfelt behind-the-scenes look at one of America’s most be
- Author: O’Heir, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0063293501
- Language: English
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Death Metal
$19.95 Read moreFeaturing exclusive interviews with key figures, from Napalm Death vocalist Barney Greenway to guitarist Bill Steer of Gentlemans Pistols, Carcass, and Napalm Death, this is your guide through the his
- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3
- Author: Coles, T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1501381016
- Language: English
