History & Criticism
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60 Songs That Explain the ’90s
$21.99 Add to cartONE OF PITCHFORK’S BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2023
Now in paperback, a companion to the #1 music podcast on Spotify, this book takes readers through the greatest hits that define a weirdly undefinable decad- Author: Harvilla, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1538759470
- Language: English
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In Defense of Ska: Expanded 2nd Edition
$24.95 Add to cartOne of Pitchfork’s 11 Best Music Books of 2021
Recommended book in Rolling Stones June 2021 Issue
With an additional 30,000 words of compelling stories, research, and analysis, music journalist and In
- Author: Carnes, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1955904715
- Language: English
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Washita Love Child: The Rise of Indigenous Rock Star Jesse Ed Davis
$35.00 Add to cartNo one played like Jesse Ed Davis. One of the most sought-after guitarists of the late 1960s and ’70s, Davis appeared alongside the era’s greatest stars–John Lennon and Mick Jagger, B.B. King and Bob
- Author: Miller, Douglas K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1324092092
- Language: English
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Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided
$20.99 Add to cartThe “shocking” (The Wall Street Journal), must-read story of Charlie Chaplin’s years of exile from the United States during the postwar Red Scare, and how it ruined his film career, from bestselling b… [more below]
- Author: Eyman, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1982176369
- Language: English
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Down on the Corner: Adventures in Busking & Street Music
$24.95 Add to cartDown On The Corner is the story of music performed on the streets, in subways, in parks, in schoolyards, on the back of flatbed trucks, and beyond, from the 1920s to the present day.
One day around 197
- Author: Baker, Cary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1916829104
- Language: English
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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 Add to cartCarole 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 Read moreWith 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 Read moreFirst 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 Read moreCelebrate 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 Read moreExtravagantly 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 Read more“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 Read moreIn 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 Read moreA 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
