History & Criticism
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Carefully Taught: American History Through Broadway Musicals
$29.95 Add to cartCarefully Taught looks at American history as depicted in forty Broadway musicals. Presented chronologically according to the musical timeframe, award-winning theater critic and author Cary Ginell dis
- Author: Ginell, Cary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1493065408
- Language: English
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Playing Place: Board Games, Popular Culture, Space
$39.95 Read moreAn essay collection exploring the board game’s relationship to the built environment, revealing the unexpected ways that play reflects perceptions of space.
Board games harness the creation of entirel- Author: Randl, Chad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047837
- Language: English
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The Great Movies
$22.00 Add to cartAmerica’s most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents one hundred brilliant essays on some of the best movies ever made.
Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, wrote biweekl- Author: Ebert, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0767910389
- Language: English
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Hollywood Studios
$24.99 Read moreJust after the turn of the 20th century, the motion picture industry moved to the West Coast, and the largest land of make-believe was created in Hollywood, California. From the silent-era beginnings … [more below]
- Series: Postcard History
- Author: Dangcil, Tommy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0738547085
- Language: English
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Historic RCA Studio B
$19.95 Read moreHistoric RCA Studio B, “Home of 1 000 Hits ” is a landmark with a legacy built by some of the most important producers and artists in country and pop music. During a golden window, from 1957 to 1977, … [more below]
- Series: Distributed for the Country Music Foundation Press
- Author: Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0915608278
- Language: English
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Dance-Punk
$19.95 Read moreBeginning in the late 1970s as an offshoot of disco and punk, dance-punk is difficult to define. Also sometimes referred to as disco-punk and funk-punk, it skirts, overlaps, and blurs into other genre
- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3
- Author: Wodtke, Larissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1501381865
- Language: English
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Satyajit Ray Miscellany: On Life, Cinema, People & Much More
$19.95 Read moreSatyajit Ray (1921-1992), one of the doyens of world cinema, gave a unique aesthetic expression to Indian cinema, music, art and literature. His writings, especially, autobiographical works, thoughts … [more below]
- Series: The Penguin Ray Library
- Author: Satyajit, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0143448994
- Language: English
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LCD Soundsystem’s Sound of Silver
$14.95 Add to cartWhen LCD Soundsystem broke up in 2011, they left behind a small but remarkable catalog of music. On top of the genius singles and a longform composition for Nike, there was a trilogy of full-length al
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Leas, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 16 2016
- ISBN10: 1501325612
- Language: English
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Black Music
$18.95 Read more“Baraka writes with the passion and lyricism that can only come from a jazz critic who is uncompromisingly invested in the social and aesthetic dimensions of the music.” —WBGO (Newark Public Radio)
In
- Series: Akashiclassics: Renegade Reprint
- Author: Jones (Amiri Baraka), Leroi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1933354933
- Language: English
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Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births
$44.95 Read moreMore than eighty designs–iconic, archaic, quotidian, and taboo–that have defined the arc of human reproduction.
While birth often brings great joy, making babies is a knotty enterprise. The designed- Author: Fisher, Michelle Millar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0262044897
- Language: English
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House of Worth: The Birth of Haute Couture
$85.00 Read moreArriving in Paris in 1845, at the age of twenty and with only a few francs in his pocket, Charles Frederick Worth would go on to build the most prominent, innovative, and successful fashion house of t
- Author: Trubert-Tollu, Chantal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0500519439
- Language: English
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Reign in Blood
$14.95 Add to cartIssued on America’s premier rap label at the peak of the thrash metal movement, Slayer’s controversial Reign in Blood remains the gold standard for extreme heavy metal, a seamless 29-minute procession
- Series: 33 1/3 #57
- Author: Ferris, D. X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0826429092
- Language: English
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Girls on Film: Lessons from a Life of Watching Women in Movies (Filmmaking, Life Lessons, Film Analysis) (Birthday Gift for Her)
$16.95 Read moreFilm reporter Alicia Malone brings a collection of personal essays looking at the representation and impact of women on film. In addition to personal anecdotes and analysis, this book weaves in interv… [more below]
- Author: Malone, Alicia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1642506567
- Language: English
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A Mind Full of Music: Essays on Imagination and Popular Song
$18.95 Read moreSimilar to how songs become familiar and welcoming earworms, these essays will imprint themselves on readers’ minds.
A Mind Full of Music contemplates and celebrates the mysterious, powerful, dynamic- Author: Forhan, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1732610363
- Language: English
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Songs in the Key of Life
$14.95 Add to cartLike all double albums, Songs in the Key of Life is imperfect but audacious. If its titular concern – life – doesn’t exactly allow for rigid focus, it’s still a fiercely inspired collection of songs a
- Series: 33 1/3 #42
- Author: Lundy, Zeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0826419267
- Language: English
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India in Fashion: The Impact of Indian Dress and Textiles on the Fashionable Imagination
$65.00 Read moreIndia in Fashion explores the beautiful and sophisticated history and aesthetics of traditional Indian fashion, dress, and textiles and their profound impact on European and American fashion from the … [more below]
- Author: Bowles, Hamish
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 084787110X
- Language: English
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Dinosaur Jr.’s You’re Living All Over Me
$14.95 Read more1985. Dinosaur, still without the Jr. Not hardcore anymore, but not yet anything else either. First live shows: fearsomely loud. First record, a fearsome mess: a raw miscellany thrown together from sm
- Series: 33 1/3 #82
- Author: Attfield, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 09 2011
- ISBN10: 1441187782
- Language: English
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Design, Second Edition: The Definitive Visual Guide
$50.00 Add to cartCelebrate the history of design with this stunning visual guide
What makes a truly good design? This comprehensive reference guide explores the evolution of design through the key designers, manufactu… [more below]- Series: DK Definitive Cultural Histories
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1465491376
- Language: English
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Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden
$14.95 Read moreCome to My Garden (1970) introduced the world to Minnie Riperton, the solo artist. Minnie captivated listeners with her earth-shattering voice’s uncanny ability to evoke melancholy and exultance. Born
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Proctor, Brittnay L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1501379151
- Language: English
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’70s Teen Pop
$19.95 Read moreTeen pop is a sub–genre of popular music marketed to tweens and teens. Its melodic yearning and veneer of sincerity appeal to an emerging romantic eroticism and autonomy. But tweens and teens buy musi
- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3
- Author: Jasmine, Lucretia Tye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1501383507
- Language: English
