History & Criticism
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The Vintage Guide to Classical Music: An Indispensable Guide for Understanding and Enjoying Classical Music
$25.00 Add to cartThe most readable and comprehensive guide to enjoying over five hundred years of classical music — from Gregorian chants, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Johannes Brahms, Igor S… [more below]
- Author: Swafford, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: December 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0679728058
- Language: English
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The Byrds: Every Album, Every Song
$22.95 Read moreThe Byrds were just a little bit ahead of their time. By releasing six genre-defining albums in three years, their transformative powers took electric guitars to traditional folk music, brought jazz i
- Author: McArthur, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1789522803
- Language: English
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Rod Stewart: The Classic Years
$32.95 Read moreMany have long found it difficult to take Rod Stewart seriously. However, once we get past the awkward stuff–leopard-skin leggings, bum-wiggling stage schticks, and a hairstyle unseemly for a man of
- Author: Egan, Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493068229
- Language: English
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When the British Musical Ruled the World
$26.95 Read moreFor decades, British stage musicals struggled to compete against the dazzling Broadway productions that came roaring in from across the pond. But that tide was turned at last in 1978, when Tim Rice an
- Author: Sellers, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493071335
- Language: English
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Something in the Water
$35.00 Add to cartThe history of Macon, Georgia, has an exceptional soundtrack, and SOMETHING IN THE WATER provides a lively narrative of the city’s musical past from its founding in 1823 to 1980. From its pioneer orig… [more below]
- Author: Wynne, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0881468029
- Language: English
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Frightfest Guide to Grindhouse Movies
$24.95 Read moreJust when you thought it was safe to stop repeating “It’s only a movie… only a movie… only a movie!” it’s time to take a stroll down the dark and deviant back alleys of the Exploitation film indus… [more below]
- Series: Frightfest Guides #5
- Author: Jones, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1913051110
- Language: English
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Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World
$30.00 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS’ TOP BOOK OF THE YEAR – BOOKLISTS’ EDITOR’S CHOICE – ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
“At once a film book, a history book, and a civil rights book…. Without a doubt, not- Author: Haygood, Wil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0525656871
- Language: English
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Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History
$27.50 Read moreBaseline Shift captures the untold stories of women across time who used graphic design to earn a living while changing the world.
Baseline Shift centers diverse women across backgrounds whose work ha- Author: Scotford, Martha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1648960065
- Language: English
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Dressing the Resistance: The Visual Language of Protest Through History
$27.95 Read moreDressing the Resistance is a celebration of how we use clothing, fashion, and costume to ignite activism and spur social change.
Weaving together historical and current protest movements across the gl- Author: Benda, Camille
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1616899883
- Language: English
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Music Is Power: Popular Songs, Social Justice, and the Will to Change
$27.95 Read moreHonorable Mention, 2019 Foreword INDIES Awards – Performing Arts & Music
Popular music has long been a powerful force for social chang
Honorable Mention, Graphis 2021 Design Annual Competition- Author: Schreiber, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1978839022
- Language: English
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Corman/Poe: Interviews and Essays Exploring the Making of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe Films, 1960-1964
$27.95 Read moreTHE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, PREMATURE BURIAL, TALES OF TERROR, THE HAUNTED PALACE, THE RAVEN, MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, THE TOMB OF LIGEIA…
Produced on modest budgets fo… [more below]
- Author: Alexander, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1915316073
- Language: English
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Backwards & in Heels: The Past, Present and Future of Women Working in Film (Incredible Women Who Broke Barriers in Filmmaking)
$16.99 Add to cartIt’s almost 2018 yet Hollywood is still an old-boys club treating all women like second-class citizens. Screen Junkie’s and Fandango Host and pundit, Alicia’s Malone, pulls back the curtain in this ca… [more below]
- Author: Malone, Alicia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: August 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1633536173
- Language: English
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Filmmakers on Film: How They Create, Craft and Communicate
$17.99 Read moreThrough a curated selection of quotations, images and interviews, Filmmakers on Film reveals what matters most to the masters. Discover how the giants of filmmaking – from Sofia Coppola to Agné‘š Vard… [more below]
- Author: Jenkins, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0857829033
- Language: English
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The Ghastly One: The 42nd Street Netherworld of Director Andy Milligan
$34.95 Read moreOne of the most acclaimed film director biographies ever published. The Ghastly One: The 42nd Street Netherworld of Director Andy Milligan is back in print in paperback, following the run-away Sold Ou… [more below]
- Series: Nicolas Winding Refn Presents
- Author: McDonough, Jimmy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1913051153
- Language: English
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Gibson’s Fabulous Flat-Top Guitars: An Illustrated History & Guide
$29.99 Add to cartFinally back in print! The must-have book on Gibson’s killer acoustic guitars, now updated.
From the 1920s to the present, Gibson and its flat-tops have been synonymous with American music. Whether th- Author: Erlewine, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: December 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0879309628
- Language: English
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Esg’s Come Away with Esg
$14.95 Read moreESG were one of the first bands to sign to British indie label Factory Records, working with famed producer Martin Hannett on their early EPs. The band’s signature guitar sound from iconic single ‘UFO
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Percy, Cheri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1501379194
- Language: English
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Flying Burrito Brothers’ the Gilded Palace of Sin
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1968, the Flying Burrito Brothers released The Gilded Palace of Sin on A&M Records, selling a disappointing 400,000 copies. Almost forty years later, front man Gram Parsons, is still spoken of with… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Proehl, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0826429033
- Language: English
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Duran Duran’s Rio
$14.95 Read moreIn the ’80s, the Birmingham, England, band Duran Duran became closely associated with new wave, an idiosyncratic genre that dominated the decade’s music and culture. No album represented this rip-it-u
- Series: 33 1/3 #156
- Author: Zaleski, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 06 2021
- ISBN10: 150135518X
- Language: English
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Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
$30.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A celebration of American history through the music that helped to shape a nation, by Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and music superstar Tim McGraw
“Jon Meacham and Tim- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 0593132955
- Language: English
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Dark Horse Records: The Story of George Harrison’s Post-Beatles Record Label
$26.95 Add to cartIn 1974, as Apple was winding down, George Harrison and RIngo Starr both wanted to help new artists, so rather than trying to salvage Apple Records, each ex-Beatle created their own label. Ringo Starr… [more below]
- Author: Badgley, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1789522870
- Language: English
