History & Criticism
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Top Eight: How Myspace Changed Music
$30.00 Read more“A brilliant and addictive chronicle of a pop explosion that helped shape our moment. An absolute delight to read.” —Rob Sheffield, bestselling author of Love is a Mix Tape, Dreaming the Beatles, and… [more below]
- Author: Tedder, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1641606584
- Language: English
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Small Town, Big Music: The Outsized Influence of Kent, Ohio, on the History of Rock and Roll
$21.95 Add to cart2020 IPPY Awards Gold Medalist, Great Lakes Best Regional Nonfiction
Relying on oral histories, hundreds of rare photographs, and original music reviews, this book explores the countercultural fringes
- Author: Prufer, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1606354477
- Language: English
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Assembling a Black Counter Culture
$20.00 Add to cartIn this critical history, DeForrest Brown, Jr “makes techno Black again” by tracing the music’s origins in Detroit and beyond
In Assembling a Black Counter Culture, writer and musician DeForrest Brown,
- Author: Brown, Deforrest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1734489731
- Language: English
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Blood in the Tracks: The Minnesota Musicians Behind Dylan’s Masterpiece
$24.95 Read moreThe story of the Minneapolis musicians who were unexpectedly summoned to re-record half of the songs on Bob Dylan’s most acclaimed album
When Bob Dylan recorded Blood on the Tracks in New York in Sept
- Author: Metsa, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1517914272
- Language: English
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Band People: Life and Work in Popular Music
$29.95 Add to cartA close look at the lives of working musicians who aren’t the center of their stage.
Secret (and not-so-secret) weapons, side-of-the-stagers, rhythm and horn sections, backup singers, accompanists–th
- Series: American Music
- Author: Nicolay, Franz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1477323538
- Language: English
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The de Palma Decade: Redefining Cinema with Doubles, Voyeurs, and Psychic Teens
$30.00 Add to cartJourney with award-winning filmmaker and author Laurent Bouzereau through acclaimed director Brian De Palma’s renowned–and controversial–horror and thriller films that redefined cinema in the 1970s … [more below]
- Author: Bouzereau, Laurent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0762485574
- Language: English
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Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital
$32.50 Add to cartThe definitive history of the rise and heyday of the revolutionary Greenwich Village music scene, based on new research and first-hand interviews with many of its legendary performers
Although Greenw- Author: Browne, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0306827638
- Language: English
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The Beatles a Hard Day’s Night & More
$39.98 Add to cartThe Beatles A Hard Day’s Night & More covers the Beatles first film and its related soundtrack albums from the British, American and Canadian perspectives. And, as the title implies, there is much mor… [more below]
- Series: Beatles Album
- Author: Spizer, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 09 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Theatre Kids: A True Tale of Off-Off Broadway
$27.95 Read moreFriendship. Grief. Jazz hands.
In 2004, in a small, windowless theater in then-desolate Williamsburg, Brooklyn, an eccentric family of broke art-school survivors staged an experimental, four-hour adapt
- Author: DeVore, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1493077767
- Language: English
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Buzzard Archives Volume 1: Advertising
$19.95 Read moreHe’s one of the most iconic characters in Cleveland history. From the mid-1970s to the late 1980s, there was hardly anyone in Northeast Ohio who didn’t recognize … the Buzzard.
Created in 1974 by ar
- Author: David, Helton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1598511351
- Language: English
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The Design Book
$27.99 Add to cartDiscover the key ideas, innovations, and breakthroughs in the history of design.
This book is the perfect introduction to the subject. It explores and explains the big ideas and key principles behind- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0744098726
- Language: English
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Kong Unbound: The Cultural Impact, Pop Mythos, and Scientific Plausibility of a Cinematic Legend
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1933, Merian C. Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack, and Willis O’Brien created more than movie magic. King Kong is a pop-cultural icon and a central part of American mythology. But more than just another “B… [more below]
- Series: Kong: The 8th Wonder of the World
- Author: Haber, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 15 2005
- ISBN10: 1416516700
- Language: English
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Chroma: A Book of Color
$18.95 Add to cartChroma: A Book of Color is a meditation on the color spectrum by Britain’s most controversial filmmaker. From the explosions of image and color in Edward II, The Last of England, The Garden, and Wittg… [more below]
- Author: Jarman, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 22 2010
- ISBN10: 0816665931
- Language: English
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Highway 61 Revisited
$14.95 Add to cartHighway 61 Revisited resonates because of its enduring emotional appeal. Few songwriters before Dylan or since have combined so effectively the intensely personal with the spectacularly universal. In
- Series: 33 1/3 #35
- Author: Polizzotti, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0826417752
- Language: English
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Theatre of the Unimpressed: In Search of Vital Drama
$13.95 Read moreHow 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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A Tribe Called Quest’s People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
$14.95 Add to cartOne of the finest hip-hop albums ever made, A Tribe Called Quest’s debut record (featuring stone-cold classics like “Can I Kick It?” and “Bonita Applebum”) took the idea of the boasting hip-hop male a
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Taylor, Shawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 20 2007
- ISBN10: 0826419232
- Language: English
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Shemp!: The Biography of the Three Stooges’ Shemp Howard, the Face of Film Comedy
$32.95 Read moreThe definitive biography of the great Shemp Howard, an original member of the Three Stooges, and one of Hollywood’s most influential actors that Library Journal calls “a complete portrait of a talente
- Author: Kearns, Burt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1493074210
- Language: English
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Clever Girl: Jurassic Park
$15.95 Add to cartA smart and incisive exploration of everyone’s favorite dinosaur movie and the female dinosaurs who embody what it means to be angry, monstrous, and free
The Jurassic Park series is one of the most fa- Series: Pop Classics #14
- Author: McGregor, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1770417397
- Language: English
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No Jurisdiction: Legal, Political, and Aesthetic Disorder in Post-9/11 Genre Cinema
$32.95 Add to cartNo Jurisdiction interweaves autobiography and analysis to explore how a disabled American of French-Arab descent justifies his love for the (super)heroes who destroy brown people like himself. Framing… [more below]
- Series: Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
- Author: Ben-Youssef, Fareed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: January 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1438489269
- Language: English
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The Essential Guide to Warfare: Star Wars
$36.00 Add to cartTHE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE ULTIMATE INTERGALACTIC BATTLEFIELD
Like many a great epic, Star Wars is rooted in a rich history of armed conflict. Now, for the first time, the facts, figures, and fascina- Series: Star Wars: Essential Guides
- Author: Fry, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0345477626
- Language: English
