History & Criticism
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Behind the Album
$49.95 Add to cartFeaturing 21 designers and studios passionate about music, this collection showcases the best in album design across a myriad of genres. Paired with insightful interviews and essays, the projects in B… [more below]
- Author: Publications, Sandu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 3943330532
- Language: English
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Family Crests of Japan
$18.95 Add to cartFind the beauty and meaning of over 850 family crests found in Japanese tradition
- Author: Stone Bridge Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1933330309
- Language: English
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In Search of Wagner
$24.95 Add to cartWritten in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe’s most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis. Measuring key elements of Wagner’s oeuvre with patent … [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Adorno, Theodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 09 2009
- ISBN10: 1844673448
- Language: English
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As If!: The Oral History of Clueless as Told by Amy Heckerling and the Cast and Crew
$20.99 Add to cartWill we ever get tired of Clueless? Ugh, as if!Acclaimed pop culture journalist Jen Chaney celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the classic film’s release in the first book of its kind, weaving tog… [more below]
- Author: Chaney, Jen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1476799083
- Language: English
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Christopher Lee: The Loneliness of Evil
$30.00 Add to cartWhen Sir Christopher Lee passed away at the age of 93 in 2015, it was truly the end of an era. He was the last of the great horror stars.
This book is a comprehensive overview of Lee’s work in the hor… [more below]
- Author: Mosley, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1644301288
- Language: English
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Black and Blue: Jazz Stories
$17.95 Read moreAuthor and radio personality Stanley P饌n is a jazz scholar who takes us seamlessly and knowledgeably through the history of the music, stopping at a number of high points along the way. He gets behind
- Author: Péan, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1550656112
- Language: English
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Crisis: The Theatre Responds
$16.95 Add to cartThis new book by Dr Carol Rocamora (New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts) explores the courageous playwrights of the world who used the stage as a platform to address crises of the 20th and
- Author: Rocamora, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1914228812
- Language: English
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1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music
$25.00 Add to cartA lively chronicle of the year that shaped popular music forever, with an all new Spotify appendix
More than half a century ago, friendly rivalry between musicians turned 1965 into the year rock evol- Author: Jackson, Andrew Grant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1250181712
- Language: English
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Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr
$34.00 Add to cartHedy Lamarr’s exotic beauty was heralded across Europe in the early 1930s. Yet she became infamous for her nude scenes in the scandalous movie Ecstasy. Trapped in a marriage to one of Austria’s muniti
- Author: Shearer, Stephen Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 125004183X
- Language: English
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Broadway Decoded: Musical Theatre’s Forgotten References
$41.93 Add to cartA lively guide to fifty popular musicals from the comedy classics of the 1930s and 1940s to the frequently-produced darlings of modern theater.
- Author: Hischak, Thomas S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493074326
- Language: English
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Katie Bar The Door!
$24.99 Add to cartPortland Wrestling – simply uttering those two words will start a conversation that will last through the night and produce never ending arguments on who was the greatest wrestler ever in the promotio… [more below]
- Author: Rodgers, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1088116000
- Language: English
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Tie Dye: Fashion from Hippie to Chic
$12.98 Read moreCelebrating the fashion behind the ever-evolving, dreamy counter-cultural motif.
From hippy to hipster, this spirited style bible is an intoxicating survey of tie-dye, featuring high-fashion photogra- Author: McNamara, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 078934503X
- Language: English
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The Hippodrome Theatre First Fifty Years
$50.00 Add to cartHow the spirit of great theatre saved a dying downtown business district, became a city’s cultural icon, and centerpiece of its artistic community.
Fifty years ago a daring band of players began what w
- Author: Gartee, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 458
- Publish Date: May 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1736395734
- Language: English
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Retromania
$32.99 Add to cartOne of The Telegraph‘s Best Music Books 2011
We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake- Author: Reynolds, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 19 2011
- ISBN10: 0865479941
- Language: English
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West of Eden: An American Place
$23.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles from the author of the contemporary classic Edie
Jean Stein transformed the art of oral history in her ground- Author: Stein, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0812987934
- Language: English
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The Art of Quartet Playing
$20.95 Add to cartThis collection of conversations with the Guarneri members explores all the most important facets of chamber-music playing.
- Series: Cornell Paperbacks
- Author: Blum, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: June 15 1987
- ISBN10: 0801494567
- Language: English
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Beatlesongs
$19.99 Add to cartA complete and fascinating chronicle of Beatles music and history, Beatlesongs details the growth, evolution, and dissolution of the most influential group of out time.
Drawing together information f… [more below]- Author: Dowlding, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0671682296
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Western Music
$32.00 Add to cartEngaging, clear and informative, this is the story of western music – of its great composers and also of its performers and listeners, of changing ideas of what music is and what it is for. Paul Griff… [more below]
- Author: Griffiths, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0521133661
- Language: English
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Bound & Determined: A Visual History of Corsets, 1850-1960
$14.95 Add to cartThis revealing history of corsetry ranges from the 19th through the mid-20th centuries to show how simple laced bodices developed into corsets of cane, whalebone, and steel. Lavish illustrations inclu… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Fashion
- Author: Seleshanko, Kristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: March 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0486478920
- Language: English
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The History of Musical Instruments
$22.95 Read moreThis first comprehensive history of musical instruments, this book ranges from prehistoric times to the 20th century. It traverses five continents and every stage of evolution, from primitive rattles … [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Music
- Author: Sachs, Curt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 22 2006
- ISBN10: 0486452654
- Language: English
