History & Criticism
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Sound System: The Political Power of Music
$24.95 Add to cart‘Fascinating’ Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2
‘A thrilling trip’ Maxi Jazz, Faithless
Musicians have often wanted to change the world. From underground innovators to pop icons, many believe in the politi
- Author: Randall, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0745351336
- Language: English
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The Spaces That Make Us: Why Design Is Broken and How We Can Create a Happier, Healthier World
$27.99 Add to cartCreate a better life by creating better design. Did you know that. . .
. . . the arrangement of your living room could improve your relationship with your partner?
. . . the layout of your child’s clas
- Author: Kurani, Danish
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1400249120
- Language: English
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Broken Arrow
$19.95 Add to cartAn insightful history and analysis of the importance Delmer Daves’ film Broken Arrow has in the western film genre. It was, for its time, a breakthrough in how Native Americans were depicted in the mo… [more below]
- Series: Reel West
- Author: Aleiss, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0826368328
- Language: English
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Hannibal Lecter: A Life
$30.00 Add to cartDrawing from exclusive interviews and previously unseen archival materials, this one-of-its-kind biography of Hannibal Lecter documents the cannibal’s journey from terrifying villain to unexpectedly a… [more below]
- Author: Raftery, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1668070588
- Language: English
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Champions for the Arts: Lessons and Successful Strategies for Engaging Diverse Audiences
$18.95 Add to cartA new guide to creating equitable, inclusive, and diverse community engagement in the arts.
- Author: Walker-Kuhne, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1636702589
- Language: English
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Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
$22.95 Add to cartTimeless lessons on the pleasures of listening, the dilemmas of composition, and the meaning of artistic freedom from a founder of musical modernism.
In October 1939, Igor Stravinsky took the stage at- Series: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
- Author: Stravinsky, Igor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0674302435
- Language: English
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Law & Order Svu: Confidential: Everything We Love about the Show We Can’t Stop Watching
$24.99 Add to cartStep behind the scenes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in this unofficial and unauthorized companion for SVU superfans.
Through exclusive photographs, filming locations, and insights from cast an… [more below]- Author: Fischer, Neal E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0760398542
- Language: English
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A Century of Music Under the Stars: A History of the Mann Center for the Performing Arts and Robin Hood Dell
$40.00 Add to cartEveryone has a memorable story about attending a performance at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts or the Robin Hood Dell–“the Mann” and “the Dell” to their many patrons. Lavishly illustrated wi… [more below]
- Author: McCarthy, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1439924333
- Language: English
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Popcorn Disabilities: The Highs and Lows of Disabled Representation in the Movies
$34.95 Add to cartYou can learn a lot from the movies-about sex and relationships, about business, about history. Sure, there’s a fair amount of fantasy, wish fulfillment, and glorious hair to exaggerate everything, bu
- Author: Lopez, Kristen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1493086332
- Language: English
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The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg–And the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema
$32.00 Add to cartThe untold, intimate story of how three young visionaries–Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg–revolutionized American cinema, creating the most iconic films in history while ris
- Author: Fischer, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1250878721
- Language: English
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Bach: The Cello Suites
$20.00 Add to cartOriginally dismissed as curiosities, J. S. Bach’s Cello Suites are now understood as the pinnacle of composition for unaccompanied cello. This handbook examines how and why Bach composed these highly … [more below]
- Series: New Cambridge Music Handbooks
- Author: Klorman, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: September 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1009054597
- Language: English
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Horror in Haddonfield: Halloween’s Untold Stories
$19.99 Add to cartScare yourself silly with this look at the Halloween franchise with interviews of the actors who made all the horror film classics that have scared generations.
Happy Halloween, Michael. Horror in Had- Author: Grevas, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1959748300
- Language: English
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20th Century Ambient
$19.95 Add to cartThrough text and comics, 20th Century Ambient searches through ambient music’s recent history to unearth how the genre has evolved and the role it plays in our daily lives.
Ambient music is a part of- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3
- Author: Henry, Dusty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765119334
- Language: English
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Mozart: A Life
$24.00 Add to cartA biography of the greatest musical mind in Western history
Mozart’s unshakable hold on the public’s consciousness can only be strengthened by historian and biographer Peter Gay’s concise and deft lo- Series: Penguin Lives Biographies
- Author: Gay, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037730
- Language: English
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Maestros and Their Music: The Art and Alchemy of Conducting
$22.00 Add to cartJohn Mauceri, who has stood on podiums before storied symphonies, operas, and ballets around the world, brings a lifetime of experience to bear in this informative, brilliantly entertaining exploratio… [more below]
- Author: Mauceri, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1101973609
- Language: English
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Stradivari’s Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection
$19.00 Add to cartAntonio Stradivari (1644–1737) was a perfectionist whose single-minded pursuit of excellence changed the world of music. In the course of his long career in the northern Italian city of Cremona, he c… [more below]
- Author: Faber, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 04 2006
- ISBN10: 0375760857
- Language: English
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The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824
$22.00 Add to cartThe premier of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the year–and the work remains one of the most precedent-shattering and influential compo
- Author: Sachs, Harvey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0812969073
- Language: English
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Verdi with a Vengeance: An Energetic Guide to the Life and Complete Works of the King of Opera
$24.00 Add to cartEverything you could possibly know about Verdi and his operas, from the brilliant and humorous author of Wagner Without Fear.
If you want to know why La traviata was actually a flop at its premiere in- Author: Berger, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 037570518X
- Language: English
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Letters for the Ages the Great Musicians
$26.00 Add to cartA collection of letters written through the ages from musicians of all genres, from Mozart to Elton John.
For tens of thousands of years, across various civilisations, our species has been creating mu- Series: Letters for the Ages
- Author: Drake, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1399419463
- Language: English
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The Watch: Stories and Savoir Faire
$95.00 Add to cartThis ultimate reference on fine watchmaking offers a comprehensive overview of the history and anatomy of luxury timepieces.
Taking readers behind the scenes to discover the captivating realm of mecha- Author: Piguet, Audemars
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 700
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 208045322X
- Language: English
