Music
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Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters: Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage
$41.93 Add to cartIn Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters, songwriter, scholar, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of black women singers in US musical theatre between 1900 and 1970. Asare shows how a v… [more below]
- Series: Refiguring American Music
- Author: Asare, Masi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 147803095X
- Language: English
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The House That Rock Built: How It Took Time, Money, Music Moguls, Corporate Types, Politicians, Media, Artists, and Fans to Bring the Rock Hall to Cle
$28.00 Add to cart- Author: Nite, Norm N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1606353993
- Language: English
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The American Songbag
$32.00 Add to cartSandburg was not only a poet but also a noted collector and performer of american folk music. This anthology contains words and music to 290 songs that people have sung in the making of americanca. Ne… [more below]
- Author: Sandburg, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 29 1990
- ISBN10: 015605650X
- Language: English
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Don’t Say Please — The Oral History of Die Kreuzen
$26.95 Add to cart“Die Kreuzen are one of those bands that influenced a thousand other bands that went on to have huge success.” —Butch Vig (Producer and founding member of Garbage)
Step back to the early eighties in
- Author: Jayasuriya, Sahan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1627311645
- Language: English
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Sound N’ Fury: Rock N’ Roll Stories
$22.95 Read more“[Alan Niven] worked with us and — whether anybody says it or not — became like the sixth, silent member.” — Izza Stradlin, Guns N’ Roses
Experience rock history through sharp, engaging stories fea- Author: Niven, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1770419942
- Language: English
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In Too Deep: When Canadian Punks Took Over the World
$21.99 Add to cartThe unlikely story of a bunch of small-town Canadian punks who conquered the global music industry.
After punk found commercial success in the ’90s, with bands like Green Day, the Offspring, and Blink
- Author: Bobkin, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1487012683
- Language: English
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The Boston Hustle: The Hairspray, the Cologne, the Disco & the Betrayal
$26.99 Add to cartIn this first-hand account of disco history learn how DeeJay Joey Carvello road the cultural explosion of disco, and how record labels conspired to destroy disco’s independent power.
Dance music has it
- Author: Carvello, Joey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: September 21 2024
- ISBN10: 9798822945753
- Language: English
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How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity
$44.93 Add to cart“Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly.” So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce’s urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theori… [more below]
- Series: Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
- Author: Bruce, La Marr Jurelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1478010878
- Language: English
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Softly, as I Leave You: Life After Elvis
$32.00 Add to cartThe long-awaited memoir by Priscilla Presley chronicling her difficult, inspiring journey beyond the walls of Graceland and behind the elegant image the world sees.
Priscilla Presley’s divorce from E- Author: Presley, Priscilla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0306836483
- Language: English
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The Revised English Hymnal Full Music Edition
$56.00 Read moreThe Revised English Hymnal stands in a tradition of musical and liturgical excellence reaching back for over 100 years. Building on the fine reputation established by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Percy … [more below]
- Author: English Hymnal Co
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1904
- Publish Date: December 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1786220059
- Language: English
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Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera
$21.99 Add to cartOpera is the fastest growing of all the performing arts, attracting audiences of all ages who are enthralled by the gorgeous music, vivid drama, and magnificent production values. If you’ve decided th… [more below]
- Author: Plotkin, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0786880252
- Language: English
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Music from Elsewhere: Haunting Tunes from the Afterlife, Alien Worlds and Occult Realms
$22.95 Add to cartA compendium of other musics, channelled from the spirit world, the fairy kingdom, outer space, secret societies and occult lodges.
This unique collection of esoteric earworms gathers, and reproduces,- Author: Skinner, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1913689212
- Language: English
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Listen: The Stages and Studios That Shaped American Music
$19.98 Add to cartAn extraordinary archive of the most iconic sites on the American musical landscape.
Prompted by the closing of New York’s famed CBGB, Rhona Bitner embarked on a thirteen-year journey to photograph 40- Author: Bitner, Rhona
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0789345722
- Language: English
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The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI
$32.99 Add to cartWhat does it mean to be human in a world where machines, too, can be artists? The Uncanny Muse explores the history of automation in the arts and delves into one of the most momentous and controversia
- Author: Hajdu, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0393540839
- Language: English
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Iconic Guitars 2025 Calendar: 2025 Calendar
$14.99 Add to cartStep into a world of artistic wonder with the Iconic Guitars 2025 Calendar, featuring beautifully hand-drawn illustrations of the most legendary guitars in music history. Each month, admire a meticulo
- Author: Maloney, C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 28
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1959209248
- Language: English
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Carolina Beach Music Compilation Albums: The Classics
$24.99 Read moreThe Stories Behind the Albums
Carolina beach music–those often-soulful songs about the beach, parties, that special love, dancing or just relaxing in the sun–has long been a mainstay of culture in th
- Author: Simmons, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1467157724
- Language: English
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Dion: The Rock and Roll Philosopher
$40.00 Add to cartLegendary Rock Hall of Fame innovator shares the most lasting influences on his remarkable life — a life that helped shape the last 60 years of rock and roll history
The book features a prologue by Er
- Author: Dimucci, Dion
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1493088025
- Language: English
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Bob Dylan: No Direction Home (Updated Edition)
$45.00 Add to cartThis new illustrated edition includes key images of Dylan throughout his incredible, enduring career, making it a must for all Dylan fans.
Robert Shelton met Bob Dylan when the young singer arrived in
- Author: Shelton, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1786751623
- Language: English
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Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
$28.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive cultural criticism, illuminating how streaming is reshaping- Author: Pelly, Liz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1668083507
- Language: English
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Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah
$34.00 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Charles King, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel’s Me… [more below]
- Author: King, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 9798217014354
- Language: English
