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  • Wavelengths by Kim, Joshua
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    Joshua Kim

    Wavelengths

    A radical history of music in experimental film. Focusing on sound in experimental film, Wavelengths investigates how sound and music have broadened avant-garde cinema's boundaries, exploring the mutual influence and relationship between some of the most exciting independent filmmakrers and composers/musicians (Paul Clipson with...
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  • I'll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan by Kwon, Giaae
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    Giaae Kwon

    I'll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan

    Jia Tolentino's Trick Mirror meets Cathy Park Hong's Minor Feelings in a meditation that blends memoir and cultural criticism to explore how the author's love affair with K-pop has shaped her sense of self, charting K-pop's complex coming-of-age through some of its biggest idols....
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  • Critical and Historical Essays by MacDowell, Edward
    Edward MacDowell

    Critical and Historical Essays

    Explore the world of music through the insightful lens of "Critical & Historical Essays: Lectures delivered at Columbia University" by Edward MacDowell. This collection offers a fascinating journey through music history, theory, and criticism, presenting MacDowell's lectures in a meticulously prepared print republication. Dive...
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  • Maximum Clarity and Other Writings on Music by Johnston, Ben
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    Ben Johnston

    Maximum Clarity and Other Writings on Music

    Described by New York Times critic John Rockwell as "one of the best non-famous composers this country has to offer," Ben Johnston reconceives familiar idioms--ranging from neoclassicism and serialism to jazz and southern hymnody--using just intonation. Johnston studied with Darius Milhaud, Harry Partch, and...
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  • The Tooth That Nibbles at the Soul: Essays on Music and Poetry by Brown, Marshall
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    Marshall Brown

    The Tooth That Nibbles at the Soul: Essays on Music and Poetry

    The Tooth that Nibbles at the Soul brings together Marshall Brown's new and previously published writings on literature and music. These essays engage questions that are central to the development of literature, music, and the arts in the period from Romanticism at the end...
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  • A Beginner's Guide to the Violin - A Selection of Classic Articles on Violin Construction and Performance (Violin Series) by Various
    Various

    A Beginner's Guide to the Violin - A Selection of Classic Articles on Violin Construction and Performance (Violin Series)

    This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. Carefully selecting the best articles from our collection we have compiled a series of historical and informative...
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  • Unlocking The Muse: Fifty-Two Actions To Ignite Your Creativity by Mills, Mousa
    Mousa Mills

    Unlocking The Muse: Fifty-Two Actions To Ignite Your Creativity

    **Are you ready to unleash your inner artist?** Feeling creatively stifled? Do you long to tap into the wellspring of inspiration that lies dormant within you? Then "Unlocking the Muse: Fifty-Two Actions to Ignite Your Creativity" is the key you've been searching for. This...
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  • The Riddle Decoded: Nik Kershaw and the Art of Perfect Pop by Shenton, Laura
    Laura Shenton

    The Riddle Decoded: Nik Kershaw and the Art of Perfect Pop

    1984 was Nik Kershaw's year. From unknown to household name, his meteoric rise to fame epitomised eighties pop at its most thrilling. But beyond the snood, synthesizers, and that gravity-defying hair lay something more substantial: a songwriter crafting sophisticated pop music.This unofficial and unauthorised...
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  • Perspectives on Mendelssohn: Essays in Musicology for R. Larry Todd by Celenza, Anna Harwell
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    Anna Harwell Celenza

    Perspectives on Mendelssohn: Essays in Musicology for R. Larry Todd

    New essays on the Mendelssohns and their circle, illuminating their lives, works, and influence.Perspectives on Mendelssohn presents newly commissioned essays by a group of distinguished international music historians on the Mendelssohns' life, work, and influence on their contemporaries. In four sections, the book addresses...
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  • Music Education, Social Justice, and the Global South by Bruin, Leon de
    Leon de Bruin

    Music Education, Social Justice, and the Global South

    Music Education, Social Justice, and the Global South provocatively explores the complex, multidimensional nature of social justice and the challenges adapted in educational music contexts around the world. The tensions created by critical engagement with its concepts and practices provide unique opportunities for music...
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  • Chasing Cohen by Festa, Thomas Achille
    Thomas Achille Festa

    Chasing Cohen

    My journey through modern Montreal in the footsteps of Leonard Cohen - retracing the poet's old haunts, navigating love and heartbreak, and discovering how his life, legacy, and art illuminate a path to self-discovery. Through the lens of Dante's Divine Comedy, Cohen's story becomes...
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  • Ariana Grande: Her Life and Music, Era by Era by Griffiths, George
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    George Griffiths

    Ariana Grande: Her Life and Music, Era by Era

    Author: George GriffithsISBN-10: 1398728497ISBN-13: 9781398728493Publisher: Seven DialsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/19/2026Format: Hardcover
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  • Neil Young: Reflections in Broken Glass (Updated and Revised) by Simmons, Sylvie
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    Sylvie Simmons

    Neil Young: Reflections in Broken Glass (Updated and Revised)

    Author: Sylvie SimmonsISBN-13: 9798989908998Publisher: Third Man BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/26/2026Pages: 268Format: Paperback
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  • Song Theory: Hidden Messages, Myths, and the Conspiracies Behind the Music by Hester, Darrell
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    Darrell Hester

    Song Theory: Hidden Messages, Myths, and the Conspiracies Behind the Music

    Decode the Myths Behind the MusicOne creator's viral deep dives become a definitive, thought-provoking tour through the music world's most persistent conspiracy theories--inviting readers to listen closer and decide for themselves.Bold, balanced, and wildly entertaining, Song Theory unpacks the myths, symbols, and hidden messages...
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  • The Sound of Thinking: A Listener's Companion to Conceptual Music by Dworkin, Craig
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    Craig Dworkin

    The Sound of Thinking: A Listener's Companion to Conceptual Music

    A lively compendium of musical practices and compositions that upend notions of creativity and expressivity while diversifying our sense of the musical canon. An artist draws two octaves of pitches randomly from a hat, just enough to set each syllable of the dictionary definition...
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  • Christopher Dell: Dialogue Concerts: Conceptual Research on Architecture and Music by Dell, Christopher
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    Christopher Dell

    Christopher Dell: Dialogue Concerts: Conceptual Research on Architecture and Music

    A richly illustrated volume exploring the social potential of architecture and musicChristopher Dell (born 1965) transposes into book form the research on music and architecture undertaken by the Dialogue Concerts series he curated. Bringing together prominent figures of both disciplines, this book vividly demonstrates...
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  • Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America by Tate, Greg
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    Greg Tate

    Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America

    A reissue of Greg Tate's classic, out-of-print collection of essays, with a new introduction by Hanif Abdurraqib and a new foreword by Questlove. From one of the most original, creative, and provocative culture critics comes an eye-opening collection of essays and tales about American...
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  • Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America by Tate, Greg
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    Greg Tate

    Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America

    A reissue of Greg Tate's classic, out-of-print collection of essays, with a new introduction by Hanif Abdurraqib and a new foreword by Questlove. From one of the most original, creative, and provocative culture critics comes an eye-opening collection of essays and tales about American...
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  • Music Performers' Lived Experiences: Theory, Method, Interpretation: Volume One by Doğantan-Dack, Mine
    Mine Doğantan-Dack

    Music Performers' Lived Experiences: Theory, Method, Interpretation: Volume One

    The Music Performers' Lived Experiences seeks to widen this research area through close investigations of a variety of rich, and nuanced experiences classical music performers have qua performers, as they interact with musical scores and wider artistic and cultural discourses, norms and beliefs.Author: Mine...
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  • All the Days Of His Life: Listening to David Bowie, Song by Song by Marlin, Benjamin
    Benjamin Marlin

    All the Days Of His Life: Listening to David Bowie, Song by Song

    Author: Benjamin MarlinISBN-13: 9798232625573Publisher: Benjamin MarlinLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/28/2018Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
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  • If You Try Sometimes... Listening to the Rolling Stones, Song by Song by Marlin, Benjamin
    Benjamin Marlin

    If You Try Sometimes... Listening to the Rolling Stones, Song by Song

    Author: Benjamin MarlinISBN-13: 9798232363949Publisher: Benjamin MarlinLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/23/2024Pages: 396Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d
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  • Sacred Hmmms: Between the Notes & Faith by Salmond, Roy
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    Roy Salmond

    Sacred Hmmms: Between the Notes & Faith

    Roy Salmond is an award-winning music producer and the writer of Between the Notes, a weekly reflection on the wonder, heartache, and hope that finds us all as we journey through the days we have been given. The collection of his musings in this...
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  • Sacred Hmmms: Between the Notes & Art by Salmond, Roy
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    Roy Salmond

    Sacred Hmmms: Between the Notes & Art

    Roy Salmond is an award-winning music producer and the writer of Between the Notes, a weekly reflection on the wonder, heartache, and hope that finds us all as we journey through the days we have been given. The collection of his musings in this...
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  • Come On a Safari With Me: Listening to the Beach Boys, Song by Song by Marlin, Benjamin
    Benjamin Marlin

    Come On a Safari With Me: Listening to the Beach Boys, Song by Song

    Author: Benjamin MarlinISBN-13: 9798232739966Publisher: Benjamin MarlinLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2025Pages: 412Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.84d
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  • Listening To the Who: Album by Album, Song by Song by Marlin, Benjamin
    Benjamin Marlin

    Listening To the Who: Album by Album, Song by Song

    Author: Benjamin MarlinISBN-13: 9798232683535Publisher: Benjamin MarlinLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2017Pages: 186Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d
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  • Sacred Hmmms: Between the Notes & Life by Salmond, Roy
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    Roy Salmond

    Sacred Hmmms: Between the Notes & Life

    Roy Salmond is an award-winning music producer and the writer of Between the Notes, a weekly reflection on the wonder, heartache, and hope that finds us all as we journey through the days we have been given. The collection of his musings in this...
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  • We're Having Much More Fun: Punk Archives for the Present from Cbgb to Gilman and Beyond by Peraino, Judith A.
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    Judith A. Peraino

    We're Having Much More Fun: Punk Archives for the Present from Cbgb to Gilman and Beyond

    In We're Having Much More Fun Judith A. Peraino and Tom McEnaney celebrate the ways punks have built and documented their own misfit collectives since the mid-1970s, assembling alternative worlds of riotous music, art, fashion, and writing. This book ranges across the United States...
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  • Serial Music: A Classified Bibliography of Writings on Twelve-Tone and Electronic Music by Basart, Ann Phillips
    Ann Phillips Basart

    Serial Music: A Classified Bibliography of Writings on Twelve-Tone and Electronic Music

    Serial Music: A Classified Bibliography of Writings on Twelve-Tone and Electronic Music by Ann Phillips Basart provides the first systematic and annotated guide to the burgeoning literature on serial composition and its extensions into electronic and experimental forms. Written at a moment when twelve-tone...
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  • Unholy Passions: Musings of an Unrepentant Danzig Fangirl by Johnson, Emma Alice
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    Emma Alice Johnson

    Unholy Passions: Musings of an Unrepentant Danzig Fangirl

    Author: Emma Alice JohnsonISBN-10: 164841611XISBN-13: 9781648416118Publisher: Microcosm PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/2024Pages: 30Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.35h x 5.43w x 0.63d
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  • Porgy in Vienna: Musical Examples by Maisel, Arthur
    Arthur Maisel

    Porgy in Vienna: Musical Examples

    An analytical study of the opera Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin, including the influence of Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck on the opera. Musical examples are Schenkerian "graphs."Author: Arthur MaiselISBN-13: 9798218798529Publisher: Sub Sole PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/26/2025Pages: 58Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.12d
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  • I Dream of Joni: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell in 53 Snapshots by Alford, Henry
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    Henry Alford

    I Dream of Joni: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell in 53 Snapshots

    In this nationally bestselling "delightful compendium of everything you ever wanted to know about" (The Washington Post) Joni Mitchell, the eternal singer-songwriter is seen anew, portrayed through a witty and comprehensive exploration of anecdotes, quotes, lyrics by Henry Alford, "the most graceful of humorists"...
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  • Porgy in Vienna by Maisel, Arthur
    Arthur Maisel

    Porgy in Vienna

    Author: Arthur MaiselISBN-13: 9798218798536Publisher: Sub Sole PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/26/2025Pages: 396Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.81d
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  • Aesthetical Writings of Giacinto Scelsi by Sciannameo, Franco
    Franco Sciannameo

    Aesthetical Writings of Giacinto Scelsi

    Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), an extraordinary, innovative, and often controversial moving force in modern music, has been the subject of a vast amount of literary criticism, philosophical discussions, and groundbreaking performances. Originally in French, Scelsi's writings have been included in anthologies of prose, poetry, and...
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  • Popular Music, Stars and Stardom by Loy, Stephen
    Stephen Loy

    Popular Music, Stars and Stardom

    A popular fascination with fame and stardom has existed in Western culture since the late eighteenth century; a fascination that, in the twenty-first century, reaches into almost every facet of public life. The pervasive nature of stardom in modern society demands study from the...
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  • Loving Michael Jackson: Made for Michael Jackson by Millman, Selena
    Selena Millman

    Loving Michael Jackson: Made for Michael Jackson

    A Note To The Reader: I am hoping to make this enjoyable for Michael Jacksonhimself. And for anyone else who many be reading this.That includes Michael's relatives, fans, friends, andanyone else as well. Why I'm Doing This: Why am I doing this? That's simple...
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  • The Name Game: Forgotten Names of Legendary Rock Groups by Pollick, Michael
    Michael Pollick

    The Name Game: Forgotten Names of Legendary Rock Groups

    Imagine a world where The Beatles were known as The Quarrymen forever, or where Nirvana went by the name of Pen Cap Chew. Michael Pollick's "The Name Game" takes us on a whimsical journey through the forgotten names of legendary rock groups, revealing the...
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  • Sounds in Translation: Intersections of music, technology and society by Chan, Amy
    Amy Chan

    Sounds in Translation: Intersections of music, technology and society

    Sounds in Translation: Intersections of music, technology and society joins a growing number of publications taking up R. Murray Schafer's challenge to examine and to re-focus attention on the sound dimensions of our human environment. This book takes up his challenge to contemporary audiologists,...
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  • Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods by Wagner, Richard
    Richard Wagner

    Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods

    Experience the dramatic conclusion of Richard Wagner's epic "Ring of the Niblung" with this meticulously prepared print edition of "Siegfried and The Twilight of the Gods." As the final two parts of the four-opera cycle, these librettos showcase Wagner's unparalleled ability to weave together...
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  • Same Old Girl: Staying Myself When the Big Stuff Barged in by Patterson, Sylvia
    Sylvia Patterson

    Same Old Girl: Staying Myself When the Big Stuff Barged in

    'There's no mistaking the writing of Sylvia Patterson' Sunday Times 'One of the finest writers in the world' David Quantick How does the big stuff in life truly change us? In late 2019, Sylvia Patterson was a celebrated pop journalist, still merrily writing about...
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  • François Ribac

    Music and the Performing Arts in the Anthropocene: Nature, Materialities and Ecological Transformation

    This book offers a series of thought-provoking essays about music and the performing arts viewed from current Anthropocene-aware perspectives. It will be of great interest to students and scholars in the humanities and social sciences, as well as a broader readership involved in art...
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  • Noise from the Underground: Selected Texts -- 2009--2024 by McKemie, Daniel
    Daniel McKemie

    Noise from the Underground: Selected Texts -- 2009--2024

    This collection brings together fifteen years of notes, essays, and compositions from a working life in experimental music. Originally intended as academic research, it became a personal project driven by curiosity rather than credentials. The texts explore music-making across tools and formats: from live...
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  • Kristofferson: 67 Astounding Songs by Somma, Richard
    Richard Somma

    Kristofferson: 67 Astounding Songs

    Kristofferson: 67 Astounding Songs explores the depth and artistry of Kristofferson's lyrics with a special focus on his masterful use of sound and repetition. His lyrics use rhythm and tone to shape stories-heightening a character's anger, joy, or excitement, slowing a line for impact,...
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  • Kristofferson: 67 Astounding Songs by Somma, Richard
    Richard Somma

    Kristofferson: 67 Astounding Songs

    Kristofferson: 67 Astounding Songs explores the depth and artistry of Kristofferson's lyrics with a special focus on his masterful use of sound and repetition. His lyrics use rhythm and tone to shape stories-heightening a character's anger, joy, or excitement, slowing a line for impact,...
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  • Undercurrents by Skinner, Richard
    Richard Skinner

    Undercurrents

    Richard Skinner's Undercurrents is a hybrid essay collection that brings together literary criticism, memoir, cultural commentary, and music writing in a loose, associative structure. Moving from Proust's memory theory to Talking Heads' Remain in Light, from Renaissance nuns to Eisenstein's montage, Skinner's prose is...
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  • Hands, Wrists, Fingers: Creative Health for Musicians by de Alcantara, Pedro
    Pedro de Alcantara

    Hands, Wrists, Fingers: Creative Health for Musicians

    Hands, Wrists, Fingers invites musicians to explore a new way of thinking about good health. The physical dimensions of hands are certainly important and merit close study, encompassing coordination, relaxation, dexterity, speed, accuracy, and freedom from pain. While acknowledging these dimensions, Hands, Wrists, Fingers...
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  • Rock Gods: The Greatest Showmen and Most Influential Songwriters of the Rock Era by McCabe, Kathy
    Kathy McCabe

    Rock Gods: The Greatest Showmen and Most Influential Songwriters of the Rock Era

    This fully illustrated book celebrates the captivating lives of legendary figures who revolutionised music, from Elvis and Hendrix to Bowie and Jagger. Authored by music journalist Kathy McCabe and featuring stunning images from renowned rock photographer Tony Mott, this book makes the perfect gift...
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  • Romantic Voices: Listening to Nineteenth-Century Music by Seaton, Douglass
    Douglass Seaton

    Romantic Voices: Listening to Nineteenth-Century Music

    Illuminates how Romantic aesthetic principles manifest themselves through musical sound and structure.In Romantic Voices Douglass Seaton explores the underlying subjectivism whereby nineteenth-century musical works depend on and manifest the ideology and epistemology of Romanticism. Listeners and students have often imagined in a too-casual way...
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  • Play This Book Loud: Noisy Essays by Bonomo, Joe
    Joe Bonomo

    Play This Book Loud: Noisy Essays

    More than at any time in human history, our daily lives are scored and imprinted by music. We listen while bicycling, while taking walks, on the train to and from work, and at home on stereos or streaming. We're immersed in music and music...
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  • Ancestral North: Spirituality and Cultural Imagination in Nordic Ritual Folk Music by Hagen, Ross
    Ross Hagen

    Ancestral North: Spirituality and Cultural Imagination in Nordic Ritual Folk Music

    This book explores the world of Nordic ritual folk music, including Viking reenactments, neopagan spiritualities, and creative musical anachronisms. Author: Ross Hagen, Mathias NordvigISBN-10: 1666917567ISBN-13: 9781666917567Publisher: Lexington BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/11/2024Pages: 252Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
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  • Iran Amplified: One Hundred Years of Music and Society by Siamdoust, Nahid
    Nahid Siamdoust

    Iran Amplified: One Hundred Years of Music and Society

    Iran Amplified: One Hundred Years of Music and Society, the first edited volume on music in modern Iran, presents a cross-genre collection of compelling scholarship, musician narratives, and primary sources. This groundbreaking volume, seizing on this burgeoning academic field, offers historiography and critical examination...
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