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  • Life of the Party by Holiday, Harmony
    Harmony Holiday

    Life of the Party

    An archive and annotation of Black music-performance culture, produced alongside Harmony Holiday's first solo museum exhibition, Black Backstage. Life of the Party is an archive and annotation of Black music-performance culture--its poetics and its realities and its ruins, both seen and unseen. Produced concurrent...
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  • Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago by Busse Berger, Anna Maria
    Anna Maria Busse Berger

    Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago

    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Although the history of Indonesian music has received much attention from ethnomusicologists and Western composers alike, almost nothing has been...
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  • On Record - Vol. 8: 1986: Images, Interviews & Insights from the Year in Music by Brown, G.
    G. Brown

    On Record - Vol. 8: 1986: Images, Interviews & Insights from the Year in Music

    Vol. 8: 1986 of the comprehensive On Record series captures the British synth-pop duos (Pet Shop Boys) and bombastic hard-rock acts (Europe's "The Final Countdown) making an impression on the charts, the sexiness of Madonna and Berlin, and seminal videos (Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer," Paul...
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  • Music to My Eyes by Samarov, Dmitry
    Dmitry Samarov

    Music to My Eyes

    Author and artist Dmitry Samarov has written for the Chicago Tribune, the Reader, and more; here he turns his eye and pen towards the musical stage, sketching and describing a host of independent musicians he's seen, crossed paths with, offered sofa space to, and...
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  • The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman by Stratis, Niko
    Niko Stratis

    The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman

    A memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us.Author: Niko StratisISBN-10: 1477331484ISBN-13: 9781477331484Publisher: University of Texas PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2025Pages: 240Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbs
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  • Cool and Strange Music! Magazine - The Complete Collection, Vol. 3 Issues 14-21 by Countryman, Dana
    Dana Countryman

    Cool and Strange Music! Magazine - The Complete Collection, Vol. 3 Issues 14-21

    Between the years 1996-2003, Cool and Strange Music! Magazine became a beloved publication that music lovers of the unusual could count on for information about the latest "cool and strange" music releases, exclusive interviews with legendary artists, and in-depth articles that could not be...
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  • The Meaning of Jungkook: The Triumph of Bts and the Making of a Global Pop Superstar by Kim, Monica
    Monica Kim

    The Meaning of Jungkook: The Triumph of Bts and the Making of a Global Pop Superstar

    Celebrate Jungkook, the once-in-a-generation talent at the heart of BTS, in this illuminating look into the forces that have made him a global icon. Jungkook is one of the world's biggest stars, period. His first album, Golden, sold more than 2 million copies on...
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  • Music, Health and the Body: Cross-Cultural Perspectives by Bala, Poonam
    Poonam Bala

    Music, Health and the Body: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

    Music, Health and the Body: Cross-Cultural Perspectives focuses on the role of music in understanding new dimensions of health and healing through a unique relationship between identity, social interactions and the human body under the overarching paradigm of culture. The recent Covid-19 pandemic also...
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  • One Foot on the Platform: A Rock 'n' Roll Journey by Goddard, Peter
    Peter Goddard

    One Foot on the Platform: A Rock 'n' Roll Journey

    The final word from one of popular music's greatest critics. In the summer of 2020, acclaimed music critic and journalist Peter Goddard began work on a new book that would take readers on a journey back through his fifty-plus years spent writing professionally about...
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  • In Other Words by Barnes, J. R.
    J. R. Barnes

    In Other Words

    Author: J. R. BarnesISBN-13: 9798227394705Publisher: J. R. BarnesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/17/2024Pages: 138Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.32d
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  • Nothing Compares to You: What Sinead O'Connor Means to Us by Huber, Sonya
    Sonya Huber

    Nothing Compares to You: What Sinead O'Connor Means to Us

    Author: Sonya Huber, Martha BayneISBN-10: 1668078333ISBN-13: 9781668078334Publisher: Atria/One Signal PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/22/2025Pages: 288Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
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  • The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association by Adler, David R.
    David R. Adler

    The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association

    The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association is a spectacular anthology of works by 90 international experts in jazz and related music.90 contributors represent the finest music writers and photographers alive todayTheir skill, wisdom, insight, and generosity...
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  • The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association by Adler, David R.
    David R. Adler

    The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association

    The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association is a spectacular anthology of works by 90 international experts in jazz and related music. This deluxe dust-jacketed hardcover edition is an essential collectible for any music library.90 contributors represent...
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  • Free: Words on Music by A Hi-Def Critic in an MP3 World by Schulman, Lawrence
    Lawrence Schulman

    Free: Words on Music by A Hi-Def Critic in an MP3 World

    Lawrence Schulman's second book for BearManor Media includes all of his non-Garland writings, save three, between 2000 and 2024, on a whole host of other artists and authors, including Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, Mildred Bailey, Patsy Cline, Bernard Herrmann, among others. With a Foreword...
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  • Fusion!: From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother by Coles, Alex
    Alex Coles

    Fusion!: From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother

    The role of jazz as a catalyst in rock, pop, funk, new wave, hip-hop, and techno. From music writer Alex Coles, Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother traces the origins and legacy of blended musical genres by focusing on twelve dynamic collaborations. From...
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  • Tasty Jazz Jams for Our Times: Vol. 3 by Burke, Debbie
    Debbie Burke

    Tasty Jazz Jams for Our Times: Vol. 3

    Tasty Jazz Jams for Our Times(TM) Volume 3 crackles with outstanding music from around the world and is full of insights from thirty-seven artists who discuss their creative process, what inspires them, how their brand marketing changed post-pandemic and what they think about AI...
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  • High and Rising: A Book about de la Soul by Moore, Marcus J.
    Marcus J. Moore

    High and Rising: A Book about de la Soul

    A stunning cultural biography of De La Soul, the era-defining hip-hop trio that touched millions of lives and changed rap forever.De La Soul burst onto the scene with the release of their groundbreaking 1989 album 3 Feet High & Rising, an "anything goes" hip-hop...
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  • Weep, Shudder, Die: On Opera and Poetry by Gioia, Dana
    Dana Gioia

    Weep, Shudder, Die: On Opera and Poetry

    "Looking at opera from the standpoint of its texts, as only a gifted poet and librettist can do, Dana Gioia examines why a surprisingly small number of operas have attained a secure place in the repertory. His insight into the workings of this uniquely...
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  • The Journal of Beatles Studies (Volume 3, Issue 2) by
    WR Book House

    The Journal of Beatles Studies (Volume 3, Issue 2)

    The Journal of Beatles Studies is the first journal to establish The Beatles as an object of academic research, and will publish original, rigorously researched essays, notes, as well as book and media reviews.The journal aims are; to provide a voice to new and...
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  • A New Philosophy of Songwriting: Cakes, Constellations, and Other Obtuse Metaphors to Help Your Practice by Ward, Andy
    Andy Ward

    A New Philosophy of Songwriting: Cakes, Constellations, and Other Obtuse Metaphors to Help Your Practice

    This book makes the case for a new theorisation of Song as a multimodal storytelling sonic act, one that has implications for songwriters, scholars, and the way in which we think about music and song.Author: Andy Ward, Briony LuttrellISBN-10: 1666931675ISBN-13: 9781666931679Publisher: Lexington BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished:...
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  • The Worst Songs in the World: The Terrible Truth about National Anthems by Pate, David
    David Pate

    The Worst Songs in the World: The Terrible Truth about National Anthems

    The best-known songs in the world are violent, sexist, and religious -- so why do we celebrate national anthems when we should be rewriting them?"Fascinating and thoughtful ... showcases how anthems divide us even as they promise to bring communities together." -- MARK CLAGUE,...
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  • Collegium Vocale Gent: Philippe Herreweghe by Herreweghe, Philippe
    Philippe Herreweghe

    Collegium Vocale Gent: Philippe Herreweghe

    - A personal and visual retrospective of the life and work of the conductor Philippe Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale GentIt was in 1970 that Philippe Herreweghe founded Collegium Vocale Gent, dedicated among other things to works by Johann Sebastian Bach and German Baroque music....
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  • Latitude Adjustments: Jimmy Buffett Quotes for Your Daily Dose of Tropical Wisdom by Gordon, H. R.
    H. R. Gordon

    Latitude Adjustments: Jimmy Buffett Quotes for Your Daily Dose of Tropical Wisdom

    Embark on a journey to paradise with Latitude Adjustments: Jimmy Buffett Quotes for Your Daily Dose of Tropical Wisdom. This delightful collection of inspirational and thought-provoking quotes from the legendary Jimmy Buffett is your perfect companion for finding peace, joy, and a touch of...
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  • Latitude Adjustments: Jimmy Buffett Quotes for Your Daily Dose of Tropical Wisdom by Gordon, H. R.
    H. R. Gordon

    Latitude Adjustments: Jimmy Buffett Quotes for Your Daily Dose of Tropical Wisdom

    Author: H. R. GordonISBN-13: 9798991365604Publisher: Beach Bum BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/30/2024Pages: 222Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.51d
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  • We Found Love, Song by Song: The Stories Behind 100 Romantic Hits by Zaleski, Annie
    Annie Zaleski

    We Found Love, Song by Song: The Stories Behind 100 Romantic Hits

    Love songs are for everybody and so is this book. In We Found Love, Song by Song, award-winning author and music journalist Annie Zaleski delivers a beautifully illustrated keepsake that tells the fascinating history and behind-the-scenes stories of the 100 most popular and cherished...
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  • FREE (hardback): Words on Music by A Hi-Def Critic in an MP3 World by Schulman, Lawrence
    Lawrence Schulman

    FREE (hardback): Words on Music by A Hi-Def Critic in an MP3 World

    Lawrence Schulman's second book for BearManor Media includes all of his non-Garland writings, save three, between 2000 and 2024, on a whole host of other artists and authors, including Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, Mildred Bailey, Patsy Cline, Bernard Herrmann, among others. With a Foreword...
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  • Why We Sing: A Celebration of Song by Hollander, Julia
    Julia Hollander

    Why We Sing: A Celebration of Song

    From lullabies to songs for the dying, Why We Sing is a fascinating exploration of singing in all its varied forms, from the personal perspective of Julia Hollander, song therapist, teacher and performer. As a singing therapist, teacher and performer, Julia Hollander is in...
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  • But: Life Isn't Like That, Is It? by Whalley, Boff
    Boff Whalley

    But: Life Isn't Like That, Is It?

    Life's stories are always prone to disruption and digression, thwarting the neat storybook narrative we love so much. Almost all of our stories follow the same basic pattern: beginning, middle, end: exposition, action and climax. It's a neat and tidy way of telling a...
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  • The Big Time: A Memoir by Ingrid Lucia by Lucia, Ingrid
    Ingrid Lucia

    The Big Time: A Memoir by Ingrid Lucia

    The Big Time is a coming-of-age story of a young entertainer whose musical family lived on homemade paddle wheel showboats as they roamed the world performing on the streets. Ingrid danced in two traveling Mexican circuses, sang in the grandest locations around the world,...
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  • City Symphonies: Sound and the Composition of Urban Modernity, 1913-1931 by Schwartz, Daniel P.
    Daniel P. Schwartz

    City Symphonies: Sound and the Composition of Urban Modernity, 1913-1931

    Cinema scholars categorize city symphony films of the 1920s and early 1930s as a subgenre of the silent film. Defined in visual terms, the city symphony organizes the visible elements of urban experience according to musical principles such as rhythm and counterpoint. In City...
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  • I Dream of Joni: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell in 53 Snapshots by Alford, Henry
    Henry Alford

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

    The eternal singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is seen anew, portrayed through a witty and comprehensive exploration of anecdotes, quotes, and lyrics by Henry Alford, "the most graceful of humorists" (Vanity Fair) and a writer for The New Yorker. Joni Mitchell's life, psyche, and evolving legacy...
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  • The Landfill Chronicles - Unearthing Legends of Modern Music by Ouellette, Dan
    Dan Ouellette

    The Landfill Chronicles - Unearthing Legends of Modern Music

    Discover the untold stories and intimate moments of music's greatest legends in Dan Ouellette's groundbreaking collection, The Landfill Chronicles: Unearthing Legends of Modern Music.Musicians profiled range from jazz greats like Wayne Shorter, Carla Bley, and Wynton Marsalis to rock legends like Lou Reed, David...
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  • But: Life Isn't Like That, Is It? by Whalley, Boff
    Boff Whalley

    But: Life Isn't Like That, Is It?

    Life's stories are always prone to disruption and digression, thwarting the neat storybook narrative we love so much. Almost all of our stories follow the same basic pattern: beginning, middle, end: exposition, action and climax. It's a neat and tidy way of telling a...
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  • 21st Century Guitar: Evolutions and Augmentations by Perks, Richard
    Richard Perks

    21st Century Guitar: Evolutions and Augmentations

    In the 21st Century, the guitar, as both a material object and tool for artistic expression, continues to be reimagined and reinvented. From simple adaptations or modifications made by performers themselves, to custom-made instruments commissioned to fulfil specific functions, to the mass production of...
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  • Album Close Up: Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks by Wade, Chris
    Chris Wade

    Album Close Up: Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

    Writer and musician Chris Wade homes in on Bob Dylan's 1975 classic, Blood on the Tracks, widely regarded to be his finest album. As well as examining the songs and the making of the album, Wade interviews the session players who helped bring the...
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  • Postcards from Scotland: Scottish Independent Music 1983-1995 by McPhee, Grant
    Grant McPhee

    Postcards from Scotland: Scottish Independent Music 1983-1995

    By 1983, many of Scotland's post-punk bands had broken up or moved south to chase the major labels in London. That vacuum was filled by an influx of young musicians who were determined to remake the scene in their own image.In this compelling and...
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  • Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives by Terzian, Peter
    Peter Terzian

    Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives

    Colm T ib n on Joni Mitchell - James Wood on The Who - Stacey D'Erasmo on Kate Bush - Daniel Handler on Eurythmics - Lisa Dierbeck on the Pretenders - Clifford Chase on the B-52s . . . and other writers on the...
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  • The History of Trap by Reese, Eric
    Eric Reese

    The History of Trap

    "Trap Beats and Rhymes: The Explosive Emergence of Trap Music"*** Author of "Rapper's Delight" essay currently archived at the Library of Congress ****** Guest speaker of BBC2 Radio "Rapper's Delight 40th Anniversary" by DJ Trevor Nelson - September 2019 ***Dive deep into the electrifying...
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  • Ways & Sounds: Inquiries. Interconnections. Contours. by Brennan, Patrick
    Patrick Brennan

    Ways & Sounds: Inquiries. Interconnections. Contours.

    Arteidolia Press 2021 What transforms sounds into music? Composer & improviser patrick brennan asks us in this series of essays to put aside what we ordinarily think music is and to reimagine a more inclusive, relational framework, an ecology of composing.. When people, especially...
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  • On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement by O'Brien, Kerry
    Kerry O'Brien

    On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement

    A revisionist history of minimalism's transformative rise, through the voices of the musicians who created it. When composers like Philip Glass and Steve Reich began creating hypnotically repetitive music in the 1960s, it upended the world of American composition. But minimalism was more than...
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  • Johnny's Cash and Charley's Pride: Lasting Legends and Untold Adventures in Country Music by Cooper, Peter
    Peter Cooper

    Johnny's Cash and Charley's Pride: Lasting Legends and Untold Adventures in Country Music

    Peter Guralnick, dean of rock-and roll-storytellers, writes in the introduction to Johnny's Cash & Charley's Pride, "Peter Cooper has always been in the mix." Whether spending time with Johnny Cash or Kris Kristofferson, playing bass for Loretta Lynn, discussing songwriting with Taylor Swift, or...
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  • Listen to This by Ross, Alex
    Alex Ross

    Listen to This

    One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011 Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes...
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  • Play Piano in a Flash!: Play Your Favorite Songs Like a Pro--Whether You've Had Lessons or Not! by Houston, Scott
    Scott Houston

    Play Piano in a Flash!: Play Your Favorite Songs Like a Pro--Whether You've Had Lessons or Not!

    As seen on public television stations nationwide, a revolutionary new approach to playing non-classical music on the piano. Have you ever wished you could play the piano Well, now you can! Scott "The Piano Guy" Houston teaches you to play the way the pros...
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  • The Landfill Chronicles - Unearthing Legends of Modern Music by Ouellette, Dan
    Dan Ouellette

    The Landfill Chronicles - Unearthing Legends of Modern Music

    Dive into the captivating world of music with Dan Ouellette's remarkable collection, The Landfill Chronicles: Unearthing Legends of Modern Music.For over four decades, Dan Ouellette has been at the forefront of music journalism, chronicling the lives and careers of the legends who shape modern...
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  • Harpsichord & fortepiano COMPLETE INDEX, 1973-2023 by Knights, Francis
    Francis Knights

    Harpsichord & fortepiano COMPLETE INDEX, 1973-2023

    This chronological Index covers every issue of the English Harpsichord Magazine andHarpsichord & fortepiano, vols. i-xxviii, and includes all of the content apart from reports, reviews and advertisements. For a Subject Index (including Interviews and Obituaries)and for an Author Index of articles, see below....
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  • Taste in Music: Eating on Tour with Indie Musicians by Pyenson, Luke
    Luke Pyenson

    Taste in Music: Eating on Tour with Indie Musicians

    In this unique and deeply thoughtful collection, musician Alex Bleeker (Real Estate) and food and travel journalist Luke Pyenson (formerly of Frankie Cosmos) take readers on tour with a diverse lineup of inspiring indie musicians from around the world, sharing meals and travel experiences,...
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  • And the Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to . . . Bob Dylan? by Naskos, Dimitrios P.
    Dimitrios P. Naskos

    And the Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to . . . Bob Dylan?

    "...a brilliant and fascinating analysis of Dylan and his lyrics and songs, making a major contribution to our understanding of Dylan and his work." -Andrew Melrose, Emeritus Professor of Writing University of Winchester, UK"It's a charming, readable excursion through one researcher's own journey with...
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  • Songbook: The Lyrics and Music of Steven Heighton by Heighton, Steven
    Steven Heighton

    Songbook: The Lyrics and Music of Steven Heighton

    From the award-winning, multi-genre author and musician Steven Heighton, Songbook brings together Heighton's lyrics and music for the first time in a single volume, including his final songs, which have never been heard or seen until now. When Steven Heighton died suddenly of cancer...
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  • Funeral Playlist by Gorham, Sarah
    Sarah Gorham

    Funeral Playlist

    Using her own "funeral playlist," Sarah Gorham examines the intricate connections between music, consolation, and human mortality. The essays in this unique collection explore a diverse range of songs, including Mozart's "Benedictus" (The Requiem), Nina Simone's rendition of "Black is the Color of my...
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  • Orpheus in the Underworld: Essays on Music by Adorno, Theodor W.
    Theodor W. Adorno

    Orpheus in the Underworld: Essays on Music and Its Mediation

    Delves into Theodor W. Adorno's lesser-known musical career and successful music criticism. Theodor W. Adorno is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most prominent social theorists. Though best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of critical theory, Adorno began his career...
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