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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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  • Johann Sebastian Bach: The Organist and His Works for the Organ by Pirro, André
    André Pirro

    Johann Sebastian Bach: The Organist and His Works for the Organ

    Explore the life and work of one of history's most celebrated composers with "Johann Sebastian Bach: The Organist and His Works for the Organ" by André Pirro. This engaging study delves into the world of Johann Sebastian Bach, focusing specifically on his profound contributions...
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  • Misc 10. Music of the Josquin Era, 1460-1560: Studies in Honor of Joshua Rifkin. Edited by Mitchell P. Brauner, David Fallows, and Jesse Rodin.: Volum by Fallows, David
    David Fallows

    Misc 10. Music of the Josquin Era, 1460-1560: Studies in Honor of Joshua Rifkin. Edited by Mitchell P. Brauner, David Fallows, and Jesse Rodin.: Volum

    Author: David FallowsISBN-10: 1595515682ISBN-13: 9781595515681Publisher: American Institute of MusicologyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/26/2024Pages: 678Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.94lbsSize: 10.50h x 7.50w x 2.20d
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  • The Three Times of the Law: The Stunning Commandment, the Injunction of the Superego, and Musical Invocation by Didier-Weill, Alain
    Alain Didier-Weill

    The Three Times of the Law: The Stunning Commandment, the Injunction of the Superego, and Musical Invocation

    What is there in language that is so dreadful that, most often, man assents to it only in order to chatter rather than to speak? This book proposes a radically novel approach to the enigma of the superego, one of the most relevant and...
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  • The Meaning of Jungkook by Kim, Monica
    Monica Kim

    The Meaning of Jungkook

    Author: Monica KimISBN-10: 1668204738ISBN-13: 9781668204733Publisher: Simon & SchusterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/10/2025Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.60d
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  • Nothing Compares to You: What Sinead O'Connor Means to Us by Bayne, Martha
    Martha Bayne

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

    An intimate and evocative celebration of the life and legacy of music and political icon Sinéad O'Connor, featuring writers including Neko Case, Sinéad Gleeson, Rayne Fisher-Quann, Porochista Khakpour, and more.More than thirty years ago, Sinéad O'Connor shocked the world by tearing up a photo...
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  • Some Girls by May, Emily
    Emily May

    Some Girls

    I search "under-eye correcter" and quickly close the tab. Spending my money on cosmetics to hide my human face is counter-revolutionary.Forgive me Karl Marx, I have sinned: I bought a bright red Chanel lipstick at the duty free in LAX and feel glamorous when...
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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 center 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 the...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Punk Rock by McKay, George
    George McKay

    The Oxford Handbook of Punk Rock

    Author: George McKayISBN-10: 0190859563ISBN-13: 9780190859565Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2025Pages: 616Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.58lbsSize: 9.95h x 7.19w x 1.71d
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  • 23 by Cantrell, Dave
    Dave Cantrell

    23

    In 23, esteemed music critic Dave Cantrell revisits his favorite reviews and interviews from the last twenty years. Dubbed "The Professor Of Post-Punk," Cantrell is one of the most respected music writers around and his work for Stereo Embers Magazine showcases his precision, his...
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  • Bass Instinct by Green, Andrew
    Andrew Green

    Bass Instinct

    Have you ever heard a tune so great you'd spend your whole life trying to find it again? The legendary follow up to Junglist, Bass Instinct takes us on odyssey across '90s London as a young black man and his extended family of friends,...
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  • Technologies related to electonic music production: Electronic Music & DJs - Part 3 by Cerqueda, Xenia
    Xenia Cerqueda

    Technologies related to electonic music production: Electronic Music & DJs - Part 3

    We defined electronic music and its large branches in the two previous volumes, clarifying the difference between a DJ and a producer. We explained how electronic music is produced and the modern studio concept. Likewise, we addressed the historical development of the most relevant...
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  • Taylor Swift Chronicles by Smith, Lindsey
    Lindsey Smith

    Taylor Swift Chronicles

    Cultural phenomenon. Worldwide obsession. Queen for eras to come. This is the life, art, and legacy of Taylor Swift. There has never been a phenomenon like Taylor Swift. But it is not just her music that makes her one of the most compelling figures...
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  • The Continuing Story of Beatles Lyrics: The History and Storytelling of 15 Beatles Tunes by Mardon, Austin
    Austin Mardon

    The Continuing Story of Beatles Lyrics: The History and Storytelling of 15 Beatles Tunes

    This book provides a deep dive into a wide variety of Beatles tunes and Beatles stories, but first, provides some necessary context so that we can completely understand these tunes and stories that we explore. By taking the time to understand the stories behind...
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  • Feedback: Translations from the Irrational by Sharp, Elliott
    Elliott Sharp

    Feedback: Translations from the Irrational

    Wide-ranging discussion of culture, consciousness, and music from a unique artist's perspectiveFeedback is a wide-ranging meditation on music, sound, artificial intelligence, consciousness, contemporary culture and politics, and the life of the touring musician. Author Elliott Sharp is considered one of the central figures in...
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  • Feedback: Translations from the Irrational by Sharp, Elliott
    Elliott Sharp

    Feedback: Translations from the Irrational

    Wide-ranging discussion of culture, consciousness, and music from a unique artist's perspectiveFeedback is a wide-ranging meditation on music, sound, artificial intelligence, consciousness, contemporary culture and politics, and the life of the touring musician. Author Elliott Sharp is considered one of the central figures in...
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  • Red Dirt Unplugged: Singers, Songs and Stories Shining a Spotlight on Heartland Roots Music by Crutchmer, Josh
    Josh Crutchmer

    Red Dirt Unplugged: Singers, Songs and Stories Shining a Spotlight on Heartland Roots Music

    Red Dirt Unplugged is the view from the wings as the Red Dirt music scene reaches heights never-before thought possible. At the crossroads of country, roots rock, and Americana, artists in the scene are enjoying sustained worldwide attention at a large scale for the...
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  • Gradus ad Phlegethon by D. a. R. G.
    D. a. R. G.

    Gradus ad Phlegethon

    A sinister treatise on black metal featuring interviews with Rex Ebvleb of ABYSSVM/NIGROMANTE & Brett Stevens of DLA/DMUAuthor: D. a. R. G.ISBN-13: 9798224251933Publisher: Yperion PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/21/2024Pages: 124Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.29d
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  • On Record: Vol. 9 - 1992: Images, Interviews & Insights from the Year in Music by Brown, G.
    G. Brown

    On Record: Vol. 9 - 1992: Images, Interviews & Insights from the Year in Music

    The On Record series presents rare archival images and insightful interviews by long-time popular-music journalist and radio personality G. Brown. "It's always nice when the person interviewing me knows more about music than I do. Every time I've spoken to G. Brown over the...
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  • 21 Nights in Accra: Culture, Excursions and discussions in Africa's favorite city. by Hansen, Gabriel Myers
    Gabriel Myers Hansen

    21 Nights in Accra: Culture, Excursions and discussions in Africa's favorite city.

    Author: Gabriel Myers HansenISBN-10: 9988520425ISBN-13: 9789988520427Publisher: Gabriel Myers HansenLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/07/2025Pages: 202Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d
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  • I'll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan by Kwon, Giaae
    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.I'll...
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  • Music Making Community by Perman, Tony
    Tony Perman

    Music Making Community

    Making music offers enormous possibilities--and faces significant limitations--in its power to generate belonging and advance social justice. Tony Perman and Stefan Fiol edit essays focused on the forms of interplay between music-making and community-making as mutually creative processes. Contributors in the first section look...
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  • Tri-Axium Writings 2 by Braxton, Anthony
    Anthony Braxton

    Tri-Axium Writings 2

    Tri-Axium Writings is a series of three books on re-examining the composite reality of creative music and its related information continuum. Author Anthony Braxton believes that more than ever before there is a need for alternative viewpoints on this most important subject and that...
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  • Tri-Axium Writings 1 by Braxton, Anthony
    Anthony Braxton

    Tri-Axium Writings 1

    Tri-Axium Writings 1 is the first of three books on re-examining the composite reality of creative music and its related information continuum. Author Anthony Braxton believes that more than ever before there is a need for alternative viewpoints on this most important subject and...
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  • Tri-Axium Writings 3 by Braxton, Anthony
    Anthony Braxton

    Tri-Axium Writings 3

    Tri-Axium Writings is a series of three books on re-examining the composite reality of creative music and its related information continuum. Author Anthony Braxton believes that more than ever before there is a need for alternative viewpoints on this most important subject and that...
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  • Modern Clavichord Music by Knights, Francis
    Francis Knights

    Modern Clavichord Music

    Author: Francis KnightsISBN-10: 1914934938ISBN-13: 9781914934933Publisher: Peacock PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/16/2025Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.46d
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  • The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies by Dines, Mike
    Mike Dines

    The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies

    An extensive overview of popular music methodologies. The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies attempts a comprehensive overview of methodological approaches within the field of popular music studies. Alongside contributions from key thinkers already established in popular music studies, the strength of the collection...
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  • My Jams: Reflections on the Relationship Between Music and Religion by Pinn, Anthony B.
    Anthony B. Pinn

    My Jams: Reflections on the Relationship Between Music and Religion

    The intersection of religion and music offers opportunity for a profound exploration of meaning-making. Musical lyrics create a rich narrative that reflects not only personal experiences but also broader cultural, social, and spiritual realities. Over the years, Anthony Pinn has explored this intersection, shaped...
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  • Erik Satie Three Piece Suite by Penman, Ian
    Ian Penman

    Erik Satie Three Piece Suite

    A masterful study of the elusive French composer, on the centenary of his death. Composer, pianist, and writer Erik Satie was one of the great figures of Belle ?poque Paris. Known for his unvarying image of bowler hat, three-piece suit, and umbrella, Satie was...
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  • Spanish Punk: Screaming for Democracy in a Postdictatorial State by Di?guez, David Vila
    David Vila Di?guez

    Spanish Punk: Screaming for Democracy in a Postdictatorial State

    It's 1975. Spanish dictator Francisco Franco dies and Spain begins transitioning to a democratic state. Spaniards are faced with a titanic task: they need to design a new democratic state after an almost forty-year-old dictatorship. What should this new state look like? What would...
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  • It's All In The Lyrics: How Music Helped Me Heal and Find My Voice by Kessel, Tony
    Tony Kessel

    It's All In The Lyrics: How Music Helped Me Heal and Find My Voice

    HAVE YOU EVER FELT OVERWHELMED BY LIFE'S CHALLENGES, SEARCHING FOR SOMETHING TO ANCHOR YOU WHEN EVERYTHING FEELS OUT OF TUNE? Music isn't just sound-it's a lifeline that can offer hope, healing, and a path forward. In It's All In The Lyrics: How Music Helped...
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  • I Like People That Can't Sing: Paul Nelson Interviews Leonard Cohen & Lucinda Williams by Avery, Kevin
    Kevin Avery

    I Like People That Can't Sing: Paul Nelson Interviews Leonard Cohen & Lucinda Williams

    In 1991, legendary but down-and-out rock critic Paul Nelson landed his dream assignment: fly from New York to Los Angeles and separately interview two of the most distinguished popular music artists: Leonard Cohen and Lucinda Williams. He encounters them at a time in their...
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  • DNA #18: Channel Power by Diederichsen, Detlef
    Detlef Diederichsen

    DNA #18: Channel Power

    On the possibilities and limits of the means of production in music-making todayThis book explores the many channels through which music is recorded and disseminated--from recycling and processing systems to the endless stream of lip sync videos--tracking their power as the engines defining music...
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  • Quantum Listening by Oliveros, Pauline
    Pauline Oliveros

    Quantum Listening

    Author: Pauline OliverosISBN-10: 1739371755ISBN-13: 9781739371753Publisher: Spiral House EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/03/2024Pages: 72Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.12lbsSize: 6.25h x 4.38w x 0.75d
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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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