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  • Queen and Philosophy: Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind by Kemling, Jared
    Jared Kemling

    Queen and Philosophy: Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind

    Queen and Philosophy: Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind is a collection of cutting-edge philosophical essays on the rock group Queen, founded in 1970 and originally featuring lead vocalist Freddie Mercury. Queen's reputation and fan following continue to grow in the twenty-first century. These insightful...
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  • Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist by Ribot, Marc
    Marc Ribot

    Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist

    "A slim yet powerful book in which Marc Ribot blends bits of memoir with strange little fictions, many of which are based on his own life and career." --Wall Street JournalThroughout his genre-defying career as one of the most innovative musicians of our time,...
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  • Murder Ballads Old and New: A Dark and Bloody Record by Jones, Steven L.
    Steven L. Jones

    Murder Ballads Old and New: A Dark and Bloody Record

    Murder Ballads Old & New: A Dark and Bloody Record is an exploration of an age-old topic-- our human need to document the horrors of the world around us. The murder ballad, here expanded to include songs about traumatic loss in modern variants and...
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  • How to Become a Professional Violinist - Tips and Talks by Cremer, Oscar
    Oscar Cremer

    How to Become a Professional Violinist - Tips and Talks

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Oscar CremerISBN-10: 1447457943ISBN-13: 9781447457947Publisher: Braithwaite...
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  • Anatomy of 55 More Songs: The Oral History of Top Hits That Changed Rock, Pop and Soul by Myers, Marc
    Marc Myers

    Anatomy of 55 More Songs: The Oral History of Top Hits That Changed Rock, Pop and Soul

    Following his 2016 smash hit Anatomy of a Song, acclaimed musicjournalist Marc Myers collects fifty-five new oral histories oficonic songs from his popular Wall Street Journal column Songs that sell the most copies become hits, but some of those hits becomesomething more--iconic recordings that...
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  • Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007) by Ozzi, Dan
    Dan Ozzi

    Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007)

    NATIONAL BESTSELLERAN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR"Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well told...a worthy successor to its obvious inspiration, Michael Azerrad's 2001 examination of the '80s indie underground, Our Band Could Be Your Life."--New York Times Book ReviewA raucous history of punk,...
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  • Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020: A University of Illinois Press Anthology by Matheson, Laurie
    Laurie Matheson

    Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020: A University of Illinois Press Anthology

    This second volume of Music in Black American Life offers research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and Black Music Research Journal, and in two book series published by the University of Illinois Press: Music in American Life, and African...
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  • Music in Black American Life, 1600-1945: A University of Illinois Press Anthology by Matheson, Laurie
    Laurie Matheson

    Music in Black American Life, 1600-1945: A University of Illinois Press Anthology

    This first volume of Music in Black American Life collects research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and the Black Music Research Journal, and in the University of Illinois Press's acclaimed book series Music in American Life. In these selections,...
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  • The Rock Musician: 15 Years of the Interviews - The Best of Musician Magazine by Scherman, Tony
    Tony Scherman

    The Rock Musician: 15 Years of the Interviews - The Best of Musician Magazine

    Author: Tony SchermanISBN-10: 0312304617ISBN-13: 9780312304614Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PLLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/15/1994Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.16h x 5.92w x 0.68d
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  • The Podium Papers: A Full Frontal Look At The Man With His Back To The Audience by Kessler, Martin
    Martin Kessler

    The Podium Papers: A Full Frontal Look At The Man With His Back To The Audience

    "The Podium Papers" is an honest and entertaining dispatch from the front lines of one of the world's most interesting and misunderstood professions. Like Anthony Bourdain in his "Kitchen Confidential," Martin Kessler takes the reader through the swinging doors and into the real 'kitchen'...
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  • Techno Globalization Pandemic by Van Der Heide, Bart
    Bart Van Der Heide

    Techno Globalization Pandemic

    A critical anthology on techno music as a transformative political platformExamining techno music and its cultural life through the lens of current social issues, the essays in this publication argue that techno can serve as a platform for socio-critical discourse as well as an...
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  • Living Genres in Late Modernity: American Music of the Long 1970s by Kronengold, Charles
    Charles Kronengold

    Living Genres in Late Modernity: American Music of the Long 1970s

    Living Genres in Late Modernity rehears the American 1970s through the workings of its musical genres. Exploring stylistic developments from the late 1960s through the early 1980s, including soul, funk, disco, pop, the nocturne, and the concerto, Charles Kronengold treats genres as unstable constellations...
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  • Living Genres in Late Modernity: American Music of the Long 1970s by Kronengold, Charles
    Charles Kronengold

    Living Genres in Late Modernity: American Music of the Long 1970s

    Living Genres in Late Modernity rehears the American 1970s through the workings of its musical genres. Exploring stylistic developments from the late 1960s through the early 1980s, including soul, funk, disco, pop, the nocturne, and the concerto, Charles Kronengold treats genres as unstable constellations...
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  • Bruce Springsteen: All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track by Guesdon, Jean-Michel
    Jean-Michel Guesdon

    Bruce Springsteen: All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track

    A new, definitive look at one of music's greatest songbooks, by two expert authors. The latest in the bestselling All the Songs series, Bruce Springsteen: All the Songs is the most in-depth exploration of The Boss's music ever written. From Greetings from Asbury Park,...
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  • Forbidden Beat: Perspectives on Punk Drumming by Lauden, S. W.
    S. W. Lauden

    Forbidden Beat: Perspectives on Punk Drumming

    Whether they're self-taught bashers or technical wizards, drummers are the thrashing, crashing heart of our favorite punk bands. In Forbidden Beat, some of today's most respected writers and musicians explore the history of punk percussion with personal essays, interviews and lists featuring their favorite...
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  • Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995-2020 by Licht, Alan
    Alan Licht

    Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995-2020

    Conversations with the avant-garde's leading lights--from Suicide to Anohni--by experimental music's go-to interviewer, guitarist and sound artist Alan LichtFor the past 30 years, Alan Licht has been a performer, programmer and chronicler of New York's art and music scenes. His dry wit, deep erudition...
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  • The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic: Revised and Expanded Edition by Hopper, Jessica
    Jessica Hopper

    The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic: Revised and Expanded Edition

    "Jessica Hopper's criticism is a trenchant and necessary counterpoint not just on music, but on our culture at large." --Annie Clark, St. VincentAn acclaimed, career-spanning collection from a fiercely feminist and revered contemporary rock critic, reissued with new material Throughout her career, spanning more...
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  • The Rolling Stones: Unzipped by The Rolling Stones
    The Rolling Stones

    The Rolling Stones: Unzipped

    For almost 60 years the Rolling Stones have helped shape popular culture around the world. Unzipped traces their impact and influence on rock music, art, design, fashion, photography, and filmmaking. Packed with evocative archive photos, artworks, outtakes, and memorabilia, this stunning book immerses readers...
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  • Looking at Music: DNA #8 by Brion, Lina
    Lina Brion

    Looking at Music: DNA #8

    On the implications of computer-generated music for live performance In the performance of computer-generated music, a tangibly causal relationship between action and sound has been cut. Looking at Music asks: how important is live action to the future of musical performance?Author: Lina BrionISBN-10: 3959054920ISBN-13:...
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  • Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007) by Ozzi, Dan
    Dan Ozzi

    Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007)

    THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER, NOW FEATURING NEW INTERVIEWS WITH DASHBOAD CONFESSIONAL, CURSIVE, LESS THAN JAKE, AND MORE."Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well told...a worthy successor to its obvious inspiration, Michael Azerrad's 2001 examination of the '80s indie underground, 'Our Band Could Be Your Life.'"--New...
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  • Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist by Ribot, Marc
    Marc Ribot

    Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist

    "A slim yet powerful book in which Marc Ribot blends bits of memoir with strange little fictions, many of which are based on his own life and career." --Wall Street Journal "Ribot . . . produced a book that is much like his musical...
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  • What's Good: Notes on Rap and Language by Levin Becker, Daniel
    Daniel Levin Becker

    What's Good: Notes on Rap and Language

    A NEW YORKER & GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA love letter to the verbal artistry of hip-hop, What's Good is a work of passionate lyrical analysis"What's Good is, among a great many other things, a byproduct of joyful obsession and immersion...
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  • Ten Masterpieces of Music by Sachs, Harvey
    Harvey Sachs

    Ten Masterpieces of Music

    In this penetrating volume, Harvey Sachs, acclaimed biographer and historian of classical music, takes readers into the hearts of ten extraordinary works of classical music in ten different genres, showing both the curious novice and the seasoned listener how to recognize, appreciate, and engage...
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  • The Elizabeth Cronin, Irish Traditional Singer: The Complete Song Collection by Ó. Crónín, Dáibhí
    Dáibhí Ó. Crónín

    The Elizabeth Cronin, Irish Traditional Singer: The Complete Song Collection

    Elizabeth (Bess) Cronin, 'The Queen of Irish Song', as S amus Ennis called her, is probably the best-known Irish female traditional singer of our time. Her reputation was such that collectors came from far and near to hear and record her singing. This publication...
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  • Disturbing the Universe: Wagner's Musikdrama by Vernon, David
    David Vernon

    Disturbing the Universe: Wagner's Musikdrama

    'Wagner's art refuses to stand still, declines to play by the rules and will not observe any of the social graces'What is it that makes Wagner's art so endlessly powerful? So influential, seductive and repellent? So simultaneously creative and destructive? And why does it...
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  • Arcana X: Musicians on Music by Zorn, John
    John Zorn

    Arcana X: Musicians on Music

    The final installment of John Zorn's major series of new music theory, with Oren Ambarchi, Peter Blegvad, Annea Lockwood, Henry Threadgill and many moreInitiated in 1997 and now in its tenth and final installment, John Zorn's acclaimed Arcana series is a major source of...
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  • Long Players: Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them by Gatti, Tom
    Tom Gatti

    Long Players: Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them

    Fifty great writers reflect on the albums that shaped them in this captivating collection curated by the New Statesman's Tom Gatti. Our favorite albums are our most faithful companions: we listen to them hundreds of times over decades, we know them far better than...
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  • Switched on Pop: How Popular Music Works, and Why It Matters by Sloan, Nate
    Nate Sloan

    Switched on Pop: How Popular Music Works, and Why It Matters

    Pop music surrounds us - in our cars, over supermarket speakers, even when we are laid out at the dentist - but how often do we really hear what's playing? Switched on Pop is the book based on the eponymous podcast that has been...
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  • Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing by Guralnick, Peter
    Peter Guralnick

    Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing

    By the bestselling author of Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll and Last Train the Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, this dazzling new book of profiles is a culmination of Peter Guralnick's remarkable work, which from the start has encompassed...
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  • The Cowboy's Dreams of Home: Blank Forms 7 by Kumpf, Lawrence
    Lawrence Kumpf

    The Cowboy's Dreams of Home: Blank Forms 7

    Writings and interviews engaging the artists and themes from Blank Forms' public programming, from Thulani Davis to Charles CurtisThis iteration privileges new texts produced for the publication. These include an interview with the idiosyncratic Texan singer-songwriter and visual artist Terry Allen, conducted by curator...
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  • Through the Prism: Untold Rock Stories from the Hipgnosis Archive by Powell, Aubrey
    Aubrey Powell

    Through the Prism: Untold Rock Stories from the Hipgnosis Archive

    Founded in 1967 by Aubrey "Po" Powell, Storm Thorgerson, and Peter Christopherson, graphic design firm Hipgnosis gained legendary status by transforming the look of album art through their designs for AC/DC, Black Sabbath, the Police, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney, Syd Barrett,...
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  • Nik Bärtsch: Listening: Music - Movement - Mind by Bärtsch, Nik
    Nik B舐tsch

    Nik B舐tsch: Listening: Music - Movement - Mind

    This Swiss composer's conceptual and practical guide to the mind/body overlap in music and martial artsOver the past 20 years, Swiss musician and composer Nik B舐tsch (born 1971) has performed around the world and released a number of albums with ECM Records. During this...
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  • Guitar Talk: Conversations with Visionary Players by Harrison, Joel
    Joel Harrison

    Guitar Talk: Conversations with Visionary Players

    Secrets of master guitarists, revealed in conversation. Guitar Talk offers interviews with many of the most creative guitarists of our time. This new book presents these conversations, between Joel Harrison and Nels Cline, Pat Metheny, Fred Frith, Bill Frisell, Julian Lage, Elliott Sharp, Michael...
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  • Sounding Things Out: A Journey Through Music and Sound Art by Venrooy, Esther
    Esther Venrooy

    Sounding Things Out: A Journey Through Music and Sound Art

    An idiosyncratic and affordable cross-genre history of sound art, from Alexander von Humboldt to liane RadigueIn Sounding Things Out, Dutch composer and sound artist Esther Venrooy (born 1974) seeks to enlarge and diversify the narrative on sound art by highlighting important pioneers in the...
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  • You've got so many machines, Richard!: an anthology of Aphex Twin poetry by Dastidar, Rishi
    Rishi Dastidar

    You've got so many machines, Richard!: an anthology of Aphex Twin poetry

    How do you explain a mystery? This opaque mythology is something that pervades a lot of the poems here, inspired by the sideways, the askew, the fables of Aphex Twin. This isn't intended to be a discovery of who Aphex is, nor necessarily what...
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  • The Beatles: Album by Album: The Band and Their Music by Insiders, Experts & Eyewitnesses by Southall, Brian
    Brian Southall

    The Beatles: Album by Album: The Band and Their Music by Insiders, Experts & Eyewitnesses

    A team of experts write about each era of the band's existence, examining what they were doing for each of their original 12 UK-release albums.This informative work tells the story of the famous Liverpool musicians, from the band's formative days in Hamburg and Liverpool...
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  • You've Never Heard Your Favorite Song: 100 Deep Cuts to Make Your World Sound Better by Doucet, Matthew
    Matthew Doucet

    You've Never Heard Your Favorite Song: 100 Deep Cuts to Make Your World Sound Better

    "Doucet takes a refreshingly genre-free approach, careening from heady dub reggae to pastoral folk-rock, from unreal disco workouts to mind-bending electronica. His enthusiasm is such that you'll be stopping on every page to track down the songs being discussed." -- Aquarium DrunkardLet go of...
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  • The Last Party by Harris, John
    John Harris

    The Last Party: Britpop, Blair and the Demise of English Rock

    'The loveliest - and certainly the most human - book about pop music I've ever read ... A delightful and humane soap opera, a real page-turner, full of rounded and entirely recognisable characters.'Jon Ronson, Daily TelegraphTHE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF BRITPOP - BLUR, OASIS, ELASTICA,...
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  • Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé by Stanley, Bob
    Bob Stanley

    Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé

    A monumental work of musical history, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! traces the story of pop music through songs, bands, musical scenes, and styles from Bill Haley and the Comets' "Rock around the Clock" (1954) to Beyoncé's first megahit, "Crazy in Love" (2003). Bob Stanley--himself a...
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  • But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz by Dyer, Geoff
    Geoff Dyer

    But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz

    "May be the best book ever written about jazz."--David Thomson, Los Angeles Times In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Drawing on photos, anecdotes, and, most important, the way he hears the music,...
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  • Raise the Song: A Classical Christian Guide to Music Education by Richey, Jarrod
    Jarrod Richey

    Raise the Song: A Classical Christian Guide to Music Education

    With technology, music has never been more constant. It is heard on phones and in waiting rooms, in coffee shops and on television. Despite such exposure, the number of people able to make music for themselves is dwindling. Classical Christian schools have a unique...
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  • Manfred Baumann: Face to Face by Baumann, Manfred
    Manfred Baumann

    Manfred Baumann: Face to Face

    Three decades of celebrity portraiture from an acclaimed master of the genreThe celebrity portraits of Austrian photographer Manfred Baumann (born 1968) capture distinct personalities while also framing them as special--larger than life. Through the lens of his Leica, Baumann has photographed countless celebrities of...
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  • Go Further: More Literary Appreciations of Power Pop by Myers, Paul
    Paul Myers

    Go Further: More Literary Appreciations of Power Pop

    Fun, bright, and playful, Power Pop is a sometimes adored, sometimes maligned, often misunderstood genre of music. From its heyday in the 70 s and 80 s to its resurgence in the 90 s and 00 s, Power Pop has meant many things to...
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  • Sweet Dreams: The Story of the New Romantics by Jones, Dylan
    Dylan Jones

    Sweet Dreams: The Story of the New Romantics

    The definitive oral history of the New Romantics. Sweet Dreams charts the British cultural explosion that happened in the ten years from 1975-1985 -- the rise of the New Romantics. Growing out of the remnants of the post-punk period, the New Romantics introduced club...
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  • Sane Singing: A Guide to Vocal Progress by Lee, D. Brian
    D. Brian Lee

    Sane Singing: A Guide to Vocal Progress

    If you are a singer or voice teacher looking for training options, you will soon discover that there are multitudes of people, products, and ideas out there claiming to be able to help you. How do you sort it out? How can you advocate...
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  • Evening in the Palace of Reason by Gaines, James
    James Gaines

    Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment

    In one corner, a godless young warrior, Voltaire's heralded 'philosopher-king', the It Boy of the Enlightenment. In the other, a devout if bad-tempered old composer of 'outdated' music, a scorned genius in his last years. The sparks from their brief conflict illuminate a turbulent...
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  • This Woman's Work: Essays on Music by Gordon, Kim
    Kim Gordon

    This Woman's Work: Essays on Music

    Edited by iconic musician Kim Gordon and esteemed writer Sin饌d Gleeson, this powerful collection of award-winning female creators shares their writing about the female artists that matter most to them. This book is for and about the women who kicked in doors, as pioneers...
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  • Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing by Guralnick, Peter
    Peter Guralnick

    Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing

    By the bestselling author of Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll and Last Train the Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, this dazzling new book of profiles is a culmination of Peter Guralnick's remarkable work, which from the start has encompassed...
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  • Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More by Hough, Stephen
    Stephen Hough

    Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More

    A collection of essays on music and life by the famed classical pianist and composer Stephen Hough is one of the world's leading pianists, winning global acclaim and numerous awards, both for his concerts and his recordings. He is also a writer, composer, and...
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  • Black Case Volume I & II: Return from Exile by Edwards, Brent Hayes
    Brent Hayes Edwards

    Black Case Volume I & II: Return from Exile

    In 1977, Art Ensemble of Chicago Publishing Co. published Jarman's Black Case, a collection of writing conceived across America and Europe between 1960 and 1975. Comprised largely of Jarman's flowing, fiery free verse--influenced by Amus Mor, Henry Dumas, Thulani Davis, and Amiri Baraka--the book...
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