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Author:John Vibes
Paper Squares and Purple Stars: My Life As A Rave Outlaw
The year was 2007, I had just turned 21, and I was struggling to find my place in a world that I didn't understand. I spent most of my life as an outcast because I refused to conform with the expectations of mainstream society,...- $20.00
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Author:Marion Kant
The Cambridge Companion to Ballet
Ballet is a paradox: much loved but little studied. It is a beautiful fairy tale; detached from its origins and unrelated to the men and women who created it. Yet ballet has a history, little known and rarely presented. These great works have dark...- $34.99
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Author:Raul A. Fernandez
From Afro-Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz: Volume 10
This book explores the complexity of Cuban dance music and the webs that connect it, musically and historically, to other Caribbean music, to salsa, and to Latin Jazz. Establishing a scholarly foundation for the study of this music, Raul A. Fernandez introduces a set...- $34.95
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Author:Dominic Symonds
Gestures of Music Theater: The Performativity of Song and Dance
Gestures of Music Theater: The Performativity of Song and Dance offers new, cutting-edge essays focusing on song and dance as performative gestures that not only entertain but also act on audiences and performers. The chapters range across musical theater, opera, theater, and other artistic...- $63.00
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Author:Annie Zaleski
Duran Duran's Rio, Limited Edition: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Classic Album
This limited printing, hardcover 40th anniversary edition includes: -an exclusive new interview with lead singer Simon Le Bon -a Rio timeline-a newly designed book cover by Rio album sleeve designer, Malcolm Garrette-vintage Duran Duran photos and ads -and much more... In the '80s, the...- $19.95
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Author:John Leo Gillen
Temporary Pleasure: Nightclub Architecture, Design and Culture from the 1960s to Today
This unique, visually exciting look at the evolution of nightclubs across America and Europe since the 1960s reveals an unwavering truth about club culture--the one constant is change. Opening with the psychedelic haunts of the 1960s New York pop art scene and closing more...- $50.00
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Author:Dj Disciple
The Beat, the Scene, the Sound: A Dj's Journey Through the Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of House Music in New York City
A thrilling and tumultuous, behind-the-scenes account of house music in NYC. The Beat, the Scene, the Sound follows DJ Disciple and his behind-the-scenes account of how DJs, promoters, fans, and others transformed house music from a DIY project into an international sensation--dive into the...- $32.00
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Author:Tuna Tetik
Marvelous Rise of Superheroes in Cinema: Evolution of the Genre from Sequels to Universes
Marvelous Rise of Superheroes in Cinema: Evolution of the Genre from Sequels to Universes addresses the superhero movie genre's transformation between 1978 and 2019. To emphasize andillustrate the conceptual and thematic transformation, the main conventions of the genre arescanned through several periods, focusing on...- $59.95
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Author:Luke Bainbridge
Acid House: The True Story
Acid house was a truly democratic movement transcending geography, class, race and culture. It made soul mates out of strangers from all walks of life, from all races and of all sexual orientations. A quarter of a century on, the impact of Acid House...- $24.95
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Author:Falu Bakrania
Bhangra and Asian Underground: South Asian Music and the Politics of Belonging in Britain
Asian Underground music--a fusion of South Asian genres with western breakbeats created for the dance club scene by DJs and musicians of Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi descent--went mainstream in the U.K. in the late 1990s. Its success was unprecedented: British bhangra, a blend of...- $99.95
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Author:Brynn Shiovitz
Behind the Screen: Tap Dance, Race, and Invisibility During Hollywood's Golden Age
Author: Brynn ShiovitzISBN-10: 0197553109ISBN-13: 9780197553107Publisher: Oxford University Press, USALanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2023Pages: 392Format: Paperback- $39.95
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Author:Rick Snoman
Dance Music Manual
Dance Music Manual, aimed at the novice and seasoned professional alike, takes the reader through the software and hardware needed to create original, captivating, and professional sounding music. Key features of Dance Music Manual include: How to create compelling, professional-sounding original or remixed dance...- $170.00
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Author:Davinia Caddy
Musicology and Dance: Historical and Critical Perspectives
Explores music, gesture and embodiment through the work of composers such as Purcell, Bach, Haydn, Wagner, Debussy, and Mahler.Author: Davinia CaddyISBN-10: 1108469957ISBN-13: 9781108469951Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/23/2022Pages: 326Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.68d- $29.99
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Author:Steve Nakamura
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Artworks 2011-2016
Now that the 5-year mark has been reached since Kyary Pamyu Pamyu made a sensational debut in 2011. This condensed collection is a visual chronicle of her artworks during the past five years, with full of her kawaii (cute in Japanese) CD jacket designs....- $47.00
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Author:Vince Aletti
The Disco Files 1973-78: New York's Underground, Week by Week
A new edition of the essential chronicle of disco cultureIn 1973, Vince Aletti became the first person to write about the emerging disco scene. His engagement with disco nightlife continued throughout the decade as he wrote his weekly column for Record World magazine, which...- $35.00
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Author:John Davis
Liberté Egalité Beyoncé: Empowering Quotes and Wisdom from Our Fierce and Flawless Queen
A beautifully illustrated book featuring quotes and general wisdom from Queen Bey. Who runs the world? Beyonc runs the world. With more than 100 million solo records sold worldwide, Beyonc is one of the top selling music artists in history. She has 22 Grammy...- $14.95
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Author:Glenn Shorrock
Now Where Was I?: My Career-From the Twilights, Axiom & the Little River Band and Back Again
Glenn Shorrock is a music icon. With a career spanning more than fifty years, he is one of the elder statesmen of Australian contemporary show business. Now, Where Was I? is Glenn's story in his own words. After emigrating with his family to Australia...- $24.99
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Author:Betty Bang Mather
Dance Rhythms of the French Baroque: A Handbook for Performance
Dance Music of the French Baroque brings together information on rhythm from the interrelated fields of music, dance, poetry, rhetoric, and philosophy. Part I is devoted to the various factors involved in dance rhythms, including tempos, rhythmic feet, dance steps, declamation of lyrics, instrumental...- $49.95
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Author:Gary Lee Heins
Have Harmony with Women--Heinsian Western Swing
Dance-Teaching based on fine Horse-Training Methods. Most cowboys and wranglers know where they stand with their horse; but, without Heinsian WESTERN SWING, satifying their woman on the dance floor tends to be an afterthought. In this manual: western swing galore, plus two-step, one-step, waltz,...- $21.00
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Author:Burt Feintuch
Creole Soul: Zydeco Lives
Creole Soul: Zydeco Lives is an exquisitely photographed volume of interviews with contemporary zydeco musicians. Featuring the voices of zydeco's venerable senior generation and its current agents of change, this book celebrates a musical world full of passion, energy, cowboy hats and boots, banging...- $40.00
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Author:Cheri Percy
Esg's Come Away with Esg
ESG were one of the first bands to sign to British indie label Factory Records, working with famed producer Martin Hannett on their early EPs. The band's signature guitar sound from iconic single 'UFO' has been sampled in hundreds of hip hop records, and...- $14.95
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Author:Nelle Williamson
Michael Jackson: The Inspirational Life Story of Michael Jackson (The Truth Behind the King of Pop's Adventurous Life Journey)
You're about to discover priceless information about the life of michael jackson, the king of pop! He received that prestigious title because of the incredible artist he was and the success that he achieved during his adventurous life.This book takes you on a breath-taking...- $19.95
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Author:Larissa Wodtke
Dance-Punk
Beginning in the late 1970s as an offshoot of disco and punk, dance-punk is difficult to define. Also sometimes referred to as disco-punk and funk-punk, it skirts, overlaps, and blurs into other genres including post-punk, post-disco, new wave, mutant disco, and synthpop. This book...- $19.95
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Author:Emília Simão
Exploring Psychedelic Trance and Electronic Dance Music in Modern Culture
The popularization and cult-like following of electronic music has provoked new relations between men and machines, art and technology, and modern shamans and disc jockeys. New technologies and multimedia tools have awakened neo-ritual practices through the emergence of Psychedelic Trance parties, evoking tribal experiences...- $185.00
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Author:Mixmag
Destination Dancefloor: A Global Atlas of Dance Music and Club Culture from London to Tokyo, Chicago to
A global celebration of dance music, taking in the cities responsible for the best DJs, records, and clubs Travel the world exploring the cities that have influenced dance music and DJ culture and discovering the cutting-edge scenes taking club culture in new directions. Featuring...- $30.00
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Author:Sheenagh Pietrobruno
Salsa and Its Transnational Moves
Salsa and Its Transnational Moves presents a brilliant critical analysis of salsa dancing in a major North American city. Drawing from a vast number of disciplines, author Sheenagh Pietrobruno focuses on the tension between the status of dance as a bodily expression of identity...- $53.99
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Author:Vannesa Chappa
Edm E: Electronic Dance Music Encylopedia
By the early 2010s the term "electronic dance music" and the initialism "EDM" was being pushed by the U.S. music industry and music press in what was largely an effort to re-brand U.S. rave culture.Author: Vannesa ChappaISBN-10: 1522754229ISBN-13: 9781522754220Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished:...- $36.00
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Author:Bill Brewster
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life was the first comprehensive history of the disc jockey, a figure who has become a powerful force shaping the music industry--and since its original publication, the book has become a cult classic. Now, with five new chapters...- $18.00
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Author:Vivian Persis Dewey
Tips To Dancers: Good Manners For Ballroom And Dance Hall (1918)
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...- $12.76
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Baakisimba: Gender in the Music and Dance of the Baganda People of Uganda
Originally a royal court dance, baakisimba asserted the authority of the king as the head of Baganda society. After the abolition of kingship in 1967, baakisimba dance began to be performed in other contexts, with women sometimes playing the accompanying drums-traditionally a man's role-and...- $170.00
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Author:Helen Frost
The Clog Dance Book (1921)
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...- $12.76
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Author:Elizabeth Kendall
Balanchine & the Lost Muse: Revolution & the Making of a Choreographer
Here is the first dual biography of the early lives of two key figures in Russian ballet: famed choreographer George Balanchine and his close childhood friend and extraordinary ballerina Liidia (Lidochka) Ivanova. Tracing the lives and friendship of these two dancers from years just...- $35.00
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Author:Hannah Schwadron
The Case of the Sexy Jewess: Dance, Gender and Jewish Joke-Work in Us Pop Culture
Amidst the growing forums of kinky Jews, orthodox drag queens, and Jewish geisha girls, we find today's sexy Jewess in a host of reflexive plays with sexed-up self-display. A social phantasm with real legs, she moves boldly between neo-burlesque striptease, comedy television, ballet movies,...- $45.95
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Author:Noel Hankin
After Dark: Birth of the Disco Dance Party
Mid-town Buppies, big-time mobsters, fabulous dancing queens, and unscrupulous promoters all come together in After Dark, a first-hand account of the birth and growth of the disco movement in the 1970s. Disco music has earned an unflattering reputation for being garish and flashy; however,...- $14.99
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Author:Ben Cardew
Daft Punk's Discovery: The Future Unfurled
Daft Punk's Discovery is a record that looked into the future and liked what it saw; an album that predicted the electronic music explosion, YouTube and the end of privacy, while dragging soft rock back into vogue. Discovery was not only one of the...- $20.00
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Author:Annie Zaleski
Duran Duran's Rio
In the '80s, the Birmingham, England, band Duran Duran became closely associated with new wave, an idiosyncratic genre that dominated the decade's music and culture. No album represented this rip-it-up-and-start-again movement better than the act's breakthrough 1982 LP, Rio. A cohesive album with a...- $14.95
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Author:Oliver Tree
Oliver Tree Vs Little Ricky Alien Boys
Death-defying scooter stunts, Ukrainian tanks, sharks, monster trucks... these are just some of the indignities facing Oliver Tree as he is thrown into the meat grinder of the music industry to promote his debut retirement album "Ugly is Beautiful". Denied his chosen herbal medicine...- $19.99
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Author:Noel Hankin
After Dark: Birth of the Disco Dance Party
Mid-town Buppies, big-time mobsters, fabulous dancing queens, and unscrupulous promoters all come together in After Dark, a first-hand account of the birth and growth of the disco movement in the 1970s. Disco music has earned an unflattering reputation for being garish and flashy; however,...- $24.99
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Author:Disco Patrick
Disco: An Encyclopedic Guide to the Cover Art of Disco Records
An encyclopedic guide to the cover art of discoThis large-format deluxe hardback book features the amazing artwork of thousands of disco record cover designs from the 1970s up to the mid-1980s. Together, the record cover designs gathered here create a unique visual history of...- $19.95
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Author:Eve Babitz
Two by Two: Tango, Two-Step, and the L.A. Night
Author: Eve BabitzISBN-10: 1501111450ISBN-13: 9781501111457Publisher: Simon & SchusterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/13/2014Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.70d- $14.99
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Author:Alice Echols
Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture
In the 1970s, as the disco tsunami engulfed America, the question, Do you wanna dance? became divisive, even explosive. What about this music made it such hot stuff? In her incisive history, Alice Echols reveals the ways in which disco transformed popular music, propelling...- $18.95
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Author:Erica Buurman
The Viennese Ballroom in the Age of Beethoven
Reveals how the culture and repertoire of the early Viennese ballroom permeated and intersected with other areas of musical life.Author: Erica BuurmanISBN-10: 1108495850ISBN-13: 9781108495851Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/02/2021Pages: 300Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.50dReview Citation(s): Choice 11/01/2022- $99.99
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Author:Dave Thompson
I Feel Love: Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and How They Reinvented Music
When it comes to earthshaking songs-the ones that signal a tectonic shift in the current musical landscape-there is "Johnny B. Goode" . . . there is "Good Vibrations" . . . and there is "I Feel Love." A disco touchstone recorded by Donna Summer...- $27.95
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Author:Helen Brennan
The Story of Irish Dance
From early accounts of dance customs in medieval Ireland to the present, Helen Brennan offers an authoritative look at the evolution of Irish dance. Every type of dance from social to traditional to clergy is included. Brennan takes care to explain the different styles...- $21.95
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Author:Ben Murphy
Renegade Snares: The Resistance and Resilience of Drum & Bass
Renegade Snares is the definitive book on drum & bass music. Pieced together using original interviews conducted with all the scene's main players, it traces the history of jungle/drum & bass from its early roots in sound system culture and rave music right through...- $24.95
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Author:David Blot
The Song of the Machine: From Disco to Djs to Techno, a Graphic Novel of Electronic Music
A pulsating graphic novel on the epic history of electronic music, from the heyday of disco in the 1970s to the rave culture of the 1990s and beyond. With a foreword from house music legends Daft Punk, The Song of the Machine is a...- $24.99
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Author:Janet Borgerson
Designed for Dancing: How Midcentury Records Taught America to Dance
When Americans mamboed in the kitchen, waltzed in the living room, polkaed in the pavilion, and tangoed at the club; with glorious, full-color record cover art. In midcentury America, eager dancers mamboed in the kitchen, waltzed in the living room, Watusied at the nightclub,...- $39.95
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Author:Tommy Swindali
Music Production: The Advanced Guide On How to Produce for Music Producers
Learn to Produce Music Like a Pro and Take Your Music To a Whole New LevelDo you love producing music? Do you know what it takes to go from being a bedroom producer to a successful hit maker? If you believe you have what...- $19.99
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Author:Ann Cooper Albright
How to Land: Finding Ground in an Unstable World
How to Land: Finding Ground in an Unstable World foregrounds the importance of embodiment as a means of surviving the disorientation of our twenty-first century world. Linking somatics and politics, author Ann Cooper Albright argues that a renewed attention to gravity as both a...- $42.95
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Author:Michaelangelo Matos
The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America
Joining the ranks of Please Kill Me and Can't Stop Won't Stop comes this definitive chronicle of one of the hottest trends in popular culture--electronic dance music--from the noted authority covering the scene.It is the sound of the millennial generation, the music "defining youth...- $15.99
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