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  • Making New Zealand's Pop Renaissance: State, Markets, Musicians by Scott, Michael
    Michael Scott

    Making New Zealand's Pop Renaissance: State, Markets, Musicians

    Michael Scott argues that New Zealand's pop music renaissance of the early 2000s was supported by state policies. He shows how the state built market opportunities for popular musicians through public-private partnerships and organisational affinity with existing music industry institutions. New Zealand offers an...
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  • Bright Lights Dark Shadows: The Definitive Biography of Abba by Palm, Carl Magnus
    Carl Magnus Palm

    Bright Lights Dark Shadows: The Definitive Biography of Abba

    The definitive biography of pop sensations ABBA, revised and fully updated.Exploding on to the international music scene after winning Eurovision with 'Waterloo' in 1974, Abba have since become one of the most famous pop groups in the world. Bright Lights Dark Shadows is the...
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  • Taylor Swift by the Book: The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets by Feder, Rachel
    Rachel Feder

    Taylor Swift by the Book: The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets

    From the childhood nostalgia of Peter Pan in Speak Now to the haunted halls of Rebecca in Evermore, Taylor Swift's lyrics are packed with literary connections. Make sure you're catching them all with this expert guide to the novels, poems, and plays that influenced...
    $39.95
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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...
    $38.00
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  • San Francisco and the Long 60s by Hill, Sarah
    Sarah Hill

    San Francisco and the Long 60s

    San Francisco and the Long 60s tells the fascinating story of the legacy of popular music in San Francisco between the years 1965-69. It is also a chronicle of the impact this brief cultural flowering has continued to have in the city - and...
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  • Taylor Swift Coloring & Activity Book: Tour Edition by Editors of Thunder Bay Press
    Editors of Thunder Bay Press

    Taylor Swift Coloring & Activity Book: Tour Edition

    Swifties everywhere will enjoy hours of coloring and other fun activities in this book packed full of dynamic Eras Tour scenes featuring their favorite musician! Experience Taylor Swift's record-breaking Eras Tour by coloring in 36 inspiring illustrations in this coloring and activity book packed...
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  • Dub in Babylon: Understanding the Evolution and Significance of Dub Reggae in Jamaica and Britain from King Tubby to Post-Punk by Partridge, Christopher
    Christopher Partridge

    Dub in Babylon: Understanding the Evolution and Significance of Dub Reggae in Jamaica and Britain from King Tubby to Post-Punk

    Dub reggae and the techniques associated with it have, since the late-1980s, been used widely by producers of dance and ambient music. However, the term was originally applied to a remixing technique pioneered in Jamaica as far back as 1967. Recording engineers produced reggae...
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  • Hip Hop Harem: Women, Rap and Representation in the Middle East by Williams, Angela S.
    Angela S. Williams

    Hip Hop Harem: Women, Rap and Representation in the Middle East

    Hip Hop Harem is the first book solely dedicated to female rap artists in the Middle East and North Africa region. Through the lens of hip hop feminism, Angela Williams seeks to express how the artists' work affects female audience members who relate to...
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  • I Got You Babe: A Celebration of Cher by Zaleski, Annie
    Annie Zaleski

    I Got You Babe: A Celebration of Cher

    Author: Annie ZaleskiISBN-10: 0762489804ISBN-13: 9780762489800Publisher: Running Press AdultLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2025Pages: 224Format: Hardcover
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  • Serge Gainsbourg: An International Perspective by Julien, Olivier
    Olivier Julien

    Serge Gainsbourg: An International Perspective

    Serge Gainsbourg is arguably the Francophone songwriter whose contribution to the international appeal of French popular music has been the most significant in the post-war era. Sampled by Beck, De La Soul, Massive Attack and Fatboy Slim, remixed by Howie B. and David Holmes,...
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  • Taylor Swift and the Philosophy of Re-Recording: The Art of Taylor's Versions by Polite, Brandon
    Brandon Polite

    Taylor Swift and the Philosophy of Re-Recording: The Art of Taylor's Versions

    A lively and thorough exploration of the aesthetic, metaphysical, ethical, political, and legal implications of Taylor Swift's ongoing project of re-recording her first six studio albums. When Taylor Swift's record label was sold in 2019, the six studio albums she recorded for them came...
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  • The Practice of Popular Music: Understanding Harmony, Rhythm, Melody, and Form in Commercial Songwriting by de Clercq, Trevor
    Trevor de Clercq

    The Practice of Popular Music: Understanding Harmony, Rhythm, Melody, and Form in Commercial Songwriting

    The Practice of Popular Music is a music theory and musicianship textbook devoted to explaining the organization of contemporary popular music styles such as pop, rock, R&B, rap, and country. Rooted in recent research showing that the structure of popular music differs from classical...
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  • Sonobeat Records: Pioneering the Austin Sound in the '60s by Stein, Ricky
    Ricky Stein

    Sonobeat Records: Pioneering the Austin Sound in the '60s

    The music scene in Austin is known the world over, but it can place a considerable portion of its roots in a little-known but prolific indie label: Sonobeat Records. A small, independent label founded by father-and-son duo Bill Josey Sr. and Bill Josey Jr.,...
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  • B-Sides, Undercurrents and Overtones: Peripheries to Popular in Music, 1960 to the Present by Plasketes, George
    George Plasketes

    B-Sides, Undercurrents and Overtones: Peripheries to Popular in Music, 1960 to the Present

    There are undercurrents and peripheral taste preferences that are a defining part of our individual and collective cultural experience. Music is no exception. George Plasketes adapts the iconic "A-side/B-side" dichotomy from the 45 r.p.m. for use as a unique conceptual, critical, historical, and cultural...
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  • Practice Planner for Vocalists & Vocal Teachers: J.R. Vocal Coaching by Robinson, Juanita
    Juanita Robinson

    Practice Planner for Vocalists & Vocal Teachers: J.R. Vocal Coaching

    Have you ever sat down to practice and wondered what you were supposed to actually work on?It's no secret that in order to improve as a vocalist, a singer has to practice.The J.R. Vocal Coaching Practice Planner is a way for voice teachers to...
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  • Conversations with Greil Marcus by Bonomo, Joe
    Joe Bonomo

    Conversations with Greil Marcus

    Greil Marcus once said to an interviewer, "There is an infinite amount of meaning about anything, and I free associate." For more than four decades, Marcus has explored the connections among figures, sounds, and events in culture, relating unrelated points of departure, mapping alternate...
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  • Made in Nuyorico: Fania Records, Latin Music, and Salsa's Nuyorican Meanings by Negr?n, Marisol
    Marisol Negr?n

    Made in Nuyorico: Fania Records, Latin Music, and Salsa's Nuyorican Meanings

    In Made in NuYoRico, Marisol Negr?n tells the cultural history of salsa, tracing the music's Nuyorican meanings over a fifty-year period that begins with the establishment of Fania Records in 1964 and how it capitalized on salsa's Nuyorican imaginary to cultivate a global audience....
    $109.95
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  • My Friend Michael: An Ordinary Friendship with an Extraordinary Man by Cascio, Frank
    Frank Cascio

    My Friend Michael: An Ordinary Friendship with an Extraordinary Man

    Frank Cascio was a close friend of tragic superstar Michael Jackson for more than twenty-five years. In My Friend Michael, Cascio offers a deeply personal, behind-the-scenes look at the Michael Jackson he knew. Filled with never-before-told stories and intimate details, My Friend Michael is...
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  • Brain Games - Puzzles and Quizzes: Facts and Info about Taylor Swift by Publications International Ltd
    Publications International Ltd

    Brain Games - Puzzles and Quizzes: Facts and Info about Taylor Swift

    Celebrate every word, every album, and all those amazing bridges with this new book of puzzles and quizzes made by Swifties for Swifties! Dive deep into all things T-Swift with more than 85 puzzles including word searches, matching puzzles, crosswords, picture puzzles, and word...
    $12.98
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  • Harry Styles: A Sign of the Times by Zaleski, Annie
    Annie Zaleski

    Harry Styles: A Sign of the Times

    Harry Styles is one of the most successful solo artists to ever emerge from a band. Having enjoyed five commercially successful albums, a run of radio-friendly hits and a fervent fandom as part of boyband phenomenon, One Direction, in 2016, Styles traded his teen...
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  • You Call That Music?!: Korean Popular Music Through the Generations by Lee, Young-Mee
    Young-Mee Lee

    You Call That Music?!: Korean Popular Music Through the Generations

    You Call That Music?! provides a critical overview of the history of Korean popular music from 1920 to the 2000s from the perspective of cultural history. This translation is an invaluable resource for those researching and studying Korean popular music specifically as well as...
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  • Ardit Gjebrea's Projekt Jon by Tochka, Nicholas
    Nicholas Tochka

    Ardit Gjebrea's Projekt Jon

    As market reforms and migration transformed Albania in the early 1990s, Ardit Gjebrea began mixing traditional folk music with world music and Italian pop. The resulting album, Projekt Jon (1997), provided a new model for song-Western and cosmopolitan, yet firmly rooted in the fertile...
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  • Photographic Art of Donna Summer - The Creation of Her Music Album Covers by Langdon, Harry
    Harry Langdon

    Photographic Art of Donna Summer - The Creation of Her Music Album Covers

    The long-awaited making of the Donna Summer album covers book has arrived. For years fans have asked me to make a book filled with my memories and behind the scenes photos of my shoots. Well, the time has come. The book is HERE! It...
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  • Basics in Jazz Arranging [With CD (Audio)] by Rutherford, Paris
    Paris Rutherford

    Basics in Jazz Arranging [With CD (Audio)]

    (Jazz Instruction). Renowned educator and writer Paris Rutherford has adapted the text he used for over 30 years in teaching university-level arranging at one of the nation's most illustrious jazz schools. For anyone wanting to enter the exciting world of jazz arranging, this book...
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  • Covers of Gold: Collectible Sheet Music--Sports, Fashion, Illustration, & Dance by Short, Marion
    Marion Short

    Covers of Gold: Collectible Sheet Music--Sports, Fashion, Illustration, & Dance

    Covers of Gold is the third ground-breaking book about collectible sheet music by Marion Short. Exciting new categories covered in this book include baseball music, the evolution of fashion, the Big Band era, and the elusive sheet music cover illustrators. These subjects and more...
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  • Teddy Boys: Post-War Britain and the First Youth Revolution by D?charn?, Max
    Max D?charn?

    Teddy Boys: Post-War Britain and the First Youth Revolution

    With their draped suits, suede creepers and immaculately greased hair, the Teddy Boys defined a new era for a generation of teenagers raised on a diet of drab clothes, Blitz playgrounds and tinned dinners. From the Edwardian origins of their fashion to the tabloid...
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  • Moanin' Low: A Discography of Female Popular Vocal Recordings, 1920-1933 by Laird, Ross
    Ross Laird

    Moanin' Low: A Discography of Female Popular Vocal Recordings, 1920-1933

    The first comprehensive guide to pre-1934 female popular vocal recordings sung in English--from around the world and including all styles--this discographical study includes solos, duets, trios, and quartets composed by the great songwriters of the early 1900s (from Irving Berlin to Victor Young). The...
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  • Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music by Merwe, Peter Van Der
    Peter Van Der Merwe

    Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music

    This is an analysis of popular music from a musical, as opposed to a sociological, biographical or political point of view. The author surveys Western popular music in all its forms - blues, ragtime, music hall, waltzes, marches, parlour ballads and folk music -...
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  • Made in NuYoRico: Fania Records, Latin Music, and Salsa's Nuyorican Meanings by Negr?n, Marisol
    Marisol Negr?n

    Made in NuYoRico: Fania Records, Latin Music, and Salsa's Nuyorican Meanings

    In Made in NuYoRico, Marisol Negr?n tells the cultural history of salsa, tracing the music's Nuyorican meanings over a fifty-year period that begins with the establishment of Fania Records in 1964 and how it capitalized on salsa's Nuyorican imaginary to cultivate a global audience....
    $29.95
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  • Music and Words: Producing Popular Songs in Modern Japan, 1887-1952 by Patterson, Patrick M.
    Patrick M. Patterson

    Music and Words: Producing Popular Songs in Modern Japan, 1887-1952

    This book analyzes composer Nakayama Shimpei's popular songs in the context of Japan's developing record industry and popular music market between 1887 and 1952.Author: Patrick M. PattersonISBN-10: 1498550355ISBN-13: 9781498550352Publisher: Rlpg/GalleysLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2018Pages: 230Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d
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  • Making the Scene: Contemporary New York City Big Band Jazz by Stewart, Alexander
    Alexander Stewart

    Making the Scene: Contemporary New York City Big Band Jazz

    The received wisdom of popular jazz history is that the era of the big band was the 1930s and '40s, when swing was at its height. But as practicing jazz musicians know, even though big bands lost the spotlight once the bebop era began,...
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  • Lorenz Hart: A Poet on Broadway by Nolan, Frederick
    Frederick Nolan

    Lorenz Hart: A Poet on Broadway

    Lorenz Hart singlehandedly changed the craft of lyric writing. When Larry Hart first met Dick Rodgers in 1919, the commercial song lyric consisted of tired cliches and cloying Victorian sentimentality. Hart changed all that, always avoiding the obvious, aiming for the unexpected phrase that...
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  • The Music of the Future: Sound and Vision in the Caribbean by Munro, Martin
    Martin Munro

    The Music of the Future: Sound and Vision in the Caribbean

    Author: Martin MunroISBN-10: 0197759793ISBN-13: 9780197759790Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/02/2024Pages: 216Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.34h x 6.43w x 0.76d
    $90.00
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  • Fantasies of Nina Simone by Stein, Jordan Alexander
    Jordan Alexander Stein

    Fantasies of Nina Simone

    Since her death in 2003, Nina Simone has been the subject of an astonishing number of rereleased, remastered, and remixed albums and compilations as well as biographies, films, viral memes, samples, and soundtracks. In Fantasies of Nina Simone, Jordan Alexander Stein uses an archive...
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  • Harry Styles Is Life: A Superfan's Guide to All Things We Love about Harry Styles by Perricone, Kathleen
    Kathleen Perricone

    Harry Styles Is Life: A Superfan's Guide to All Things We Love about Harry Styles

    Join the Harry Styles fandom culture with this gorgeously illustrated, all-encompassing fan book on everything there is to know and love about the modern icon that is Harry Styles. From his first appearance on The X Factor and touring with One Direction to breaking...
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  • The Untold Story of Scott Hoying, Pentatonix Star: My Son's Journey to Find Harmony in Music and Life by Hoying, Connie
    Connie Hoying

    The Untold Story of Scott Hoying, Pentatonix Star: My Son's Journey to Find Harmony in Music and Life

    This book depicts the life and career of Scott Hoying, Grammy Award-winning cofounder of Pentatonix, as seen by his mother Connie. More than just a book about her son's life, Connie tells a heartfelt story of perseverance, dedication to music, LGBTQ+ acceptance, and supportive...
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  • Dark Side of the Tune: Popular Music and Violence by Johnson, Bruce
    Bruce Johnson

    Dark Side of the Tune: Popular Music and Violence

    This book focuses on the 'dark side' of popular music by examining the ways in which popular music has been deployed in association with violence. Cloonan and Johnson address the physiological and cognitive foundations of sounding/hearing and provide a historical survey of examples of...
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  • Nature of Music: Beauty, Sound and Healing by Draper, Maureen McCarthy
    Maureen McCarthy Draper

    Nature of Music: Beauty, Sound and Healing

    An important book that answers how music affects your mood and how music affects your brain Music has a profound influence on our lives; affecting how we think, how we act, how we feel-even who we are. By learning more about the intimate relationship...
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  • The Essential... Lady Gaga by Zaleski, Annie
    Annie Zaleski

    The Essential... Lady Gaga

    As one of the world's best-selling musicians, Lady Gaga has set the musical bar high. Since her debut album, The Fame (2008), she has sold more than 124 million records and scooped numerous awards, including twelve Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards, and eighteen MTV...
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  • Bowie, Beckett, and Being: The Art of Alienation by Sharkey, Rodney
    Rodney Sharkey

    Bowie, Beckett, and Being: The Art of Alienation

    Addressing their shared passion for literature, art, and music, this book documents how Samuel Beckett and David Bowie produce extraordinarily empathetic creative outputs that reflect the experience and the effect of alienation. Through an exploration of their artistic practices, the study also illustrates how...
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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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  • Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow: Chinese Pop Music and Its Cultural Connotations by Moskowitz, Marc L.
    Marc L. Moskowitz

    Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow: Chinese Pop Music and Its Cultural Connotations

    Since the mid-1990s, Taiwan's unique brand of Mandopop (Mandarin Chinese-language pop music) has dictated the musical tastes of the mainland and the rest of Chinese-speaking Asia. Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow explores Mandopop's surprisingly complex cultural implications in Taiwan and the PRC, where...
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  • Eternal Flame: The Authorized Biography of the Bangles by Bickerdike, Jennifer Otter
    Jennifer Otter Bickerdike

    Eternal Flame: The Authorized Biography of the Bangles

    The authorized biography of the quintessential '80s pop band The Bangles, who scored massive hits with "Manic Monday," Walk Like an Egyptian," "Hazy Shade of Winter," and more From their first meeting in 1981, the Bangles were ambitious, focused, and intentional; their hard-work and...
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  • Sixties British Pop, Outside in: Volume I: Downtown, 1956-1965 by Thompson, Gordon Ross
    Gordon Ross Thompson

    Sixties British Pop, Outside in: Volume I: Downtown, 1956-1965

    Downtown, 1956-1965--the first volume of Sixties British Pop, Outside In--describes the rise of London's music and recording cultures through the stories of those who empowered Britain's youth to be young. As the generations born in the postwar world entered adolescence and demanded a say...
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  • Sixties British Pop, Outside in: Volume II: Itchycoo Park, 1964-1970 by Thompson, Gordon Ross
    Gordon Ross Thompson

    Sixties British Pop, Outside in: Volume II: Itchycoo Park, 1964-1970

    Itchycoo Park, 1964-1970--the second volume of Sixties British Pop, Outside In--explores how London songwriters, musicians, and production crews navigated the era's cultural upheavals by reimagining the pop-music envelope. As the generation born during the postwar years approached adulthood, they gravitated to music that resonated...
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  • Beyonc? Is Life: A Superfan's Guide to All Things We Love about Beyonc? by Perricone, Kathleen
    Kathleen Perricone

    Beyonc? Is Life: A Superfan's Guide to All Things We Love about Beyonc?

    Confirm your Beyhive superfan status with this gorgeously illustrated, all-encompassing guide to all things Beyonc?. All hail the queen! From her first solo at St. John's United Methodist Church to becoming a part of Destiny's Child, shaping the R&B scene, and becoming a pop...
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  • Shake It Up: Delicious Cocktails Inspired by the Music of Taylor Swift by Welbeck
    Welbeck

    Shake It Up: Delicious Cocktails Inspired by the Music of Taylor Swift

    Take a trip into the Taylor-verse with this collection of delicious cocktail recipes inspired by the songs of Taylor Swift. Featuring 65 cocktail recipes alongside top tips and stunning Taylor-inspired illustrations, this is a celebration of pop music's finest songbook and the perfect collection...
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  • Elgar: An Anniversary Portrait by Kenyon, Nicholas
    Nicholas Kenyon

    Elgar: An Anniversary Portrait

    "Too frequently a multi-author work on a composer obscures rather than illuminates its subject. This volume casts a genuinely prismatic light upon it."R.J. Stove, The New Criterion "An Anniversary Portrait succeeds in offering a sufficient yet panoramic view of Elgar's life and music. The...
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  • American Singers: Twenty-Seven Portraits in Song by Balliett, Whitney
    Whitney Balliett

    American Singers: Twenty-Seven Portraits in Song

    When Whitney Balliett's American Musicians appeared in the Fall of 1986, the acclaim it received was universal. Leonard Feather, writing in the Los Angeles Times, said "no other writer now living can write with comparable grace and equal enthusiasm about everyone from Jack Teagarden...
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  • Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970 by Toop, David
    David Toop

    Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970

    In this first installment of acclaimed music writer David Toop's interdisciplinary and sweeping overview of free improvisation, Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970 introduces the philosophy and practice of improvisation (both musical and otherwise) within the historical context...
    $130.00
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    $130.00

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