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  • Music Makers From Mid-Michigan and Surrounding Areas 1940s thru 1970s: Who Were They? by Holtzapple, William R.
    William R. Holtzapple

    Music Makers From Mid-Michigan and Surrounding Areas 1940s thru 1970s: Who Were They?

    A note from the author: This book for a limited time only is back in print with a 15%% discount. Due to an unbelievable price increase from the Lulu press, I was forced to abandon the print option in favor of the downloaded version....
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  • This Is Christmas, Song by Song: The Stories Behind 100 Holiday Hits by Zaleski, Annie
    Annie Zaleski

    This Is Christmas, Song by Song: The Stories Behind 100 Holiday Hits

    Celebrate the merriest season of the year with award-winning author and music journalist Annie Zaleski's collection of the 100 most popular and beloved holiday songs of all time. 'Tis the season! Break out the eggnog, hang the mistletoe, blast those Christmas songs, and settle...
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  • Between Norteño and Tejano Conjunto: Music, Tradition, and Culture at the U.S.-Mexico Border by Díaz-Santana Garza, Luis
    Luis D僘z-Santana Garza

    Between Norte and Tejano Conjunto: Music, Tradition, and Culture at the U.S.-Mexico Border

    Between Norte and Tejano Conjunto analyzes the origin, evolution, and dissemination of the norte and tejano conjunto. This group represents a marginalized local identity that was transformed primarily into an identity of the northeast. It then gave way to the whole of northern M騙ico...
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  • Crooner: Singing from the Heart from Sinatra to NAS by Coles, Alex
    Alex Coles

    Crooner: Singing from the Heart from Sinatra to NAS

    An intimate history of the crooner in popular music from the 1950s to the present. In this book, Alex Coles explores the history of the crooner--someone who sings close to the mic in a soft style--in popular music from the 1950s to the present....
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  • Popular Viennese Electronic Music, 1990-2015: A Cultural History by Mazierska, Ewa
    Ewa Mazierska

    Popular Viennese Electronic Music, 1990-2015: A Cultural History

    The author presents a cultural history of popular Viennese electronic music from 1990 to 2015, from the perspectives of production, scene and national and international reception. To illustrate this history in depth, a number of case studies of the most successful and distinguished musicians...
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  • Terminated for Reasons of Taste: Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music by Eddy, Chuck
    Chuck Eddy

    Terminated for Reasons of Taste: Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music

    In Terminated for Reasons of Taste, veteran rock critic Chuck Eddy writes that "rock'n'roll history is written by the winners. Which stinks, because the losers have always played a big role in keeping rock interesting." Rock's losers share top billing with its winners in...
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  • A Passion for Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music in America by Greene, Victor
    Victor Greene

    A Passion for Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music in America

    Not so long ago, songs by the Andrews Sisters and Lawrence Welk blasted from phonographs, lilted over the radio, and dazzled television viewers across the country. Lending star quality to the ethnic music of Poles, Italians, Slovaks, Jews, and Scandinavians, luminaries like Frankie Yankovic,...
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  • The Mexican American Orquesta: Music, Culture, and the Dialectic of Conflict by Peña, Manuel
    Manuel Pe

    The Mexican American Orquesta: Music, Culture, and the Dialectic of Conflict

    The Mexican American orquesta is neither a Mexican nor an American music. Relying on both the Mexican orquesta and the American dance band for repertorial and stylistic cues, it forges a synthesis of the two. The ensemble emerges historically as a powerful artistic vehicle...
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  • The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music by Breihan, Tom
    Tom Breihan

    The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music

    Beloved music critic Tom Breihan's fascinating narrative of the history of popular music through the lens of game-changing #1 singles from the Billboard Hot 100. When Tom Breihan launched his Stereogum column in early 2018, "The Number Ones"--a space in which he has been...
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  • Lennon and McCartney: Painting with Sound by MacFarlane, Thomas
    Thomas MacFarlane

    Lennon and McCartney: Painting with Sound

    Lennon and McCartney: Painting with Sound explores the work of two of the most influential composers of the twentieth century. Five decades after the breakup of the Beatles, the music of John Lennon and Paul McCartney continues to fascinate and inspire. Evidence suggests that...
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  • Feminism and Gender Politics in Mediated Popular Music by Werner, Ann
    Ann Werner

    Feminism and Gender Politics in Mediated Popular Music

    What does it mean, in a polarized political climate, that feminism is popular in mainstream popular music during the 2010s? Engaging with feminist theory and previous research about gender and music, this book investigates the meaning of current trends relating to gender, feminism and...
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  • Eric Bogle, Music and the Great War: 'An Old Man's Tears' by Walsh, Michael J. K.
    Michael J. K. Walsh

    Eric Bogle, Music and the Great War: 'An Old Man's Tears'

    Eric Bogle has written many iconic songs that deal with the futility and waste of war. Two of these in particular, 'And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda' and 'No Man's Land (a.k.a. The Green Fields of France)', have been recorded numerous times in a...
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  • Queering the Popular Pitch by Whiteley, Sheila
    Sheila Whiteley

    Queering the Popular Pitch

    Queering the Popular Pitch is a new collection of 19 essays that situate queering within the discourse of sex and sexuality in relation to popular music. This investigation addresses the changing debates within gay, lesbian and queer discourse in relation to the dissemination of...
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  • The Fans Have Their Say KISS: We Wanted the Best and We Got the Best - of the '80s by Carroll, Ian
    Ian Carroll

    The Fans Have Their Say KISS: We Wanted the Best and We Got the Best - of the '80s

    KISS are the ultimate 'stack-heeled superheroes' made flesh. A cartoon of a band, but with the tunes and attitude to back their image up. If Marvel comics did a comic strip series on a mean and dirty rock 'n' roll band, KISS would be...
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  • The Passion of Music and Dance: Body, Gender and Sexuality by Washabaugh, William
    William Washabaugh

    The Passion of Music and Dance: Body, Gender and Sexuality

    The late nineteenth century witnessed the birth and popularization of a number of highly emotional musical styles that played on the eagerness of modern Europeans and Americans to toy with the limits of sanity and to taste the ecstasies of living on the edge....
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  • The Singing Voice in Contemporary Cinema by Hughes, Diane
    Diane Hughes

    The Singing Voice in Contemporary Cinema

    The Singing Voice in Contemporary Cinema considers different contextual formations of singing and how they contribute to narrative, emotional affect and cultural sensitivities.The singing voice is arguably the most expressive of all musical instruments. This volume celebrates the ways in which singing features in...
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  • Burma's Pop Music Industry: Creators, Distributors, Censors by MacLachlan, Heather
    Heather MacLachlan

    Burma's Pop Music Industry: Creators, Distributors, Censors

    Drawing on extensive fieldwork, explores the contemporary pop music scene in this little understood Southeast Asian country. Burma's Pop Music Industry is the first book to explore the contemporary pop music industry in a country that is little known or understood in the West....
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  • SOM Magazine: Issue #1 by Networks, Som
    Som Networks

    SOM Magazine: Issue #1

    Spaced Out Magazine releases it's latest issue with it's new name. No longer Spaced Out, SOM Magazine is the source for entertainment and business news. This issue covers a photo tribute to the late Prince along with details on his upcoming tribute at the...
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  • Everything I Need to Know About Love I Learned From Pop Songs by Tepper, Susan
    Susan Tepper

    Everything I Need to Know About Love I Learned From Pop Songs

    Ever listened to a love song and felt like it was written just for you? Have you ever helped yourself get through a tough breakup by listening to your favorite song? Maybe you and your current flame have one song that feels like it...
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  • Popular Music and Automobiles by Duffett, Mark
    Mark Duffett

    Popular Music and Automobiles

    Particularly since the 1950s, cars and popular music have been constantly associated. As complementary goods and intertwined technologies, their relationship has become part of a widely shared experience-one that connects individuals and society, private worlds and public spheres. Popular Music and Automobiles aims to...
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  • Mad Dogs and Englishness: Popular Music and English Identities by Brooks, Lee
    Lee Brooks

    Mad Dogs and Englishness: Popular Music and English Identities

    Mad Dogs and Englishness connects English popular music with questions about English national identities, featuring essays that range across Bowie and Burial, PJ Harvey, Bishi and Tricky. The later years of the 20th century saw a resurgence of interest in cultural and political meanings...
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  • Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen: Deaths and Entrances by Boucher, David
    David Boucher

    Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen: Deaths and Entrances

    Both Dylan and Cohen have been a presence on the music and poetry landscape spanning six decades. This book begins with a discussion of their contemporary importance, and how they have sustained their enduring appeal as performers and recording artists. The focus then returns...
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  • Cornelius's Fantasma by Roberts, Martin
    Martin Roberts

    Cornelius's Fantasma

    In Tokyo in the early 1990s, an indie band called Flipper's Guitar was at the forefront of a new wave in Japanese popular music known as Shibuya-kei. The band's founder, Keigo Oyamada, would go on to produce, under the name Cornelius, a series of...
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  • Carolina Beach Music Encyclopedia by Simmons, Rick
    Rick Simmons

    Carolina Beach Music Encyclopedia

    While rock groups such as the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean defined the beach music of Southern California during the 1960s, a different, R&B influenced sound could be heard along South Carolina's Grand Strand. Drawing on extensive research and exclusive interviews, this richly...
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  • All Of Me: My Story by Richards, Claire
    Claire Richards

    All Of Me: My Story

    A candid and ultimately inspirational memoir from the much-loved Steps star.Author: Claire RichardsISBN-10: 1447217411ISBN-13: 9781447217411Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/03/2013Pages: 274Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.62d
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  • They All Played Ragtime - The True Story of an American Music by Blesh, Rudi
    Rudi Blesh

    They All Played Ragtime - The True Story of an American Music

    Blesh published They All Played Ragtime as first major scholarly work on ragtime music in 1950, which sparked a ragtime revival. He founded Circle Records in 1946, which recorded new material from aging early jazz musicians as well as the Library of Congress recordings...
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  • Billy Joel: America's Piano Man by Duchan, Joshua S.
    Joshua S. Duchan

    Billy Joel: America's Piano Man

    Despite his tremendous success, Billy Joel's gifts as a composer and commentator on American life are long overdue for a thorough investigation. In Billy Joel: America's Piano Man, music historian Joshua S. Duchan looks at the career and music of this remarkable singer-songwriter, exploring...
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  • Experiencing David Bowie: A Listener's Companion by Chapman, Ian
    Ian Chapman

    Experiencing David Bowie: A Listener's Companion

    In Experiencing David Bowie: A Listener's Companion, musicologist, writer, and musician Ian Chapman unravels the extraordinary marriage of sound and visual effect that lies at the heart of the work of one of the most complex and enduring performers in popular music. Still active...
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  • Who Did It First?: Great Rock and Roll Cover Songs and Their Original Artists by Leszczak, Bob
    Bob Leszczak

    Who Did It First?: Great Rock and Roll Cover Songs and Their Original Artists

    "Everybody has to start somewhere. Businessmen start on the ground floor and try to work their way up the corporate ladder. Baseball players bide their time in the minor leagues wishing for an opportunity to move up and play in the majors. Musical compositions...
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  • Queer Tracks: Subversive Strategies in Rock and Pop Music by Leibetseder, Doris
    Doris Leibetseder

    Queer Tracks: Subversive Strategies in Rock and Pop Music

    Queer Tracks describes motifs in popular music that deviate from heterosexual orientation, the binary gender system and fixed identities. This exciting cutting-edge work deals with the key concepts of current gender politics and queer theory in rock and pop music, including irony, parody, camp,...
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  • Vibe Merchants: The Sound Creators of Jamaican Popular Music by Hitchins, Ray
    Ray Hitchins

    Vibe Merchants: The Sound Creators of Jamaican Popular Music

    Vibe Merchants offers an insider's perspective on the development of Jamaican Popular Music, researched and analysed by a thirty-year veteran with a wide range of experience in performance, production and academic study. This rare perspective, derived from interviews and ethnographic methodologies, focuses on the...
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  • Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks by Moylan, William
    William Moylan

    Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks

    Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks is a collection of essays dedicated to the study of recorded popular music, with the aim of exploring "how the record shapes the song" (Moylan, Recording Analysis, 2020) from a variety of perspectives. Introduced with...
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  • The Little Guide to Bruce Springsteen: The Boss by Orange Hippo!
    Orange Hippo!

    The Little Guide to Bruce Springsteen: The Boss

    Bruce Springsteen arrived on the world's stage in 1973 with two incredible albums in one year, a prolificacy that would define his career for the next half-century. In his tenure at the top of the rock and roll charts, Springsteen received worldwide adoration for...
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  • The Little Guide to Freddie Mercury: The Show Must Go on by Orange Hippo!
    Orange Hippo!

    The Little Guide to Freddie Mercury: The Show Must Go on

    A charismatic performer and front man to Queen, Freddie Mercury is regarded as one of the greatest rock singers in music history.Bursting with all the famed wit, wisdom and wisecracks that made the late, great showman's larger-than-life career so compelling, this tiny tome is...
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  • Harry: The Unauthorized Biography by White, Danny
    Danny White

    Harry: The Unauthorized Biography

    This in-depth biography details Harry's life so far. From his childhood and his journey to fame on the X-Factor to releasing incredibly successful solo music and becoming a fashion icon, this book gets you closer to Harry than ever before. From the start of...
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  • UK in Eurovision: The Highs and Lows by Bishop, Andy
    Andy Bishop

    UK in Eurovision: The Highs and Lows

    The first Eurovision Song Contest was held in 1956, only seven countries participated. In 2022 forty-one countries took part making it the biggest song competition in the world today. Over 161 million people tuned into watch the 2022 competition. This book isn't about the...
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  • Voices Found: Free Jazz and Singing by Tonelli, Chris
    Chris Tonelli

    Voices Found: Free Jazz and Singing

    Voices Found: Free Jazz and Singing contributes to a wave of voice studies scholarship with the first book-length study of free jazz voice. It pieces together a history of free jazz voice that spans from sound poetry and scat in the 1950s to the...
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  • Playing To Win: The Definitive Biography of John Farnham by Apter, Jeff
    Jeff Apter

    Playing To Win: The Definitive Biography of John Farnham

    Teen idol. King of Pop. Voice of the common man. Australian of the Year. Friend. Icon. Superstar.John Farnham is the quintessential Aussie legend. As a teenager he gave up an apprenticeship to chase his musical dreams, hitting the big time with 'Sadie (The Cleaning...
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  • After the Ball: Pop Music from Rag to Rock by Whitcomb, Ian
    Ian Whitcomb

    After the Ball: Pop Music from Rag to Rock

    An irreverent and engaging chronicle of popular music dating from the 1880s, when Tin Pan Alley was founded, to the present by a British-born songwriter and onetime pop star. "Brash, learned, funny, and perspicacious." - The New YorkerAuthor: Ian WhitcombISBN-10: 087910063XISBN-13: 9780879100636Publisher: LimelightLanguage: EnglishPublished:...
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  • Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues by Bernard, Shane K.
    Shane K. Bernard

    Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues

    Music of Louisiana was at the heart of rock-and-roll in the 1950s. Most fans know that Jerry Lee Lewis, one of the icons, sprang out of Ferriday, Louisiana, in the middle of delta country and that along with Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley he...
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  • The Dawn of Indian Music in the West by Lavezzoli, Peter
    Peter Lavezzoli

    The Dawn of Indian Music in the West

    A little more than 50 years ago, in 1955, Ali AkbarKhan issued an LP called Music of India: Morning and Evening Ragas, with spoken introduction by violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Until then, Indian music was terra incognita in the West. When the same album was...
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  • The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present by Cheng, Ya-Hui
    Ya-Hui Cheng

    The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present

    Ya-Hui Cheng examines the emergence of popular music genres - jazz, rock, and hip-hop - in Chinese society, covering the social underpinnings that shaped the development of popular music in China and Taiwan, from imperialism to westernization and from modernization to globalization. The political...
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  • Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll by Birnbaum, Larry
    Larry Birnbaum

    Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll

    An essential work for rock fans and scholars, Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll surveys the origins of rock 'n' roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Unlike other histories of rock, Before Elvis offers...
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  • The New Broadway Song Companion: An Annotated Guide to Musical Theatre Literature by Voice Type and Song Style by Devenney, David P.
    David P. Devenney

    The New Broadway Song Companion: An Annotated Guide to Musical Theatre Literature by Voice Type and Song Style

    This is a completely revised and expanded second edition of The Broadway Song Companion, the first complete guide and access point to the vast literature of the Broadway musical for the solo performer. Designed with the working actor in mind, the volume lists every...
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  • Popular Performer -- 1980s and 1990s Love Songs: The Best Romantic Pop Hits by Mendoza, Albert
    Albert Mendoza

    Popular Performer -- 1980s and 1990s Love Songs: The Best Romantic Pop Hits

    Rich textures, sophisticated harmonies, and inventive rhythms make these arrangements ideal for hobbyists, advancing students, and professional musicians. Titles: After All * Endless Love * I Can't Make You Love Me * (Everything I Do) I Do It for You * I Will Always...
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  • Respect: Women and Popular Music by Marcic, Dorothy
    Dorothy Marcic

    Respect: Women and Popular Music

    For more than the first half of the last century, the voice of women in Top-40 popular music has been one of neediness and dependency. Please love me; I'll do anything for you; just be my baby, even if you're no good and treat...
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  • Swing Changes: Big-Band Jazz in New Deal America by Stowe, David W.
    David W. Stowe

    Swing Changes: Big-Band Jazz in New Deal America

    Bands were playing, people were dancing, the music business was booming. It was the big-band era, and swing was giving a new shape and sound to American culture. Swing Changes looks at New Deal America through its music and shows us how the contradictions...
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  • Beyond Your Voice: Raise The Bar On Your Live Shows. Connect With Your Audience. Deliver Captivating Performances. by Duprai, Evelyn
    Evelyn Duprai

    Beyond Your Voice: Raise The Bar On Your Live Shows. Connect With Your Audience. Deliver Captivating Performances.

    For Singers at Every Stage of Their Careers Whether you're a performing arts college student, a newbie to the music industry or vocalist who is a seasoned professional, you can learn to stand out from amongst the sea of great singers and become a...
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  • Who's That Girl?: The Ultimate Madonna Trivia Book by Craig, Michael D.
    Michael D. Craig

    Who's That Girl?: The Ultimate Madonna Trivia Book

    Author: Michael D. CraigISBN-10: 0595210147ISBN-13: 9780595210145Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2001Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.14h x 5.96w x 0.36d
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  • American History in Song: Lyrics from 1900 to 1945 by Holloway, Diane
    Diane Holloway

    American History in Song: Lyrics from 1900 to 1945

    Author: Diane HollowayISBN-10: 0595193315ISBN-13: 9780595193318Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2001Pages: 504Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.56lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.17w x 1.16d
    $27.95
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