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Vendor: 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...- $26.95
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Vendor: 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...- $58.99
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Vendor: 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...- $24.00
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Vendor: 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...- $18.00
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Vendor: 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...- $120.00
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Vendor: 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...- $49.00
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Vendor: 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...- $24.00
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Vendor: 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...- $30.00
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Vendor: 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...- $35.00
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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...- $35.00
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Vendor: 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...- $19.99
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Vendor: 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...- $18.95
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Vendor: 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...- $21.95
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Vendor: 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...- $35.00
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Vendor: 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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Vendor: Francesca Pavesi
Taylor Swift: A Book for Swifties
A global phenomenon that appeals across generations, recounted in an informative book, enhanced by carefully selected photographs and a large-format poster. Much more than a music superstar, Taylor Swift is a true cultural phenomenon, evolving from a young country promise to a global pop...- $12.99
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Vendor: DK
Lady Gaga A to Z: A Celebration of a Pop Culture Icon
Learn from Lady Gaga's career experiences and discover how you too can be an ally, unafraid to be your truest self and let your creativity flourish. Lady Gaga is a modern day Renaissance person, an icon who masters everything she does. Who else could...- $12.99
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Vendor: Seth Rogovoy
Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison
How did the most reluctant member of the Fab Four put his mark on all of their music? This book helps listeners hear how George Harrison shaped the sound of The Beatles and how he carried that sound forward into his solo career Within...- $25.00
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Vendor: Joanna Jojo Levesque
Over the Influence: A Memoir
A breathtakingly candid memoir by Joanna "JoJo" Levesque, the chart-topping, multi-platinum recording artist behind hits like "Leave (Get Out)," "Too Little, Too Late", and the Grammy Award-winning "Say So" Signed to a major recording deal at just 12 years old, JoJo catapulted to the...- $30.00
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Vendor: Karah-Leigh Hancock
Boy Bands Ultimate Trivia Book: Test Your Superfan Status and Relive the Most Iconic Boy Band Moments
Put your boy band expertise to the test with nearly 500 trivia questions, accompanied by entertaining illustrations capturing your favorite musical moments. A true love letter to boy bands, the Boy Bands Ultimate Trivia Book is the perfect way to show off your knowledge...- $16.99
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Vendor: Jr. Moores
Off the Ground: Paul McCartney in the 1990s
A sympathetic but clear-eyed exploration of Paul McCartney's work in the 1990s, arguably his most important since the rise of the Beatles. Paul McCartney's 1990s was an era like no other, perhaps even the most significant decade of his entire career after the 1960s....- $27.50
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Vendor: Michael Corcoran
Austin Music Is a Scene Not a Sound
Michael Corcoran culminates 40 years of writing about Austin music with a history of the scene, going back to the German singing societies of the late 1800s and ending with the ascent of South by Southwest, whose registration line would become the Ellis Island...- $45.95
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Vendor: Dylan Jones
Faster Than a Cannonball: 1995 and All That
Decades tend to crest halfway through, and 1995 was the year of the Nineties: peak Britpop (Oasis v Blur), peak YBA (Tracey Emin's tent), peak New Lad (when Nick Hornby published High Fidelity, when James Brown's Loaded detonated the publishing industry, and when pubs...- $19.99
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Vendor: Bob Mielke
Adventures in Avant-Pop
An insightful study of seven great pop musicians who expanded the boundaries of musical creativity in their own different ways during the peaks of their careers in the second half of the 20th Century. The musicians discussed in this work are Yoko Ono, Frank...- $40.00
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Vendor: Maureen Aspinwall
No Bad Days: when you have wheels, friends and music
A light-hearted memoir from a music-loving lady of advanced years coping with the effects of MS and following the band BASTILLE. It shows the importance of the internet during the Covid lockdowns, from like-minded fans connecting with each other to remaining up-to-date with BASTILLE...- $10.99
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Vendor: D. Nathan Venture
Behind the K-pop Mania: Unveiling the Global Sensation
Explore the Heartbeat of a Global PhenomenonEnter a world that pulsates with rhythm, color, and unstoppable energy. "Behind the K-Pop Mania: Unveiling the Global Sensation" is your all-access pass into the heart of a culture that has conquered the globe. This book peels back...- $14.95
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Vendor: Clary Saddler
Kylie Minogue: Album by Album: Stick or Twist
Kylie Minogue is an Australian pop icon who has sold over 80 million records worldwide. The pint-sized pop princess showed us she had the 'wow' factor when she first graced our screens as Charlene Mitchell in neighbors in 1986. She 'did it again' (and...- $34.95
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Vendor: Andrea Warner
We Oughta Know: How Céline, Shania, Alanis, and Sarah Ruled the '90s and Changed Music
A lively collection of essays that re-examines the extraordinary legacies of the four Canadian women who dominated '90s music and changed the industry forever Fully revised and updated, with a foreword by Vivek Shraya In this of-the-moment essay collection, celebrated music journalist Andrea Warner...- $18.95
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Vendor: Selena Fragassi
Nsync 30th Anniversary Celebration: We Want You Back!
Celebrate the history and memories of NSYNC with the ultimate tribute book--filled with amazing tour photography, band-member profiles, fan memories, and more. With over 70 million records sold, NSYNC is one of the best-selling boy bands of all time--and arguably the most famous. Following...- $24.99
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Zayn Malik - Mind of His: The Unauthorised Biography
Author: Sarah OliverISBN-10: 1786062828ISBN-13: 9781786062826Publisher: John BlakeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/03/2016Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.58d- $13.99
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Vendor: Patty Ahn
Bangtan Remixed: A Critical Bts Reader
Bangtan Remixed delves into the cultural impact of celebrated K-Pop boy band BTS, exploring their history, aesthetics, fan culture, and capitalist moment. The collection's contributors--who include artists, scholars, journalists, activists, and fans--approach BTS through inventive and wide-ranging transnational perspectives. From tracing BTS's hip hop...- $31.95
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Vendor: Kirsty Fairclough
Pop Stars on Film: Popular Culture in a Global Market
Pop stars have provided audiences with performative moments that have become ingrained in popular consciousness. They are a lens through which deeper understandings about race, gender, politics, history and the artistic process can be understood. When combined with the most affective of mediums -...- $39.95
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Vendor: Simon Barclay
The Complete & Independent Guide to the Eurovision Song Contest 2023
Published annually since 2008 "The Complete & Independent Guide to the Eurovision Song Contest" contains every statistic imaginable. This new edition for 2023 has 330 pages of historical records and analysis of voting, divided into four parts: Section 1: Qualification for Eurovision for the...- $35.00
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Vendor: David McGrath
Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa
1960s recording star Gene Pitney decides to broaden his career beyond singing and takes on the career management of two young, innocent and naive pop stars. He helps them navigate the music business by battling to keep them out of the greedy hands of...- $16.95
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Vendor: Huw Stephens
Wales: 100 Records
Wales: A Hundred Records is an anthology of the highlights of the careers of the most important recording artists that Wales has ever produced, spanning many decades and music genres, and with recordings in both English and Welsh. Huw Stephens analyses the importance and...- $29.99
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Vendor: Doug Bradley
We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
Author: Doug Bradley, Craig WernerISBN-10: 1665266317ISBN-13: 9781665266314Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/06/2017Format: CD- $46.99
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Vendor: Claude Bernardin
Rocket Man: Elton John from A-Z
Grammy winner for Can You Feel the Love Tonight from Disney's 1994 blockbuster movie The Lion King, Elton John is a musician who has transcended generations. Since his U.S. debut 26 years ago, E.J. has had a top-40 hit every year. This first reference...- $45.00
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Vendor: Hal Leonard Corp
Glee: Music from the Fox Television Show
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). This songbook features tunes from the hit FOX TV show about an enthusiastic teacher who, against many obstacles, tries to bring a high school glee club into the spotlight. Aimed at the underdog in all of us, the show features pop songs...- $16.99
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Vendor: Dave Holmes
Party of One: A Memoir in 21 Songs
From former MTV VJ Dave Holmes, the hilarious memoir of a perpetual outsider fumbling towards self-acceptance, with the music of the '80s, '90s, and today as his soundtrack Dave Holmes has spent his life on the periphery, nose pressed hopefully against the glass, wanting...- $20.00
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Vendor: Gabriel Rossman
Climbing the Charts: What Radio Airplay Tells Us about the Diffusion of Innovation
How songs achieve commercial success on the radio Despite the growth of digital media, traditional FM radio airplay still remains the essential way for musicians to achieve commercial success. Climbing the Charts examines how songs rise, or fail to rise, up the radio airplay...- $23.95
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Vendor: Allan F. Moore
Analyzing Popular Music
How do we "know" music? We perform it, compose it, sing it in the shower; cook, sleep and dance to it. Eventually we think and write about it. This book represents the culmination of such shared processes. Portraying a wide range of genres (rock,...- $49.99
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Vendor: Thomas M. Kitts
Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else
Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else is a critical biography of Ray Davies, with a focus on his music and his times. The book studies Davies' work from the Kinks' first singles through his 2006 solo album, from his rock musicals in the early...- $170.00
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Vendor: Nicholas Tochka
Audible States: Socialist Politics and Popular Music in Albania
During the Cold War, state-sponsored musical performances were central to the diplomatic agendas of the United States and the Soviet Union. But states on the periphery of the conflict also used state-funded performances to articulate their positions in the polarized global network. In Albania...- $44.99
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Vendor: Emily Herbert
Michael Jackson - King of Pop: 1958 - 2009
On 25th July, breaking news revealed that Michael Jackson, King of Pop, was dead. Fans and the media watched in shock as the story unfolded: doctors had lost the battle to save him after he had collapsed from a heart attack. In a cruel...- $13.99
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Vendor: Trevor Tolliver
You Don't Own Me: The Life and Times of Lesley Gore
1963 - tail fins were in, sock hops were hot, and a fairytale white knight was president., That summer, sixteen year-old singer Lesley Gore released her debut single, It's My Party propelling her to Number One on the charts., For the next several years,...- $27.95
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Vendor: Julia Murray
Dress Up Taylor: A Taylor Swift Paper Doll Book Featuring Her Iconic Eras
Dress up Taylor in her most iconic fits with this illustrated press-out paper doll book. Featuring 12 show-stopping looks -- from the "Love Story" music video to the Eras Tour bodysuits -- Dress Up Taylor takes you through the very best of Tay-Tay's fashion...- $16.95
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Vendor: Rachel Feder
Taylor Swift by the Book: The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets
From Robert Frost's road not taken on her debut album to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's albatross on The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift's lyrics are filled with literary connections. Make sure you're catching them all with this expert guide to the novels, poems, and plays...- $19.99
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Vendor: Elizabeth Amisu
The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson: His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife
An essential companion to Michael Jackson's music, films, and books, this work offers 21 original, academic essays on all things Jackson-from film, music, and dance to fashion, culture, and literature.Michael Jackson is regarded as one of the most important musicians of our time. Going...- $39.95
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Vendor: Eric Wolfson
Fifty Years of the Concept Album in Popular Music: From the Beatles to Beyoncé
The concept album is one of popular music's most celebrated-and misunderstood-achievements. This book examines the untold history of the rock concept album, from The Beatles to Beyoncé. The roots of the concept album are nearly as old as the long-playing record itself, as recording...- $100.00
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Vendor: Robert Gordon
The Oxford Handbook of the Global Stage Musical
The stage musical constitutes a major industry not only in the US and the UK, but in many regions of the world. Over the last four decades many countries have developed their own musical theatre industries, not only by importing hit shows from Broadway...- $190.00
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