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Vendor: Mark Mynett
Metal Music Manual: Producing, Engineering, Mixing, and Mastering Contemporary Heavy Music
Metal Music Manual shows you the creative and technical processes involved in producing contemporary heavy music for maximum sonic impact. From pre-production to final mastered product, and fundamental concepts to advanced production techniques, this book contains a world of invaluable practical information. Assisted by...- $96.99
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Vendor: Helen Reddington
The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era
In Britain during the late 1970s and early 1980s, a new phenomenon emerged, with female guitarists, bass-players, keyboard-players and drummers playing in bands. Before this time, women's presence in rock bands, with a few notable exceptions, had always been as vocalists. This sudden influx...- $64.95
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Turbo-Folk Music and Cultural Representations of National Identity in Former Yugoslavia
Turbo-folk music is the most controversial form of popular culture in the new states of former Yugoslavia. Theoretically ambitious and innovative, this book is a new account of popular music that has been at the centre of national, political and cultural debates for over...- $64.95
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Vendor: Ian Carroll
The Fans Have Their Say #8 Meat Loaf: All Revved Up...
There are only some albums that I can listen to 'track by track' for the whole album, without skipping tunes or just playing a few songs, these are: Pink Floyd 'The Wall', ' Magnum 'On A Storytellers Night', Metallica 'Master of Puppets' and Meat...- $7.24
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Vendor: Robert Christgau
Grown Up All Wrong: 75 Great Rock and Pop Artists from Vaudeville to Techno
Two generations of American music lovers have grown up listening with Robert Christgau, attuned to his inimitable blend of judgment, acuity, passion, erudition, wit, and caveat emptor. His writings, collected here, constitute a virtual encyclopedia of popular music over the past fifty years. Whether...- $32.00
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Vendor: Marc Weingarten
Station to Station: The Secret History of Rock & Roll on Television
"Rock 'n' roll was loud, brash, and impudent; TV was soothing and polite. Rock 'n' roll was sex; TV was violins. Rock 'n' roll was Elvis Presley; TV was Robert Young." -- from Station to Station Television and rock 'n' roll: a combative yet...- $23.95
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Vendor: Jim McCarthy
Voices of Latin Rock: People and Events That Created This Sound
VOICES OF LATIN ROCK THE PEOPLE AND EVENTS THAT CREATED THIS SOUNDAuthor: Jim McCarthyISBN-10: 063408061XISBN-13: 9780634080616Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2004Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.72lbsSize: 10.90h x 8.50w x 0.70dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 01/24/2005- $30.00
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Vendor: Ian Gittins
Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime: The Stories Behind Every Song
A superbly illustrated, in-depth examination of the stories, events, places, and characters that inspired the songs of the Talking Heads, arguably the most significant band to emerge from the late-'70s New York punk scene based around CBGB's club. Led by guitarist-vocalist David Byrne, the...- $28.00
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Vendor: Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton - Guitar Play-Along Volume 24 (Book/Online Audio) [With CD (Audio)]
(Guitar Play-Along). The Guitar Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily Just follow the tab, listen to the online audio to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and...- $22.99
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Vendor: Chad Johnson
Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits: A Step-By-Step Breakdown of Flea's Bass Style and Technique [With CD (Audio)]
(Signature Licks Bass). Experience the freaked-up funk-osity of the Peppers through the creative bass stylings of the phenomenal Flea with this great book with audio demo tracks. Johnson will teach you how to play 16 of the Peppers' finest, including: By the Way *...- $25.99
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Vendor: Poison
Best of Poison
(Guitar Recorded Versions). 14 guitar transcriptions from one of the top hair metal bands of the '80s Includes the classics: Every Rose Has Its Thorn * Fallen Angel * I Won't Forget You * Look What the Cat Dragged In * Nothin' but a...- $24.99
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Vendor: Bob Seger
Bob Seger Greatest Hits
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Our songbook, the matching folio to the bestselling 1994 hits compilation from this classic rocker, features 14 first-rate signature songs from Seger: Against the Wind * C'est La Vie * The Fire Inside * Hollywood Nights * In Your Time *...- $29.99
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Vendor: Robert Calva
Blues/Rock Soloing for Guitar a Guide to the Essential Scales, Licks and Soloing Techniques (Book/Online Audio) [With CD (Audio)]
(Musicians Institute Press). This private lesson with MI instructor Robert Calva covers: 10 complete solos in notes & tab; common scales and licks; blues, major, minor and combined tonalities; playing over changes; recommended listening; and more. Each musical example is demonstrated on the accompanying...- $24.99
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Vendor: The Beatles
The Beatles - 1
(Guitar Recorded Versions). No band on earth but The Beatles could have a greatest hits compilation top the charts more than 30 years after breaking up In a few short months, the CD 1 featuring The Beatles' 27 British and American Number One singles...- $29.99
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Vendor: The Beatles
The Beatles - 1
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). No band on earth but The Beatles could have a greatest hits compilation top the charts more than 30 years after breaking up In a few short months, the CD 1 featuring The Beatles' 27 British and American Number One singles...- $24.99
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Vendor: Dave Hill
The Guitar Lick*tionary: Private Lessons Series [With 1]
(Musicians Institute Press). Learn the essential lines and techniques of the world's greatest guitarists with this super cool book/CD pack from Musicians Institute Set up like a dictionary, it provides clear, concise instruction and application tips in standard notation and tab for licks in...- $24.99
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Vendor: Wayne Wadhams
Inside the Hits: The Seduction of a Rock and Roll Generation
(Berklee Press). How does a song become more than words and music to represent or influence the voice of a generation? Inside the Hits dissects more than 60 of the most powerful and memorable hit songs since the birth of rock and roll to...- $29.95
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Vendor: Godsmack
Godsmack
(Guitar Recorded Versions). All 12 songs from the self-titled album by these Boston alt/metal rockers, named after an Alice in Chains song. Includes: Bad Religion * Get Up, Get Out * Immune * Keep Away * Moon Baby * Now or Never * Situation...- $19.95
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Vendor: Ron Smith
WCFL Chicago Top 40 Charts 1965-1976
WCFL Chicago Top 40 Charts 1965-1976 lists, by title and artist, every tune that charted on the WCFL-AM weekly music surveys in the Windy City from the first chart in late 1965 through the final survey in February of 1976 (less than a month...- $19.95
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Vendor: Barbara Jastrab
The Oldies Music Aptitude Test: Trivia Fun for Armchair Deejays
While the Clinton administration and federal agencies were busy making government cost less and work better in the near-term, the US Air Force was regularly visualizing the competencies needed to assure the organization's long-term effectiveness. As a result of steady efforts to prepare for...- $10.95
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Vendor: Philip Auslander
Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music
When it first appeared in the early 1970s, glam rock not only caused a stir among audiences and performers, it also stood counterculture and psychedelic rock on their heads. Glam rock was outrageous and overtly theatrical, and its unforgettable characters-adorned with flamboyant costumes and...- $29.95
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Vendor: Doug Brod
Spin Greatest Hits: 25 Years of Heretics, Heroes, and the New Rock 'n' Roll
The official book celebrating the 25th anniversary of SPIN magazineFrom its first issue in 1985, SPIN has cultivated a reputation for brilliant writing and broad musical coverage, including genres and artists long abandoned by its competitors. From punk to electronica, goth to gangsta rap,...- $16.95
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Vendor: Kim Cooper
Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed
Do you remember these great pop stars and their hits? Deerhoof's The Man, The King, The Girl Butch Hancock's West Texas Waltzes and Dust Blown Tractor Tunes, Swamp Dogg's Cuffed, Collared and Tagged, Michael Head's The Magical World Of The Strands, John Trubee's The...- $46.95
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Vendor: Thomas Brothers
Help!: The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration
The Beatles and Duke Ellington's Orchestra stand as the two greatest examples of collaboration in music history. Ellington's forte was not melody--his key partners were not lyricists but his fellow musicians. His strength was in arranging, in elevating the role of a featured soloist,...- $27.95
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Vendor: Hugh Barker
Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music
Did Elvis sing from the heart, or was he just acting? Were the Sex Pistols more real than disco? Why do so many musicians base their approach on being authentic, and why do music buffs fall for it every time? By investigating this obsession...- $25.95
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Vendor: Peter Guralnick
Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay: An Anthology
An electrifying collection of the finest, most entertaining, and illuminating writing on and from the rock and roll scene--from its earliest days to the present, from the brightest moments of the biggest stars to obscure but compellingly significant treasures. The crazy, exhilarating, endlessly creative...- $62.00
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Vendor: Mikal Gilmore
Night Beat: A Shadow of Rock & Roll
Few journalists have staked a territory as definitively and passionately as Mikal Gilmore in his twenty-year career writing about rock and roll. Now, for the first time, this collection gathers his cultural criticism, interviews, reviews, and assorted musings. Beginning with Elvis and the birth...- $19.00
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Vendor: Maxwell MacKenzie
Beatles: Every Little Thing
John, Paul, George and Ringo still rule! The music of the most important and popular group ever fills the airwaves to this day, winning a new generation of fans to the fold almost thirty years after the quartet disbanded. For everyone who has ever...- $17.99
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Vendor: Anne Karppinen
The Songs of Joni Mitchell: Gender, Performance and Agency
An unorthodox musician from the start, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's style of composing, performing, and of playing (and tuning) the guitar is unique. In the framework of sexual difference and the gendered discourses of rock this immediately begs the questions: are Mitchell's songs specifically feminine...- $56.95
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Vendor: Tracey E. W. Laird
Austin City Limits: A History
Austin City Limits--the longest running musical showcase in the history of television--is still captivating audiences forty years after its debut on the air. For decades it has defined popular roots music and indie rock-from Willie Nelson's legendary pilot show and his fourteen magical episodes...- $26.99
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Vendor: Michael J. Kramer
Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture
In his 1967 megahit "San Francisco," Scott McKenzie sang of "people in motion" coming from all across the country to San Francisco, the white-hot center of rock music and anti-war protests. At the same time, another large group of young Americans was also in...- $56.00
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Vendor: Walter Everett
The Foundations of Rock: From Blue Suede Shoes to Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
This is a comprehensive introduction to the inner workings of rock music. Everett takes readers through all aspects of the music and its lyrics, leading fans and listeners to new insights and new ways to develop their own interpretations of the aural landscapes of...- $51.00
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Vendor: Gene Santoro
Highway 61 Revisited: The Tangled Roots of American Jazz, Blues, Rock, & Country Music
What do Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, Cassandra Wilson, and Ani DiFranco have in common? In Highway 61 Revisited, acclaimed music critic Gene Santoro says the answer is jazz--not just the musical style, but jazz's distinctive ambiance and attitudes....- $43.99
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Vendor: Jacqueline Edmondson
Jerry Garcia: A Biography
This biography offers students and general readers an insightful look into Jerry Garcia's creative genius as a founding member of The Grateful Dead and the various influences on his work as he contributed to the countercultural movement in the United States. As a founding...- $43.00
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Vendor: David G. Dodd
The Grateful Dead and the Deadheads: An Annotated Bibliography
Libraries, musicologists, and Deadheads alike will want a copy of this comprehensive annotated bibliography that contains most of what has been written over the past 30 years about this legendary American musical institution and its fans, the Deadheads. The approximately 4,000 annotations serve as...- $83.00
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Vendor: Kurt St Thomas
Nirvana: The Chosen Rejects
Basically, this is the real thing. No rock star contrivance, no intellectual perspective, no master plan for world domination. You're talking about four guys from rural Washington who wanna rock...--Everett True, Melody Maker, March 18th, 1989 In 1992, Nirvana's breakthrough anthem, Smells Like Teen...- $19.99
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Vendor: Tim Morse
Classic Rock Stories
The first time on the open road with Dad's beat-up clunker and a brand-new driver's lecense. That first kiss. Practicing Steve Tyler moves in the garage. Lazy summer days with nothing to do but hang out with a group of friends and the radio....- $17.99
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Vendor: Don Breithaupt
Precious and Few: Pop Music of the Early Seventies
Here is a lively and nostalgic look back at the forgotten era that gave us Hooked on a Feeling, Dancing in the Moonlight, I Am Woman, Seasons in the Sun, and more. The early '70s brought a Convoy of popular music--everything from the cheesy...- $19.99
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Vendor: Rolling Stone Magazine
The Rolling Stone Interviews: 1967-1980
From its early days in San Francisco, Rolling Stone has covered the music scene from the inside with colorful, penetrating, and brilliant interviews with the men and women who are rock and roll. This definitive collection represents the best of Rolling Stone's first decade...- $23.99
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Vendor: Tony Fletcher
A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of the Smiths
The definitive book about The Smiths, one of the most beloved, respected, and storied indie rock bands in music history.They were, their fans believe, the best band in the world. Hailing from Manchester, England, The Smiths--Morrissey, Johnny Marr, Andy Rourke, and Mike Joyce--were critical...- $24.00
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Vendor: Robert Greenfield
Ain't It Time We Said Goodbye: The Rolling Stones on the Road to Exile
Although they did not know it then, when the Rolling Stones embarked on their farewell tour of Great Britain in March 1971 after having announced they were about to go into tax exile in the south of France, it was the end of an...- $34.00
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Vendor: Paul Brannigan
Into the Black: The Inside Story of Metallica, 1991-2014
Into the Black begins on the eve of the release of Metallica's massive breakthrough with the eponymous LP that became known as "The Black Album." Suddenly, at the dawn of the '90s, Metallica was no longer the biggest thrash metal band in the world-they...- $26.99
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Vendor: Will Hodgkinson
Guitar Man: A Six-String Odyssey, or, You Love that Guitar More than You Love Me
The guitar is the iconic instrument of modern popular music. It is portable, it has history, and it will always be hip. But why has the guitar become such a classic? Will Hodgkinson, a wannabe guitar player, whose only experience was an afternoon's bashing...- $21.99
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Vendor: Elizabeth Thomson
The Lennon Companion
John Lennon lives on. Forty years after the Beatles invaded America in 1964, and more than twenty years after Lennon's death, his work is perennially popular and continues to appeal across the generations. A man shrouded in myth and controversy, Lennon led a complex,...- $21.99
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Vendor: Clinton Heylin
The Da Capo Book of Rock & Roll
Since the early days of rock 'n' roll--since Elvis Presley came out of Memphis to startle the world--a whole body of writing has grown up around it, from the album notes to obituaries, from on-the-road insider tales to dissections of the meaning behind the...- $29.99
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Vendor: John Collis
Van Morrison
In an age when image and self-promotion increasingly dominate the rock industry, Van Morrison remains a proud, belligerent outsider. An intensely private man and a revelatory performer, he has communicated more deeply within the limits of rock songwriting--and has been less responsive to the...- $21.99
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Vendor: Elizabeth Thomson
Bowie Comp PB
Despite his vast influence and perennial popularity, David Bowie remains one of the most elusive figures in rock, and few books have taken a serious look at his remarkable career. The Bowie Companion provides an entertaining overview of nearly three decades of popular culture...- $21.99
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Vendor: Ken Stephenson
What to Listen for in Rock: A Stylistic Analysis
In this concise and engaging analysis of rock music, music theorist Ken Stephenson explores the features that make this internationally popular music distinct from earlier music styles. The author offers a guided tour of rock music from the 1950s to the present, emphasizing the...- $67.00
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Vendor: Larry David Smith
Pete Townshend: The Minstrel's Dilemma
Smith explores Pete Townshend's artistic struggle between his own creative impulses and those of the commercial public. Faced with a modern version of the minstrel's dilemma, Townshend, early in his career, ignored his creative instincts to satisfy commercial agendas. After his success, he slowly...- $75.00
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Vendor: Michael T. Bertrand
Race, Rock, and Elvis
Did Elvis Presley's brand of rock 'n' roll help revise racial attitudes in postwar America? Michael T. Bertrand delves into this question and many others to investigate popular music's revolutionary influence on black-white relations in the South. Youthful fans of rhythm and blues, rock...- $20.95
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