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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...- $52.00
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Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War
Though a part of American soldiers' lives since the Revolutionary War, by World War II music could be broadcast to the front. Today it accompanies soldiers from the recruiting office to the battlefield. For this book, Jonathan Pieslak interviewed returning veterans to learn about...- $21.95
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Dlr Book: How David Lee Roth Changed the World
What do you do after leaving one of the world's biggest bands? If you're David Lee Roth, you write a memoir, become a radio host, sell a screenplay to a major studio, get certified as an EMT, play Vegas, and put out bluegrass versions...- $24.95
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Experiencing Rush: A Listener's Companion
Few bands have proven as long-standing and experimental as the Canadian rock act Rush, which has successfully survived and adapted like few others by continuing to work in an album-oriented "progressive hard rock" style. Rush bridged its original blues-rock style with progressive rock and...- $59.00
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Livin' Just to Find Emotion: Journey and the Story of American Rock
"Golland leaves no stone unturned in this fine-grained chronicle of the rock group Journey.... Golland's passion and precision make this a pleasure." -Publishers Weekly, Starred Review. David Hamilton Golland unearths the band's complete story--incorporating exclusive interviews--and dives into their meteoric rise, dissolution, and return.Author:...- $33.00
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Atomic Tunes: The Cold War in American and British Popular Music
What is the soundtrack for a nuclear war? During the Cold War, over 500 songs were written about nuclear weapons, fear of the Soviet Union, civil defense, bomb shelters, McCarthyism, uranium mining, the space race, espionage, the Berlin Wall, and glasnost. This music uncovers...- $110.00
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Record Plant, Sausalito Studios
The Record Plant studio in Sausalito, California, was one of America's top-of-the-line music recording facilities. Opened in 1972, Record Plant was known as the "resort studio," just across the Golden Gate Bridge in Northern California and away from the big city. One of three...- $37.99
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Get Shown the Light: Improvisation and Transcendence in the Music of the Grateful Dead
Of all the musical developments of rock in the 1960s, one in particular fundamentally changed the music's structure and listening experience: the incorporation of extended improvisation into live performances. While many bands--including Cream, Pink Floyd, and the Velvet Underground--stretched out their songs with improvisations,...- $107.95
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Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume 8: Genres: North America
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music Volume 8 is one of six volumes within the 'Genre' strand of the series. This volume discusses the genres of North America in relation to their cultural, historical and geographic origins; technical musical characteristics; instrumentation and use of...- $400.00
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A History of Rock Music: The Rock-And-Roll Era
A History of Rock Music: The Rock & Roll Era is a celebration of the roots of rock & roll and its emergence as the soundtrack to teenage rebellion and a liberatingly raucous, joyous and rebellious music for one especially fortunate generation. The book...- $30.00
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Don't Dream It's Over: The Remarkable Life of Neil Finn
Across five decades and counting, New Zealand-born singer/songwriter and Crowded House founder Neil Finn has become one of the best-loved figures in popular music, crafting enough hits along the way--'Weather With You', 'Locked Out', 'I Got You', 'Fall At Your Feet', 'It's Only Natural',...- $24.95
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Rockin' in Time
NOTE: This edition features the same content as the traditional text in a convenient, three-hole-punched, loose-leaf version. Books a la Carte also offer a great value; this format costs significantly less than a new textbook. Before purchasing, check with your instructor or review your...- $86.65
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Shakespeare and Popular Music
Exploring the interactions between Shakespeare and popular music, this book links these seeming polar opposites, showing how musicians have woven the Bard into their sounds.Author: Adam HansenISBN-10: 1441126988ISBN-13: 9781441126986Publisher: ContinuumLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/22/2010Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.63h x 6.73w x 0.61d- $39.95
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Psychedelic Popular Music: A History Through Musical Topic Theory
Recognized for its distinctive musical features and its connection to periods of social innovation and ferment, the genre of psychedelia has exerted long-term influence in many areas of cultural production, including music, visual art, graphic design, film, and literature. William Echard explores the historical...- $35.00
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David Bowie: I Was There
During his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at 140 million worldwide, made David Bowie one of the world's bestselling music artists. This book provides a fan's-eye account from over 400 fans with their stories and experiences of seeing David Bowie live in concert. As...- $19.95
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Morrissey: The Pageant of His Bleeding Heart
Morrissey is arguably the greatest disturbance popular music has ever known. Even more than the choreographed carelessness of punk and the hyperbolic gestures of glam rock and the New Romantics, Morrissey's early bookish ineptitude, his celebration of the ordinary, and his subversive endorsement of...- $34.95
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The Jam: Every Album, Every Song
From the band's first single, 'In The City' in April 1977, to their last, 'Beat Surrender' in November 1982, The Jam went from new wave wannabees to arguably the biggest band in the UK. The Jam on track covers every song released by the...- $22.95
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Listen to New Wave Rock!: Exploring a Musical Genre
Students of pop music and pop culture as well as fans who have loved the music since it came into being will gain valuable insight into this genre of the 1970s and 1980s. Listen to New Wave Rock!: Exploring a Musical Genre contains background...- $67.00
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Vendor: Tim Smolko
Atomic Tunes: The Cold War in American and British Popular Music
What is the soundtrack for a nuclear war? During the Cold War, over 500 songs were written about nuclear weapons, fear of the Soviet Union, civil defense, bomb shelters, McCarthyism, uranium mining, the space race, espionage, the Berlin Wall, and glasnost. This music uncovers...- $45.00
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Oasis: Every Album, Every Song
Dave Grohl once said of Oasis, 'We've played shows with them before, where we play with them we think "That's the greatest rock band I've ever seen in my life"'. The quality of the songs they were releasing, especially between 1994-1996, would seem to...- $22.95
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The Origins and Early History of Rock & Roll
Rock and roll's various musical ingredients are examined, including jazz, blues, country, folk and gospel. Also explored are rock's early musical trends such as rockabilly, doo-wop, girl groups, surf music, teen idols, R&B and soul. Additionally, rock and roll was impacted by technological advances...- $25.99
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3 Doors Down [With CD]
(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 CD to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics...- $14.95
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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...- $135.00
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Through the Eye of the Tiger: The Rock #N' Roll Life of Survivor's Founding Member
"Hey, yo, Jim . . . This is Sylvester Stallone. Give me a call . . ." It was these words that would set Jim Peterik on the road to rock 'n' roll immortality. After he and his Survivor bandmates recorded "Eye of the...- $16.95
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Vendor: Alfred Music
Ultimate Easy Guitar Collection
Warner Bros. Publications' new Ultimate Guitar Collection series is an incredible value and a tremendous resource. Each book contains more than 40 easy guitar arrangements---approximately 200 pages in each book Forty-nine classic songs all arranged in an easy-to-play guitar format, including the most important...- $17.99
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The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present
FROM THE BRAIN TRUST BEHIND PITCHFORKMEDIA.COM -- THE WEBSITE THE LOS ANGELES TIMES DECLARED "AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE IPO D GENERATION'S LEXICON, A MUST-READ" -- A FRESH GUIDE TO THE 500 BEST SONGS OF THE PAST THIRTY YEARS. Named the "best site for...- $16.00
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Elvis at 21 [limited Edition]: New York to Memphis
In 1956, a twenty-one-year-old Elvis Presley was at the beginning of his remarkable and unparalleled career and photographer Alfred Wertheimer was asked by Presley's new label, RCA Victor, to photograph the rising star. With unimpeded access to the young performer, Wertheimer was able to...- $395.00
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Mick Jagger
Author Phillip Norman, whose previous bestseller, John Lennon: The Life, was praised as a "haunting, mammoth, terrific piece of work" (New York Times Book Review) and whose classic Shout is widely considered to be the definitive biography of the Beatles, now turns his attention...- $17.99
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Vendor: 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,...- $200.00
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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. Through his highly original examination of these two musical legends, Duke University musicologist Thomas Brothers delivers a portrait of the creative process at work, demonstrating that the...- $17.95
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Vendor: Mallory Smart
I Keep My Visions to Myself
Step into Stevie's world, a 26-year-old musician on the brink of fame. A tour offer catapults her into an existential voyage through life's intricate maze. Within this tense spiritual journey, Stevie confronts the age-old dilemma of fame versus the safety of a simpler existence,...- $18.99
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George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door
Behind The Locked Door is Graeme Thomson s rich, insightful account of George Harrison s extraordinary life and career. As a Beatle, Harrison underwent a bewilderingly compressed early adulthood, buffeted by unprecedented levels of fame and success. "Beatlemania" offered remarkable experiences and opportunities but...- $23.99
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The Hot, Sweet, Smokey, Muddy Sound of Chinnichap and Mickie Most - The Greatest Glam Show in the World
This is the story of two of the greatest empires in the history of rock-and how the songwriting and production powerhouse that was Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, and the production and promotion genius of Mickey Most came to dominate the British charts for...- $24.99
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Where's Bowie?: David Bowie in Berlin: 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle
Find David Bowie in this interactive jigsaw puzzle, set in 70s Berlin - a city divided and in crisis, and one that Bowie called his home. Where's Bowie? is both a fun 500-piece detail-focused jigsaw puzzle, and a 'Find Bowie' activity too. Hidden in...- $14.95
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Lay It on the Line: A Backstage Pass to Rock Star Adventure, Conflict and Triumph
From Triumph superstar Rik Emmett comes the thrilling, inspiring story of a life of rock and roll While describing the impulse driving his life and work, Rik Emmett explains, "I was never in it for the sex and drugs -- ah, but the rock...- $21.95
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Black Book: The Live History of blur
Black Book is the live history of the band blur as chronicled through their concerts. In particular, it tells their story through the narrative of their live performance recordings. Included are sound quality ratings and detailed reviews for every available recording, over 200 concerts....- $16.00
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The World of Freddie Mercury 1000 Piece Puzzle: A Jigsaw Puzzle
Piece together the world of Freddie Mercury in this jigsaw puzzle that tells the story of his life and songs. From his childhood in Zanzibar and England to his meteoric rise to rock stardom with Queen and his tragic death from AIDS, there's a...- $21.99
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The Dead C's Clyma Est Mort
The Dead C's Clyma est mort (1993) is the record of a live gig for one person. Tom Lax was running the Siltbreeze label in Philadelphia and had come to New Zealand to meet the artists he was releasing. He heard The Dead C...- $80.00
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Rock Tonality Amplified: A Theory of Modality, Harmonic Function, and Tonal Hierarchy
Rock Tonality Amplified presents an in-depth exploration of rock tonality. Building on several decades of research, this book develops a comprehensive music theory designed to make sense of several essential components of tonality. Within, readers learn to locate the chords they hear through various...- $160.00
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Nuggets Redux: A Song-By-Song History of the Most Influential Album In Rock 'n' Roll!
Since its release in 1972, the multi-artist compilation Nuggets - featuring songs hand-chosen by legendary musician and rock critic Lenny Kaye - has arguably become the most influential album in rock 'n' roll history. With 27 songs spread across two vinyl records and packaged...- $17.99
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The Beatles on the Record - Uncensored
"I switched off from thinking about the whys, the wherefores, what-ifs, hows, could-have beens, and maybes." Pete Best This is the candid and unabridged story of the Beatles as told by the insiders who worked, recorded and toured with the group from the Hamburg...- $20.99
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Bob Dylan - No Direction Home: A Martin Scorsese Picture
(Music Sales America). With a treasure of authentic and vintage footage, a host of characters including Pete Seeger, Allen Ginsberg and Mavis Staples, and in-depth conversation with Dylan himself, Scorsese's Grammy-winning documentary captured a turbulent period in the history of folk and rock music....- $17.95
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Hound Dog
Many listeners first heard "Hound Dog" when Elvis Presley's single topped the pop, country, and R&B charts in 1956. But some fans already knew the song from Big Mama Thornton's earlier recording, a giant but exclusively R&B hit. In Hound Dog Eric Weisbard examines...- $19.95
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In Search of the Pleasure Palace: Disreputable Travels
'What happens to people like me who were once "pop" stars? Am I destined for a life of daytime television appearances, reunion tours and well-meaning strangers struggling to recognize me before hesitatingly asking "didn't you use to be Marc Almond?"' Despite an impending 45th...- $19.99
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Vendor: Greil Marcus
Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives
In June of 1992, when all the polls showed that Bill Clinton didn't have a chance, he took his saxophone onto the Arsenio Hall show, put on dark glasses, and blew Heartbreak Hotel. Greil Marcus, one of America's most imaginative and insightful popular culture...- $23.00
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Essential Elvis
From That's All Right to Way Down via Heartbreak Hotel, Jailhouse Rock, Mystery Train, Little Sister and American Trilogy among many others, Essential Elvis cuts through the myth and mess of the life and career of the 20th-century's first and greatest rock 'n' roll...- $10.00
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1972 When Progressive Rock Ruled the World
1972 was the year Progressive Rock came of age, when bands and artists still revered today produced some of their most ground-breaking, inventive, and enduring musical creations. In this fascinating and absorbing book, Kevan Furbank looks at some of the artists and albums that...- $22.95
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Talk Talk: Every Album, Every Song
In this era of lavish box sets and extravagant vinyl reissues, the sheer economy of Talk Talk's output feels terrific, refreshing and just right. During the group's ten-year lifespan, they released just five studio albums, but in the process, redefined contemporary music and spawned...- $22.95
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The British Beat Explosion: Rock 'n' Roll Island
Anyone with an interest in the history of UK rock 'n' roll is familiar with the Cavern Club and the role that Merseyside played in the story of the British Beat scene. But on a far less celebrated but no less significant path, over...- $18.99
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Peter Gill's Elvis Presley Quiz Book
Test your knowledge on the king of rock 'n' roll with this fabulous quiz book packed with 500 questions in 50 rounds.This is the perfect book for all Elvis Presley fans, whether lifelong experts or newbies on the road of Presley magic you will...- $10.74
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