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Author:Jerome Enders
Yonkers The Lost City Of Hip-Hop
Yonkers early Hip-Hop History - ( mid/late 70's) *Solo Sounds *The BedRock Crew *Just 4 *The Serious 3 *Wheels *Jackson St *King School. *Brown Eyes *Arthur's *School 12 What most have recently begun to realize and appreciate is the hip-hop music that comes from...- $19.99
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Author:Alexander Knapp
Ernest Bloch Studies
Ernest Bloch left his native Switzerland to settle in the United States in 1916. One of the great twentieth-century composers, he was influenced by a range of genres and styles - Jewish, American and Swiss - and his works reflect his lifelong struggle with...- $41.99
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Author:Brian J. Robb
Depeche Mode: Every Album, Every Song
For four decades, Depeche Mode dominated electronic music, from the na?e melodies of 1981's Speak & Spell through to 2023's Memento Mori. Through changing line-ups featuring Vince Clarke, Alan Wilder, and Andy Fletcher, singer Dave Gahan and main songwriter Martin Gore have been the...- $22.95
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Author:Nicole V. Gagné
Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music
Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on the most important composers, musicians, methods, styles, and media in modernist and postmodern classical music.Author: Nicole...- $140.00
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Author:Andreas Strl
Song Atlas
Song Atlas is a unique piece of social history by a German rhythm and blues fan who traveled the United States searching for the places referred to in the great blues and rock songs he loved so much. But his investigation of place and...- $13.99
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Author: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....- $18.00
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Author:Paul Th饕erge
Any Sound You Can Imagine: Making Music/Consuming Technology
Describes digital musical instruments, industries that supply and promote them, and the meanings they have for musicians.Winner of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) Book Award (1997)Recent innovations in musical instrument design are not simply a response to the needs...- $26.95
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Author:Shawn Reynaldo
First Floor Volume 1: Reflections on Electronic Music Culture
First Floor started small. At first it was just a newsletter, an outlet where veteran electronic music journalist Shawn Reynaldo could write and share his ideas without having to contend with outside editors or cater to social media algorithms. It was a blank canvas,...- $20.00
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Author:Joanna McNaney Stein
K.D. Lang's Ing駭ue
Canadian performer k.d. lang broke new ground in the 1980s by blending the genres of punk and country, dubbed "cowpunk," with her band, the Reclines. Despite Grammy-award-winning recordings and frequent North American TV spots, mainstream country radio excluded lang from airplay due to her...- $14.95
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Author:Rick Sowash
How Music Means
How does music convey meaning? The answer, known to Plato 2400 years ago, is all but forgotten. His insight, simple yet penetrating, hiding in plain sight, is almost never discussed today. In this book, the secret Plato perceived is revealed anew alongside the author's...- $25.00
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Author:Charlie D. Hankin
Break and Flow: Hip Hop Poetics in the Americas
Hip hop is a global form of creative expression. In Cuba, Brazil, and Haiti, rappers refuse the boundaries of hip hop's US genesis, claiming the art form as a means to empower themselves and their communities in the face of postcolonial racial and class...- $35.00
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Author:Jack White
The White Stripes Complete Lyrics
The White Stripes Complete Lyrics is a deluxe new 300+ page hardbound book documenting all of Jack White's original words written for the 6x Grammy Award-winning duo he and Meg White formed in 1997 through the release of their final album in 2007. The...- $55.00
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Author:Richard Cabut
Punk Is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night
This original collection of insight, analysis and conversation charts the course of punk from its underground origins, when it was an un-formed and utterly alluring near-secret, through its rapid development. Punk is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night takes in sex, style, politics and philosophy,...- $27.95
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Author:Andrew Shenton
The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Part
Arvo P rt is one of the most influential and widely performed contemporary composers. Around 1976 he developed an innovative new compositional technique called 'tintinnabuli' (Latin for 'sounding bells'), which has had an extraordinary degree of success. It is frequently performed around the world,...- $95.99
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Author:Janet K. Halfyard
The Music of Fantasy Cinema
Fantasy has had a modern resurgence in cinema due largely to the success of superhero narratives and the two major fantasy series, the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. Often regarded as mere escapism, works of both literature and cinema wishing to be...- $29.99
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Author:John Blaney
George Harrison: Soul Man Volume 1
George Harrison: Soul Man Vol. 1 is the first in-depth illustrated critical review of a remarkable musician, songwriter, producer and star. It maps his career from 1968 to in 1979. It places his songs in their historical, cultural and, crucially, spiritual context, and maps...- $75.00
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Author:Anon
Catalogue of Rare Old Violins, Violas and Violoncellos - Also Bows of Rare Makes
This vintage book contains a catalogue of the rare and antique violins offered for sale by the Lyon & Healy company of Chicago in 1917. For each piece there is provided an authentic photograph, as well as an expert description and other notable information....- $30.99
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Author:Art Tipaldi
Children of the Blues: 49 Musicians Shaping a New Blues Tradition
CHILDREN OF THE BLUES - 49 MUSICIANS SHAPING A NEW BLUES TRADITION - REFERENCEAuthor: Art TipaldiISBN-10: 0879307005ISBN-13: 9780879307004Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2002Pages: 338Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.16h x 6.03w x 0.81d- $19.99
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Author:Nicholas Cook
Music: Why It Matters
As countries went into lockdown in 2020, people turned to music for comfort and solidarity. Neighbours sang to each other from their balconies; people participated in online music sessions that created an experience of socially distanced togetherness. Nicholas Cook argues that the value of...- $12.95
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Author:Dave Thompson
Reggae & Caribbean Music: Third Ear: The Essential Listening Companion
REGGAE AND CARIBBEAN MUSIC: THIRD EARAuthor: Dave ThompsonISBN-10: 0879306556ISBN-13: 9780879306557Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2002Pages: 546Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.30lbsSize: 9.23h x 7.37w x 1.29dReview Citation(s): American Reference Bks Annual 01/01/2003 pg. 522- $24.99
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Author:Wolfgang Marx
Music and Death: Funeral Music, Memory and Re-Evaluating Life
Music gives specific meanings to our lives, but also to how we experience death; it forms a central part of death rituals, consoles survivors, and celebrates the deceased. Music & Death investigates different musical engagements with death. Its eleven essays examine a broad range...- $115.00
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Author:John Corbett
Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium
From scouring flea markets and eBay to maxing out their credit cards, record collectors will do just about anything to score a long-sought-after album. In Vinyl Freak, music writer, curator, and collector John Corbett burrows deep inside the record fiend's mind, documenting and reflecting...- $26.95
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Author:Andy Cowan
B-Side: A Flipsided History of Pop
Pop music would be a different beast without the B-Side. Music history is riven with songs deemed throwaway that revolted against their lowly status and refused to be denied. Be it rock'n'roll's national anthem ('Rock Around The Clock'), disco's enduring game-changer ('I Feel Love')...- $25.95
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Author:Mina Carson
Girls Rock!: Fifty Years of Women Making Music
" With a foreword by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards Chosen by the The Amelia Bloomer Project committee for their 2005 list of recommended feminist books for young readers. Girls Rock! explores the many ways women have defined themselves as rock musicians in an...- $40.00
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Author:Jordan Bassett
Little Richard's Here's Little Richard
From male bisexuality to religion in pop, Little Richard spent the 1950s pioneering ideas that are still too challenging for the mainstream. As a Black multimillionaire rock star, he was the most exciting person on the planet between 1955 and 1957, the years in...- $14.95
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Author:Raymond Knapp
The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity
The American musical has achieved and maintained relevance to more people in America than any other performance-based art. This thoughtful history of the genre, intended for readers of all stripes, offers probing discussions of how American musicals, especially through their musical numbers, advance themes...- $32.00
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Author:Charlie D. Hankin
Break and Flow: Hip Hop Poetics in the Americas
Hip hop is a global form of creative expression. In Cuba, Brazil, and Haiti, rappers refuse the boundaries of hip hop's US genesis, claiming the art form as a means to empower themselves and their communities in the face of postcolonial racial and class...- $115.00
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Author:Court Carney
Cuttin' Up: How Early Jazz Got America's Ear
The emergence of jazz out of New Orleans is part of the American story, but the creation of this music was more than a regional phenomenon: it also crossed geographical, cultural, and technological lines. Court Carney takes a new look at the spread and...- $24.95
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Author:Bobby Cochran
Three Steps to Heaven: The Eddie Cochran Story
THREE STEPS TO HEAVEN: THE EDDIE COCHRAN STORYAuthor: Bobby CochranISBN-10: 0634032526ISBN-13: 9780634032523Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2003Pages: 278Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.42h x 6.34w x 0.71d- $33.00
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Author:Lucretia Tye Jasmine
'70s Teen Pop
Teen pop is a sub-genre of popular music marketed to tweens and teens. Its melodic yearning and veneer of sincerity appeal to an emerging romantic eroticism and autonomy. But tweens and teens buy music that isn't primarily marketed to them, too. Teen pop encompasses...- $19.95
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Author:John Butt
Playing with History: The Historical Approach to Musical Performance
Why do we feel the need to perform music in a historically informed style? Is this need related to wider cultural concerns? In this challenging study, John Butt sums up recent debates on the nature of the early music movement, calling upon a seemingly...- $42.99
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Author:Katie Kapurch
Blackbird: How Black Musicians Sang the Beatles Into Being and Sang Back to Them Ever After
From the beginning, the Beatles acknowledged in interviews their debt to Black music, apparent in their covers of and written original songs inspired by Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino, the Shirelles, and other giants of R&B. Blackbird goes deeper, appreciating unacknowledged forerunners, as...- $24.95
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Author:Ayana O. Smith
Dreaming with Open Eyes: Opera, Aesthetics, and Perception in Arcadian Rome
Dreaming with Open Eyes examines visual symbolism in late seventeenth-century Italian opera, contextualizing the genre amid the broad ocularcentric debates emerging at the crossroads of the early modern period and the Enlightenment. Ayana O. Smith reevaluates significant aspects of the Arcadian reform aesthetic and...- $70.00
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Author:Don Harr疣
Salamone Rossi: Jewish Musician in Late Renaissance Mantua
Salamone Rossi (c.1570-c.1627) occupies a unique place in Renaissance music culture: he was the earliest outstanding Jewish composer to work in the European art music tradition. Working for the Gonzaga dukes in Mantua, yet remaining faithful to his own religious community, Rossi has a...- $130.00
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Author:Peter La Chapelle
Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California Volume 22
Proud to Be an Okie brings to life the influential country music scene that flourished in and around Los Angeles from the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s to the early 1970s. The first work to fully illuminate the political and cultural aspects of...- $34.95
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Author:Barry Millington
Wagner in Performance
Despite the voluminous literature on Wagner's operas, little has been published that does justice to all the elements of their performance. This book, addressed to both specialists and the opera-going public, brings together a team of authorities from around the world to examine the...- $31.00
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Author:Andrew Chan
Why Mariah Carey Matters
The first book to critically examine the legacy of pop superstar Mariah Carey. When it comes to Mariah Carey, star power is never in doubt. She has sold hundreds of millions of albums and cut more chart-topping hits than any other solo artist--ever. And...- $22.95
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Author: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...- $34.95
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Author: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...- $19.99
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Author:Elijah Wald
Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties
One of the music world's pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan "went electric" at the Newport Folk Festival, timed to coincide with the event's fiftieth anniversary.On the evening of July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan took the stage at...- $18.99
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Author:Carrie Tipton
From Dixie to Rocky Top: Music and Meaning in Southeastern Conference Football
Listen as you read! From Dixie to Rocky Top: Book Playlist, now on Spotify. The first book to explore the history of college fight songs as a culturally important phenomenon, From Dixie to Rocky Top zeroes in on the US South, where college football...- $34.95
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Author:Phil Strongman
Pretty Vacant
Author: Phil StrongmanISBN-10: 0752882414ISBN-13: 9780752882413Publisher: W&nLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/22/2007Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.67d- $27.99
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Author:Thomas Kulka
Kitsch and Art
What is kitsch? What is behind its appeal? More important, what is wrong with kitsch? Though central to our modern and postmodern culture, kitsch has not been seriously and comprehensively analyzed; its aesthetic worthlessness has been generally assumed but seldom explained. Kitsch and Art...- $41.95
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Author:Jens Gerrit Papenburg
Listening Devices: Music Media in the Pre-Digital Era
From 1940 to 1990, new machines and devices radically changed listening to music. Small and large single records, new kinds of jukeboxes and loudspeaker systems not only made it possible to playback music in a different way, they also evidence a fundamental transformation of...- $120.00
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Author:Philip Alperson
What Is Music?: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Music
Contributors to this volume are Philip Alperson, Francis Sparshott, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Edward T. Cone, Peter Kivy, Jenefer Robinson, Joseph Margolis, Arnold Berleant, Morris Grossman, Jerrold Levinson, Stephen Davies, Martin Donougho, Roger Scruton, and Rose Rosengard Subotnik.Author: Philip AlpersonISBN-10: 0271013184ISBN-13: 9780271013183Publisher: Penn State University PressLanguage:...- $37.95
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Author:Wilfried Raussert
Negotiating Temporal Differences: Blues, Jazz and Narrativity in African Culture
Exploring the temporal dimension of African American music in its development from early forms of blues and jazz to the free and fast-paced sequences of jazz musicians such as John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman, this volume addresses music as a key metaphor for the...- $31.00
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Author:Elsie Walker
Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory
Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory breaks new ground by redirecting the arguments of foundational texts within film theory to film sound tracks. Walker includes sustained analyses of particular films according to a range of theoretical approaches: psychoanalysis, feminism, genre studies, post-colonialism, and queer...- $53.00
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Author:Carol Vernallis
Unruly Media: YouTube, Music Video, and the New Digital Cinema
Unruly Media argues that we are the crest of a new international style in which sonic and visual parameters become heightened and accelerated. This audiovisual turn calls for new forms of attention. Post-classical cinema, with its multi-plot narratives and flashy style, fragments under the...- $38.99
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Author:Pat Christenson
Rock Vegas: Live Music Explodes in the Neon Desert
As recently as the early 1990s, Las Vegas was considered the place where headlining bands went to die; the Entertainment Capital of the World didn't attract a major touring act until 1993. Compared to the rest of the country, Vegas wasn't only far behind...- $19.95
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Author:David C. Bennett
CCM Is Not The Problem, It Is Only A Symptom
The Book's Usefulness. It is our hope and prayer that this book might be used of the Lord to convince and encourage even further those who are concerned about music in their churches. It will equip the reader with important facts to enable them...- $10.00
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