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  • An Original Voice in Twentieth-century Music by Crawford, Caroline
    Caroline Crawford

    An Original Voice in Twentieth-century Music

    Explore the life and work of a significant yet often overlooked figure in 20th-century music through "An Original Voice in Twentieth-century Music." This oral history transcript offers unique insights into the composer's creative process, influences, and legacy. Featuring contributions from Caroline Crawford, David Sheinfeld,...
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  • Giant Steps: My Improbable Journey from Stage Lights to Executive Heights by Shulman, Derek
    Derek Shulman

    Giant Steps: My Improbable Journey from Stage Lights to Executive Heights

    In Giant Steps, Derek Shulman chronicles a truly incredible life and career in music--first as the leader of the progressive-rock pioneers Gentle Giant, then as the record-label executive responsible for cultivating and signing the likes of Bon Jovi, Dream Theater, and Slipknot and orchestrating...
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  • The Pocket Kendrick Lamar by Gemini
    Gemini

    The Pocket Kendrick Lamar

    Dive into the world of Kendrick Lamar, and celebrate the artist's rise from Compton rapper to hip-hop royalty.This book is your backstage pass to everything K-Dot - tracing Kendrick Lamar's Californian roots through his hip-hop rise, to that unforgettable 2025 Super Bowl halftime performance....
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  • The Pocket Chappell Roan by Gemini
    Gemini

    The Pocket Chappell Roan

    A deep dive into the career, creativity, and influence of Chappell Roan, exploring her groundbreaking music and cultural impact.Pop visionary, trendsetter, and boundary-pushing artist, Chappell has redefined modern music with her genre-blurring sound and fearless creativity. From gorgeous hits Good Luck, Babe! and Pink...
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  • The Life and Music of Gérard Grisey: Delirium and Form by Brown, Jeffrey Arlo
    Jeffrey Arlo Brown

    The Life and Music of Gérard Grisey: Delirium and Form

    The first biography of the composer Gérard Grisey shows how the artist's sensuality and rigor came together to form the musical genre known as spectralism. The French composer Gérard Grisey (1946-98) changed the course of music history with his small but potent output. Labeled...
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  • Joachim Andersen: Flutist, Conductor, and Composer of More Than the Etudes by Dzapo, Kyle
    Kyle Dzapo

    Joachim Andersen: Flutist, Conductor, and Composer of More Than the Etudes

    A fascinating, influential musician of the late nineteenth century, Joachim Andersen was the founding principal flutist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, a renowned virtuoso and composer of flute music, and a leader in Scandinavian musical life. Every flutist plays his etudes, but few know...
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  • Oceans of Time: The Musical Autobiography of Billy Hart by Hart, Billy
    Billy Hart

    Oceans of Time: The Musical Autobiography of Billy Hart

    Oceans of Time Charts the Rhythmic Course of Jazz Master Billy HartFew drummers have traversed more stylistic terrain or logged more miles behind the world's greatest jazz musicians than Billy Hart. From Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock to McCoy Tyner and Wes Montgomery, Hart...
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  • Smile: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Brian Wilson by Leaf, David
    David Leaf

    Smile: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Brian Wilson

    "Brian Wilson. SMiLE: Excellent! The man is my hero. I love him. I weep when I hear his band, I hear him sing. I love him." --Paul McCartneyThis is the story of the Brian Wilson's legendary SMiLE album from Beach Boys authority David Leaf....
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  • Tales from Topographic Oceans - Yes Album Listening Guide by Mulryne, Kevin
    Kevin Mulryne

    Tales from Topographic Oceans - Yes Album Listening Guide

    Tales from Topographic Oceans has been described as progressive rock's biggest and most difficult work. The story that surrounds its creation, challenging reception and troublesome but ground-breaking tour deserves careful and painstaking attention. In this book, Kevin Mulryne delves more deeply than ever before...
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  • Laughing Hyenas by Miller, Steve
    Steve Miller

    Laughing Hyenas

    Laughing Hyenas is the saga of one of the most uncompromising quartets in post-punk's artistically dubious history. It's a legacy of hell-bent self-destruction in the name of making an unholy racket, a sound both original and traditional, fueled by a love of punk rock,...
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  • Nofx: Forty Years of "Problematic" Punk Provocations by Pearson, David
    David Pearson

    Nofx: Forty Years of "Problematic" Punk Provocations

    This collection of scholarly essays analyzes how NOFX's aesthetics of punk provocation and discomfort provokes the band's listeners to confront contradictions and conflicts in society concerning politics, identity, authenticity, and decorum. This collection of scholarly essays analyzes how NOFX's aesthetics of punk provocation and...
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  • Shostakovich's Ballets and the Search for Soviet Dance by Kennedy, Laura E.
    Laura E. Kennedy

    Shostakovich's Ballets and the Search for Soviet Dance

    The late 1920s and early 1930s were a pivotal moment in Russian cultural development: a time of uncertainty but also of openness and experimentation in the arts and especially in dance. During this period in Leningrad, Dmitri Shostakovich composed three ballets--The Golden Age, The...
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  • Martinu and His World by Brezina, Ales
    Ales Brezina

    Martinu and His World

    A collection of essays and documents illuminating the work of Bohuslav Martinů, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. Bohuslav Martinů was one of the most extraordinary and prolific composers of the twentieth century. Martinů and His World offers a portrait of the...
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  • J.J. Cale - Remembering his unique laidback music: Analysis of a life's work, the book about the legendary songwriter and founder of the Tulsa sound by Koechli, Richard
    Richard Koechli

    J.J. Cale - Remembering his unique laidback music: Analysis of a life's work, the book about the legendary songwriter and founder of the Tulsa sound

    He is considered one of the most influential songwriters of the 20th century, founder of the Tulsa sound, forerunner of the Americana concept, pioneer of the "laid-back" brand. Admired by stars such as Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Tom Petty, Johnny Cash, Carlos Santana and...
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  • Quicksilver Messenger Service & the End of an Era by Greenland, David R.
    David R. Greenland

    Quicksilver Messenger Service & the End of an Era

    Best known for such timeless anthems as "Fresh Air," "What About Me," and the classic album Happy Trails, Quicksilver Messenger Service, along with the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane, was one of the most renowned and influential bands to emerge from San Francisco during...
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  • Rock of Pages: The Literary Tradition of 1980s Heavy Metal by Kavadlo, Jesse
    Jesse Kavadlo

    Rock of Pages: The Literary Tradition of 1980s Heavy Metal

    Rock of Pages provides contexts and close readings of 1980s heavy metal with forty years of hindsight, drawing upon analytical frameworks usually associated with literature and literary studies. Based on decades of work as a professor of literature and as a musician, Jesse Kavadlo...
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  • Rock of Pages: The Literary Tradition of 1980s Heavy Metal by Kavadlo, Jesse
    Jesse Kavadlo

    Rock of Pages: The Literary Tradition of 1980s Heavy Metal

    Rock of Pages provides contexts and close readings of 1980s heavy metal with forty years of hindsight, drawing upon analytical frameworks usually associated with literature and literary studies. Based on decades of work as a professor of literature and as a musician, Jesse Kavadlo...
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  • A Dream Come True: The Collaboration of David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti by Eicke, Stephan
    Stephan Eicke

    A Dream Come True: The Collaboration of David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti

    A Dream Come True is an extensive investigation of the working relationship between two revered artists, David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti, as an insightful collage that bridges the gap between academic analysis and investigative journalism. The working-relationship between director David Lynch and composer Angelo...
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  • Robert Forster's Danger in the Past by Chapman, Patrick
    Patrick Chapman

    Robert Forster's Danger in the Past

    Here is an in-depth exploration of Robert Forster's debut solo album, Danger in the Past (1990). Dublin, Ireland. That World Cup summer of 1990. A 21-year-old poet listens entranced when his friend puts on an LP, The Go-Betweens: 1978-1990. As the city outside goes...
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  • Various Artists' Truckload of Sky: The Lost Songs of David McComb Vol. 1 by D'Cruz, Glenn
    Glenn D'Cruz

    Various Artists' Truckload of Sky: The Lost Songs of David McComb Vol. 1

    David McComb, the driving force behind The Triffids, shaped one of Australia's most revered albums, Born Sandy Devotional ( 1986). But after the band's breakup, illness curtailed his solo career. He died in 1999, age 36. Truckload of Sky: The Lost Songs of David...
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  • Various Artists' Truckload of Sky: The Lost Songs of David McComb Vol. 1 by D'Cruz, Glenn
    Glenn D'Cruz

    Various Artists' Truckload of Sky: The Lost Songs of David McComb Vol. 1

    David McComb, the driving force behind The Triffids, shaped one of Australia's most revered albums, Born Sandy Devotional ( 1986). But after the band's breakup, illness curtailed his solo career. He died in 1999, age 36. Truckload of Sky: The Lost Songs of David...
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  • Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's Sorrow Tears and Blood by Shonekan, Stephanie
    Stephanie Shonekan

    Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's Sorrow Tears and Blood

    Sorrow Tears and Blood offers a glimpse into the complicated social, cultural, and political phenomenon that is Nigeria. Though Nigeria is the most populous African country, and sometimes called the "Giant of Africa," Fela's album sheds a sharp light on the reasons why Nigeria...
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  • silverchair's Frogstomp by Thompson, Jay Daniel
    Jay Daniel Thompson

    silverchair's Frogstomp

    Revisits Australian rock band silverchair's globally successful debut album Frogstomp (1995) and asserts that the band is not an imitation of American grunge nor an emblem of Gen X angst. Frogstomp transformed Australian rockers silverchair from an(other) unknown teen garage band to an internationally...
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  • Café Tacvba's Re by Esterrich, Carmelo
    Carmelo Esterrich

    Café Tacvba's Re

    This book is about unveiling and exploring the many layered gestures of Re. Re, the 1994 album by the Mexican group Café Tacvba, is a spectacularly unique musical object that adopts and adapts myriad musical genres with the pulse, the attitude, and the energy...
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  • Crowded House's Together Alone by Smith, Barnaby
    Barnaby Smith

    Crowded House's Together Alone

    Intertextual, passionate and personal throughout, Crowded House's Together Alone is a key addition to the surprisingly limited range of scholarship on one of Australasia's most successful and adored bands. Fusing pop music with place and landscape, Crowded House's Together Alone (1993) was unprecedented in...
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  • Crowded House's Together Alone by Smith, Barnaby
    Barnaby Smith

    Crowded House's Together Alone

    Intertextual, passionate and personal, combining poetics, psychogeography, music theory, lyric analysis and biography, Crowded House's Together Alone is a key addition to scholarship on this cherished band. Fusing pop music with place and landscape, Crowded House's Together Alone was unprecedented in its Australasian context,...
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  • Disruptive Frequencies in Experimental Sound: Black and South Asian Artists in Their Own Words by Patel, Amit Dinesh
    Amit Dinesh Patel

    Disruptive Frequencies in Experimental Sound: Black and South Asian Artists in Their Own Words

    This volume presents the voices of diverse and often marginalized practitioners, celebrating Black and South Asian experimental sound musicians and their underrepresented music practices. Black and South Asian artists are some of the least represented within the field of experimental sound. Ethnically diverse artists...
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  • The Cure: A Perfect Dream by Gittins, Ian
    Ian Gittins

    The Cure: A Perfect Dream

    The story of The Cure: a tall tale of a truly unique British band. The Cure's story is a fantastical pop fable, but their trajectory has not been one of unbroken success. Along the way, their uneven, uneasy pop odyssey has taken in fierce...
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  • The Operas of Sergei Prokofiev by Guillaumier, Christina
    Christina Guillaumier

    The Operas of Sergei Prokofiev

    The first book in the English language to engage with Prokofiev's operatic output in its entirety. The operas of Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) mark a significant contribution to twentieth-century music and theatre. Opera was Prokofiev's preferred genre; not counting juvenile and unfinished works, he wrote...
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  • Johann Sebastian Bach - Cello Suite VI, BWV 1012: Arranged for Guitar by Goodman, Jeffrey
    Jeffrey Goodman

    Johann Sebastian Bach - Cello Suite VI, BWV 1012: Arranged for Guitar

    Bach's Suites á Violoncello Solo senza Basso are thought to have been composed during 1717-1723, when Bach served as Kapellmeister in Köthen. Although no manuscript in Bach's own hand has survived, there is a manuscript in the hand of Bach's second wife Anna Magdalena...
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  • David Bowie and the Moving Image: A Standing Cinema by Reed, Katherine
    Katherine Reed

    David Bowie and the Moving Image: A Standing Cinema

    The central image of David Bowie's "Life on Mars?" could have been ripped from his own experience: a child sits "hooked to the silver screen," reliving fantastical scenes played out on film. Throughout his life, Bowie was similarly transfixed by the power of film....
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  • Mothership Connected: The Women of Parliament-Funkadelic by Neblett, Seth
    Seth Neblett

    Mothership Connected: The Women of Parliament-Funkadelic

    An oral history with the women of Parliament-Funkadelic, from forming the band to landing the mothership. Parliament-Funkadelic is perhaps the greatest funk band ever assembled. Yet at the time of the group's induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, none of the...
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  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Two And Three Part Inventions For The Pianoforte (1894) by Bach, Johann Sebastian
    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Johann Sebastian Bach: Two And Three Part Inventions For The Pianoforte (1894)

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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  • Honest: My Story So Far by Contostavlos, Tulisa
    Tulisa Contostavlos

    Honest: My Story So Far

    Tulisa Contostavlos is one of the most talented and high-profile recording artists working in the UK today. She has three platinum N-Dubz albums, four MOBO awards, a groundbreaking drama series, two documentaries, a MIND award and an X Factor judge's win under her belt....
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  • Martinu and His World by Brezina, Ales
    Ales Brezina

    Martinu and His World

    A collection of essays and documents illuminating the work of Bohuslav Martinů, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. Bohuslav Martinů was one of the most extraordinary and prolific composers of the twentieth century. Martinů and His World offers a portrait of the...
    $35.00
    $35.00
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  • What Did You Hear?: The Music of Bob Dylan by Rings, Steven
    Steven Rings

    What Did You Hear?: The Music of Bob Dylan

    Discover a new side of the songs of Bob Dylan, as a music theorist considers the possibilities ingrained in rough sounds, peculiar intonation, and a raspy voice. Folk troubadour, rock star, country crooner, cultural shapeshifter--for a musician who adopted so many styles, Bob Dylan...
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  • Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons by Stravinsky, Igor
    Igor Stravinsky

    Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons

    Timeless lessons on the pleasures of listening, the dilemmas of composition, and the meaning of artistic freedom from a founder of musical modernism. In October 1939, Igor Stravinsky took the stage at Harvard not as a conductor but as a speaker. Invited to deliver...
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  • J.J. Cale - Remembering his unique laidback music: Analysis of a life's work, the book about the legendary songwriter and founder of the Tulsa sound by Koechli, Richard
    Richard Koechli

    J.J. Cale - Remembering his unique laidback music: Analysis of a life's work, the book about the legendary songwriter and founder of the Tulsa sound

    He is considered one of the most influential songwriters of the 20th century, founder of the Tulsa sound, forerunner of the Americana concept, pioneer of the "laid-back" brand. Admired by stars such as Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Tom Petty, Johnny Cash, Carlos Santana and...
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  • Mark Knopfler (Volume 1, Dire Straits) - the real 500-page book: Celtic Bard, Guitar Mystic, Melody Maker, Superstar - Mark Knopfler's phenomenal care by Koechli, Richard
    Richard Koechli

    Mark Knopfler (Volume 1, Dire Straits) - the real 500-page book: Celtic Bard, Guitar Mystic, Melody Maker, Superstar - Mark Knopfler's phenomenal care

    The most comprehensive 500-page book about Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits (written by a real author, no AI). Sensitive storyteller, master of subtle virtuosity, relaxed superstar - Knopfler's career breaks almost all records. Renowned Swiss musician and author Richard Koechli dives deep into the...
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  • Mark Knopfler (Volume 1, Dire Straits) - the real 500-page book: Celtic Bard, Guitar Mystic, Melody Maker, Superstar - Mark Knopfler's phenomenal care by Koechli, Richard
    Richard Koechli

    Mark Knopfler (Volume 1, Dire Straits) - the real 500-page book: Celtic Bard, Guitar Mystic, Melody Maker, Superstar - Mark Knopfler's phenomenal care

    The most comprehensive 500-page book about Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits (written by a real author, no AI). Sensitive storyteller, master of subtle virtuosity, relaxed superstar - Knopfler's career breaks almost all records. Renowned Swiss musician and author Richard Koechli dives deep into the...
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  • Quicksilver Messenger Service & the End of an Era by Greenland, David R.
    David R. Greenland

    Quicksilver Messenger Service & the End of an Era

    Best known for such timeless anthems as "Fresh Air," "What About Me," and the classic album Happy Trails, Quicksilver Messenger Service, along with the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane, was one of the most renowned and influential bands to emerge from San Francisco during...
    $25.00
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    $25.00
  • Jerry Garcia by Troy, Sandy
    Sandy Troy

    Jerry Garcia

    Author: Sandy TroyISBN-10: 1955690146ISBN-13: 9781955690140Publisher: Di Angelo PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/21/2021Pages: 274Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
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  • Defying Gravity: Jordan's Story by Mooney, Jordan
    Jordan Mooney

    Defying Gravity: Jordan's Story

    The image of Jordan in her white shards of beehive and Mondrian make-up remains one of the most iconic in pop history. Yet few truly understood what was happening behind those watchful eyes when anarchy hit the UK.How did a ballet-obsessed girl from sleepy...
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  • Diary of a Rock 'n' Roll Star by Hunter, Ian
    Ian Hunter

    Diary of a Rock 'n' Roll Star

    First published in 1974, Ian Hunter's Diary of a Rock 'n' Roll Star is an unfiltered chronicle of Mott the Hoople's 1972 US tour that captures the raw energy, chaos, and charm of life on the road in the Seventies. Part memoir, part cultural...
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  • Eyeliner's Buy Now by Brown, Michael
    Michael Brown

    Eyeliner's Buy Now

    Michael Brown undertakes a thorough study of Eyeliner's BUY NOW, a vaporwave homage to the kitsch electronic sounds of the 1980s and 1990s. Eyeliner's BUY NOW (2015) belongs to a new genre for our times: vaporwave. Emerging in the early 2010s on the internet,...
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  • Story-Lives of Great Musicians by Rowbotham, Francis Jameson
    Francis Jameson Rowbotham

    Story-Lives of Great Musicians

    Delve into the captivating world of classical music with "Story-Lives of Great Musicians" by Francis Jameson Rowbotham. This meticulously prepared print edition offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives and legacies of celebrated composers and musicians. Explore the narratives behind the masterful works that...
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  • Bruce Springsteen and Born to Run: 50 Years by Egan, Sean
    Sean Egan

    Bruce Springsteen and Born to Run: 50 Years

    Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Bruce Springsteen's masterpiece of American rock 'n' roll with this handsomely produced and stunningly illustrated volume. Bruce Springsteen and Born to Run: 50 Years is the definitive story of a landmark album in American rock music. In 1975, Bruce...
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  • Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World de la Soul Made by McCoy, Austin
    Austin McCoy

    Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World de la Soul Made

    Author: Austin McCoyISBN-10: 1668047942ISBN-13: 9781668047941Publisher: Atria/One Signal PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/27/2026Pages: 304Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.99d
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  • Shostakovich's Ballets and the Search for Soviet Dance by Kennedy, Laura E.
    Laura E. Kennedy

    Shostakovich's Ballets and the Search for Soviet Dance

    The late 1920s and early 1930s were a pivotal moment in Russian cultural development: a time of uncertainty but also of openness and experimentation in the arts and especially in dance. During this period in Leningrad, Dmitri Shostakovich composed three ballets--The Golden Age, The...
    $39.99
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  • Truly by Richie, Lionel
    Lionel Richie

    Truly

    The long-awaited memoir of the legendary Lionel Richie.As a storyteller second to none, Lionel Richie is ready to tell it all. In this intimate, deeply candid memoir, Lionel revisits hilarious and harrowing events to inspire all who doubt themselves or feel their dreams don't...
    $49.99
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