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Vendor: John Cage
Love, Icebox: Letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham
Cage's passionate, distraught and affectionate letters to Cunningham provide a vivid portrait of the start of their life togetherA New York Times critics' pick Best Art Books 2019 These early letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham will be revelatory, for while the two...- $24.95
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Vendor: Paul Roberts
Reflections: The Piano Music of Maurice Ravel
The piano music of Maurice Ravel is among the most thrilling, the most colorful, and, for pianists, the most challenging of the repertoire. This book is about how performers and listeners can discover it and relate to it - how it sounds and feels...- $30.00
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Vendor: Mac Montandon
Innocent When You Dream: The Tom Waits Reader
The first collection of writings about Tom Waits -- interviews, profiles, conversations, and more -- spanning the artist's thirty-year career in music, film and theater Over the past three decades, Tom Waits has achieved the kind of top-shelf cult status most artists only dream...- $24.99
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Vendor: Eric Sackheim
The Blues Line: Blues Lyrics from Leadbelly to Muddy Waters
Transcribed from 78 rpm recordings and preserved here long after many of the records have disappeared, this collection of nearly three hundred songs from more than one hundred singers celebrates the diversity of feeling and form that defines the blues. Ma Rainey, Blind Lemon...- $25.99
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Vendor: Mick Wall
Like a Bat Out of Hell: The Larger Than Life Story of Meat Loaf
'A passionate, pacey tome you should do anything for a copy of' - Kerrang! "I never wanted to be a big star. I just wanted to be the biggest at what I do! Powerful, unstoppable, heavy - when that word still meant something good!"...- $15.99
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Vendor: John Fahey
Vampire Vultures
A wide range of memoir-like pieces, including interviews, letters, and verse, makes this collection a fitting companion to Fahey's How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life. Published posthumously, this volume rounds out the life of the legendary guitarist and composer, providing more backstory behind his...- $20.98
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Vendor: Brian Newbould
Schubert and the Symphony: A New Perspective
First full-length study of Schubert's career as a symphonist. Astonishingly, Schubert's symphonies have never received the detailed study that their prominence in the orchestral repertoire would suggest they deserve. In this book Professor Brian Newbould, perhaps the best-known of contemporary Schubert scholars, examines each...- $36.95
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Vendor: Philip Kennicott
Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning
As his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began to listen to the music of Bach obsessively. It was the only music that didn't seem trivial or irrelevant, and it enabled him to both experience her death and remove himself from it. For him, Bach's...- $26.95
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Vendor: William Cowdery
The Compleat Mozart: A Guide to the Musical Works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Mozart's death in 1791, this book is designed to be a guide to the composer's works and is aimed at the music-lover who wishes to read something informative about any particular piece. Although there are many...- $35.00
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Vendor: Will Birch
Cruel to Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick Lowe
The definitive biography of singer-songwriter Nick Lowe, best-known for "Cruel to Be Kind" and "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" Described as "Britain's greatest living songwriter," Nick Lowe has made his mark as a pioneer of pub rock, power-pop, and punk rock...- $28.00
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Vendor: Bing Crosby
Call Me Lucky: Bing Crosby's Own Story
A candid self-portrait of one of the most gifted of all American entertainers Bing Crosby once said, when asked to explain his success, "Every man who sees one of my movies or who listens to my records or who hears me on the radio,...- $21.99
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Vendor: Ian Carr
Keith Jarrett PB
Keith Jarrett is probably the most influential jazz pianist living today: his concerts have made him world famous. He was a child prodigy who had his first solo performance at the age of seven. In the sixties he played with the Jazz Messengers and...- $19.99
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Vendor: Mary Wilson
Supreme Glamour
As Motown's leading act in the 1960s, The Supremes became synonymous with glamorous, elegant, coordinated ensembles. Supreme Glamour presents founding member Mary Wilson's unparalleled collection, showcasing thirty-two of the group's most eye-catching gowns, meticulously reassembled and photographed on the Grammy Museum stage. Detailed captions...- $40.00
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Vendor: Giacomo Puccini
Puccini's La Boheme (the Dover Opera Libretto Series)
Next to Verdi's A da, Giacomo Puccini's La Boh me is the most popular opera ever written. Performances of A da, La Boh me, Carmen, and Don Giovanni -- the four operas most often performed -- constitute approximately 75 percent of the yearly schedule...- $9.95
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Vendor: Paul Brannigan
This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl
The biography of the extraordinary career of Dave Grohl, drummer of Nirvana, front man of the Foo Fighters, based on original and exclusive interviews ("A rich history"--New York Times Book Review)This Is a Call, the first in-depth, definitive biography of Dave Grohl, tells the...- $21.99
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Vendor: Richard Langham Smith
Bizet's Carmen Uncovered
Bizet's Carmen Uncovered exposes the myths and stereotypes that so often surround this much loved opera by exploring its first staging, and the particularly Spanish contexts in which the opera was conceived, written, and staged. What were the forces that brought Carmen to the...- $60.00
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Vendor: Greil Marcus
The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes
Previously published as Invisible Republic and already considered a classic of modern American cultural criticism, this is an updated edition of Greil Marcus's acclaimed book on the secret music made by Bob Dylan and the Band in 1967, which introduced a phrase that has...- $21.99
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Vendor: Sidney Bechet
Treat It Gentle: An Autobiography
A jazz legend shares his life in a story as lyrical as his music A legend on both the clarinet and the soprano saxophone, one of the most brilliant exponents of New Orleans jazz, Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) played with such fellow jazz legends as...- $21.99
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Vendor: Maynard Solomon
Mozart: A Life
"Maynard Solomon writes with the grace of a novelist, the insight of a philosopher, and the precision of a detective. We come to know Mozart personally, as a musical genius, but more than that, as a living, breathing, thinking person." --Yo-Yo MaConsidered one of...- $22.99
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Vendor: Roger Steffens
So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley
Renowned reggae historian Roger Steffens's riveting oral history of Bob Marley's life draws on four decades of intimate interviews with band members, family, lovers, and confidants--many speaking publicly for the first time. Hailed by the New York Times Book Review as a "crucial voice"...- $18.99
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Vendor: James R. Gaines
Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment
Johann Sebastian Bach created what may be the most celestial and profound body of music in history; Frederick the Great built the colossus we now know as Germany, and along with it a template for modern warfare. Their fleeting encounter in 1747 signals a...- $16.99
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Vendor: Jas Obrecht
Stone Free: Jimi Hendrix in London, September 1966-June 1967
A compelling portrait of rock's greatest guitarist at the moment of his ascendance, Stone Free is the first book to focus exclusively on the happiest and most productive period of Jimi Hendrix's life. As it begins in the fall of 1966, he's an under-sung,...- $24.00
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Vendor: Jim Marshall
Johnny Cash at Folsom and San Quentin: Photographs by Jim Marshall
A powerful portrait of a legendary musician by a legendary photographerCarefully curated with full access to the Jim Marshall Archive, this powerful oversize volume offers the definitive view of Johnny Cash's prison concerts at Folsom in 1968 and San Quentin in 1969. Jim Marshall...- $49.95
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Vendor: Steven Y. Landry
Beatles Day in New Orleans
On September 16, 1964, the Beatles performed in New Orleans' City Park. The city already played a large role in the music of the Fab Four, with John Lennon first hearing a New Orleans R&B record in 1956. This fun and meticulous look at...- $27.95
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Vendor: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Three Mozart Libretti: The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così Fan Tutte, Complete in Italian and English
Mozart composed three of his greatest operas in collaboration with the librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. The librettos of these brilliant works are presented here in a format opera enthusiasts will love: excellent line-for-line English translations on pages facing the Italian text. The translators have...- $14.95
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Vendor: Stanley Crouch
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
"A tour de force. . . . Crouch has given us a bone-deep understanding of Parker's music and the world that produced it. In his pages, Bird still lives." -- Washington PostA stunning portrait of Charlie Parker, one of the most talented and influential...- $19.99
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Vendor: Nick Thomas
Joe Walsh: From the James Gang to the Eagles
This is the first biography of Joe Walsh, from his days in the James Gang to his membership in the Eagles. One of the most colorful characters in all of rock and roll, Walsh has enjoyed a successful musical career for more than five-decades....- $19.99
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Vendor: David Bowie
Moonage Daydream: The Life & Times of Ziggy Stardust
'The closest we'll ever get to a straight up Bowie autobiography -- but who'd ever want anything straight-up from Bowie?' - Rolling StoneIn 2002, David Bowie and Mick Rock created Moonage Daydream, the defining document of the life and times of Ziggy Stardust. Twenty...- $60.00
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Vendor: Lily E. Hirsch
Weird Al: Seriously
Featuring even more insights on "Weird Al" Yankovic, including his activities during a tumultuous 2020 and 2021, this expanded edition dives deeper into the world of the iconic man. Lily Hirsch weaves together original interviews with Weird Al and presents a fresh, Al-expense-paid tour...- $19.95
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Vendor: Malcolm Croft
The Little Book of John Lennon: In His Own Words
Born 9 October 1940 in Liverpool, John Lennon was a walking, talking, quote machine. Every time he opened his mouth, genius fell out. To celebrate this simple, glorious truth, The Little Book of John Lennon is here to remind you what a legend sounds...- $8.95
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Vendor: Grandmaster Caz
Written!: Lyrics & Rhymes
Grandmaster Caz is a pioneering legend who can genuinely be credited as one of the inventors of rap. Caz is perhaps best known as the writer of Big Bang Hank's rhyme in Rappers Delight. The lyrics were stolen from him and he has never...- $24.99
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Vendor: Allen Beaulieu
Prince: Before the Rain
Photographer Allen Beaulieu worked with Prince from the late 1970s into the early '80s, capturing the musician's progression from rising star to his ultimate purple superstardom. Always at Prince's side with camera in hand, Beaulieu helped Prince carry forward his vision with legendary album...- $29.95
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Vendor: Martin Popoff
Judas Priest: Decade Of Domination
When the world thinks of heavy metal in its pure, potent, undiluted form, it is none other than the Metal Gods, Judas Priest, that instantly come to mind. Chrome and black leather, studs and whips and chains, a chopper on stage to announce the...- $22.99
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Vendor: Simon A. Morrison
Roxy Music's Avalon
Having designed Roxy Music as an haute couture suit hand-stitched of punk and progressive music, Bryan Ferry redesigned it. He made Roxy Music ever dreamier and mellower-reaching back to sadly beautiful chivalric romances. Dadaist (punk) noise exited; a kind of ambient soft soul entered....- $14.95
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Vendor: Andrea Warner
Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography
"Buffy Sainte-Marie is an icon and inspiration. This book is necessary--an authorized insight into the making of a legend." --Terese Marie Mailhot, author of Heart Berries A powerful, intimate look at the life of a beloved folk icon and activist. Folk hero. Songwriter icon....- $18.95
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Vendor: Buddy Guy
When I Left Home: My Story
According to Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy is the greatest blues guitarist of all time. An enormous influence on these musicians as well as Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck, he is the living embodiment of...- $15.99
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Vendor: Anthony Scaduto
The Dylan Tapes: Friends, Players, and Lovers Talkin' Early Bob Dylan
The raw material and interviews behind Anthony Scaduto's iconic biography of Bob Dylan draw an intimate and multifaceted portrait of the singer-songwriter who defined his era When Anthony Scaduto's Bob Dylan: An Intimate Biography was first published in 1971, the Nobel Prize-winning songwriter, at...- $29.95
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Vendor: Adrian Harte
Small Victories: The True Story of Faith No More
'When I first heard about this Faith No More biography, I didn't know what to think. But I have to give credit where it is due, it's a quality piece. The man has done his research and it shows. It provided me with more...- $22.95
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Vendor: Faith A. Pennick
D'Angelo's Voodoo
Voodoo, D'Angelo's much-anticipated 2000 release, set the standard for the musical cycle ordained as "neo-soul," a label the singer and songwriter would reject more than a decade later. The album is a product of heightened emotions and fused sensibilities; an amalgam of soul, rock,...- $14.95
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Vendor: Hank Bordowitz
Green Day FAQ: All That's Left to Know about the World's Most Popular Punk Band
Green Day FAQ tackles such topics as the band's early roots and early gigs, who's who in the extended Green Day enterprise, what artists proudly claim Green Day as an influence on their music, Green Day's humanitarian efforts and political advocacy, the band's songwriting...- $19.99
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Vendor: Tim Lawrence
Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992
Hold On to Your Dreams is the first biography of the musician and composer Arthur Russell, one of the most important but least known contributors to New York's downtown music scene during the 1970s and 1980s. With the exception of a few dance recordings,...- $27.95
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Vendor: Walter Lure
To Hell and Back: My Life in Johnny Thunders' Heartbreakers, in the Words of the Last Man Standing
Alongside Richard Hell, Walter Lure is the last surviving member of seminal punk band Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, and the only one who was there for the full stretch. From New York to London and back again, Lure's autobiography unflinchingly explores both the...- $18.95
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Vendor: Sharon Rudahl
Ballad of an American: A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson
The first-ever graphic biography of Paul Robeson, Ballad of an American, charts Robeson's career as a singer, actor, scholar, athlete, and activist who achieved global fame. Through his films, concerts, and records, he became a potent symbol representing the promise of a multicultural, multiracial...- $26.95
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Vendor: Ringo Starr
Photograph
From behind the drums to behind the lens, in PHOTOGRAPH Ringo Starr opens his archives to share memories of his childhood, The Beatles and beyond. Rare and unseen photographs taken by Ringo, with others reproduced from his family albums, are showcased here for fans...- $50.00
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Vendor: Matt Mahurin
Tom Waits by Matt Mahurin
A collection of wildly inventive portraits of musician Tom Waits, the result of a 30-year collaboration with photographer and illustrator Matt Mahurin. This visually arresting book is a testament to the unique collaboration, going back three decades, between the photographer and illustrator Matt Mahurin...- $50.00
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Vendor: Lewis Lockwood
Beethoven: The Music and the Life
This brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven's musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts. Lewis Lockwood sketches the turbulent personal, historical, political, and cultural frameworks in which Beethoven worked and examines their effects on his music. "The result is that rarest of achievements,...- $24.95
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Vendor: Willie Dixon
I Am the Blues: The Willie Dixon Story
These are just a few of Willie Dixon's contributions to blues, R&B, and rock'n'roll--songs performed by artists as varied as the Rolling Stones, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, ZZ Top, the Doors, Sonny Boy Williamson, the Grateful Dead, Van Morrison, Megadeth, Eric Clapton, Let Zepplin,...- $21.99
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Vendor: Co de Kloet
Frank & Co: Conversations with Frank Zappa 1977-1993
"With this book, the Zappa fan will get a glimpse into Frank that I don't believe any other book written by him or about him expresses. And us Zappa fans love that. Thank you, Co." - Steve Vai "I think the best way to...- $24.95
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Vendor: Joshua Au-Yeung
The Music Producer's Ultimate Guide to FL Studio 20: Create production-quality music with FL Studio
Leverage the power of FL Studio 20 to create and compose production-quality songs and develop professional music production skillsKey Features: Leverage the power of FL Studio to create your own production-level music Develop widely applicable music production skills and learn how to promote your...- $49.99
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Vendor: Dominic McHugh
The Big Parade: Meredith Willson's Musicals from the Music Man to 1491
In the 1950s, Meredith Willson's The Music Man became the third longest running musical after My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music: a considerable achievement in a decade that saw the premieres of other popular works by Rodgers and Hammerstein and Lerner and...- $32.99
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