Category - History
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Making Music in the Arab World: The Culture and Artistry of Tarab
PaperbackOriginal price $30.99Original price $30.99 - Original price $30.99Original price $30.99Current price $26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /A. J. Racy is well known as a scholar of ethnomusicology and as a distinguished performer and composer. In this pioneering book, he provides an i...
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Memphis: Birthplace of Rock and Roll
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The music that has been produced in Memphis over the past 100 years is as unique and diverse as the city itself. Growing out of the Mississippi D...
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Inside The Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Winner of the Marfield Prize, National Award for Arts Writing“Tippins tells riveting stories about the Chelsea’s artists, but she also captures a...
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Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust--Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind's Darkest Hour
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /A stirring testament to the strength of the human spirit and the power of music, Violins of Hope tells the remarkable stories of violins played b...
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Sound Within Sound: Radical Composers of the Twentieth Century
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Sound Within Sound presents an alternative history of 20th-century composers--nearly all of them women or composers of color--by a leading internat...
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Good Day Sunshine State: How the Beatles Rocked Florida
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The musical and cultural impact of the Fab Four in Florida In 1964, Beatlemania flooded the United States. The Beatles appeared live on the Ed Sul...
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This Must Be the Place: Music, Community and Vanished Spaces in New York City
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /*A Kirkus Best Book of July**An InsideHook Book You Should Be Reading This July*A fascinating history that examines how real estate, gentrification...
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The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Beloved music critic Tom Breihan's fascinating narrative of the history of popular music through the lens of game-changing #1 singles from the Bill...
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Rudolph Ganz, Patriotism, and Standardization of The Star-Spangled Banner, 1907-1958
HardcoverOriginal price $64.95 - Original price $64.95Original price $64.95$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /This book examines the succession of events towards the potential standardization of the music for "The Star-Spangled Banner" from an initial lette...
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Kinetic Cultures: Modernism and Embodiment on the Belle Epoque Stage Volume 32
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /Belle époque Paris adored dance. Whether at the music hall or in more refined theaters, audiences flocked to see the spectacles offered to them b...
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Eyeliner: A Cultural History
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Pick“Cosmetic, tool of rebellion, status signifier: Eyeliner has been all these and more. Moving thr...
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Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /ONE OF THE NEW YORKER’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE MUSIC BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NO DEPRESSION: THE JOURNAL OF ROOTS MUS...
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Trumpet Around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Samuel Charters has been studying and writing about New Orleans music for more than fifty years. A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orle...
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The Oud: An Illustrated History
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A beautifully-written illustrated history of one of the most important instruments in music cultures of the Middle East and North Africa. According...
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Rocking China: Music scenes in Beijing and beyond
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Rocking China traces the rise and spread of indie rock scenes from the rock capital of Beijing to Shanghai and many other cities in China. Through ...
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Chinese Music in Print: From the Great Sage to the Lady Literata
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00$89.99$89.99 - $89.99Current price $89.99| /A collection of rare musical artifacts from the University of Hong Kong's Fung Ping Shan Library. Chinese Music in Print is grounded in a desire to...
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Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"A fascinating cultural history" (People) of how Japan adopted and ultimately revived traditional American fashion A strange thing has happened o...
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Kansas City Jazz: A Little Evil Will Do You Good
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /The brand of jazz that developed in the Kansas City area in the period from the late 1920s to the late 1930s is recognised as both a distinct styli...
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Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - Finalist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction - A stirring account of how music bears witness ...
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Sing, Memory: The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Saved the Music of the Nazi Camps
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /On a cold October night in 1942, SS guards at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp violently disbanded a rehearsal of a secret Jewish choir led by ...
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The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A Pitchfork Best Music Book of 2022 Beloved music critic Tom Breihan's fascinating narrative of the history of popular music through the lens of ga...
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A Little History of Music
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A lively, engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present Human beings have always made music. Music can move us and tell...
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Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /As entertaining as it is incisive, Stoned is a raucous journey through the history of human desire for what is rare, and therefore precious. What...
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Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A celebration of American history through the music that helped to shape a nation, by Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meach...
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