Category - Music
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Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /From T. J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds ...
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Overture of Hope: Two Sisters' Daring Plan That Saved Opera's Jewish Stars from the Third Reich
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Schindler's List meets The Sound of Music as best-selling New York Post investigative journalist Isabel Vincent delves into pre-World-War-II histor...
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Beethoven in Russia: Music and Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /How did Ludwig van Beethoven help overthrow a tsarist regime? With the establishment of the Russian Musical Society and its affiliated branches thr...
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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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Jembe Revolution: The Birth of the Jembe in America
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Second EditionThe jembe drum is one of the most popular percussion instruments in the world. This book will exploreAfrican drumming and dance befor...
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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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Melody in the Dark: British Musical Films, 1946-1972
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /A comprehensive reassessment of British musical films 1946-1972 including King's Rhapsody, Beat Girl, The Tommy Steele Story, Rock You Sinners, The...
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Voices of the Night
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Unique Element About the Author / Historical Context A POETRY COLLECTION by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. Voices of the Night by AMERICAN author HE...
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Overture of Hope: Two Sisters' Daring Plan That Saved Opera's Jewish Stars from the Third Reich
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Schindler's List meets The Sound of Music as best-selling New York Post investigative journalist Isabel Vincent delves into pre-World-War-II histor...
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Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"An expedition into the troubled soul of one of the world's greatest songwriters."--Haaretz "Not only is a hidden side of Cohen revealed but so too...
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Schoenberg: Why He Matters
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the futu...
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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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Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A leading music journalist's riveting chronicle of how beloved band Pearl Jam shaped the times, and how their legacy and longevity have transcended...
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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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Sound Experiments: The Music of the Aacm
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /A groundbreaking study of the trailblazing music of Chicago’s AACM, a leader in the world of jazz and experimental music. Founded on Chicago’s ...
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Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn
HardcoverOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A fascinating journey through the history of "Amazing Grace," one of the transatlantic world's most popular hymns and a powerful anthem for human...
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Hungry Beat: The Scottish Independent Pop Underground Movement (1977-1984)
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Hungry Beat is the story of an all-too-brief era where the short-circuiting of that industry seemed viable. But hell, the times were luminous as ...
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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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Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Bands like R.E.M., U2, Public Enemy, and Nirvana found success as darlings of college radio, but the extraordinary influence of these stations and ...
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Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Bands like R.E.M., U2, Public Enemy, and Nirvana found success as darlings of college radio, but the extraordinary influence of these stations and ...
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The Resurrection of The Crazed
PaperbackOriginal price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The Resurrection of The Crazed by Paul WainwrightJoin the author as he journeys back to those mutant rockin', venue wreckin', snakebite sodden days...
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