Category - Music
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Pick a Pocket Or Two: A History of British Musical Theatre
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /From Gilbert and Sullivan to Andrew Lloyd Webber, from Julie Andrews to Hugh Jackman, from Half a Sixpence to Matilda, Pick a Pocket Or Two is th...
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Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR and GQJoining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, ...
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Record Collecting For Girls: Unleashing Your Inner Music Nerd, One Album at a Time
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /“Record Collecting for Girls is an invitation for all of you stereophiles (who happen to be female), to make your own top-five lists, and then, a...
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Why Bob Dylan Matters
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /“The coolest class on campus” – The New York Times When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some cel...
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Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA, 1975-1983
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Think punk was only a boys club? Read about the women who were the punk revolution! Women have been kicking against the pricks of music patriarch...
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On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /A revisionist history of minimalism's transformative rise, through the voices of the musicians who created it. When composers like Philip Glass a...
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This Must Be the Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /This Must Be the Place explores how music can make cities better.This Must Be the Place introduces and examines music’s relationship to cities. N...
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Fangirls: Scenes from Modern Music Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"To be a fan is to scream alone together." This is the discovery Hannah Ewens makes in Fangirls: how music fandom is at once a journey of self-de...
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Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859-1955
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Tuning the World tells the unknown story of how the musical pitch A 440 became the global norm. Now commonly accepted as the point of reference fo...
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The Little Book of Country: The Music's History, Hits, and Heartaches
HardcoverOriginal price $8.95 - Original price $8.95Original price $8.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Everything you wanted to know about country, from the men and women who put the music on the map, to the genres, guitars and history, to the greate...
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Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Joining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Can't Stop Won't Stop, an intriguing oral history of the post-9/...
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The Future of Songwriting
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Throwing Muses frontwoman and critically acclaimed solo artist Kristin Hersh meditates on the future of her craft in this wry, existential and pa...
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Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Whenever a person engages with music--when a piano student practices a scale, a jazz saxophonist riffs on a melody, a teenager sobs to a sad song, ...
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Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book of Bass
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00Original price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00Current price $71.99$71.99 - $71.99Current price $71.99| /"A treasure trove for any fan of the four-stringed (and occasionally more) instrument." -- Billboard"It's not surprising that sooner or later I'd d...
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Murder Ballads Old and New: A Dark and Bloody Record
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Murder Ballads Old & New: A Dark and Bloody Record is an exploration of an age-old topic-- our human need to document the horrors of the world ...
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Get Shown the Light: Improvisation and Transcendence in the Music of the Grateful Dead
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Of all the musical developments of rock in the 1960s, one in particular fundamentally changed the music's structure and listening experience: the i...
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Get Shown the Light: Improvisation and Transcendence in the Music of the Grateful Dead
HardcoverOriginal price $107.95 - Original price $107.95Original price $107.95$127.99$127.99 - $127.99Current price $127.99| /Of all the musical developments of rock in the 1960s, one in particular fundamentally changed the music's structure and listening experience: the i...
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Just Beyond Listening: Essays of Sonic Encounter Volume 5
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality. In a series of essays, M...
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Warren Zevon and Philosophy: Beyond Reptile Wisdom
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Warren Zevon and Philosophy is a collection of chapters on Zevon’s life and music, authored by philosophers who are also Zevon fans, providing ne...
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Listen: On Music, Sound and Us
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mi...
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Live Dead: The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The Grateful Dead were one of the most successful live acts of the rock era. Performing more than 2,300 shows between 1965 and 1995, the Grateful D...
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Laughter in the Dark: Egypt to the Tune of Change
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /What can hip-hop tell us about Egypt today? A decade ago, millions of Egyptians took to the streets in a people-led revolution that captivated the ...
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The Life of Music in South India
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /An insider's eight-decade overview of South India's 20th century classical music cultureThis book offers an account of Carnatic music culture drawi...
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Mischief of the Gods: Tales from the Ethiopian Streets
PaperbackOriginal price $33.99 - Original price $33.99Original price $33.99$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /"What a rich life it is to have these memories of time spent with the young Azmari singer Tigabu, the Lalibela poet Tilahun, and the other spirits ...
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