Category - Music
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Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Winner: W. E. B. Du Bois Book Award In the world of hip-hop, "keeping it real" has always been a primary goal—and realness takes on special meani...
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This Is the Noise That Keeps Me Awake
HardcoverOriginal price $45.95Original price $45.95 - Original price $45.95Original price $45.95Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /International best-selling rock band Garbage presents its own autobiography, a gorgeous, full-color coffee-table book with text and images galore...
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The Jesus Lizard Book
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95Original price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Legendary indie rockers the Jesus Lizard present an idiosyncratic, impassioned book document of their rock and roll conquests. Featured as a "Thi...
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Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave And The Commodification Of Ghosts
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /In the age of global capitalism, vaporwave celebrates and undermines the electronic ghosts haunting the nostalgia industry. Ours is a time of gho...
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Foundation: B-boys, B-girls and Hip-Hop Culture in New York
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /B-boying is a form of Afro-diasporic competitive dance that developed in the Bronx, NY in the early 1970s. Widely - though incorrectly - known as...
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Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist
HardcoverOriginal price $35.95Original price $35.95 - Original price $35.95Original price $35.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Iconoclastic guitar player Marc Ribot offers up essays and stories in this darkly funny and subversive debut collection. "A slim yet powerful boo...
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Hearts on Fire: Six Years that Changed Canadian Music 2000-2005
HardcoverOriginal price $31.95Original price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /An authoritative, unprecedented account of how in the early 2000s Canadian music finally became cool Hearts on Fire is about the creative explosi...
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You Don't Know Me but You Don't Like Me: Phish, Insane Clown Posse, and My Misadventures with Two of Music's Most Maligned Tribes
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /One of Rolling Stone’s 20 Best Music Books of 2013When memoirist and head writer for The A.V. Club Nathan Rabin first set out to write about obse...
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Switched On Pop: How Popular Music Works, and Why it Matters
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Pop music surrounds us - in our cars, over supermarket speakers, even when we are laid out at the dentist - but how often do we really hear what'...
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Declassified: A Low-Key Guide to the High-Strung World of Classical Music
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /“A refreshingly fun guide” that reads “as if you’re a fly on the wall in conservatory auditions, cutthroat competitions and the obsessive practic...
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Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me: What Pop Music Rivalries Reveal About the Meaning of Life
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Steven Hyden explores nineteen music rivalries and what they say about life in this "highly entertaining" book (Rolling Stone) perfect for every ...
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Punk Paradox: A Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /From the legendary singer-songwriter of Bad Religion comes a historical memoir and cultural criticism of punk rock’s evolution. Greg Graffin is t...
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Listen to This
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011 Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Ce...
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The Beatles and the Historians: An Analysis of Writings About the Fab Four
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Hundreds of books have been written about The Beatles. Over the last half century, their story has been mythologized and de-mythologized and pre...
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Juggalo: Insane Clown Posse and the World They Made
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Juggalo: Insane Clown Posse and the World They Made is a vivid journey into the heart of a misunderstood subculture. Through firsthand reporting,...
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Original Gangstas: Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and the Birth of West Coast Rap
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Raw, authoritative, and unflinching ... An elaborately detailed, darkly surprising, definitive history of the LA gangsta rap era." — Kirkus, sta...
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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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Do Remember!: The Golden Era of NYC Hip-Hop Mixtapes
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Do Remember! The Golden Era of NYC Hip-Hop Mixtapes is the first comprehensive deep-dive oral and visual history of the golden era of hip-hop mix...
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Depeche Mode: Monument
HardcoverOriginal price $59.95Original price $59.95 - Original price $59.95Original price $59.95Current price $50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /The most complete book on Depeche Mode. Ever. "Captivating images of band members on stage, with fans, and in official photos, and detailed image...
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H.R. Giger: Debbie Harry Metamorphosis: Creating the Visual Concept for KooKoo
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00Original price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00Current price $60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /A beautiful coffee table art book chronicling the extraordinary collaboration between Debbie Harry and H.R. Giger for Harry's 1981 solo album Koo...
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The Healing Power of Hip Hop
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /Using the latest research, real-world examples, and a new theory of healthy development, this book explains Hip Hop culture's ongoing role in hel...
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The Ink in the Grooves: Conversations on Literature and Rock 'n' Roll
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Drop the record needle on any vinyl album in your collection, then read the first pages of that novel you've been meaning to pick up--the reverbera...
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Fairouz and the Arab Diaspora: Music and Identity in the UK and Qatar
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /With a discography of over 1000 songs, 20 musicals and three motion pictures, the Lebanese singer and performer, Fairouz, is an artist of pan-Arab ...
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The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"A hot-rod joy ride through mid-20th-century American history" (The New York Times Book Review), this one-of-a-kind narrative masterfully recreates...
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