Category - Music
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Music after the Fall: Modern Composition and Culture since 1989
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /"...the best extant map of our sonic shadowlands, and it has changed how I listen."—Alex Ross, The New Yorker "...an essential survey of contem...
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Never a Dull Moment: 1971 The Year That Rock Exploded
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The basis for the new hit documentary 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything, now streaming on Apple TV+.A rollicking look at 1971, rock’s...
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismA New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the YearTime magazine Top Ten Non...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95Original price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /This is the first comprehensive history of goth music and culture. Across more than 500 pages, John Robb explores the origins and legacy of this en...
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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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Country Music: An Illustrated History
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00Original price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00Current price $47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The rich and colorful story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners t...
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Everybody Had an Ocean: Music and Mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Excellent social history...an indispensable account of a time of beauty and terror." —Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewA modern epic of the battles...
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Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, pianist Randy Weston and bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik celebrated with song the revolutions spreading across Africa. I...
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But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the '60s Girl Groups
HardcoverOriginal price $31.00Original price $31.00 - Original price $31.00Original price $31.00Current price $26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Featuring over 300 hours of new interviews with 100+ subjects, an oral history of the girl groups (such as The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supreme...
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May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part o...
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