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Series: And Harmony Abound The Musical Life of Morley Calvert Paperback Keith William Kinder 9780228008491 $39.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 15, 2022

Morley Calvert’s Suite from the Monteregian Hills is cherished by brass players worldwide and performed hundreds of times annually, making Calvert perhaps the most performed Canadian composer outside the country. Yet little is known about Calvert beyond that piece.And Harmony Abound is a thoughtful and in-depth study of a remarkably accomplished composer, conductor, and educator. Calvert made his living teaching music, but he was no ordinary high school music teacher. He was deeply committed to composing and completed some ninety works for bras... + Read More
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Series: Essential Guitar Chords Paperback Paul Roland 9781398808812 $32.95 MUSIC Nov 30, 2021

Guitar Chords is a step-by-step companion to the guitar and introduces most useful chords you could find and then describes how to use them. Chords are arranged by key, by type and by musical style for easy reference, and they are accompanied by clear guitar neck diagrams which mean that you don't have to be able to read a note of music! In addition to the chord dictionary, it includes a clear guide to how those chords can best be applied to create distinct types of music. Short supplementary sections reveal the secrets of the most succe... + Read More
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Series: Music of the American South Ser. An OutKast Reader Essays on Race, Gender, and the Postmodern South Paperback Regina Bradley 9780820360133 $40.95 MUSIC Oct 01, 2021

OutKast, the Atlanta-based hip-hop duo formed in 1992, is one of the most influential musical groups within American popular culture of the past twenty-five years. Through Grammy-winning albums, music videos, feature films, theatrical performances, and fashion, André ?André 3000? Benjamin and Antwan ?Big Boi? Patton have articulated a vision of postmodern, post–civil rights southern identity that combines the roots of funk, psychedelia, haute couture, R&B, faith and spirituality, and Afrofuturism into a style all its own. This postmodern so... + Read More
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Series: Stompin' Tom Connors The myth and the man — an unauthorized biography NEW paperback edition Paperback Charlie Rhindress 9781459506787 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 07, 2021

Now in paperback — the biography of Canadian legend Stompin’ Tom Connors with a new afterword An insightful and moving biography about the man who celebrated Canada through his songs. Stompin’ Tom Connors is a Canadian legend — the foot-stompin’ patriot in the cowboy hat who sang about the country he loved. But there is much more to Tom Connors than “Bud the Spud” and “The Hockey Song.” This biography profiles an intelligent, stubborn, creative, cantankerous and thoughtful man who created a character that would be embraced by Canadians from co... + Read More
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Series: Led Zeppelin Vinyl The Essential Collection Hardcover Ross Halfin 9781909526808 $83.95 MUSIC Aug 10, 2021

A tribute to the world’s greatest rock band through a kaleidoscopic collection of vinyl, from obscure international records to handmade albums of historic performancesLed Zeppelin released only eight studio albums and no singles over the course of their 12-year career, but to date there are more than 1,000 singles and 2,000 LPs in the market.This definitive volume illustrates in full color some of the rarest and most interesting vinyl releases, including one-of-a-kind rarities, bizarre regional variations, official albums and historic recording... + Read More
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Series: On Record Audio Recording, Mediation, and Citizenship in Newfoundland and Labrador Paperback Beverley Diamond 9780228006558 $39.95 MUSIC May 12, 2021

Musical media and the audio recording industry have an important and complex history in Newfoundland and Labrador: professional musicians, community songwriters, local institutions, and even politicians have gone on record. The result is a widespread body of work that undercuts the idea of recorded music as a cultural commodity and deepens the province's tradition of cultural activism.Drawing on contemporary testimony and over fifty years of interviews, On Record explores how recording projects have served as sonic signatures, forms of protest,... + Read More
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Series: Chronicling Stankonia The Rise of the Hip-Hop South Paperback Regina Bradley 9781469661964 $26.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 22, 2021

This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a post–civil rights generation. For scholar and critic Regina N. Bradley, Outkast's work is the touchstone, a blend of funk, gospel, and hip-hop developed in conjunction with the work of other culture creators—including T.I., Kiese Laymon, and Jesmyn Ward. This work, Bradley argues, helps define new cultural possibilities for black southerners who came of age in the 1980s and 1990s and have used hip-... + Read More
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From one of the most lyrically gifted, socially conscious rappers of the past twenty years,Vibrate Higher is a firsthand account of hip-hop as a political forceBefore Talib Kweli became a world-renowned hip-hop artist, he was a Brooklyn kid who liked to cut class, spit rhymes, and wander the streets of Greenwich Village with a motley crew of artists, rappers, and DJs who found hip-hop more inspiring than their textbooks (much to the chagrin of the educator parents who had given their son an Afrocentric name in hope of securing for him a more tr... + Read More
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Series: Arcana IX Musicians on Music Paperback John Zorn 9780978833725 $47.95 MUSIC Feb 02, 2021

The long-awaited ninth installment in John Zorn’s essential series of writings by musicians and composers at the forefront of musical innovation, from John Luther Adams to Danny ElfmanInitiated in 1997 and now in its ninth installment, John Zorn's Arcana series is a major source of new music theory and practice in the 21st century. To date, close to 300 musicians spanning three generations have contributed, addressing the inner workings of composing, improvising, teaching, living, touring and thinking about music via essays, manifestoes, interv... + Read More
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Series: The Civil Rights Era Singing for Equality Musicians of the Civil Rights Era Hardcover Diane C. Taylor 9781619309203 $29.95 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Interest age, years from 12 - 15 Nov 12, 2020

A collective biography about five musicians and groups at the height of their careers, whose passion and talent influenced the Civil Rights Movement. Part of a new series on the Civil Rights Era for ages 12 to 15 from Nomad Press. Singing for Equality: Musicians of the Civil Rights Era introduces readers aged 12 to 15 to the history of the Civil Rights Movement and explores the vital role that music played in the tumultuous period of American history of the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. As protests, demonstrations, rallies, and new laws characterized... + Read More
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Series: The Civil Rights Era Singing for Equality Musicians of the Civil Rights Era Paperback Diane C. Taylor 9781619309234 $20.95 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Interest age, years from 12 - 15 Nov 12, 2020

A collective biography about five musicians and groups at the height of their careers, whose passion and talent influenced the Civil Rights Movement. Part of a new series on the Civil Rights Era for ages 12 to 15 from Nomad Press. Singing for Equality: Musicians of the Civil Rights Era introduces readers aged 12 to 15 to the history of the Civil Rights Movement and explores the vital role that music played in the tumultuous period of American history of the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. As protests, demonstrations, rallies, and new laws characteriz... + Read More
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Series: Queen: The Neal Preston Photographs Hardcover Neal Preston 9781909526716 $83.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Oct 29, 2020

The official book on Queen, one of the greatest ever rock bands, photographed by one of the greatest ever rock photographers—with text by Brian May and Roger Taylor and intimate accounts from Neal Preston revealing the stories behind the picturesNeal Preston is one of the most prolific and highly regarded rock photographers of all time. He began working with Queen in the mid 1970s as their tour photographer. He was present on the legendary South America tour in 1981, Live Aid in 1985, and the band’s last tour with Freddie Mercury in 1986, among... + Read More
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Series: Me Elton John Official Autobiography Paperback Elton John 9781250770288 $26.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 27, 2020

INSTANT #1NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLERNOW UPDATED WITH A NEW CHAPTERIn his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life, from his rollercoaster lifestyle as shown in the filmRocketman, to becoming a living legend.Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses who grew up in the London suburb of Pinner and dreamed of becoming a pop star. By the age of twenty-three he was performing his first gig in America, facing an astonished audience in his bright yellow dungare... + Read More