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Series: The Contemporary Leonard Cohen Response, Reappraisal, and Rediscovery Hardcover Kait Pinder 9781771125611 $89.99 LITERARY CRITICISM Jun 27, 2023

The Contemporary Leonard Cohen is an exciting new study that offers an original explanation of Leonard Cohen’s staying power and his various positions in music, literature, and art. The death of Leonard Cohen received media attention across the globe, and this international star remains dear to the hearts of many fans. This book examines the diversity of Cohen’s art in the wake of his death, positioning him as a contemporary, multi-media artist whose career was framed by the twentieth-century and neoliberal contexts of its production. The auth... + Read More
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Series: Stick To My Roots 1st edition Hardcover Tippa Irie 9781913090845 $32.95 MUSIC Mar 23, 2023

The autobiography of Tippa Irie, Stick To My Roots tells the reggae musician's incredible story — from his trail-blazing beginnings in Saxon Sound International to the Grammy Award-nominated “Hey Mama” with the Black Eyed Peas.Titled after his 1980s hit single, the book will cover 35 years of Tippa's prestigious career: from the first sign of talent as a child in South London and family members encouraging him to enter local talent competitions, to making his first record and becoming the powerhouse and Reggae-scene legend he is now.It's a stor... + Read More
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Series: Rubymusic A Popular History of Women's Music and Culture Paperback Connie Kuhns 9781773861012 $26.00 MUSIC Mar 10, 2023

In Rubymusic, award-winning journalist and broadcaster Connie Kuhns takes readers on an explosive journey through the Pacific Northwest’s groundbreaking women’s music scene in the 80s and 90s.When journalist Connie Kuhns approached Vancouver Cooperative Radio in 1981 to host a music program dedicated solely to playing music by women, there was some doubt at the station that there was enough music by women to fill half an hour—and besides, who would tune in?Such was the underground nature of women’s music. Despite the doubters, Rubymusic became ... + Read More
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Series: Good Day Sunshine State How the Beatles Rocked Florida 1st edition Paperback Bob Kealing 9780813068930 $36.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 07, 2023

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 Sullivan Show and embarked on their first tour of North America—and they spent more time in Florida than anywhere else. Good Day Sunshine State dives into this momentous time and place, exploring the band’s seismic influence on the people and culture of the state.Bob Kealing sets the historical stage for the band’s arrival—a nation dazed after the assassination of John F. Kennedy and on the precipice of ... + Read More
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Series: A Quick Ting On A Quick Ting On: Grime 1st edition Hardcover Franklyn Addo 9781913090524 $31.95 MUSIC Jul 13, 2023

From pirate radio to Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage, journalist and rapper Franklyn Addo pens an extraordinary narrative of the history, present and future of Grime music. The influence of Grime on contemporary British culture is difficult to understate. From fashion trends and evolving language to potent political statements, Grime is a musical juggernaut that has reverberated far throughout British society. Chronicled for the first time in powerful literary prose, Addo intelligently documents the genre's cultural explosion and investigates how i... + Read More
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Series: American Made Music Series Do You Remember? Celebrating Fifty Years of Earth, Wind & Fire Paperback Trenton Bailey 9781496843104 $30.95 MUSIC Jan 16, 2023

The first serious study of one of America's favorite bandsThe first serious study of one of America's favorite bands In Do You Remember? Celebrating Fifty Years of Earth, Wind & Fire, Trenton Bailey traces the humble beginning of Maurice White, his development as a musician, and his formation of Earth, Wind & Fire, a band that became a global phenomenon during the 1970s. By the early 1980s, the music industry was changing, and White had grown weary after working constantly for more than a decade. He decided to put the band on hiatus for mo... + Read More
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Series: American Popular Music Bob Dylan in the Attic The Artist as Historian Paperback Freddy Cristóbal Domínguez 9781625346810 $36.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Dec 16, 2022

Bob Dylan is an iconic American artist, whose music and performances have long reflected different musical genres and time periods. His songs tell tales of the Civil War, harken back to 1930s labor struggles, and address racial violence at the height of the civil rights movement, helping listeners to think about history, and history making, in new ways. While Dylan was warned by his early mentor, Dave Van Ronk, that, “You’re just going to be a history book writer if you do those things. An anachronism,” the musician has continued to traffic in ... + Read More
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Series: American Made Music Series Rags and Bones An Exploration of The Band Paperback Jeff Sellars 9781496842985 $37.95 MUSIC Nov 15, 2022

With humble beginnings backing Ronnie Hawkins as the Hawks (1957–1964), The Band (Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson, and Levon Helm) eventually rose to fame in the sixties as backing musicians for Bob Dylan. This collaboration with Dylan presented the group with a chance to expand musically and strike out on their own. The Band’s fusion of rock, country, soul, and blues music—all tinged with a southern flavor and musical adventurousness—created a unique soundscape. The combined use of multiple instruments, complex song ... + Read More
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Series: American Made Music Series Creole Soul Zydeco Lives Hardcover Burt Feintuch 9781496842466 $49.95 MUSIC Nov 15, 2022

Creole Soul: Zydeco Lives is an exquisitely photographed volume of interviews with contemporary zydeco musicians. Featuring the voices of zydeco’s venerable senior generation and its current agents of change, this book celebrates a musical world full of passion, energy, cowboy hats and boots, banging bass, horse trailers, joy, and dazzling dance moves. Author Burt Feintuch captures an important American music in the process of significant—and sometimes controversial—change. Creole Soul draws us into conversations with zydeco musicians from Texa... + Read More
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Series: Guilty of Everything 21st Anniversary Edition Paperback John Armstrong 9781554201914 $18.00 MUSIC Nov 10, 2022

It’s 1978 and a non-stop carnival of debauchery begins as the first shock of punk hits Vancouver. Now, in 2022, revisit John Armstrong’s pivotal memoir in the 21st anniversary edition of Guilty of Everything.As Buck Cherry – lead singer and guitarist of The Modernettes – Armstrong had himself a front row seat to the frenzy of the 70s and 80s alongside the likes of I Braineater, Joey Shithead, Dimwit, Chuck Biscuits, Mary Jo Kopechne, Art Bergmann and other figures of Vancouver’s earliest punk days. From White Rock to Vancouver, the back rooms a... + Read More
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Series: Play All Night! Duane Allman and the Journey to Fillmore East 1st edition Paperback Bob Beatty 9780813069500 $34.95 MUSIC Oct 18, 2022

The 1971 Allman Brothers Band album At Fillmore East was a musical manifesto years in the making. In Play All Night!, Bob Beatty dives deep into the motivations and musical background of band founder Duane Allman to tell the story of what made this album not just a smash hit, but one of the most important live rock albums in history. Featuring insights from rare rehearsal tapes, radio ads, early reviews, never-before-published photos, and the memories of band members, fans, and friends, Beatty chronicles how Allman rejected the traditional rout... + Read More
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Series: Sondheim & Me Revealing a Musical Genius Hardcover Paul Salsini 9781610885928 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 18, 2022

FOR TEN YEARS, they exchanged notes, letters, faxes, and phone calls. Stephen Sondheim would contact him, and Paul Salsini, the founder and editor of The Sondheim Review, would respond. And vice versa. Now, Salsini, a Milwaukee journalist, has described his unlikely long-distance relationship with the fabled composer/lyricist in Sondheim & Me: Revealing a Musical Genius. The memoir includes the dozens of notes that Sondheim sent Salsini about articles in the magazine. It was clear that, at least at the start in 1994, he read every word of ever... + Read More
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Series: American Music Series I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton Hardcover Lynn Melnick 9781477322673 $33.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 04, 2022

When everything fell apart for Lynn Melnick, she went to Dollywood. It was perhaps an unusual refuge. The theme park, partly owned by and wholly named for Dolly Parton, celebrates a country music legend who grew up in church and in poverty in rural Tennessee. Yet Dollywood is exactly where Melnick—a poet, urbanite, and daughter of a middle-class Jewish family—needed to be. Because Melnick, like the musician she adores, is a survivor.In this bracing memoir, Melnick explores Parton’s dual identities as feminist icon and objectified sex symbol—ide... + Read More
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Series: American Music Series Maybe We'll Make It A Memoir Hardcover Margo Price 9781477323502 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 04, 2022

When Margo Price was 19 years old, she dropped out of college and moved to Nashville to become a musician. She busked on the street, played open mics, threw out her tv, and tried to do nothing but write songs. She met Jeremy Ivey, a fellow musician who would become her closest collaborator and husband. And after working on their craft for more than a decade, Price and Ivey had no label, no band, and plenty of heartache.Maybe We’ll Make It is a memoir of loss, motherhood, and the search for artistic freedom amidst the agony of so many aspiring m... + Read More
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Series: American Popular Music Series Traveler The Musical Odyssey of Tim O'Brien Hardcover Bobbie Malone 9780806190624 $36.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 15, 2022

For five decades, as a singer, musician, songwriter, and producer, Tim O’Brien has ceaselessly explored the vast American musical landscape. While Appalachia and Ireland eventually became facets of the defining myth surrounding him and his music, he has digested a broad array of roots styles, reshaping them to his own purposes. Award-winning biographer Bobbie Malone and premier country music historian Bill C. Malone have teamed again, this time to chronicle O’Brien’s career and trace the ascent of Hot Rize and its broadening and enrichment of m... + Read More
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Series: American Music Series Black Country Music Listening for Revolutions Hardcover Francesca T. Royster 9781477326497 $30.95 MUSIC Sep 01, 2022

Informed by queer theory and Black feminist scholarship, Royster’s book elucidates the roots of the current moment found in records like Tina Turner’s first solo album, Tina Turns the Country On! She reckons with Black “bros” Charley Pride and Darius Rucker, then chases ghosts into the future with Valerie June. Indeed, it is the imagination of Royster and her artists that make this music so exciting for a genre that has long been obsessed with the past. The futures conjured by June and others can be melancholy, and are not free of racism, but b... + Read More
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Series: Once Upon a Time in Shaolin The Untold Story of Wu-Tang Clan's Million-Dollar Secret Album, the Devaluation of Music, and America's New Public Enemy No. 1 Paperback Cyrus Bozorgmehr 9781250177834 $24.99 MUSIC Jul 19, 2022

The untold story of the world's most controversial album---a surreal tale of secret recordings, the Wu-Tang Clan, baffled customs agents, the world's most hallowed art institutions, and a villain of comic book proportions: Martin Shkreli.In 2007, the innovative young Wu-Tang producer, Cilvaringz, took an incendiary idea to his mentor the RZA. They felt that the impact of digitization threatened the sustainability of the record industry and independent artists, while shifting the perception of music from treasured works of art to disposable cons... + Read More
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Series: Why You Like It The Science and Culture of Musical Taste Paperback Nolan Gasser 9781250057228 $28.99 MUSIC May 03, 2022

From the chief architect of the Pandora Radio’s Music Genome Project comes a definitive and groundbreaking examination of why we respond to music the way we do.Everyone loves music. But what is it that makes music so universally beloved and have such a powerful effect on us? In this sweeping and authoritative book, Dr. Nolan Gasser—a composer, pianist, and musicologist, and the chief architect of the Music Genome Project, which powers Pandora Radio—breaks down what musical taste is, where it comes from, and what our favorite songs say about us.... + Read More
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Series: A Quick Ting On A Quick Ting On: Afrobeats 1 Hardcover Christian Adofo 9781913090517 $24.95 MUSIC Feb 24, 2022

Afrobeats is a fast-growing genre, one that has carved out a distinct and powerful Black identity rooted within the African continent.The first book of its kind, A Quick Ting On: Afrobeats chronicles the social and cultural development of the eponymous music genre, tracing its rich history from the African continent all the way to the musical centre of the Western world. This exciting new book takes a unique look at the music of the African diaspora and their children, delving into how Afrobeats and its sub-genres have provided new articulation... + Read More
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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: Sirius Leisure Kits Essential Guitar Chords Kit Includes 64 Easy-to-Use Chord Flash Cards, Plus 128-Page Instructional Play Book Paperback Paul Roland 9781398808812 $32.95 MUSIC Oct 30, 2021

An essential kit for learning guitar chords, with flash cards and an instruction book encased in a sleek hinged box with magnetic close. This handy gift box will introduce aspiring guitarists to all the chords, including barre chords, power chords, 6ths, 7ths, and more. The instruction book features a chord dictionary which is arranged by key, by type and by musical style for easy reference. It features clear guitar neck diagrams which mean that you don't have to be able to read a note of music!The second section shows these chords in practice ... + Read More
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Series: Leonard Cohen On a Wire Hardcover Philippe Girard 9781770464896 $29.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Age (years) from 16 Nov 16, 2021

A captivating, revealing biography of the legendary musician and poetLeonard Cohen opens in Los Angeles on the last night of the man’s life in 2016. Alone in his final hours, the beloved writer and musician ponders his existence in a series of flashbacks that reveal the ups and downs of a storied career.A young Cohen traded in the promise of steady employment in his family’s Montreal garment business for the unlikely path of a literary poet. His life took another sharp turn when, already in his thirties, he recorded his first album to widesprea... + Read More
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