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Series: The Contemporary Leonard CohenResponse, Reappraisal, and RediscoveryHardcover
Kait Pinder9781771125611
$89.99LITERARY CRITICISM
Nov 28, 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 Roots1st editionHardcover
Tippa Irie9781913090845
$38.95MUSIC
Aug 24, 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 2010 hit single, the book will cover 40 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 story... + Read More
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Series: An Orchestra at My FingertipsA History of the Canadian Electronic EnsemblePaperback
Alexa Woloshyn9780228017349
$37.95MUSIC
Jun 15, 2023
When the Canadian Electronic Ensemble (CEE) began as a group of students at the University of Toronto in 1972, they performed with cumbersome, finicky analog instruments and DIY logistics, never sure if everything would work as intended. Today’s CEE sound comes from a sophisticated mixture of digital and analog hardware, laptops, and acoustic instruments. Across a long and ongoing history of tours, recordings, and performances, countless listeners have heard and appreciated the innovations at the heart of the CEE’s music. An Orchestra at My Fi... + Read More
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Series: A Quick Ting OnA Quick Ting On: Grime1st editionHardcover
Franklyn Addo9781913090524
$31.95MUSIC
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: Mary Climbs InThe Journeys of Bruce Springsteen's Women FansHardcover
Lorraine Mangione9781978827189
$30.95MUSIC
Jun 16, 2023
Bruce Springsteen has been loved and cherished by his fans for decades, from his early days playing high school gymnasiums through globally successful albums and huge stadium shows to solo performances in intimate theaters. As his long and illustrious career has evolved, the legendary devotion of his fans has remained a constant. Springsteen fans have become worthy of study in their own right, with books, memoirs, and even a movie documenting their passion and perspectives. But his fans are not monolithic, and surprisingly little attention has ... + Read More
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Series: Let It All FallUnderground Music and the Culture of Rebellion in Newfoundland, 1977–95Paperback
Mike Heffernan9781550819779
$26.95MUSIC
Jun 15, 2023
Incorporating elements of creative nonfiction and oral history, Let It All Fall: Underground Music and the Culture of Rebellion in Newfoundland, 1977–95 is a collection of interview-based first-person monologues that describe the experiences of a generation of independent musicians, artists, and activists. Beginning in the late 1970s, a new raw sound began to emerge from the basements and garages of St. John’s which, by the mid-’90s, had grown into a vibrant community. With few resources, dozens of bands produced a staggering amount of music. ... + Read More
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Series: Greenwood Cultural Center Series in African Diaspora History and CultureGoing Back to T-TownThe Ernie Fields Territory Big BandHardcover
Carmen Fields9780806191843
$36.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 08, 2023
There was a time when countless young people in the Midwest, South, and Southwest went to dances and stage shows to hear a territory band play. Territory bands traveled from town to town, performing jazz and swing music, and Tulsa-based musician Ernie Fields (1904–97) led one of the best. In Going Back to T-Town, Ernie’s daughter, Carmen Fields, tells a story of success, disappointment, and perseverance extending from the early jazz era to the 1960s. This is an enlightening account of how this talented musician and businessman navigated the hur... + Read More
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Series: 9780374606206
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Series: 0810073342712
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Series: Music MattersWhy Tammy Wynette MattersHardcover
Steacy Easton9781477324646
$26.95MUSIC
May 09, 2023
A critical re-examination of an overlooked, essential country music artist.With hits such as “Stand By Your Man” and “Golden Ring,” Tammy Wynette was an icon of American domesticity and femininity. But there were other sides to the first lady of country. Steacy Easton places the complications of Wynette’s music and her biography in sharp-edged relief, exploring how she made her sometimes-tumultuous life into her work, a transformation that was itself art.Wynette created a persona of high femininity to match the themes she sang about—fawning dev... + Read More
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Series: Music MattersWhy Sinéad O'Connor MattersHardcover
Allyson McCabe9781477325704
$30.95MUSIC
May 09, 2023
A defense of Sinéad O'Connor's art & activism, and an indictment of the culture that canceled her.In 1990, Sinéad O’Connor’s video for “Nothing Compares 2 U” turned her into a superstar. Two years later, an appearance on Saturday Night Live turned her into a scandal. For many people—including, for years, the author—what they knew of O’Connor stopped there. Allyson McCabe believes it’s time to reassess our old judgments about Sinéad O’Connor and to expose the machinery that built her up and knocked her down.Addressing triumph and strug... + Read More
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Series: American Music SeriesQuantum CriminalsRamblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely DanHardcover
Alex Pappademas9781477324998
$43.95MUSIC
May 09, 2023
A deep and visual dive into the genius of Steely Dan.Steely Dan’s songs are exercises in fictional world-building. No one else in the classic-rock canon has conjured a more vivid cast of rogues and heroes, creeps and schmucks, lovers and dreamers and cold-blooded operators—or imbued their characters with so much humanity. Pulling from history, lived experience, pulp fiction, the lore of the counterculture, and their own darkly comic imaginations, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker summoned protagonists who seemed like fully formed people with compl... + Read More
Americana Portrait Sessions is the first photography book to take a comprehensive view of contemporary Americana music. The collection features intimate portraits that reveal the strength, heart, and soul of nearly two hundred great artists from the big tent that is Americana music, all shot through the expert lens of Jeff Fasano. Fasano's unparalleled access to Americana artists like Sheryl Crow, Rhiannon Giddens, Vince Gill, Keb' Mo', Judy Collins, John Oates, The Avett Brothers, The McCrary Sisters, Lucinda Williams, Margo Price, Blind Boys ... + Read More
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Series: RubymusicA Popular History of Women's Music and CulturePaperback
Connie Kuhns9781773861012
$26.00MUSIC
Mar 31, 2023
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 Radio became a successful program, running for fifteen years, introducing listeners to countless artists through radio, magazines and newspaper columns and on stage at Vancouver’s annual Folk Music F... + Read More
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Series: American Popular Music SeriesNashville City BluesMy Journey as an American SongwriterPaperback
James Talley9780806191751
$33.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 09, 2023
For many diehard music fans and critics, Oklahoma-born James Talley ranks among the finest of American singer-songwriters. Talley’s unique style—a blend of folk, country, blues, and social commentary—draws comparisons with the likes of Woody Guthrie, Merle Haggard, and Johnny Cash. In this engaging, down-to-earth memoir, Talley recalls the highs and lows of his nearly fifty-year career in country music. Talley’s story begins in the hardscrabble towns of eastern Oklahoma. As a young man, he witnessed poverty and despair and worked alongside ordi... + Read More
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Series: Co-published with Florida HumanitiesGood Day Sunshine StateHow the Beatles Rocked Florida1st editionPaperback
Bob Kealing9780813068930
$36.95MUSIC
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: American Made Music SeriesDo You Remember?Celebrating Fifty Years of Earth, Wind & FirePaperback
Trenton Bailey9781496843104
$30.95MUSIC
Dec 28, 2022
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 MusicBob Dylan in the AtticThe Artist as HistorianPaperback
Freddy Cristóbal Domínguez9781625346810
$36.95SOCIAL 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: 9781797218700
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Series: American Made Music SeriesRags and BonesAn Exploration of The BandPaperback
Jeff Sellars9781496842985
$37.95MUSIC
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 SeriesCreole SoulZydeco LivesHardcover
Burt Feintuch9781496842466
$49.95MUSIC
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 Everything21st Anniversary EditionPaperback
John Armstrong9781554201914
$18.00MUSIC
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: 9781797220017
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Series: Play All Night!Duane Allman and the Journey to Fillmore East1st editionPaperback
Bob Beatty9780813069500
$34.95MUSIC
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 & MeRevealing a Musical GeniusHardcover
Paul Salsini9781610885928
$34.95BIOGRAPHY & 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 every... + Read More
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Series: 0810073342149
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Series: American Music SeriesI've Had to Think Up a Way to SurviveOn Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly PartonHardcover
Lynn Melnick9781477322673
$33.95BIOGRAPHY & 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 SeriesMaybe We'll Make ItA MemoirHardcover
Margo Price9781477323502
$34.95BIOGRAPHY & 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: 9780374607371
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Series: American Popular Music SeriesTravelerThe Musical Odyssey of Tim O'BrienHardcover
Bobbie Malone9780806190624
$36.95BIOGRAPHY & 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 SeriesBlack Country MusicListening for RevolutionsHardcover
Francesca T. Royster9781477326497
$30.95MUSIC
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: 0810073341722
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Series: Once Upon a Time in ShaolinThe Untold Story of Wu-Tang Clan's Million-Dollar Secret Album, the Devaluation of Music, and America's New Public Enemy No. 1Paperback
Cyrus Bozorgmehr9781250177834
$24.99MUSIC
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: Barefoot SingalongsCreepy Crawly CalypsoPaperback
Tony Langham9781646865857
$12.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7
May 16, 2022
Jump and jive with this funky band of mini-beasts, as they play their cool calypso beats! Introducing guitar-strumming ladybugs, trombone-blowing dragonflies and piano-tinkling centipedes, the catchy song will have everyone singing along enthusiastically. The counting theme throughout helps young learners with their numbers up to ten, and there are lots of creepy-crawly facts at the back of the book, in addition to information about the Caribbean and calypso bands. A QR code on the book provides access to video animation and audio.
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Series: Why You Like ItThe Science and Culture of Musical TastePaperback
Nolan Gasser9781250057228
$28.99MUSIC
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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The Contemporary Leonard Cohen Response, Reappraisal, and Rediscovery Hardcover 9781771125611 $89.99 LITERARY CRITICISM Nov 28, 2023
Rubymusic A Popular History of Women's Music and Culture Paperback 9781773861012 $26.00 MUSIC Mar 31, 2023
Series: American Made Music Series Rags and Bones An Exploration of The Band Paperback 9781496842985 $37.95 MUSIC Nov 15, 2022
Series: American Made Music Series Creole Soul Zydeco Lives Hardcover 9781496842466 $49.95 MUSIC Nov 15, 2022