3.
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...
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5.
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...
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10.
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 Pandora Radio's song recomendation engine 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 pianist, composer, musicologist, and the chief architect of the Music Genome Project, which is what powers Pandora Radio—breaks down what musical taste is, where it comes from, and what our favorite songs say about...
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18.
Series: A Quick Ting On
A Quick Ting On Afrobeats
1st edition
Hardcover
Christian Adofo
9781913090517
$24.95
MUSIC
Feb 24, 2022
THE FIRST BOOK ON AFROBEATS 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 ...
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20.
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...
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22.
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...
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28.
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...
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37.
Series:
OutKast Reader
Essays on Race, Gender, and the Postmodern South
Paperback
Regina N. Bradley
9780820360133
$40.95
HISTORY
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...
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41.
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...
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43.
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...
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48.
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,...
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54.
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-...
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59.
Series:
Vibrate Higher
A Rap Story
Hardcover
Talib Kweli
9780374283407
$36.50
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Feb 16, 2021
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY LITERARY PRIZEFrom 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 thei...
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