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Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
The Suburbs is an incredibly sentimental and nostalgic album, which generally moved critics but was jarring to others. But it also made a heavy impact on fans and - to the surprise of many - won Album of the Year at the 2011 Grammy Awards. This imme..
14.76£
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices R..
35.25£
The Ukulele is the first comprehensive book on building all styles of ukulele, from the little soprano ukuleles of 19th century Hawai'i to concert, tenor and baritone sizes. The book will lead the first-time ukulele builder through the various steps..
29.56£
Brand: Palazzo
Over half a century since they exploded inevitably onto New York's underground music and art scenes, the legacy and mythology of The Velvet Underground continues to resonate and grow, as new generations embrace their enigmatic command of the darkest..
19.54£
33 1/3 is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. Each focuses on one album rather than an artist's entire output. Velvet Underground's first album - with the Andy Warhol banana cover - intr..
16.59£
Brand: University of Chicago Press
In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsounding, material and nonmaterial, literal and metaphorical. In The Voice as Something More, Martha Feldm..
38.38£
Brand: Duke University Press Books
The voice in the headphones says, "you're rolling" . . . The Voice in the Headphones is an experiment in music writing in the form of a long poem centered on the culture of the recording studio. It describes in intricate, prismatic detail one marath..
25.28£
Brand: Palazzo
The Who were one of the most popular and influential rock groups of the 1960s and 1970s. Revered by fans, they became a world-class act, securing their longevity with sensational live performances and pioneering music. From their early days as The ..
33.49£
Brand: St. Martins Publishing Group
Winner of the Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction and Los Angeles Times bestseller It makes good music sound better.-Janet Maslin in The New York Times A fascinating look into the West Coast recording studio scene of the '60s and the inside sto..
21.94£
Brand: Indiana University Press
"[Wolff] is a remarkable pianist, an excellent theoretician, a learned teacher, a brilliant thinker and writer." -Artur Schnabel"This collection of [Wolff's] writings and letters should bear ample testimony to a musician who happily combined the art..
24.51£
Brand: Chicago Review Press
Tom Waits, even with his barnyard growl and urban hipster yawp, may just be what the Daily Telegraph calls him: "the greatest entertainer on Planet Earth." Over a span of almost four decades, he has transformed his music and persona not to suit the ..
26.84£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
Transformer, Lou Reed's most enduringly popular album, is described with varying labels: it's often called a glam rock album, a proto-punk album, a commercial breakthrough for Lou Reed, and an album about being gay. And yet, it doesn't neatly fit in..
16.76£
Brand: Hachette Book Group USA
For decades, ethnomusicologists across the world have considered how to affect positive change for the communities they work with. Through illuminating case studies and reflections by a diverse array of scholars and practitioners, Transforming Ethno..
34.72£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
Trip-hop described some of the 1990s' best music, and it was one of the decade's most revealing bad ideas. The music itself was an intoxication of beats, bass, and voice. It emerged amid the social tensions of the late 1980s, and as part of hip-hop'..
17.05£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
National Bestseller * Named one of Rolling Stone's Best Music Books of 2018 * One of Newsweek's 50 Best Books of 2018 * A Billboard Best of 2018 * A New York Times Book Review New and Noteworthy selectionThe author of the critically acclaimed Your F..
20.14£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
Regurgitator's second full-length album, Unit (1997), was produced in a DIY warehouse studio at a time when this was unusual for a major label band. The album went three times Platinum in Australia and won five esteemed ARIA Awards in 1998, includin..
68.23£
Brand: Chicago Review Press
Robert Johnson is the subject of the most famous myth about the blues: he allegedly sold his soul at the crossroads in exchange for his incredible talent, and this deal led to his death at age 27. But the actual story of his life remains unknown sav..
29.80£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
Geechi Suede and Sonny Cheeba are Camp Lo. These two emcees from the Bronx, NY entered the American hip hop scene with an insider slang that bewildered listeners as they radiated the look of a bygone era of black culture. In 1996, they collaborated ..
14.86£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
Vaporwave is music as Internet meme, an ironic and difficult to classify microgenre born online at the turn of the 2010s in an explosion of millennial ambivalence. Vaporwave blends an unlikely spectrum of musical elements - from Muzak and the incide..
17.05£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
A critical survey of Viennese treatises on harmony and their influence on the work of a number of 18th to 20th century composers. ISBN: 9781878822529Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdImprint: University of Rochester PressPublished date: 01 Jan 1982Lang..
37.52£
Brand: Duke University Press Books
From scouring flea markets and eBay to maxing out their credit cards, record collectors will do just about anything to score a long-sought-after album. In Vinyl Freak, music writer, curator, and collector John Corbett burrows deep inside the record ..
30.33£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
Voodoo, D'Angelo's much-anticipated 2000 release, set the standard for the musical cycle ordained as "neo-soul," a label the singer and songwriter would reject more than a decade later. The album is a product of heightened emotions and fused sensibi..
14.74£
Brand: Square Fish
"A large-canvas narrative history, charting the impact of the cultural titan Wagner on art and politics. Ross will show how various artists-composers, novelists, poets, filmmakers-wrestled with the legacy of Wagner in the twentieth century"--. ISBN:..
45.98£
Brand: Hachette Book Group USA
In a stretch of just seven years, the Beatles recorded hundreds of songs which tower above those of their worthy peers as both the product of cultural leadership and an artistic reflection of their turbulent age, the1960s. Walter Everett and Tim Ril..
43.93£