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  • The Philosophy of Modern Song by Dylan, Bob
    Bob Dylan

    The Philosophy of Modern Song

    The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One--and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. The audio is narrated by an all-star lineup including Bob Dylan, Jeff Bridges, Steve Buscemi, John Goodman,...
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  • Bub: Essays from Just North of Nashville by Bratcher, Drew
    Drew Bratcher

    Bub: Essays from Just North of Nashville

    Nashville native Drew Bratcher writes musically about memory and memorably about music in uncommonly beautiful essays that announce the arrival of a major new voice. The title essay, a requiem in fragments, tells the story of a grandfather through his ear, comb, hands, El...
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  • Earworm and Event: Music, Daydreams, and Other Imaginary Refrains by Priest, Eldritch
    Eldritch Priest

    Earworm and Event: Music, Daydreams, and Other Imaginary Refrains

    In Earworm and Event Eldritch Priest questions the nature of the imagination in contemporary culture through the phenomenon of the earworm: those reveries that hijack our attention, the shivers that run down our spines, and the songs that stick in our heads. Through a...
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  • Rags and Bones: An Exploration of the Band by Sellars, Jeff
    Jeff Sellars

    Rags and Bones: An Exploration of the Band

    Contributions by Joshua Coleman, Christine Hand Jones, Kevin C. Neece, Charlotte Pence, George Plasketes, Jeffrey Scholes, Jeff Sellars, Toby Thompson, and Jude Warne After performing with Ronnie Hawkins as the Hawks (1957-1964), The Band (Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson, and Levon...
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  • Rags and Bones: An Exploration of the Band by Sellars, Jeff
    Jeff Sellars

    Rags and Bones: An Exploration of the Band

    Contributions by Joshua Coleman, Christine Hand Jones, Kevin C. Neece, Charlotte Pence, George Plasketes, Jeffrey Scholes, Jeff Sellars, Toby Thompson, and Jude Warne After performing with Ronnie Hawkins as the Hawks (1957-1964), The Band (Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson, and Levon...
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  • The Politics of Vibration: Music as a Cosmopolitical Practice by Boon, Marcus
    Marcus Boon

    The Politics of Vibration: Music as a Cosmopolitical Practice

    In The Politics of Vibration Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration. Focusing on the work of three contemporary musicians--Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Pran Nath, Swedish drone composer and philosopher Catherine Christer Hennix, and Houston-based hip-hop musician DJ Screw--Boon outlines how...
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  • The Politics of Vibration: Music as a Cosmopolitical Practice by Boon, Marcus
    Marcus Boon

    The Politics of Vibration: Music as a Cosmopolitical Practice

    In The Politics of Vibration Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration. Focusing on the work of three contemporary musicians--Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Pran Nath, Swedish drone composer and philosopher Catherine Christer Hennix, and Houston-based hip-hop musician DJ Screw--Boon outlines how...
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  • Chalk Diary by Schragin, Adam
    Adam Schragin

    Chalk Diary

    Long regarded as one of the more livable and lively cities in the country, Austin's only constant is change, a state of play that has instigated endless and passionate arguments about whether that change is for the better, worse, neither or both. In a...
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  • Straight Into Darkness: Tom Petty as Rock Mystic by Volpert, Megan
    Megan Volpert

    Straight Into Darkness: Tom Petty as Rock Mystic

    As Megan Volpert stood over train tracks preparing to surrender to the psychedelic blindness of simple human misery, of all the Heartbreakers tracks available to come through her headphones, "Straight Into Darkness" is the one that did. In this highly philosophical and deeply personal...
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  • Right Place at the Write Time by White, D. Bergen
    D. Bergen White

    Right Place at the Write Time

    A colorful and candid behind-the-scenes look at my 60 years in the recording industry. Obviously a large portion of my life has been dedicated to singing and arranging and I will still arrange if the right person asks (and I'm in the mood) but...
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  • Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020: A University of Illinois Press Anthology by Matheson, Laurie
    Laurie Matheson

    Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020: A University of Illinois Press Anthology

    This second volume of Music in Black American Life offers research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and Black Music Research Journal, and in two book series published by the University of Illinois Press: Music in American Life, and African...
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  • Music in Black American Life, 1600-1945: A University of Illinois Press Anthology by Matheson, Laurie
    Laurie Matheson

    Music in Black American Life, 1600-1945: A University of Illinois Press Anthology

    This first volume of Music in Black American Life collects research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and the Black Music Research Journal, and in the University of Illinois Press's acclaimed book series Music in American Life. In these selections,...
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  • Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars by Duerden, Nick
    Nick Duerden

    Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars

    For fans of music books from David Hepworth, Pete Paphides, Bob Stanley and Craig Brown, as well as thought-provoking human interest stories like Moondust by Andrew Smith, and books by Jon Ronson, Louis Theroux and Stuart Maconie. Nick Duerden has spent many years interviewing...
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  • The Roots & Rhythm of the Heart: Our Musical Connection to Identity, Spirit, and Lineage by Demaine, Krystal L.
    Krystal L. Demaine

    The Roots & Rhythm of the Heart: Our Musical Connection to Identity, Spirit, and Lineage

    The beat of the heart is structured, not improvised; it is a perpetual non-fleeting pulse spanning all human life until it is the last rhythm produced in our own conscious existence. Listening to the final beats of my father's heart - his last eternal...
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  • The Aesthetical Writings of Giacinto Scelsi by Sciannameo, Franco
    Franco Sciannameo

    The Aesthetical Writings of Giacinto Scelsi

    Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), an extraordinary, innovative, and often controversial moving force in modern music, has been the subject of a vast amount of literary criticism, philosophical discussions, and groundbreaking performances.Originally in French, Scelsi's writings have been included in anthologies of prose, poetry, and memories...
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  • 21st Century Guitar: Evolutions and Augmentations by Perks, Richard
    Richard Perks

    21st Century Guitar: Evolutions and Augmentations

    In the 21st Century, the guitar, as both a material object and tool for artistic expression, continues to be reimagined and reinvented. From simple adaptations or modifications made by performers themselves, to custom-made instruments commissioned to fulfil specific functions, to the mass production of...
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  • Galaxie 500: Temperature's Rising: An Oral and Visual History by McGonigal, Mike
    Mike McGonigal

    Galaxie 500: Temperature's Rising: An Oral and Visual History

    A fascinating oral history of one of American indie rock's most enduring and influential actsSlow, deliberate and deceptively simple, the music of Boston-based band Galaxie 500 was wonderfully at odds with the prevailing underground sounds of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Formed in...
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  • Bands do BK: A Guide to Brooklyn, by Bands, for Everyone by Sumpter, Sam
    Sam Sumpter

    Bands do BK: A Guide to Brooklyn, by Bands, for Everyone

    Somewhere in Brooklyn, and all over Brooklyn, your favorite, and soon-to-be favorite, bands are... Writing. Rehearsing. Recording. Performing. Scouring thrift stores. Stuffing down pizza. Drinking and dancing. Lounging and living. But where is this happening? Where are the local musicians whose music, styles, and...
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  • Bands do BK: A Guide to Brooklyn, by Bands, for Everyone by Sumpter, Sam
    Sam Sumpter

    Bands do BK: A Guide to Brooklyn, by Bands, for Everyone

    Somewhere in Brooklyn, and all over Brooklyn, your favorite, and soon-to-be favorite, bands are... Writing. Rehearsing. Recording. Performing. Scouring thrift stores. Stuffing down pizza. Drinking and dancing. Lounging and living. But where is this happening? Where are the local musicians whose music, styles, and...
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  • Skipping Reels of Rhyme: A Guide to Rare and Unreleased Bob Dylan Recordings by Howells, John
    John Howells

    Skipping Reels of Rhyme: A Guide to Rare and Unreleased Bob Dylan Recordings

    In 1994, the first comprehensive website devoted to the works of Bob Dylan was created. This book presents some of the original articles written for the site, concentrating on the unreleased tapes of Bob Dylan, with commentary on the merits of each tape. Since...
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  • Nailing It by Hall, Rich
    Rich Hall

    Nailing It

    'An uproariously funny collection of true stories from one of the comedy greats' - BILL BAILEY A collection of hilarious and often absurd epiphanies in the legendary comedian's life that defined him - more in a for worse than for better kind of way...
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  • Queen and Philosophy: Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind by Kemling, Jared
    Jared Kemling

    Queen and Philosophy: Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind

    Queen and Philosophy: Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind is a collection of cutting-edge philosophical essays on the rock group Queen, founded in 1970 and originally featuring lead vocalist Freddie Mercury. Queen's reputation and fan following continue to grow in the twenty-first century. These insightful...
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  • Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist by Ribot, Marc
    Marc Ribot

    Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist

    "A slim yet powerful book in which Marc Ribot blends bits of memoir with strange little fictions, many of which are based on his own life and career." --Wall Street JournalThroughout his genre-defying career as one of the most innovative musicians of our time,...
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  • Murder Ballads Old and New: A Dark and Bloody Record by Jones, Steven L.
    Steven L. Jones

    Murder Ballads Old and New: A Dark and Bloody Record

    Murder Ballads Old & New: A Dark and Bloody Record is an exploration of an age-old topic-- our human need to document the horrors of the world around us. The murder ballad, here expanded to include songs about traumatic loss in modern variants and...
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  • How to Become a Professional Violinist - Tips and Talks by Cremer, Oscar
    Oscar Cremer

    How to Become a Professional Violinist - Tips and Talks

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Oscar CremerISBN-10: 1447457943ISBN-13: 9781447457947Publisher: Braithwaite...
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  • Anatomy of 55 More Songs: The Oral History of Top Hits That Changed Rock, Pop and Soul by Myers, Marc
    Marc Myers

    Anatomy of 55 More Songs: The Oral History of Top Hits That Changed Rock, Pop and Soul

    Following his 2016 smash hit Anatomy of a Song, acclaimed musicjournalist Marc Myers collects fifty-five new oral histories oficonic songs from his popular Wall Street Journal column Songs that sell the most copies become hits, but some of those hits becomesomething more--iconic recordings that...
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  • Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007) by Ozzi, Dan
    Dan Ozzi

    Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007)

    NATIONAL BESTSELLERAN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR"Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well told...a worthy successor to its obvious inspiration, Michael Azerrad's 2001 examination of the '80s indie underground, Our Band Could Be Your Life."--New York Times Book ReviewA raucous history of punk,...
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  • Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020: A University of Illinois Press Anthology by Matheson, Laurie
    Laurie Matheson

    Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020: A University of Illinois Press Anthology

    This second volume of Music in Black American Life offers research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and Black Music Research Journal, and in two book series published by the University of Illinois Press: Music in American Life, and African...
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  • Music in Black American Life, 1600-1945: A University of Illinois Press Anthology by Matheson, Laurie
    Laurie Matheson

    Music in Black American Life, 1600-1945: A University of Illinois Press Anthology

    This first volume of Music in Black American Life collects research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and the Black Music Research Journal, and in the University of Illinois Press's acclaimed book series Music in American Life. In these selections,...
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  • The Rock Musician: 15 Years of the Interviews - The Best of Musician Magazine by Scherman, Tony
    Tony Scherman

    The Rock Musician: 15 Years of the Interviews - The Best of Musician Magazine

    Author: Tony SchermanISBN-10: 0312304617ISBN-13: 9780312304614Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PLLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/15/1994Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.16h x 5.92w x 0.68d
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  • The Podium Papers: A Full Frontal Look At The Man With His Back To The Audience by Kessler, Martin
    Martin Kessler

    The Podium Papers: A Full Frontal Look At The Man With His Back To The Audience

    "The Podium Papers" is an honest and entertaining dispatch from the front lines of one of the world's most interesting and misunderstood professions. Like Anthony Bourdain in his "Kitchen Confidential," Martin Kessler takes the reader through the swinging doors and into the real 'kitchen'...
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  • Techno Globalization Pandemic by Van Der Heide, Bart
    Bart Van Der Heide

    Techno Globalization Pandemic

    A critical anthology on techno music as a transformative political platformExamining techno music and its cultural life through the lens of current social issues, the essays in this publication argue that techno can serve as a platform for socio-critical discourse as well as an...
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  • Living Genres in Late Modernity: American Music of the Long 1970s by Kronengold, Charles
    Charles Kronengold

    Living Genres in Late Modernity: American Music of the Long 1970s

    Living Genres in Late Modernity rehears the American 1970s through the workings of its musical genres. Exploring stylistic developments from the late 1960s through the early 1980s, including soul, funk, disco, pop, the nocturne, and the concerto, Charles Kronengold treats genres as unstable constellations...
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  • Living Genres in Late Modernity: American Music of the Long 1970s by Kronengold, Charles
    Charles Kronengold

    Living Genres in Late Modernity: American Music of the Long 1970s

    Living Genres in Late Modernity rehears the American 1970s through the workings of its musical genres. Exploring stylistic developments from the late 1960s through the early 1980s, including soul, funk, disco, pop, the nocturne, and the concerto, Charles Kronengold treats genres as unstable constellations...
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  • Bruce Springsteen: All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track by Guesdon, Jean-Michel
    Jean-Michel Guesdon

    Bruce Springsteen: All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track

    A new, definitive look at one of music's greatest songbooks, by two expert authors. The latest in the bestselling All the Songs series, Bruce Springsteen: All the Songs is the most in-depth exploration of The Boss's music ever written. From Greetings from Asbury Park,...
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  • Forbidden Beat: Perspectives on Punk Drumming by Lauden, S. W.
    S. W. Lauden

    Forbidden Beat: Perspectives on Punk Drumming

    Whether they're self-taught bashers or technical wizards, drummers are the thrashing, crashing heart of our favorite punk bands. In Forbidden Beat, some of today's most respected writers and musicians explore the history of punk percussion with personal essays, interviews and lists featuring their favorite...
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  • Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995-2020 by Licht, Alan
    Alan Licht

    Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995-2020

    Conversations with the avant-garde's leading lights--from Suicide to Anohni--by experimental music's go-to interviewer, guitarist and sound artist Alan LichtFor the past 30 years, Alan Licht has been a performer, programmer and chronicler of New York's art and music scenes. His dry wit, deep erudition...
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  • The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic: Revised and Expanded Edition by Hopper, Jessica
    Jessica Hopper

    The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic: Revised and Expanded Edition

    "Jessica Hopper's criticism is a trenchant and necessary counterpoint not just on music, but on our culture at large." --Annie Clark, St. VincentAn acclaimed, career-spanning collection from a fiercely feminist and revered contemporary rock critic, reissued with new material Throughout her career, spanning more...
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  • The Rolling Stones: Unzipped by The Rolling Stones
    The Rolling Stones

    The Rolling Stones: Unzipped

    For almost 60 years the Rolling Stones have helped shape popular culture around the world. Unzipped traces their impact and influence on rock music, art, design, fashion, photography, and filmmaking. Packed with evocative archive photos, artworks, outtakes, and memorabilia, this stunning book immerses readers...
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  • Looking at Music: DNA #8 by Brion, Lina
    Lina Brion

    Looking at Music: DNA #8

    On the implications of computer-generated music for live performance In the performance of computer-generated music, a tangibly causal relationship between action and sound has been cut. Looking at Music asks: how important is live action to the future of musical performance?Author: Lina BrionISBN-10: 3959054920ISBN-13:...
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  • Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007) by Ozzi, Dan
    Dan Ozzi

    Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007)

    THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER, NOW FEATURING NEW INTERVIEWS WITH DASHBOAD CONFESSIONAL, CURSIVE, LESS THAN JAKE, AND MORE."Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well told...a worthy successor to its obvious inspiration, Michael Azerrad's 2001 examination of the '80s indie underground, 'Our Band Could Be Your Life.'"--New...
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  • Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist by Ribot, Marc
    Marc Ribot

    Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist

    "A slim yet powerful book in which Marc Ribot blends bits of memoir with strange little fictions, many of which are based on his own life and career." --Wall Street Journal "Ribot . . . produced a book that is much like his musical...
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  • What's Good: Notes on Rap and Language by Levin Becker, Daniel
    Daniel Levin Becker

    What's Good: Notes on Rap and Language

    A NEW YORKER & GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA love letter to the verbal artistry of hip-hop, What's Good is a work of passionate lyrical analysis"What's Good is, among a great many other things, a byproduct of joyful obsession and immersion...
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  • Ten Masterpieces of Music by Sachs, Harvey
    Harvey Sachs

    Ten Masterpieces of Music

    In this penetrating volume, Harvey Sachs, acclaimed biographer and historian of classical music, takes readers into the hearts of ten extraordinary works of classical music in ten different genres, showing both the curious novice and the seasoned listener how to recognize, appreciate, and engage...
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  • The Elizabeth Cronin, Irish Traditional Singer: The Complete Song Collection by Ó. Crónín, Dáibhí
    Dáibhí Ó. Crónín

    The Elizabeth Cronin, Irish Traditional Singer: The Complete Song Collection

    Elizabeth (Bess) Cronin, 'The Queen of Irish Song', as S amus Ennis called her, is probably the best-known Irish female traditional singer of our time. Her reputation was such that collectors came from far and near to hear and record her singing. This publication...
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  • Disturbing the Universe: Wagner's Musikdrama by Vernon, David
    David Vernon

    Disturbing the Universe: Wagner's Musikdrama

    'Wagner's art refuses to stand still, declines to play by the rules and will not observe any of the social graces'What is it that makes Wagner's art so endlessly powerful? So influential, seductive and repellent? So simultaneously creative and destructive? And why does it...
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  • Arcana X: Musicians on Music by Zorn, John
    John Zorn

    Arcana X: Musicians on Music

    The final installment of John Zorn's major series of new music theory, with Oren Ambarchi, Peter Blegvad, Annea Lockwood, Henry Threadgill and many moreInitiated in 1997 and now in its tenth and final installment, John Zorn's acclaimed Arcana series is a major source of...
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  • Long Players: Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them by Gatti, Tom
    Tom Gatti

    Long Players: Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them

    Fifty great writers reflect on the albums that shaped them in this captivating collection curated by the New Statesman's Tom Gatti. Our favorite albums are our most faithful companions: we listen to them hundreds of times over decades, we know them far better than...
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  • Switched on Pop: How Popular Music Works, and Why It Matters by Sloan, Nate
    Nate Sloan

    Switched on Pop: How Popular Music Works, and Why It Matters

    Pop music surrounds us - in our cars, over supermarket speakers, even when we are laid out at the dentist - but how often do we really hear what's playing? Switched on Pop is the book based on the eponymous podcast that has been...
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  • Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing by Guralnick, Peter
    Peter Guralnick

    Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing

    By the bestselling author of Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll and Last Train the Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, this dazzling new book of profiles is a culmination of Peter Guralnick's remarkable work, which from the start has encompassed...
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