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Vendor: Ian Whitcomb
After the Ball: Pop Music from Rag to Rock
An irreverent and engaging chronicle of popular music dating from the 1880s, when Tin Pan Alley was founded, to the present by a British-born songwriter and onetime pop star. "Brash, learned, funny, and perspicacious." - The New YorkerAuthor: Ian WhitcombISBN-10: 087910063XISBN-13: 9780879100636Publisher: LimelightLanguage: EnglishPublished:...- $17.95
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Vendor: Shane K. Bernard
Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues
Music of Louisiana was at the heart of rock-and-roll in the 1950s. Most fans know that Jerry Lee Lewis, one of the icons, sprang out of Ferriday, Louisiana, in the middle of delta country and that along with Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley he...- $25.00
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Vendor: Peter Lavezzoli
The Dawn of Indian Music in the West
A little more than 50 years ago, in 1955, Ali AkbarKhan issued an LP called Music of India: Morning and Evening Ragas, with spoken introduction by violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Until then, Indian music was terra incognita in the West. When the same album was...- $51.95
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Vendor: Ya-Hui Cheng
The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present
Ya-Hui Cheng examines the emergence of popular music genres - jazz, rock, and hip-hop - in Chinese society, covering the social underpinnings that shaped the development of popular music in China and Taiwan, from imperialism to westernization and from modernization to globalization. The political...- $160.00
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Vendor: Larry Birnbaum
Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll
An essential work for rock fans and scholars, Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll surveys the origins of rock 'n' roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Unlike other histories of rock, Before Elvis offers...- $62.00
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Vendor: David P. Devenney
The New Broadway Song Companion: An Annotated Guide to Musical Theatre Literature by Voice Type and Song Style
This is a completely revised and expanded second edition of The Broadway Song Companion, the first complete guide and access point to the vast literature of the Broadway musical for the solo performer. Designed with the working actor in mind, the volume lists every...- $66.00
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Vendor: Albert Mendoza
Popular Performer -- 1980s and 1990s Love Songs: The Best Romantic Pop Hits
Rich textures, sophisticated harmonies, and inventive rhythms make these arrangements ideal for hobbyists, advancing students, and professional musicians. Titles: After All * Endless Love * I Can't Make You Love Me * (Everything I Do) I Do It for You * I Will Always...- $12.95
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Vendor: Dorothy Marcic
Respect: Women and Popular Music
For more than the first half of the last century, the voice of women in Top-40 popular music has been one of neediness and dependency. Please love me; I'll do anything for you; just be my baby, even if you're no good and treat...- $16.00
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Vendor: David W. Stowe
Swing Changes: Big-Band Jazz in New Deal America
Bands were playing, people were dancing, the music business was booming. It was the big-band era, and swing was giving a new shape and sound to American culture. Swing Changes looks at New Deal America through its music and shows us how the contradictions...- $48.00
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Vendor: Evelyn Duprai
Beyond Your Voice: Raise The Bar On Your Live Shows. Connect With Your Audience. Deliver Captivating Performances.
For Singers at Every Stage of Their Careers Whether you're a performing arts college student, a newbie to the music industry or vocalist who is a seasoned professional, you can learn to stand out from amongst the sea of great singers and become a...- $15.51
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Vendor: Michael D. Craig
Who's That Girl?: The Ultimate Madonna Trivia Book
Author: Michael D. CraigISBN-10: 0595210147ISBN-13: 9780595210145Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2001Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.14h x 5.96w x 0.36d- $10.95
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Vendor: Diane Holloway
American History in Song: Lyrics from 1900 to 1945
Author: Diane HollowayISBN-10: 0595193315ISBN-13: 9780595193318Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2001Pages: 504Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.56lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.17w x 1.16d- $27.95
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Vendor: John Lie
K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea
K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean economic and cultural transformations. John Lie provides not only a...- $95.00
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Vendor: Timothy J. Cooley
Surfing about Music
This first major examination the interrelationships of music and surfing explores different ways that surfers combine surfing with making and listening to music. Tim Cooley uses his knowledge and experience as a practicing musician and avid surfer to consider the musical practices of surfers...- $29.95
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Vendor: Tricia Rose
Microphone Fiends: Youth Music and Youth Culture
Microphone Fiends, a collection of original essays and interviews, brings together some of the best known scholars, critics, journalists and performers to focus on the contemporary scene. It includes theoretical discussions of musical history along with social commentaries about genres like disco, metal and...- $46.95
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Vendor: Mathias Bonde Korsgaard
Music Video After MTV: Audiovisual Studies, New Media, and Popular Music
Since the 1980s, music videos have been everywhere, and today almost all of the most-viewed clips on YouTube are music videos. However, in academia, music videos do not currently share this popularity. Music Video After MTV gives music video its due academic credit by...- $62.95
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Vendor: Kimberly Dillon Summers
Justin Timberlake
This revealing biography of pop star Justin Timberlake documents his background, childhood career, achievements, and disappointments. From his first taste of fame as an 11-year-old contestant on the TV show Star Search to making it big with the boy-band 'N Sync and his subsequent...- $43.00
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Vendor: Thomas Harrison
Music of the 1980s
Beyond coverage of mainstream 80s music, such as "hair band" hard rock, pop, new wave, and rap, this compilation of essential musical artists also covers genres like classical, jazz, outlaw country, and music theater. Popular music in the United States during the 1980s is...- $67.00
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Vendor: David Kootnikoff
U2: A Musical Biography
This is the story of the phenomenally popular, critically acclaimed Irish band from its Dublin beginnings to the present. U2: A Musical Biography tells the story of the phenomenally popular Irish rock band whose passionate songs and performances have taken them from their Dublin...- $43.00
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Vendor: Bob Gulla
Guitar Gods: The 25 Players Who Made Rock History
Meet rock and roll's party crashers. They are the guitar-wielding heroes who came into an established musical framework, rearranged the furniture, tipped over a few chairs, and ditched - leaving the stragglers to pick up the pieces. Guitar Gods showcases the 25 players who...- $79.00
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Vendor: Norman David
The Ella Fitzgerald Companion
The Ella Fitzgerald Companion is a celebration of the woman who is arguably musical history's greatest singer of popular. An international superstar of jazz and popular music, Fitzgerald boasted astounding versatility and sophistication that covered the entire musical spectrum, and her combination of incredible...- $95.00
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Vendor: Stan Jeffries
Encyclopedia of World Pop Music, 1980-2001
In this eclectic encyclopedia, author Stan Jeffries chronicles the careers of over 110 musical artists from 37 different nations. Entries include biographical information, trace the entrants' musical development, and recount the performers' critical and popular reception. A collection of photos, an index by nation,...- $85.00
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Vendor: James E. Perone
Songs of the Vietnam Conflict
Offering the widest scope of any study of one of popular music's most important eras, Songs of the Vietnam Conflict treats both anti-war and pro-government songs of the 1960s and early 1970s, from widely known selections such as Give Peace a Chance and Blowin'...- $134.00
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Vendor: Harry MacKenzie
The Directory of the Armed Forces Radio Service Series
This directory details the output of transcriptions from the Armed Forces Radio Service from the beginning in 1942 up to 1967. Since many official papers of the early days are no longer available, the information was gathered from many private sources. The range of...- $70.00
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Vendor: Nick Talevski
The Unofficial Encyclopedia of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
This reference work includes an examination of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's selection process, a review of the annual induction ceremony, and provides career biographies of 149 Hall of Fame inductees from the artists and producers to the record company founders and...- $83.00
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Vendor: Claude Bernardin
Rocket Man: The Encyclopedia of Elton John
Grammy winner for Can You Feel the Love Tonight from Disney's 1994 blockbuster movie The Lion King, Elton John is a musician that has transcended generations. Since his U.S. debut 25 years ago, E.J. has had a top-40 hit every year. This first reference...- $74.00
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Vendor: Patsy G. Hammontree
Elvis Presley: A Bio-Bibliography
Profiles the life and musical career of Elvis Presley and surveys the books and magazine articles about him.Author: Patsy G. HammontreeISBN-10: 0313228671ISBN-13: 9780313228674Publisher: GreenwoodLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/24/1985Pages: 301Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.53lbsSize: 9.52h x 6.06w x 1.11d- $97.00
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Vendor: Brian Jahn
Reggae Island: Jamaican Music in the Digital Age
Within this book over fifty contemporary reggae artists and producers--ranging from Cultural Roots to Dancehall, and including Buju Banton, Shabba Ranks, Tony Rebel, Burning Spear, Bunny Wailer, Judy Mowatt, Oku Onuora, Junior Reid, Ken Boothe, Sister Carol, and Third World--present their views on the...- $18.99
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Vendor: Martin Stokes
The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music
At the heart of The Republic of Love are the voices of three musicians--queer nightclub star Zeki M?en, arabesk originator Orhan Gencebay, and pop diva Sezen Aksu--who collectively have dominated mass media in Turkey since the early 1950s. Their fame and ubiquity have made...- $38.00
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Vendor: Gage Averill
A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti Volume 1997
The history of Haiti throughout the twentieth century has been marked by oppression at the hands of colonial and dictatorial overlords. But set against this "day for the hunter" has been a "day for the prey," a history of resistance, and sometimes of triumph....- $40.00
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Vendor: Charlotte Greenspan
Pick Yourself Up: Dorothy Fields and the American Musical
Famed lyricist Dorothy Fields penned the words to more than four hundred songs, among them mega-hits such as "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, " and "The Way You Look Tonight." In Pick Yourself Up, Charlotte...- $32.99
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Vendor: Richard Middleton
Reading Pop: Approaches to Textual Analysis in Popular Music
Why do we enjoy pop songs (or not)? Why do they mean so much to us? What do they mean? Is it the sounds, the rhythms, or the words? Is it the singing, the personae of the stars, or the messages and images that...- $89.00
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Vendor: Lloyd Whitesell
The Music of Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell is one of the foremost singer-songwriters of the late twentieth century. Yet despite her reputation, influence, and cultural importance, a detailed appraisal of her musical achievement is still lacking. Whitesell presents a through exploration of Mitchell's musical style, sound, and structure in...- $40.99
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Vendor: Alec Wilder
American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950
When Alec Wilder's American Popular Song first appeared, it was almost universally hailed--from The New York Times to The New Yorker to Down Beat--as the definitive account of the classic era of American popular music. It has since become the standard work of the...- $81.00
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Vendor: Michael Story
Pop Quartets for All: Violin
Alfred's Pop Quartets for All series is a versatile, educational, and fun series intended for like or mixed instruments to perform in any size group or combination of instruments. All books are in score format with each line increasing in difficulty from Grade 1...- $7.99
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Vendor: Kenneth Womack
The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four [2 Volumes]
A fascinating look at the history of the Beatles, from their formative years through the present day, as detailed in hundreds of entries chock-full of information never before shared with the public. The Beatles have sold at least 2.3 billion albums; achieved 6 Diamond,...- $198.00
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Vendor: Tom Kemper
The Monkees: Made in Hollywood
A Variety Best Music Book of 2023 The behind-the-scenes story of the controversial 1960s made-for-tv rock band. The Monkees represent a vital problem for rock and pop: is it the music that matters or the personality and image of the performers? This book explores...- $16.00
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Vendor: Marie Fredriksson
Listen to My Heart: Life, Love & Roxette
Listen to My Heart is a completely candid and passionate, heartbreaking yet often witty life story of one of rock music's most resilient lead singers, Marie Fredriksson from Roxette ("It Must Have Been Love," "Listen to Your Heart," "The Look," "Joyride"). Given only a...- $25.99
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Vendor: Marie Fredriksson
Listen to My Heart (Limited Edition): Life, Love & Roxette
LIMITED COLLECTOR'S EDITION that includes Marie's 2004 English-language solo album The Change on CD--previously unreleased in any physical format in North America--as well as bonus track "Sea of Love" (2017), the last song that Marie recorded. This edition also contains foil gilded page edges...- $35.99
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Vendor: Alan Bradshaw
Advertising Revolution: The Story of a Song, from Beatles Hit to Nike Slogan
The story of "Revolution" by the Beatles, from its origin as a protest song of the 1960s, to it becoming the musical backdrop for one of the most famous, influential, and controversial adverts of all time. In 1987, Nike released their new sixty-second commercial...- $14.95
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Vendor: Robbie Williams
Robbie Williams -- Escapology: Piano/Vocal/Guitar
This is the matching folio to Robbie Williams' fifth studio album Escapology. Released only six weeks before the end of 2002, the album became the largest selling release that year. Titles are: How Peculiar * Feel * Something Beautiful * Monsoon * Sexed Up...- $22.99
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Vendor: Ronnie Spector
Be My Baby: A Memoir
Hailed by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the greatest rock memoirs of all time, Be My Baby is the true story of how Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Ronnie Spector carved out a space for herself against tremendous odds amid the chaos...- $19.99
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Vendor: Karah-Leigh Hancock
Backstreet Boys 30th Anniversary Celebration
Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Backstreet Boys with the ultimate tribute book--filled with amazing tour photography, band-member profiles, fan memories, and more. Since breaking into the scene in 1993, the Backstreet Boys have sold over 100 million records around the globe making them...- $24.99
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Vendor: Carolyn Cooper
Global Reggae
These plenary lectures from the "Global Reggae" conference convened at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica in 2008 eloquently exemplify the breadth and depth of current scholarship on Jamaican popular music. Radiating from the Jamaican centre, these illuminating essays highlight the "glocalization"...- $40.00
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Vendor: Spencer Leigh
Simon & Garfunkel Together Alone
The definitive account of the careers of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel including previously unpublished material.Author: Spencer LeighISBN-10: 0857161504ISBN-13: 9780857161505Publisher: McNidder and GraceLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/25/2016Pages: 268Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 5.80w x 0.90d- $22.95
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Vendor: Alexandre Desplat
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2: Five Finger Piano
This is the officially licensed, collectible sheet music collection from the motion picture, featuring piano arrangements of seven standout selections from Alexandre Desplat's acclaimed score, along with several pages of color imagery from the film. These arrangements are set in traditional five-finger style, with...- $10.99
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Vendor: George McKay
Shakin' All Over: Popular Music and Disability
Given the explosion in recent years of scholarship exploring the ways in which disability is manifested and performed in numerous cultural spaces, it's surprising that until now there has never been a single monograph study covering the important intersection of popular music and disability....- $38.95
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Vendor: Daniel Selby
The Complete Anne Murray Illustrated Discography (hardback)
On June 20, 1945, Morna Anne Murray was born in the Canadian coal-mining town of Springhill, Nova Scotia, to Dr. James Carson Murray, the town's physician, and Marion Margaret Murray, a nurse. After expressing an interest in music at an early age, her parents...- $65.00
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Vendor: Daniel Selby
The Complete Anne Murray Illustrated Discography
On June 20, 1945, Morna Anne Murray was born in the Canadian coal-mining town of Springhill, Nova Scotia, to Dr. James Carson Murray, the town's physician, and Marion Margaret Murray, a nurse. After expressing an interest in music at an early age, her parents...- $55.00
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Vendor: Charles Ginger
Abba - Thank You for the Music
They say the winner takes it all, and when it came to fame, fortune and writing their name into the annals of pop music, ABBA certainly did. But just how did four young Scandinavian singers join forces to become the biggest- selling pop band...- $34.99
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