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Vendor: Marcia Hatfield Daudistel
Across the Border and Back: Music in the Big Bend
In the vast, sparsely populated area of West Texas known as the Big Bend, life takes place on a different scale. The nearest neighbor can be forty miles away, perhaps located not just in another town but another country, the border historically less obvious...- $45.00
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Fandom and the Beatles: The ACT You've Known for All These Years
More than 50 years after their breakup, the Beatles are still attracting fans from various generations, all while retaining their original fan base from the 1960s. Why have those first-generation fans continued following the Beatles and are now introducing their grandchildren to the group?...- $35.99
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Peak Music Experiences: A New Perspective on Popular music, Identity and Scenes
Peak music experiences are a recurring feature of popular music journalism, biography and fan culture, where they are often credited as pivotal in people's relationships with music and in their lives more generally. Ben Green investigates the phenomenon from a social and cultural perspective,...- $170.00
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The Do-Re-Mi of Singing: The Ultimate Beginner to Intermediate Singing Guide
Teach Yourself to Sing!Discover everything you need to start your singing journey with this two-part singing lessons book.Whether you're just starting out or a seasoned singer that wants to learn new techniques for different genres, this guide will help.Learn about all the singing skills...- $20.99
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Gene Pitney: The Singer, the Songs, the Songwriters
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway. Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Carole King and Gerry Goffin. Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. Barry Mason and Les Reed. Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington. Randy Newman. Al Kooper. An eclectic group of famed...- $16.95
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The Little Guide to Abba: Thank You for the Music
ABBA blasted their way onto the global pop scene with a Eurovision Song Contest win in 1974. The song, 'Waterloo', the band's tenth single, was a top 10 hit around the world and spurred them on to enormous chart success with singles, then albums,...- $8.95
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Hear Me Out
'I can't rewrite history; all I can do is be honest and wear my heart on my sleeve. It's really the only way I know. I want to show people the real me. Or perhaps remind them. Because, somewhere - amongst the nightclubs, the...- $17.95
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Elton John by Terry O'Neill: 40 Years in Photographs
A photographic portrait of Elton John, by iconic photographer Terry O'Neill "Looking at Terry's photographs is like gazing through a window at the most extraordinary and exciting moments of my life. I'm so glad he was with us throughout the madness: in his evocative...- $34.99
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John Farnham's Whispering Jack
The album examined in this book transformed the singer John Farnham from a faded teen pop star into the most popular solo rock performer in Australia, in a career that has lasted for more than 30 years. Whispering Jack remains the top-selling album by...- $22.95
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Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power
In this deep dive into the Jamaican music world filled with the voices of creators, producers, and consumers, Larisa Kingston Mann--DJ, media law expert, and ethnographer--identifies how a culture of collaboration lies at the heart of Jamaican creative practices and legal personhood. In street...- $95.00
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Modern Music Masters - The Verve: Mmm5
Four equally vital components in one machine, The Verve emerged in the early 1990s and set themselves apart from both shoegaze and then Britpop. From shimmering, other-worldly elegance to timeless song-writing, they set about creating their own psychedelic sonic soundscapes, releasing four albums which...- $14.99
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Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality brings together a collection of original, interdisciplinary, critical essays exploring the negotiated place of gender and sexuality in heavy metal music and its culture. Scholars debate the current state of play concerning masculinities, femininities, queerness, identity aesthetics and monstrosities...- $56.95
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George Michael: The Biography
From the formation of Wham! to his untimely death, this is the ultimate biography of George Michael. George Michael is an enigma. He was one of the most open and vocal pop superstars on the planet, yet he was also fiercely protective of his...- $15.99
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When Surface Was Depth: Death by Cappuccino and Other Reflections on Music and Culture in the 1990s
He's the only person to whom The Velvet Underground ever played as an audience of one, the first British writer to talk to Patti Smith after her seventeen-year hiatus from rock. One reviewer hailed his previous book England is Mine as "surely the strangest...- $21.99
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As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin (1888-1989) was unable to read or write music and could only play the piano in the key of F-sharp major; yet, for the first half of the twentieth century he was America's most successful and most representative songwriter, composing such hits as...- $29.99
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Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop
From the beginning of the American Occupation in 1945 to the post-bubble period of the early 1990s, popular music provided Japanese listeners with a much-needed release, channeling their desires, fears, and frustrations into a pleasurable and fluid art. Pop music allowed Japanese artists and...- $29.95
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Four Parts, No Waiting: A Social History of American Barbershop Quartet
Four Parts, No Waiting investigates the role that vernacular, barbershop-style close harmony has played in American musical history, in American life, and in the American imagination. Starting with a discussion of the first craze for Austrian four-part close harmony in the 1830s, Averill traces...- $45.99
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Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century
NPR Great Read of 2016From the acclaimed author of Rip It Up and Start Again and Retromania--"the foremost popular music critic of this era (Times Literary Supplement)--comes the definitive cultural history of glam and glitter rock, celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars, including...- $22.99
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Abba at 50
After winning 1974's Eurovision Song Contest with their song "Waterloo," ABBA catapulted to fame, capturing hearts across the globe with their melodic and ever-so-catchy pop songs.Formed in Stockholm, in 1972 by Agnetha F舁tskog, Bjn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad, ABBA became one...- $39.95
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Patient: The True Story of a Rare Illness
In the summer of 1992, on the eve of an American tour, Ben Watt, one half of the Billboard-topping pop duo Everything But The Girl, was taken to a London hospital complaining of chest pain. He didn't leave for two and a half months....- $15.00
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Vendor: Journey
Journey -- Greatest Hits: Piano/Vocal/Guitar
Pianists will delight in this updated songbook, in which the piano/vocal arrangements have been notably improved (compared to older published sheet music renditions) to accurately reflect what was played on the band's original hit recordings. Basic guitar chord grids are also included. (A note-for-note...- $19.99
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The Day the Music Died
Their lives were cut brutally short...yet the legacy has on lived on for four decades. They were three of rock 'n' roll's brightest stars, touring together in a music revue that was as grueling as it was magical. Dilapidated school buses that frequently broke...- $14.95
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On This Day in Music History
The dictionary defines trivia as: "matter or things of very slight importance, commonplace, or ordinary." Yet anyone who has ever read anything about a favorite sports star, singer, historic figure or celebrity will find that it is often the so-called trivia that makes things...- $25.00
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Vendor: Beach Boys
The Beach Boys Anthology
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). We're proud to present this comprehensive retrospective of one of the most influential pop bands of all time Features 44 of their classic hits, including: All Summer Long * Barbara Ann * Be True to Your School * California Girls *...- $24.99
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Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America Volume 18
Ranging from Los Angeles to Havana to the Bronx to the U.S.-Mexico border and from klezmer to hip hop to Latin rock, this groundbreaking book injects popular music into contemporary debates over American identity. Josh Kun, a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, insists that America is...- $34.95
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Vendor: Danijela S. Beard
Made in Yugoslavia: Studies in Popular Music
Made in Yugoslavia: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of popular music in Yugoslavia and the post-Yugoslav region across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book consists of chapters by leading scholars and...- $44.95
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American Popular Music: Readings From the Popular Press Volume I: The Nineteenth-Century Tin Pan Alley
Beginning with the emergence of commercial American music in the nineteenth century, Volume 1 includes essays on the major performers, composers, media, and movements that shaped our musical culture before rock and roll. Articles explore the theoretical dimensions of popular music studies; the music...- $17.95
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Becoming Almost Famous: My Back Pages in Music Writing and Life
This volume collects many of the best articles from veteran Rolling Stone writer Ben Fong-Torres. While many will recognize Ben as he was portrayed in Cameron Crowe's hit film Almost Famous, his thoughtful and engaging stories have been providing a backstage view for over...- $18.99
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Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music
In the early nineties, riot grrrl exploded onto the underground music scene, inspiring girls to pick up an instrument, create fanzines, and become politically active. Rejecting both traditional gender roles and their parents' brand of feminism, riot grrrls celebrated and deconstructed femininity. The media...- $16.00
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Real Men Don't Sing: Crooning in American Culture
The crooner Rudy Vall e's soft, intimate, and sensual vocal delivery simultaneously captivated millions of adoring fans and drew harsh criticism from those threatened by his sensitive masculinity. Although Vall e and other crooners reflected the gender fluidity of late-1920s popular culture, their challenge...- $31.95
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Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City
Has pop burnt itself out? Paul Morley takes the reader on an epic drive through the history of music to find out. A succession of celebrities, geniuses and other protagonists led by Madonna, Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, Erik Satie, John Cage and Wittgenstein appear to...- $27.95
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Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine
Musical representations of wildness in an era of revolutionRecipient of the 2020 Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological SocietyWhat are the uses of musical exoticism? In Wild Music, Maria Sonevytsky tracks vernacular Ukrainian discourses of "wildness" as they manifested in popular music during...- $27.95
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Words of Our Mouth, Meditations of Our Heart: Pioneering Musicians of Ska, Rocksteady, Reggae, and Dancehall
Celebrating the legendary studio musicians of Jamaican popular music through personal photographs and interviewsThis is the first book devoted to the studio musicians who were central to Jamaica's popular-music explosion. With color portraits and interview excerpts, over 100 musical pioneers--such as Prince Buster, Robbie...- $29.95
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A Few Honest Words: The Kentucky Roots of Popular Music
In industry circles, musicians from Kentucky are known to possess an enviable pedigree-a lineage as prized as the bloodline of any bluegrass-raised Thoroughbred. With native sons and daughters like Naomi and Wynonna Judd, Loretta Lynn, the Everly Brothers, Joan Osborne, and Merle Travis, it's...- $19.95
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The Next Elvis: Searching for Stardom at Sun Records
An American institution, Sun Records has a history with many chapters -- its Memphis origins with visionary Sam Phillips, the breakthrough recordings of Elvis Presley, and the studio's immense influence on the sound of popular music. But behind the company's chart toppers and legendary...- $34.95
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Vendor: Hal Leonard Corp
The Fault in Our Stars: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). All 16 songs from the soundtrack for this 2014 breakout blockbuster movie based on a novel by John Green, in arrangements for piano, voice and guitar. Includes Ed Sheeran's "All of the Stars," "Boom Clap" by Charli XCX, plus: All I Want...- $16.99
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The 33 1/3 B-Sides: New Essays by 33 1/3 Authors on Beloved and Underrated Albums
If given another chance to write for the series, which albums would 33 1/3 authors focus on the second time around? This anthology features compact essays from past 33 1/3 authors on albums that consume them, but about which they did not write. It...- $26.95
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Do You Want to Know a Secret?: The Autobiography of Billy J. Kramer
When Billy J. Kramer's "Do You Want To Know A Secret?" by Lennon and McCartney topped the charts in 1963, he was the first singer in the world to have a number one hit with a Beatles song, apart from the Fab Four themselves....- $29.95
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The Ultimate Guide to Great Reggae
The Ultimate Guide To Great Reggae celebrates (and helps you find) the greatest songs of reggae. It focuses on every style of reggae, from mento to Jamaican R&B, ska, rock steady, dub, DJ, roots, dancehall and more. It opens with an exceptionally comprehensive brief...- $49.95
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Dylan: The Biography
Bob Dylan is a music hero to generations. He's also an international-bestselling artist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and an Oscar winner for Things Have Changed. His career is stronger and more influential than ever. How did this happen, given the road to oblivion he...- $26.95
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If You Like the Ramones...: Here Are Over 200 Bands, CDs, Films and Other Oddities That You Will Love
IF YOU LIKE THE RAMONES... HERE ARE OVER 200 BANDS, CDS, FILMS AND OTHER ODDITIES THAAuthor: Peter AaronISBN-10: 1617134570ISBN-13: 9781617134579Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2013Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.70d- $16.99
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Vendor: John Mayer
John Mayer: Ukulele
(Ukulele). The Strum & Sing series provides an unplugged and pared-down approach just the chords & lyrics with nothing fancy so you can strum along. Here are easy-to-play ukulele/vocal arrangements of two dozen top tunes from John Mayer: Back to You * Clarity *...- $10.99
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The Beatles Way: Fab Wisdom for Everyday Life
The Beatles as personal growth gurus, you ask? Sure Everyone knows that the Beatles were brilliant musicians. But there was much more to them than just great music. John, Paul, George, and Ringo created a living legacy of joy, elegance, and peace. The Beatles...- $17.95
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The Beach Boys' Endless Wave: Inside America's Band
It's 1976. The Beach Boys, on the back of their charismatic lead singer, Mike Love, were still fending off the "British Music Invasion" and keeping America's Band alive and on the road. Meanwhile the band's co-founder Brian Wilson was holed up in his Bel...- $21.97
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The Go-Betweens
The Go-Betweens recorded six albums that are among the finest work of the 1980s, earning them a reputation as the ultimate cult band and the lasting esteem of their peers, from R.E.M. to Sleater-Kinney. In 2000 they returned to making records--and received the best...- $24.95
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Homeground: The Kate Bush Magazine: Anthology Two: 'The Red Shoes' to '50 Words for Snow'
HOMEGROUND: THE KATE BUSH MAGAZINE: ANTHOLOGY TWO: 'THE RED SHOES' TO '50 WORDS FOR SNOW'HomeGround is a magazine devoted to Kate Bush (born in 1958), a British pop star best-known for hits such as 'Wuthering Heights', 'Wow', 'Hounds of Love' and 'Running Up That...- $52.49
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Dub in Babylon: Understanding the Evolution and Significance of Dub Reggae in Jamaica and Britain from King Tubby to Post-Punk
Dub reggae and the techniques associated with it have, since the late-1980s, been used widely by producers of dance and ambient music. However, the term was originally applied to a remixing technique pioneered in Jamaica as far back as 1967. Recording engineers produced reggae...- $24.95
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"We Didn't Start the Fire": Billy Joel and Popular Music Studies
Billy Joel has sold over 150 million records, produced thirty-three Top-40 hits, received six Grammy Awards, and been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Fans celebrate him, critics deride him, and scholars have all but ignored him. This first-of-its-kind collection of...- $117.00
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Vendor: Alfred Music
Alfred's Easy Piano Songs -- Classic Rock: 50 Hits of the '60s, '70s & '80s
For beginning musicians, Alfred's Easy series is the fast track to developing a repertoire of well-known and fun-to-play songs, while more experienced players will find an excellent resource of favorite songs. The Easy Hits Piano format provides fun and satisfying piano arrangements that are...- $25.99
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Elvis Presley: Stories Behind the Songs Volume Two
This second volume begins 60 years ago when Elvis Presley returns from the army, wondering if he still has a career and massive fan base after being away for two years.He needn't have worried himself, the fans lapped up his new and more ambitious...- $14.00
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