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Vendor: Deborah R. Vargas
Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music: The Limits of La Onda
Musical sound has been central to heteromasculinist productions of nation and homeland, whether Chicano, Tejano, Texan, Mexican, or American. If this assertion holds true, as Deborah R. Vargas suggests, then what are we to make of those singers and musicians whose representations of gender...- $25.50
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Vendor: Paul Skillen
Scouse Pop
Scouse Pop is a journey into the personalities and music of the successful pioneering Liverpool pop bands of the late seventies and eighties. It examines their motivations, their uniqueness and the routes to success which made them into enduring musical innovators. It looks at...- $29.95
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Vendor: Marcellas Reynolds
Supreme Sirens: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Music
A stunning photography book that explores the power, rebellion, and resilience held within the voices of trailblazing Black female musicians. From entertainment journalist and fashion stylist Marcellas Reynolds, the author of Supreme Models and Supreme Actresses, comes the third installment of the celebrated series,...- $60.00
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Vendor: Gene Fowler
Metro Music: Celebrating a Century of the Trinity River Groove
Metro Music explores the musical history of Dallas, Fort Worth, and the surrounding area from the nineteenth century to the 1960s and the continuing echoes of that transformative decade. With nearly five hundred images, many previously unpublished, the book moves through genres and eras...- $36.95
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Vendor: Julia Murray
Dress Up Harry: A Harry Styles Paper Doll Book Featuring His Most Iconic Looks
Dress up your favorite it-boy with this press-and-play paper doll book. Style Mr. Styles in some of his most iconic fits, from the red carpet to the stage and silver screen. Featuring a pop-out Harry doll, ready to be fitted with 12 of his...- $16.95
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Vendor: Alfred Music
Top-Requested Patriotic Sheet Music: 18 Songs Celebrating the American Spirit
Celebrate America with some of the most beloved patriotic songs in one book These 18 selections capture the American spirit and are sure to instill pride in anyone wishing to play or sing along. Each arrangement includes full lyrics, piano accompaniment, and guitar chords...- $16.99
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Vendor: Michael Alec Rose
Audible Signs
Whether it's a song by Brahms or by the Boss, a serenade by Mozart or a ballet by John Harbison, music radiates a diverse spectrum of meaningful signs, hidden in plain hearing.ツ To enjoy the interplay of musical signs, it helps to recognize them...- $36.95
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Vendor: Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). This matching folio features 11 songs from the 16-year-old country-pop singer's debut album: Cold as You * Mary's Song (Oh My My My) * Our Song * The Outside * Picture to Burn * A Place in This World * Should've...- $22.99
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Vendor: Zack Stiegler
Musical Intimacy: Construction, Connection, and Engagement
Discourse on popular music frequently describes artists' recordings and performances as "intimate." Yet that discourse often stops short of elucidating how a mass-produced commodity such as popular music is able to elicit feelings of intimacy with and among its audience. Through detailed analysis of...- $110.00
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Vendor: Daniel Selby
The Complete Olivia Newton-John Illustrated Discography (hardback)
Dame Olivia Newton-John was born in Cambridge, England on Sunday, September 26, 1948. Starting at an early age Olivia expressed an interest in music. By the time she was in her mid-teens she was singing in coffee houses with an all-girl group she formed...- $75.00
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Vendor: Hal Leonard Corp
Great Songs of the Sixties, Vol. 1 Edition
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). The newly updated version of this classic book includes 80 faves from the 1960s: Angel of the Morning * Bridge over Troubled Water * Cabaret * Different Drum * Do You Believe in Magic * Eve of Destruction * Georgy Girl *...- $27.99
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Vendor: Keith Hayward
Elton John: From The Inside
From The Inside is a thorough revised and expanded re-working of Hayward's previous books, Tin Pan Alley: The Rise of Elton John and From Tin Pan Alley to the Yellow Brick Road. From The Inside is not just an ordinary biography. It is effectively...- $31.99
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Vendor: Billy J. Kramer
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....- $18.95
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Vendor: Jeff Smith
The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music
The Sounds of Commerce is the first book to present a detailed historical analysis of popular music in American film, from the era of sheet music sales, to that of orchestrated pop records by Henry Mancini and Ennio Morricone in the 1960- to the...- $36.00
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Vendor: Hayley Marland
K-Pop Survival Guide: A Rookie K-Pop Fan's Guide to Learning and Enjoying Korean Pop Music to the Fullest From A to Z
Surviving the K-pop community can be a little daunting at first To prepare you for the battle ahead, K-Pop Survival Guide explores many different aspects of K-Pop such as: - What is K-pop?- Things you need to know as a fan and how to...- $19.99
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Vendor: Travis Elborough
The Vinyl Countdown: The Album from LP to iPod and Back Again
VINYL MAY BE FINAL NAIL IN CD'S COFFIN ran the headline in a Wired magazine article in October 2007. Ever since the arrival of the long--playing record in 1948, the album has acted as the soundtrack to our lives. Record collections--even on a CD...- $18.95
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Vendor: Clay Eals
Steve Goodman: Facing the Music [With Access Code]
?Steve Goodman wrote "Good mornin' America, how are ya" into the nation's consciousness, becoming one of the most respected singer/songwriters of the 1970s and early 80s. With warmth and wit, he charmed better-known peers, top critics, and countless fans. Yet this 5-foot-2 troubadour nearly...- $39.95
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Vendor: Kate Siobhan Mulligan
The Beatles: A Musical Biography
This in-depth, research-based book profiles the band that shaped a generation and changed the face of music forever. What makes a legend? The Beatles: A Musical Biography attempts to answer that question by taking an in-depth look at the band that changed pop music....- $43.00
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Vendor: Kurt B. Reighley
Looking for the Perfect Beat: The Art and Culture of the DJ
"It's your soul playing with the rhythm, flying around in the beats." -- DJ Q-Bert They are music's vanguard. The reshape today's sounds -- house, techno, hip-hop, rock -- direct our feet on the floor, and influence the way music is represented in our...- $17.95
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Vendor: Gordon Deppe
Spoonfed: My Life with the Spoons
"With a string of smash hits - Nova Heart, Tell No Lies, Old Emotions, Romantic Traffic - the Spoons redefined the musical landscape and captured the hearts of fans everywhere. The Spoons toured extensively, playing sold-out shows with an array of fellow icons including...- $49.95
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Vendor: K. Adkins
New Wave: Image Is Everything
New Wave: Image is Everything traces the evolution of the often neglected pop music genre, new wave. Using artists from Elvis Costello to Cyndi Lauper as illustrations, the book argues that new wave was among the first flowerings of postmodern theory in popular culture.Author:...- $54.99
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Vendor: Jimmy Buffett
Jimmy Buffett: Buffet Hotel: Piano/Vocal/Guitar
Titles: Nobody from Nowhere * Wings * Big Top * Beautiful Swimmers * Turn Up the Heat and Chill the Ros * Summerzcool * Rhumba Man * We Learned to Be Cool from You * Surfing in a Hurricane * Life Short Call Now...- $19.99
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Vendor: Kathy Burns
The Guitar's All Right as a Hobby, John
Mimi Smith raised John Lennon and helped to build the man he became. She has been portrayed as a stern disciplinarian in other books, magazines, and films. Not true. She was a fun character. And she was opinionated.Author: Kathy BurnsISBN-10: 1494968681ISBN-13: 9781494968687Publisher: Createspace Independent...- $16.95
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Vendor: Roy Shuker
Understanding Popular Music Culture
This extensively revised and expanded fifth edition of Understanding Popular Music Culture provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the production, distribution, consumption and meaning of popular music, and the debates that surround popular culture and popular music. Reflecting the continued proliferation of popular...- $49.95
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Vendor: Mark Osteen
The Beatles Through a Glass Onion: Reconsidering the White Album
The Beatles, the 1968 double LP more commonly known as the White Album, has always been viewed as an oddity in the group's oeuvre. Many have found it to be inconsistent, sprawling, and self-indulgent. The Beatles through a Glass Onion is the first-ever scholarly...- $84.95
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Vendor: Joanna K. Love
Soda Goes Pop: Pepsi-Cola Advertising and Popular Music
From its 1939 "Nickel, Nickel" jingle to pathbreaking collaborations with Michael Jackson and Madonna to its pair of X Factor commercials in 2011 and 2012, Pepsi-Cola has played a leading role in drawing the American pop music industry into a synergetic relationship with advertising....- $94.95
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Vendor: Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift: Fearless: Easy Piano
(Easy Piano Personality). Taylor Swift was the top-selling artist of 2008, and the first in the history of Nielsen SoundScan to have two different titles in the Top 10 on the year-end album chart. Our matching folio to this smash CD features easy piano...- $22.99
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Vendor: Mel Stanfill
Rock This Way: Cultural Constructions of Musical Legitimacy
Any and all songs are capable of being remixed. But not all remixes are treated equally. Rock This Way examines transformative musical works--cover songs, remixes, mash-ups, parodies, and soundalike songs--to discover what contemporary American culture sees as legitimate when it comes to making music...- $29.95
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Vendor: Mel Stanfill
Rock This Way: Cultural Constructions of Musical Legitimacy
Any and all songs are capable of being remixed. But not all remixes are treated equally. Rock This Way examines transformative musical works--cover songs, remixes, mash-ups, parodies, and soundalike songs--to discover what contemporary American culture sees as legitimate when it comes to making music...- $70.00
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Vendor: Beck Feiner
Taylor Swift Legends Alphabet
From Shake It Off to Lover, Blank Space to I Knew You Were Trouble, Taylor Swift Legends Alphabet is an enchanting journey through the heart and soul of the greatest pop-country singer ever. So grab your acoustic guitar and get ready to fall in...- $19.95
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Vendor: Bruce Belland
Icons, Idols and Idiots of Hollywood - My Adventures in America's First Boy Band
The son of fundamentalist preacher sings his first solo in front of an audience at age four. The congregation's enthusiastic response inspires his dream of becoming a singer. That dream comes true as front man of America's first "Boy Band", Capitol Records vocal group...- $42.00
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Vendor: Cliff Richard
A Head Full of Music: The Soundtrack to My Life
Foreword by Bob Stanley On a sunny Saturday morning in May 1956, a fifteen-year-old, then called Harry Webb, was mooching down Waltham Cross High Street. He heard some music blaring out of a parked car. It stopped him in his tracks. The song was...- $34.99
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Vendor: Klaus Teubig
Straighten Up and Fly Right: A Chronology and Discography of Nat King Cole
Thirty years of collecting and 15 years of research have resulted in this discography that features all known recordings, transcriptions, and films made by Cole until 1950, when his jazz style faded away, and a selection of his later jazz-related trio sides. It includes...- $83.00
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Vendor: Andrew Oldham
Abba
Once known for successful pop records and a wardrobe of polyester jump suits, this is a reassessment of a band now cemented in their position as one of the all time great pop acts. Abba were once reviled by most critics, but now bands...- $24.99
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Vendor: Cerphe Colwell
Cerphe's Up: A Musical Life with Bruce Springsteen, Little Feat, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, Csny, and Many More
Cerphe's Up is an incisive musical memoir by Cerphe Colwell, a renowned rock radio broadcaster for more than forty-five years in Washington, DC. Cerphe shares his life as a rock radio insider in rich detail and previously unpublished photographs. His story includes promotion and...- $34.99
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Vendor: Gene Popa
British Invasion '64 - The Year That Changed Rock & Roll Forever (hardback)
"They've got their own groups. What are we going to give America that they don't already have?" - Paul McCartney" They give the teenagers something that thrills them, a vision. The boys and girls of this age are young men and women looking for...- $35.00
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Vendor: Hal Leonard Corp
Top Downloads for Female Singers [With CD (Audio)]
(Pro Vocal). Whether you're a karaoke singer or preparing for an audition, the Pro Vocal series is for you. The book contains the lyrics, melody, and chord symbols for eight hit songs. The CD contains demos for listening and separate backing tracks so you...- $14.99
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Vendor: James McGrath
The Beatles in Perspective: A Carnival of Light
The Beatles' lives and work continue to delight fans and influence musicians half a century since their heyday. Yet their contribution to contemporary culture and their relationship to social change remain controversial topics in need of reappraisal. This collection brings together fourteen leading scholars...- $100.00
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Vendor: Bruce Belland
Icons, Idols and Idiots of Hollywood - My Adventures in America's First Boy Band
The son of fundamentalist preacher sings his first solo in front of an audience at age four. The congregation's enthusiastic response inspires his dream of becoming a singer. That dream comes true as front man of America's first "Boy Band", Capitol Records vocal group...- $32.00
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Vendor: James McGrath
The Beatles in Perspective: A Carnival of Light
The Beatles' lives and work continue to delight fans and influence musicians half a century since their heyday. Yet their contribution to contemporary culture and their relationship to social change remain controversial topics in need of reappraisal. This collection brings together fourteen leading scholars...- $34.00
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Vendor: Stephen Lee Naish
Modern Music Masters - Manic Street Preachers: MMM - 4
Manic Street Preachers burst onto the music scene in the early nineties as a working-class quartet of fresh faced punks adorned in eyeliner and spray paint. The furious political diatribes of their early work soon morphed into melancholic anthems that filled sports stadiums and...- $14.99
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Vendor: Leon Katz
Classical Monologues: Women: From Aeschylus to Racine (68 B.C. to the 1670s)
CLASSICAL MONOLOGUES: WOMEN VOLUME III: FROM AESCHYLUS TO RACINEAuthor: Leon KatzISBN-10: 1557836140ISBN-13: 9781557836144Publisher: Applause BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2004Pages: 376Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.26w x 0.90d- $15.95
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Vendor: Bruce Johnson
Dark Side of the Tune: Popular Music and Violence
Written against the academically dominant but simplistic romanticization of popular music as a positive force, this book focuses on the 'dark side' of the subject. It is a pioneering examination of the ways in which popular music has been deployed in association with violence,...- $170.00
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Vendor: Gage Averill
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...- $130.00
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Vendor: Richard Morton Jack
Nick Drake: The Life
Experience the definitive biography of one of the greatest singer-songwriters of the twentieth century with this eye-opening book featuring a foreword by Gabrielle Drake and over 75 photos, many rare or previously unseen. In 1968, Nick Drake had everything to live for. The product...- $32.50
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Vendor: Graham St John
Global Tribe: Technology, Spirituality and Psytrance
Born from extensive international research, Global Tribe documents a little understood global dance culture that has mushroomed all over the world since its beginnings in diverse psychedelic music scenes flourishing in Goa, India, in the 1970s and 1980s. From small parties to major international...- $90.00
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Vendor: Matt Everitt
The First Time: Stories & Songs from Music Icons
Taken from the acclaimed BBC Radio 6 Music show, The First Time invites you inside the lives of some of the music world's most notable legends. From Alice Cooper to Yoko Ono, Courtney Love to Elton John, follow their lives and careers starting with...- $24.99
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Vendor: Alfred Music
Best Loved Songs: 51 Sentimental Pop Chart Favorites (Piano/Vocal/Guitar)
Alfred's Best series centers around impeccable piano/vocal/guitar arrangements of the most loved and recognizable songs in modern music. Best Loved Songs highlights such ever-present tunes as At Last," "Over the Rainbow," "Bridge Over Troubled Water," "Don't Stop Believin'," "Let It Go," "You Don't Have...- $22.99
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Vendor: Grace Wang
Soundtracks of Asian America: Navigating Race through Musical Performance
In Soundtracks of Asian America, Grace Wang explores how Asian Americans use music to construct narratives of self, race, class, and belonging in national and transnational spaces. She highlights how they navigate racialization in different genres by considering the experiences of Asians and Asian...- $102.95
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Vendor: Thomas L. Bell
Sound, Society and the Geography of Popular Music
Popular music is a cultural form much rooted in space and place. This book interprets the meaning of music from a spatial perspective and, in doing so it furthers our understanding of broader social relations and trends, including identity, attachment to place, cultural economies,...- $170.00
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