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  • A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge by Hajdu, David
    David Hajdu

    A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge

    Winner - 2022 Deems Taylor / Virgil Thomson Book Awards in Pop from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Bert Williams--a Black man forced to perform in blackface who challenged the stereotypes of minstrelsy. Eva Tanguay--an entertainer with the signature song "I...
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  • A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge by
    David Hajdu

    A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge

    Winner - 2022 Deems Taylor / Virgil Thomson Book Awards in Pop from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Bert Williams--a Black man forced to perform in blackface who challenged the stereotypes of minstrelsy. Eva Tanguay--an entertainer with the signature song "I...
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  • Adrianne Geffel: A Fiction by Hajdu, David
    David Hajdu

    Adrianne Geffel: A Fiction

    Adrianne Geffel was a genius. Praised as the "Geyser of Grand Street" and the "Queen of Bleak Chic," she was a one-of-a-kind artist, a pianist and composer with a rare neurological condition that enabled her to make music that was nothing less than pure,...
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  • Love for Sale: Pop Music in America by Hajdu, David
    David Hajdu

    Love for Sale

    Pop Music: Our Most Influential Laboratory for Social and Aesthetic Experimentation--Changing the World Three Minutes at a Time Named a Must-Read by Vanity Fair and the BBC as well as a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly In Love for Sale: Pop...
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  • Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn by Hajdu, David
    David Hajdu

    Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn

    A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Billy Strayhorn (1915-67) was one of the greatest composers in the history of American music, the creator of a body of work that includes such standards as "Take the 'A' Train." Yet all his life...
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  • Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina by Hajdu, David
    David Hajdu

    Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina

    This is the candid, mesmerizing, and often intimate account of how four young people--Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina--gave rise to a modern-day bohemia and created the enduring sound and style of the 1960s. Even before they became lovers in...
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  • The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by Hajdu, David
    David Hajdu

    The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America

    The story of the rise and fall of those comic books has never been fully told -- until The Ten-Cent Plague. David Hajdu's remarkable new book vividly opens up the lost world of comic books, its creativity, irreverence, and suspicion of authority. In the...
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  • The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI by Hajdu, David
    David Hajdu

    The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI

    What does it mean to be human in a world where machines, too, can be artists? What is this "uncanny valley," and how did we get here? As the field of art made by artificial intelligence begins to expand dramatically, questions about the role...
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