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World Music: The Rough Guide, First Edition

By: N/A

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Rough Guides: November 1994

Seller ID: 227769

ISBN: 1858280176

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Narrative driven, providing background and context on the music of 70 countries and regions, ranging from salsa to soukous, cajun to calypso, rai to qawwali. Set up in regional chapters. Each explanatory chapter is followed by a discography, with very short reviews of what the editors consider the very best music in the category. Various musicians are spotlighted in sidebars.
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No Depression: An Introduction to Alternative Country Music. Whatever That Is.

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Dowling Pr: October 1998

Seller ID: 464797

ISBN: 1891847007

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Taking a page from country music, this book contains the best articles from the first to the most recent issue of No Depression magazine.
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Reading Country Music: Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, and Honky Tonk Bars

By: N/A

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Duke University Press Books: July 1998

Seller ID: 454031

ISBN: 0822321688

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

With its steel guitars, Opry stars, and honky-tonk bars, country music is an American original. The most popular music in America today, it's also big business. Amazing, then, that country music has been so little studied by critics, given its predominance in American culture. Reading Country Music acknowledges the significance of country music as part of an authentic American heritage and turns a loving, critical eye toward understanding the sweep of this peculiarly American phenomenon.
Bringing together a wide range of scholars and critics from literature, communications, history, ...
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The Sound and the Fury: 40 Years of Classic Rock Journalism: A Rock's Backpages Reader

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA: August 2003

Seller ID: 460024

ISBN: 1582342822

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Longtime music writer and editor Barney Hoskyns decided to build an archive of articles by his favorite rock writers - like Al Aronowitz, Jon Savage, Greil Marcus, Will Self, Lenny Kaye, Mary Harron, and Nick Hornby. Thus was born the website Rock's Backpages (www.rocksbackpages.com), home to thousands of brilliant reviews and rants, interviews and overviews, that helped define music journalism over the last four decades. The Sound and the Fury is the best of this remarkable collection. With contemporary and retrospective articles on the Beatles, Otis Redding, David Bowie, Bruce Spri...
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Guitar Player Presents Guitar Heroes of the '70s

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation: February 2011

Seller ID: 460030

ISBN: 1617130028

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Launched in 1967 Guitar Player was the only guitar publication in existence when the '60s and '70s six-string explosion ignited across the globe. As a result Guitar Player interviewed scores of seminal guitar stars as the magic happened. Now Guitar Player has opened its archives to present a thrilling collection of articles that detail the equipment and tone explorations of transcendent guitarists such as Eric Clapton Jimi Hendrix Jimmy Page Jeff Beck Duane Allman Steve Howe Peter Green and many others. Every article originally appeared in the 1970s when these young guns were in the mids...
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Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music (Experience Music Project)

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Duke University Press Books: November 2007

Seller ID: 460031

ISBN: 0822340410

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Arguing that pop music turns on moments rather than movements, the essays in Listen Again pinpoint magic moments from a century of pop eclecticism, looking at artists who fall between genre lines, songs that sponge up influences from everywhere, and studio accidents with unforeseen consequences. Listen Again collects some of the finest presentations from the celebrated Experience Music Project Pop Conference, where journalists, musicians, academics, and other culturemongers come together once each year to stretch the boundaries of pop music culture, criticism, and scholarship. View More...

1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die: And 10,001 You Must Download

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Universe: November 2010

Seller ID: 478123

ISBN: 0789320894

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This latest addition to the best-selling 1001 series offers more than ever-- the world's biggest and best playlist, referencing over 10,000 must-download songs. This book offers more than any previous book in the series. While each main entry profiles and illustrates 1,001 primary songs, it places that song into a contextual web of music history with references to other songs that are musically related. Thus, each entry points to alternate versions, covers, riffs, and influences effectively expanding the total number to 10,000. From the Beatles to Beyonc , from Elvis to Elvis Costello, ...
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1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition

By: N/A

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Universe: March 2010

Seller ID: 478153

ISBN: 0789320746

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The ultimate compendium of a half century of the best music, now revised and updated. 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is a highly readable list of the best, the most important, and the most influential pop albums from 1955 through today. Carefully selected by a team of international critics and some of the best-known music reviewers and commentators, each album is a groundbreaking work seminal to the understanding and appreciation of music from the 1950s to the present. Included with each entry are production details and credits as well as reproductions of original album cover ...
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Modulations: A History of Electronic Music: Throbbing Words on Sound

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Caipirinha: October 2000

Seller ID: 478343

ISBN: 189102406X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Other books have been written on electronic music, but none with the breadth and accessibility offered by Modulations, the tie-in volume to the critically acclaimed 1998 film directed by Iara Lee. Going beyond the limits of an encyclopedia or a record guide, essays by musicians and music journalists illuminate such genres as techno, house, krautrock, disco, hip-hop, drum'n'bass, ambient, and down-tempo in more expansive detail than was possible in the film. From the "art of noise" proposed by then Italian Futurists to the musique concrete experiments of Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, Modul...
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Grace

By: 33 1/3/Grace/Brooks, Daphne

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 440761

ISBN: 0826416357

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The power and influence of Grace increases with each passing year. Here, Daphne Brooks traces Jeff Buckley's fascinating musical development through the earliest stages of his career, up to the release of the album. With access to rare archival material, Brooks illustrates Buckley's passion for life and hunger for musical knowledge, and shows just why he was such a crucial figure in the American music scene of the 1990s.

EXCERPT:
Jeff Buckley was piecing together a contemporary popular music history for himself that was steeped in the magic of singing. He was busy hearing how Dyla...
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Greatest Hits

By: 33 1/3/Greatest Hits/Barker, David

Price: $6.00

Publisher: October 2010

Seller ID: 475602

ISBN: 0826419038

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The writings in this book are extracted from volumes 1 through 20 of our 33 1/3 series - short books about individual albums. In here you'll find a wide variety of authors, albums, and approaches to writing about those albums. So sit back, put on your headphones, cue up your favourite songs, and let our writers transport you to a time when:
Dusty Springfield headed south to Memphis to record a pop/soul classic;
The Kinks almost fell to pieces, and managed to make their best album while doing so;
Joy Division and their mad, brilliant producer created a debut record that still sou...
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Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. (33 1/3)

By: 33 1/3/Himes, Geoffrey

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Continuum: August 2005

Seller ID: 483839

ISBN: 0826416616

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

When Bruce Springsteen went back on the road in 1984, he opened every show by shouting out, "one, two, one, two, three, four," followed by the droning synth chords of "Born in the U.S.A." Max Weinberg hit his drums with a two-fisted physicality that cut through the swelling chords. With a rolled-up red kerchief around his head and heavy black boots under his faded jeans, Springsteen looked like the character of the song, and from the very first line ("Born down in a dead man's town") he sang with the throat-scraping desperation of a man with his back against the wall.

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Let It Be (33 1/3)

By: 33 1/3/Let It Be/Matteo, Steve

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 445080

ISBN: 0826416349

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The recording sessions for Let It Be actually began as rehearsals for a proposed return to live stage work for the Beatles, to be inaugurated in a concert at a Roman amphitheatre in Tunisia. In this thoroughly researched book, Steve Matteo delves deep into the complex history of these sessions. He talks to a number of people who were in the studio with the Beatles, recording the sights and sounds of the band at work bringing to life a period in the Beatles' career that was creative and chaotic in equal measure.
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Let It Be (33 1/3)

By: 33 1/3/Let It Be/Meloy, Colin

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Continuum: August 2004

Seller ID: 465124

ISBN: 0826416330

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

One of the greatest moments of College Rock in the 1980s, Let It Be had a huge impact on the fans who fell under its spell. For Colin Meloy, growing up in Montana - a state that's strangely missing from the tour itineraries of almost every band - the album was a lifeline and an inspiration. In this disarming memoir, Meloy lovingly recreates those feverish first years when rock music grips you and never lets go.
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Let's Talk about Love: A Journey to the End of Good Taste

By: 33 1/3/Let's Talk About Love/Wilson, Carl

Price: $5.00

Publisher: May 2014

Seller ID: 428357

ISBN: 082642788X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Non-fans regard C line Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who love her, no one could be more real, with her impoverished childhood, her (creepy) manager-husband's struggle with cancer, her knack for howling out raw emotion. There's nothing cool about C line Dion, and nothing clever. That's part of her appeal as an object of love or hatred - with most critics and committed music fans taking pleasure (or at least geeky solace) in their lofty contempt. This book documents Carl Wilson's brave and unprecedented year-long quest to find his inner C line Dion fan, and explores how we define ours...
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Big Star's Radio City (33 1/3)

By: 33 1/3/Radio City/Eaton, Bruce

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Continuum: May 2009

Seller ID: 458601

ISBN: 0826428983

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Released when ELP and Elton John were plodding from one packed stadium to the next, Radio City was a radical album influenced by records that were already deemed oldies and yet sounding like a lean electrical jolt from the future. Here, Bruce Eaton examines the key ingredients of Radio City's lasting appeal- and through extensive interviews with all of those involved, gets to the heart of the cult of Big Star.
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Dream on: Livin' on the Edge With Steven Tyler and Aerosmith

By: Aerosmith/Foxe-Tyler, Cyrinda

Price: $8.50

Seller ID: 410754

ISBN: 078711054X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

I Am Michael Alago: Breathing Music. Signing Metallica. Beating Death.

By: Alago, Michael,Davis-Chanin, Laura

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Backbeat: March 2020

Seller ID: 459728

ISBN: 1617137251

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Musician, nightlife impresario, record label executive, photographer, and author, Michael Alago became the assistant music director for legendary nightclubs the Ritz and the Red Parrot. At age twenty-four, he began a storied career as an A&R executive at Elektra Records that started with signing Metallica in the summer of 1984, changing the entire landscape of rock 'n' roll and heavy metal. Alago continued to work in A&R for both Palm Pictures and Geffen Records. He was thrilled to executive-produce albums by Cyndi Lauper, Public Image Ltd, White Zombie, and Nina Simone. In the late 1980s, he ...
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Alarm 34

By: ALARM

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 410278

ISBN: 725274566747

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Skydog - The Duane Allman Story

By: Allman /Poe, Randy

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Backbeat Books: October 2006

Seller ID: 459888

ISBN: 0879308915

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

(Book). The definitive biography of one of the most revered guitarists of his generation. Duane Allman brought white-hot intensity to his life, onstage, in the studio, and beyond. Skydog reveals the complete story of Duane Allman, from his early struggles and his session days, to the formation of the Allman Brothers Band and his tragic early death at age 24. Skydog also includes a comprehensive discography, a meticulously researched roundup of his studio and stage instruments, and a look at the continuing lives and careers of Allman's friends and bandmates.
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