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  • Arvo Pärt's White Light

    Media, Culture, Politics

    Edited by Laura Dolp ...
    One of the most frequently performed contemporary composers, Arvo Pärt has become a phenomenon whose unusual reach is felt well beyond the concert hall. This ground-breaking collection of essays investigates both the causes and the effects of this success. Beyond the rhetoric of 'holy minimalism' that has accompanied the composer's reception since the mid-1980s, each chapter takes a fresh approach ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    by Warren Lapine ...
    Collected here for the first time are sixteen interviews and articles with and about the hottest band in the world: KISS. Warren Lapine is an experienced interviewer and a long time KISS fan. This book is just what the doctor ordered for the hard core KISS fan. These interviews are insightful and intelligent, Lapine asks Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons the questions that KISS fans want to have ... Read more

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  • Brahms and His World

    Edited by Walter Frisch, Kevin C. Karnes ...
    Series series The Bard Music Festival
    The key text for listeners, performers, and scholars interested in the life, work, and times of one of the nineteenth century's most celebrated composers.In this substantially revised and enlarged edition, the editors remain close to the vision behind the original book while updating its contents to reflect new perspectives on Brahms that have developed over the past two decades. To this end, the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen

    by Bob Gendron ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    "In the absence of love, there is loneliness, sorrow and desperation. And that's where I come in." --Greg Dulli, introducing "When We Two Parted" onstage in San FranciscoLike no record before or since, Gentlemen is fraught with the psychological warfare, bedroom drama, Catholic guilt, reprehensible deception and uncleansable shame that coincide with relationships gone seriously wrong. This story ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington

    Edited by Edward Green ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Duke Ellington is widely held to be the greatest jazz composer and one of the most significant cultural icons of the twentieth century. This comprehensive and accessible Companion is the first collection of essays to survey, in depth, Ellington's career, music, and place in popular culture. An international cast of authors includes renowned scholars, critics, composers, and jazz musicians. ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Chuck D Presents This Day in Rap and Hip-Hop History

    by Chuck D ...
    A one-of-a kind survey of rap and hip hop history from 1973 to today by Chuck D, arguably the most influential rapper in the world.In the more than 40 years since the days of DJ Kool Herc and "Rapper's Delight," hip hop and rap have become a billion-dollar worldwide phenomenon. Yet there is no definitive history of the genre-until now.Based on Chuck's long-running show on Rapstation.com, this ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • Living Stereo

    Histories and Cultures of Multichannel Sound

    Edited by Paul Théberge, Kyle Devine, Tom Everrett ...
    Stereo is everywhere. The whole culture and industry of music and sound became organized around the principle of stereophony during the twentieth century. But nothing about this-not the invention or acceptance or ubiquity of stereo-was inevitable. Nor did the aesthetic conventions, technological objects, and listening practices required to make sense of stereo emerge fully formed, out of the blue ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Nick Drake's Pink Moon

    by Amanda Petrusich ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    Pink Moon explores how Nick Drake's third and final album has puttered and purred its way into a new millennium. Features interviews with producer Joe Boyd, string arranger Robert Kirby, and even the marketing team behind the VW Cabrio commercial that launched the album to platinum status more than thirty years after its release. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Pat Metheny

    The ECM Years, 1975-1984

    by Mervyn Cooke ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz
    The guitarist and composer Pat Metheny ranks among the most popular and innovative jazz musicians of all time. In Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984, Mervyn Cooke offers the first in-depth account of Metheny's early creative period, during which he recorded eleven stunningly varied albums for the pioneering European record label ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music). This impressive body of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • A Journey to Meet Beethoven

    by Pat Champness ...
    This is a book to help you learn to play the piano. It is not a 'Learn the Piano in Ten Easy Lessons' tutor - plenty of those exist - but an adventure introducing you to the world of music and stirring your imagination. Beginning with simple pieces, as you are fed with more knowledge the compositions become more advanced. They are all by composers whose works range from a 14th century Venetian ... Read more

    $8.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom

    Before 1970

    by David Toop ...
    Shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize 2017.In this first installment of acclaimed music writer David Toop's interdisciplinary and sweeping overview of free improvisation, Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970 introduces the philosophy and practice of improvisation (both musical and otherwise) within the historical context of the post-World War II ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • French Music and Jazz in Conversation

    From Debussy to Brubeck

    by Deborah Mawer ...
    Series series Music since 1900
    French concert music and jazz often enjoyed a special creative exchange across the period 1900–65. French modernist composers were particularly receptive to early African-American jazz during the interwar years, and American jazz musicians, especially those concerned with modal jazz in the 1950s and early 1960s, exhibited a distinct affinity with French musical impressionism. However, despite a ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD