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  • Birth of the Cool

    Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant Garde

    by Lewis MacAdams ...
    Miles Davis and Juliette Greco, Jackson Pollock and Jack Kerouac, Marlon Brando and Bob Dylan and William Burroughs.What do all these people have in common? Fame, of course, and undeniable talent. But most of all, they were cool.Birth of the Cool is a stunningly illustrated, brilliantly written cultural history of the American avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s -- the decades in which cool was ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Tearing Down The Wall

    The Contemporary Guide to Decoding Pink Floyd - The Wall One Brick at a Time

    by Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff ...
    SECRETS OF THE WALL REVEALED!Imagine dusting off a beloved album, comfortable as an old pair of jeans, and one day discovering that it goes much deeper down the rabbit hole than you ever envisioned. The thematic intention of every note…The nuance behind every veiled reference…Until you finally recognize that hidden deep inside is a distinctly powerful message you never knew was there. It's like ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD

  • Oasis

    the secret history

    by Alan Cross ...
    Series series The Secret History of Rock
    Alan Cross is the preeminent chronicler of popular music.Here he provides a history of Liam and Noel Gallagher and Oasis.This look at the "arrogant, irrational, vindictive, sometimes violent and occasionally just plain stupid" band is adapted from the audiobook. ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Making Records

    The Scenes Behind the Music

    by Phil Ramone ...
    Sinatra. Streisand. Dylan. Pavarotti. McCartney. Sting. Madonna. What do these musicians have in common besides their super-stardom? They have all worked with legendary music producer Phil Ramone.For almost five decades, Phil Ramone has been a force in the music industry. He has produced records and collaborated with almost every major talent in the business. There is a craft to making records, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

    by Colin Larkin ...
    The Encyclopedia Of Popular Music is universally recognized as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference work on popular music.This expanded 5th edition is an essential reference book for anyone who has a query about any aspect of 20th Century popular music, including rock, dance, rap and R&B, as well as blues, soul, country and folk.This is the most accurate and up-to-date popular music ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The First Time I Heard Kate Bush

    by Scott Heim ...
    Series series The First Time I Heard
    THE FIRST TIME I HEARD KATE BUSH is Part V in an ongoing series where musicians and writers tell their stories of first hearing the music of an iconic artist or band. In this fifth volume (following the first four installments, which covered Joy Division/New Order, Cocteau Twins, David Bowie, and The Smiths), thirty-nine different musicians and writers remember their initial experiences with ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD

  • The Messiaen Companion

    by Russell Hoban ...
    Re-issued to coincide with the centenary of Messiaen's birth, The Messiaen Companion was the first major study to appear after the composer's death in April 1992. It was the first book to offer both a complete survey of Messiaen's extraordinary achievements and a comprehensive guide to his music, also examining in detail the enduring inspiration which Messiaen derived from his religious faith and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The James Brown Reader

    Fifty Years of Writing About the Godfather of Soul

    Edited by Nelson George, Alan Leeds ...
    Nelson George and Alan Leeds have assembled the first comprehensive collection of writings about the late, great Godfather of Soul, creating a fascinating mosaic of the man and the musician. Known as the hardest-working man in show business, James Brown embodied rhythm and blues, funk and soul, and sensuality. His musical innovations in such indelible grooves as “Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex ... Read more

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  • Applying Karnatic Rhythmical Techniques to Western Music

    by Rafael Reina ...
    Most classical musicians, whether in orchestral or ensemble situations, will have to face a piece by composers such as Ligeti, Messiaen, Varèse or Xenakis, while improvisers face music influenced by Dave Holland, Steve Coleman, Aka Moon, Weather Report, Irakere or elements from the Balkans, India, Africa or Cuba. Rafael Reina argues that today’s music demands a new approach to rhythmical training, ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Bob Mould's Workbook

    by Walter Biggins, Daniel Couch ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    In 1989, Bob Mould took a left turn. Already legendary before his 30th birthday for his noise-and-nuance work in Hüsker Dü, Mould had recently walked away from his old band. He re-emerged with his debut solo album: Workbook. Filled with chiming acoustic guitars, multitracked vocals, pristine production, and even a cello, Workbook was both admired and questioned for Mould's perceived departure from ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard

    Edited by Matthew Roudané ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Few American playwrights have exerted as much influence on the contemporary stage as Sam Shepard. His plays are performed on and off Broadway and in all the major regional American theatres. They are also widely performed and studied in Europe, particularly in Britain, Germany and France, finding both a popular and scholarly audience. In this collection of seventeen original essays, American and ... Read more

    Was $43.99 CAD Now $31.99 CAD

  • Recorded Music in American Life

    The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945

    by William Howland Kenney ...
    Have records, compact discs, and other sound reproduction equipment merely provided American listeners with pleasant diversions, or have more important historical and cultural influences flowed through them? Do recording machines simply capture what's already out there, or is the music somehow transformed in the dual process of documentation and dissemination? How would our lives be different ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD