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  • Unspooled

    How the Cassette Made Music Shareable

    by Rob Drew ...
    Series series Sign, Storage, Transmission
    Well into the new millennium, the analog cassette tape continues to claw its way back from obsolescence. New cassette labels emerge from hipster enclaves while the cassette’s likeness pops up on T-shirts, coffee mugs, belt buckles, and cell phone cases. In Unspooled, Rob Drew traces how a lowly, hissy format that began life in office dictation machines and cheap portable players came to be ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Karaoke Nights

    An Ethnographic Rhapsody

    by Rob Drew ...
    Series series Ethnographic Alternatives
    Karaoke. The word conjures all kinds of visions-possible stardom, abject performance terror, or just head-shaking bewilderment. Ten years ago when the Japanese craze had only recently arrived in the U.S., Rob Drew was drawn to the phenomenon as subject of research. What he discovered will fascinate and surprise you, whether you're a student of popular culture or just curious what's going to happen ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Hired Guns [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Luke Jensen 8

    by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone ...
    Narrated by Eric Messner, Bradley Foster Smith, Tony Nam, Chris Stinson, Jonathan Lee Taylor, Rob McFadyen, Jessica Lauren Ball, Matthew Bassett, Wyn Delano, Robb Moreira, Drew Kopas ...
    Series series Luke Jensen, Bounty Hunter

    Unabridged

    6 hours 1 min

    "A legend among bounty hunters, Luke Jensen has tracked some of the deadliest outlaws in the West. But sometimes, the competition can be even deadlier!It’s the kind of job Luke Jensen hates. A millionaire mine owner is willing to pay $5,000 to the man who captures the half-breed outlaw Tom Eagle. Normally, Luke would turn down an offer like this—it smacks too much of being a hired gun. But when ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

    by Dan Charnas ...
    **WINNER OF THE PEN/**JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHYNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“This book is a must for everyone interested in illuminating the idea of unexplainable genius.” —QUESTLOVEEqual parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius who transformed the sound of popular music for the twenty-first century... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Hip Hop America

    by Nelson George ...
    From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series, "The Get Down, Hip Hop America is the definitive account of the society-altering collision between black youth culture and the mass media. ... Read more

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  • Such Great Heights

    The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion

    by Chris DeVille ...
    **AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe definitive history of twenty-first-century indie rock—from Iron & Wine and Death Cab for Cutie to Phoebe Bridgers and St. Vincent—and how the genre shifted the musical landscape and shaped a generation**Maybe you caught a few exhilarating seconds of “Teen Age Riot” on a nearby college radio station while scanning the FM dial in your parents’ car. Maybe your ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • What Are You Doing Here?

    A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal

    by Laina Dawes ...
    In her nuanced, extremely perceptive book, Laina Dawes champions the liberating possibilities of metal while questioning the color-blindness of the metal world, celebrating the role of black women in creating rock music, examining the reaction of the black community to black punks and metalheads, and sorting out the gender issues that complicate sisterhood in a male-dominated sphere. Her ... Read more

    $8.95 CAD

  • The Chronicles of DOOM

    Unraveling Rap's Masked Iconoclast

    by S.H. Fernando Jr. ...
    A Variety best music book of 2024A FLOOD best music book of 2024A Clash best music book of 2024A Mother Jones best book of 2024"In a career and life full of fictions, the truth—as this excellent, detailed biography makes clear—was often as mind-boggling [. . .] Hip-hop writer S.H. Fernando Jr. benefits from an insider’s understanding of the milieu and provide... ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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  • Ways of Listening

    Building a Deeper Relationship with Music in the Streaming Era

    by Rollie Pemberton ...
    Ways of Listening is a love letter to music, a sharp analysis of our current cultural reality, and a joyful celebration of the artists who keep creating against all odds.How has the internet changed the way we listen to, and love, the music that shapes our lives? Award-winning musician Rollie Pemberton (Cadence Weapon) interrogates our current musical landscape.Music occupies a curious place in ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • How to Write About Music

    Excerpts from the 33 1/3 Series, Magazines, Books and Blogs with Advice from Industry-leading Writers

    by Marc Woodworth, Ally-Jane Grossan ...
    If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, you'd do best to hone your chops and avoid clichés (like the one that begins this sentence) by learning from the prime movers. How to Write About Music offers a selection of the best writers on what is perhaps our most universally beloved art form. Selections from the critically-acclaimed 33 1/3 series appear alongside new interviews and ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • High Bias

    The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape

    by Marc Masters ...
    The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade them with friends! Tape over the ones you don’t like! The cassette tape upended pop culture, creating movements and uniting communities.This entertaining book charts the journey of the cassette from its invention in the early 1960s to its Walkman-led ... Read more

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  • Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980–1983

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    As the 1970s gave way to the 80s, New York's party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hybridity. Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor chronicles this tumultuous time, charting the sonic and social eruptions that took place in the city’s subterranean party venues as well as the way they cultivated breakthrough movements in art, ... Read more

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