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  • American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War 2

    A Cultural History

    by Will Kaufman ...
    Long before anyone ever heard of 'protest music', people in America were singing about their struggles. They sang for justice and fairness, food and shelter, and equality and freedom; they sang to be acknowledged. Sometimes they also sang to oppress. This book uncovers the history of these people and their songs, from the moment Columbus made fateful landfall to the start of the Second World War, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    American Song and Struggle from World War II to MAGA

    A Cultural History

    by Will Kaufman ...
    Narrated by Will Kaufman ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 21 min

    Will Kaufman’s "American Song and Struggle from World War II to MAGA" (Cambridge University Press, 2026) continues the award-winning cultural history that began with "American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War II" (Cambridge, 2022). Kaufman now brings his history up to the present: to a USA poised on the brink of autocracy under Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. His second instalment ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mapping Woody Guthrie

    by Will Kaufman ...
    Series series American Popular Music Series
    “I ain’t got no home, I’m just a-roamin’ round,” Woody Guthrie lamented in one of his most popular songs. A native of Oklahoma, he was still in his teens when he moved to Pampa, Texas, where he experienced the dust storms that would play such a crucial role in forming his identity and shaping his work. He later joined thousands of Americans who headed to California to escape the devastation of the ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Woody Guthrie's Modern World Blues

    by Will Kaufman ...
    Series series American Popular Music Series
    Mention Woody Guthrie, and people who know the name are likely to think of the “Okie Bard,” dust storms behind him, riding a boxcar or walking a red-dirt road, a battered guitar strapped to his back. But unlock Guthrie from the confines of rural folk and Hollywood mythology, as Will Kaufman does here, and you’ll find an abstract painter and sculptor who wrote about atomic energy and Ingrid Bergman ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War II

    A Cultural History

    by Will Kaufman ...
    Narrated by Will Kaufman ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 44 min

    Long before anyone ever heard of 'protest music', people in America were singing about their struggles. They sang for justice and fairness, food and shelter, and equality and freedom; they sang to be acknowledged. Sometimes they also sang to oppress. This book uncovers the history of these people and their songs, from the moment Columbus made fateful landfall to the start of the Second World War, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Singing for Peace

    Antiwar Songs in American History

    Wars have dominated the history of the United States since its founding, but there has also been a long history of antiwar activity. Peace songs have emerged out of every military conflict involving the United States. "Singing for Peace" vividly portrays this rich antiwar history, beginning in the eighteenth century and continuing into the twenty-first.Most of the twentieth-century output was ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology

    Series Book 1 - #LoveOzYA
    WINNER OF A 2018 BOOK OF THE YEAR ABIABestsellers. Award-winners. Superstars.This anthology has them all.With brilliantly entertaining short stories from beloved young adult authors Amie Kaufman, Melissa Keil, Will Kostakis, Ellie Marney, Jaclyn Moriarty, Michael Pryor, Alice Pung, Gabrielle Tozer, Lili Wilkinson and Danielle Binks, this all-new collection will show the world exactly how much ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology

    Series Audiobook 1 - #LoveOzYA

    Unabridged

    9 hours 8 min

    WINNER OF A 2018 BOOK OF THE YEAR ABIABestsellers. Award-winners. Superstars.This anthology has them all.With brilliantly entertaining short stories from beloved young adult authors Amie Kaufman, Melissa Keil, Will Kostakis, Ellie Marney, Jaclyn Moriarty, Michael Pryor, Alice Pung, Gabrielle Tozer, Lili Wilkinson and Danielle Binks, this all-new collection will show the world exactly how much ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

    by Mackenzi Lee ...
    Narrated by Christian Coulson ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Montague Siblings

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    10 hours 47 min

    A Kirkus Prize nominee with five starred reviews! A New York Times bestseller!2018 Audie Award® nominee for Best Male Narrator!Named one of the best books of 2017 by NPR and the New York Public Library!""The queer teen historical you didn’t know was missing from your life.”***—*Teen Vogue""A stunning powerhouse of a story.""</strong... ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    The Love That I Have

    by James Moloney ...
    Narrated by Ulli Burve ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 42 min

    'WINTER CALLS FOR A GOOD BOOK, AND WE'VE FOUND ONE TO RIVAL THE BOOK THIEF'-- The Australian Women's WeeklyMargot Baumann has left school to take up her sister's job in the mailroom of a large prison. But this is Germany in 1944, and the prison is Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin.Margot is shielded from the camp's brutality as she has no contact with prisoners. But she does handle ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • On Highway 61

    Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom

    On Highway 61 explores the historical context of the significant social dissent that was central to the cultural genesis of the sixties. The book is going to search for the deeper roots of American cultural and musical evolution for the past 150 years by studying what the Western European culture learned from African American culture in a historical progression that reaches from the minstrel era ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Grown-Up Anger

    The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913

    by Daniel Wolff ...
    A brilliantly intertwined account of two revolutionary musicians, a miners' strike, and a deadly tragedy: "Reads like a historical detective story." — The New York Times Book ReviewAt thirteen, when he first heard Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," Daniel Wolff recognized the sound of anger. When he later discovered "Song for Woody," Dylan's tribute to folk musician Woody Guthrie, Wolff fixed on ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus