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Dick Spottswood
Ma Rainey's Traveling Blues

Ma Rainey's Traveling Blues is the fullest and most nuanced portrait to date of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (1886-1939), once promoted as the "Mother of the Blues." Although Rainey's place in…

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Robert Gordon
Respect Yourself

"A joyous and heartbreaking story that says a lot about America." Richard Hell, Wall Street Journal The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a monument to r…

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Bernardino De Sahagun,
The Americas' First Sermons

The first English publication of the earliest surviving Christian sermons from the AmericasThe Americas' First Sermons presents the first English translation and critical study of the complete set of serm…

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Erin Riley
The Mighty Wmmr

In the early 1980s, the scrappy radio station 93.3 WMMR was on the verge of a major takeover of the Philadelphia airwaves. Erin Riley, who had her finger on the pulse of new artists like Bon Jovi, whose m…

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Bernardino De Sahagun,
The Americas' First Sermons

The first English publication of the earliest surviving Christian sermons from the AmericasThe Americas' First Sermons presents the first English translation and critical study of the complete set of serm…

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Sergio Ospina Romero
Talking Machine Empires

At the turn of the twentieth century, sound recording corporations from the United States and Europe pursued repertoires and consumers from all over the world. Latin America and the Caribbean were a cruci…

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Darius Rucker
Life's Too Short

"Darius has always been one of my favorite people to sing with and to call a friend in this industry and yet even knowing him well for as long as I have, there are so many incredible stories in Life'…

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Anna Morcom
The Multiplicities of Hindustani Music

The Multiplicities of Hindustani Music explores the dynamic social and economic world of North Indian raga-based music over the twentieth century and into the present day. By approaching Hindustani music …

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Anna Morcom
The Multiplicities of Hindustani Music

The Multiplicities of Hindustani Music explores the dynamic social and economic world of North Indian raga-based music over the twentieth century and into the present day. By approaching Hindustani music …

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Michael Ned Holte
Good Listener

Good Listener: Meditations on Music and Pauline Oliveros is a performance-in-writing of Oliveros's Sonic Meditation XXI --a text score in the form of a question: "What constitutes your musical univer…

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Robert Seethaler,
The Last Movement

An intimate portrait of genius, love, and betrayal at the end of Gustav Mahler's life.In the spring of 1910, Gustav Mahler--wrapped in a wool blanket--sits on the deck of the Amerika, sailing back to Euro…

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Peter Richardson
Brand New Beat

How the iconic publication's unruly first decade rewrote the rules of journalism.Rolling Stone 's first decade was truly rock and roll: chaotic, wild, and unpredictable. Brand New Beat charts the origins …

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Larry Tye
The Jazzmen

From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz---Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie---who, born w…

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George Frideric Handel

The life and career of George Frideric Handel, one of the most frequently performed Baroque composers, are thoroughly documented in a wide variety of contemporary sources. This multi-volume publication, t…

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Don Armstrong
The Life and Writings of Ralph J. Gleason

Discover the enthralling world of Ralph J. Gleason, a pioneering music journalist who expanded the possibilities of the newspaper music column, sparked the San Francisco jazz and rock scenes, and co-found…

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Lawrence Burney
No Sense in Wishing

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker * Kirkus Reviews"Earnest and engaging." ---The New YorkerA personal and analytical essay collection from culture critic Lawrence Burney that is a personal…

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Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen
Icelandic Pop

A celebration and guide to the land of fire and ice's music history.Iceland punches well above its weight in the world of music, producing global icons like Björk, Sigur Rós, Of Monsters and Men, and Lauf…

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Jonathan Lethem
Talking Heads' Fear of Music

Jonathan Lethem is one of the most acclaimed American novelists of his generation. His books include Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, and Chronic City. His essays about James Brown and Bob D…

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Mark Evan Bonds
Music's Fourth Wall and the Rise of Reflective Listening

Music's Fourth Wall and the Rise of Reflective Listeningexamines fundamental changes in concert-hall listening since the Enlightenment, with an emphasis on changing assumptions about the very act of liste…

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Jonathan Gould
Burning Down the House

Rolling Stone Best Music Books of the Year"Definitive...Not just for Talking Heads fans---it's a masterful dive into downtown New York in the 70s, and the changing face of rock music."---Town &a…

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