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Carol A Hess

Manuel de Falla's El Amor Brujo

Since its 1915 premiere, artists and arrangers ranging from the classical pianist Artur Rubinstein to pop luminaries such a Fred Waring and Spike Lee have found El amor brujo attractive. In Manuel de Fall…

Kalvin Schmidt-Rimpler Dinh,

Paul Simon's Graceland

Celebrated, controversial, and conspicuously eclectic, Paul Simon's Gracelandstands among the monumental albums of the 20th century. This book explores how and why it made its mark, from the international…

Sacha Lord

Tales from the Dancefloor

The must-read memoir from the visionary figure behind Manchester's legendary music scene, from The Haçienda to The Warehouse Project.

Kalvin Schmidt-Rimpler Dinh,

Paul Simon's Graceland

Celebrated, controversial, and conspicuously eclectic, Paul Simon's Gracelandstands among the monumental albums of the 20th century. This book explores how and why it made its mark, from the international…

David Sutter

Creed Taylor

The life and career of a producer who sought to bring jazz to the massesCreed Taylor was one of the most successful jazz producers of all time-and one of the most controversial. His career spanned five de…

Richard Mills

The Beatles and Black Music

The Beatles and Black Music discusses the influence that Black music and culture has had over the Beatles throughout their collective and solo careers. Tracing the history of Black musical and cultural in…

Ruth Tatlow

Bach's Church Cantatas

What is a cantata? How and why did Bach compose his cantatas? What did cantatas mean to Bach and what do they mean today? In Bach's Church Cantatas Ruth Tatlow addresses these questions through discussion…

Allison C Meier

Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads

Driving through the panhandle of Oklahoma-a land so flat and seemingly empty that its name of No Man's Land drifts through your thoughts as you look at the endless horizon-it's still easy to imagine the b…

Frank Gunderson,

Nico, Rochereau, Roger & l'African Fiesta - Volume 1 (1962-1963)

**Nico, Rochereau, Roger & L'African Fiesta - Volume 1 (1962-1963)played a crucial role in developing the careers of Tabu Ley Rochereau and Docteur Nico, and more importantly, the genre of Congolese r…

Daniel Rachel

This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll

A shocking and absorbing chronological account of pop music's complicated history with fascism and the imagery surrounding it

Thomas Delio

The Marvelous Illusion

The Marvelous Illusion: The Viola in My Life I-IV is a detailed analytical study of four of Morton Feldman's most important works. Morton Feldman was one of the most original composers of the 20th century…

This Is Spinal Tap (1984) (Blu-ray) (UK Import)

You're about to get personal with one of music history's greatest - and loudest - heavy metal bands...SPINAL TAP! Whether or not you're a die-hard fan of the group, you'll love this detailed "rockumentary…

Greil Marcus

Mystery Train, 50th Anniversary Edition

A 50th anniversary edition of the music classic, with fully updated discographies and new introductions from Greil Marcus and Dwight GarnerIn this special 50th anniversary edition of the beloved Plume bac…

Laibach

Laibach 40 (Boxset) (remastered) (Limited Edition)

Zeynep Bulut

Building a Voice

On the emergence, embodiment, and mediation of voice as skin.How do we build or make a voice together? Can we imagine the voices we make in the form of a skin, a multi-sensory interface that behaves both …

Dennis Mcnally

The Last Great Dream

"McNally masterfully combines many disparate lineages of political, social, art, and pop history into one singular, sweeping portrait. The result is a stunning vision of a broad and powerful idealism…

Marc Weidenbaum

Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II

An engaging, thorough and nuanced look at Aphex Twin's landmark 1994 ambient album in the context of electronic music, rave culture and the early Internet. Extravagantly opaque, willfully vaporous - Aphex…

Independence in 21st-Century Popular Music

Can music be made "independently" in the 21st century?More than a generation of musicians, music workers, and music companies have now been operating in the context of the profound shifts in mus…

Rob Miller

The Hours Are Long, But the Pay Is Low

"In this memoir, Rob Miller, co-founder of Chicago's storied Bloodshot Records, tells the story of the unlikely evolution of Bloodshot from a list scribbled on a cocktail napkin into an international…