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Secret Lives of Great Composers
Written by Elizabeth Lunday
Illustrated by Mario Zucca
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2009
Price: $16.95
True tales of murder, riots, heartbreak, and great music.
With outrageous anecdotes about everyone from Gioachino Rossini (draft-dodging womanizer) to Johann Sebastian Bach (jailbird) to Richard Wagner (alleged cross-dresser), Secret Lives of Great Composers recounts the seamy, steamy, and gritty history behind the great masters of international music. You’ll learn... Read more >
Written by Elizabeth Lunday
Illustrated by Mario Zucca
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2009
Price: $16.95
True tales of murder, riots, heartbreak, and great music.
With outrageous anecdotes about everyone from Gioachino Rossini (draft-dodging womanizer) to Johann Sebastian Bach (jailbird) to Richard Wagner (alleged cross-dresser), Secret Lives of Great Composers recounts the seamy, steamy, and gritty history behind the great masters of international music. You’ll learn... Read more >
Le Freak
An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny
Written by Nile Rodgers
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $15.99
NAMED ONE OF THE TOP 10 ROCK MEMOIRS OF ALL TIME BY ROLLING STONE
From Chic to Daft Punk, Nile Rodgers is the creative force behind some of the biggest hits ever recorded. Here is the story of how global pop’s greatest genius transformed his own dramatic life into the... Read more >
An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny
Written by Nile Rodgers
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $15.99
NAMED ONE OF THE TOP 10 ROCK MEMOIRS OF ALL TIME BY ROLLING STONE
From Chic to Daft Punk, Nile Rodgers is the creative force behind some of the biggest hits ever recorded. Here is the story of how global pop’s greatest genius transformed his own dramatic life into the... Read more >
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Can't Buy Me Love
The Beatles, Britain, and America
Written by Jonathan Gould
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $17.00
Nearly twenty years in the making, Can’t Buy Me Love is a masterful work of group biography, cultural history, and musical criticism. That the Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon is a given. In Can’t Buy Me Love, Jonathan Gould seeks to explain why, placing the Fab Four in the broad and... Read more >
The Beatles, Britain, and America
Written by Jonathan Gould
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $17.00
Nearly twenty years in the making, Can’t Buy Me Love is a masterful work of group biography, cultural history, and musical criticism. That the Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon is a given. In Can’t Buy Me Love, Jonathan Gould seeks to explain why, placing the Fab Four in the broad and... Read more >
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eBook.
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Twenty Thousand Roads
The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music
Written by David Meyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $18.00
As a singer and songwriter, Gram Parsons stood at the nexus of countless musical crossroads, and he sold his soul to the devil at every one. His intimates and collaborators included Keith Richards, William Burroughs, Marianne Faithfull, Peter Fonda, Roger McGuinn, and Clarence White. Parsons led the Byrds to create the... Read more >
The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music
Written by David Meyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $18.00
As a singer and songwriter, Gram Parsons stood at the nexus of countless musical crossroads, and he sold his soul to the devil at every one. His intimates and collaborators included Keith Richards, William Burroughs, Marianne Faithfull, Peter Fonda, Roger McGuinn, and Clarence White. Parsons led the Byrds to create the... Read more >
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eBook.
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Swissted
Vintage Rock Posters Remixed and Reimagined
Written by Mike Joyce
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $40.00
“Fine art for font nerds.”—New York Magazine
“One of the most engaging homages I have ever seen.”—Steven Heller
Swissted takes rock concert posters of the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s and remixes and reimagines them through a Swiss modernist lens. The result is some of the coolest images you’ve ever seen! The book features... Read more >
Vintage Rock Posters Remixed and Reimagined
Written by Mike Joyce
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $40.00
“Fine art for font nerds.”—New York Magazine
“One of the most engaging homages I have ever seen.”—Steven Heller
Swissted takes rock concert posters of the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s and remixes and reimagines them through a Swiss modernist lens. The result is some of the coolest images you’ve ever seen! The book features... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Mysticism of Sound and Music
Written by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: September 3, 1996
Price: $24.95
Music, according to Sufi teaching, is really a small expression of the overwhelming and perfect harmony of the whole universe—and that is the secret of its amazing power to move us. The Indian Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927), the first teacher to bring the Islamic mystical tradition to the West... Read more >
Written by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: September 3, 1996
Price: $24.95
Music, according to Sufi teaching, is really a small expression of the overwhelming and perfect harmony of the whole universe—and that is the secret of its amazing power to move us. The Indian Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927), the first teacher to bring the Islamic mystical tradition to the West... Read more >
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The First Four Notes
Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination
Written by Matthew Guerrieri
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $26.95
A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
Los Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the Year
A unique and revelatory book of music history that examines in great depth what is perhaps the best-known and most-popular symphony ever written and its four-note opening, which... Read more >
Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination
Written by Matthew Guerrieri
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $26.95
A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
Los Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the Year
A unique and revelatory book of music history that examines in great depth what is perhaps the best-known and most-popular symphony ever written and its four-note opening, which... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll
Written by Lester Bangs
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 12, 1988
Price: $17.00
Vintage presents the paperback edition of the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs--the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s--edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rack critics, Greil Marcus. Advertising in Rolling Stone and other major publications. Read more >
The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll
Written by Lester Bangs
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 12, 1988
Price: $17.00
Vintage presents the paperback edition of the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs--the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s--edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rack critics, Greil Marcus. Advertising in Rolling Stone and other major publications. Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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A Long Strange Trip
The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
Written by Dennis McNally
Format: eBook, 704 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.99
The complete history of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history, written by its official historian and publicist–a must-have chronicle for all Dead Heads, and for students of rock and the 1960s’ counterculture.
From 1965 to 1995, the Grateful Dead flourished as one of the most beloved, unusual... Read more >
The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
Written by Dennis McNally
Format: eBook, 704 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.99
The complete history of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history, written by its official historian and publicist–a must-have chronicle for all Dead Heads, and for students of rock and the 1960s’ counterculture.
From 1965 to 1995, the Grateful Dead flourished as one of the most beloved, unusual... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Look, I Made a Hat
Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany
Written by Stephen Sondheim
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $45.00
After his acclaimed and best-selling Finishing the Hat (named one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2010), Stephen Sondheim returns with the second volume of his collected lyrics, Look, I Made a Hat, giving us another remarkable glimpse into the brilliant mind of this living legend, and his... Read more >
Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany
Written by Stephen Sondheim
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $45.00
After his acclaimed and best-selling Finishing the Hat (named one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2010), Stephen Sondheim returns with the second volume of his collected lyrics, Look, I Made a Hat, giving us another remarkable glimpse into the brilliant mind of this living legend, and his... Read more >
