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Stardust Melodies
The Biography of Twelve of America's Most Popular Songs
Written by Will Friedwald
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2009
Price: $27.50
In Stardust Melodies, Will Friedwald takes each of these legendary songs apart and puts it together again, with a staggering wealth of detail and unprecedented understanding.
Each chapter gives us an extended history of one song—the circumstances under which it was written and first performed—and then explores its musical and lyric content... Read more >
The Biography of Twelve of America's Most Popular Songs
Written by Will Friedwald
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2009
Price: $27.50
In Stardust Melodies, Will Friedwald takes each of these legendary songs apart and puts it together again, with a staggering wealth of detail and unprecedented understanding.
Each chapter gives us an extended history of one song—the circumstances under which it was written and first performed—and then explores its musical and lyric content... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The 27s
The Greatest Myth of Rock & Roll
Written by Eric Segalstad
Illustrated by Josh Hunter
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $27.00
Excess and tragedy are the stuff of music legend, but it is only with hindsight that deeper patterns emerge. None of these is more striking than the deaths at age 27 of some of the greatest musicians of our time.
Jimi Hendrix. Janis Joplin. Jim Morrison. Brian Jones. Kurt Cobain. Founding bluesman... Read more >
The Greatest Myth of Rock & Roll
Written by Eric Segalstad
Illustrated by Josh Hunter
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $27.00
Excess and tragedy are the stuff of music legend, but it is only with hindsight that deeper patterns emerge. None of these is more striking than the deaths at age 27 of some of the greatest musicians of our time.
Jimi Hendrix. Janis Joplin. Jim Morrison. Brian Jones. Kurt Cobain. Founding bluesman... Read more >
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Temperament
How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization
Written by Stuart Isacoff
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $13.95
Few music lovers realize that the arrangement of notes on today’s pianos was once regarded as a crime against God and nature, or that such legendary thinkers as Pythagoras, Plato, da Vinci, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and Rousseau played a role in the controversy. Indeed, from the time of the Ancient... Read more >
How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization
Written by Stuart Isacoff
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $13.95
Few music lovers realize that the arrangement of notes on today’s pianos was once regarded as a crime against God and nature, or that such legendary thinkers as Pythagoras, Plato, da Vinci, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and Rousseau played a role in the controversy. Indeed, from the time of the Ancient... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Life and Death of Classical Music
Featuring the 100 Best and 20 Worst Recordings Ever Made
Written by Norman Lebrecht
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $16.00
In this compulsively readable, fascinating, and provocative guide to classical music, Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators tells the story of the rise of the classical recording industry from Caruso’s first notes to the heyday of Bernstein, Glenn Gould, Callas, and von Karajan.
Lebrecht compellingly demonstrates that classical recording... Read more >
Featuring the 100 Best and 20 Worst Recordings Ever Made
Written by Norman Lebrecht
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $16.00
In this compulsively readable, fascinating, and provocative guide to classical music, Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators tells the story of the rise of the classical recording industry from Caruso’s first notes to the heyday of Bernstein, Glenn Gould, Callas, and von Karajan.
Lebrecht compellingly demonstrates that classical recording... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste
A Lester Bangs Reader
Written by Lester Bangs
Edited by John Morthland
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $15.95
Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguably the most influential critic of rock and roll. Writing in hyper-intelligent Benzedrine prose that calls to mind Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, he eschewed all conventional thinking as he discussed everything from Black Sabbath being the first truly Catholic band... Read more >
A Lester Bangs Reader
Written by Lester Bangs
Edited by John Morthland
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $15.95
Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguably the most influential critic of rock and roll. Writing in hyper-intelligent Benzedrine prose that calls to mind Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, he eschewed all conventional thinking as he discussed everything from Black Sabbath being the first truly Catholic band... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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On Late Style
Music and Literature Against the Grain
Written by Edward W. Said
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $14.95
In his fascinating last book, Edward Said looks at a selection of essays, poems, novels, films, and operas to determine what late style may explain about the evolution of the creative life. He discusses how the approaching death of an artist can make its way “with anachronism and anomaly” into his... Read more >
Music and Literature Against the Grain
Written by Edward W. Said
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $14.95
In his fascinating last book, Edward Said looks at a selection of essays, poems, novels, films, and operas to determine what late style may explain about the evolution of the creative life. He discusses how the approaching death of an artist can make its way “with anachronism and anomaly” into his... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Mechanical Music
Written by Kevin McElhone
Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $12.95
Read more >
Written by Kevin McElhone
Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $12.95
Read more >
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Legendary Sessions: Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
Written by Colin Irwin
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $19.95
This breakthrough series looks at great music from a unique vantage point. By considering the recording session itself, rather than the final album, Legendary Sessions showcases the creative process and all the elements that go into making music that reflected its time, commented on our society, and influenced our culture.
How... Read more >
Written by Colin Irwin
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $19.95
This breakthrough series looks at great music from a unique vantage point. By considering the recording session itself, rather than the final album, Legendary Sessions showcases the creative process and all the elements that go into making music that reflected its time, commented on our society, and influenced our culture.
How... Read more >
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Shostakovich and Stalin
The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictato r
Written by Solomon Volkov
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $30.00
“Music illuminates a person and provides him with his last hope; even Stalin, a butcher, knew that.” So said the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose first compositions in the 1920s identified him as an avant-garde wunderkind. But that same singularity became a liability a decade later under the totalitarian rule of... Read more >
The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictato r
Written by Solomon Volkov
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $30.00
“Music illuminates a person and provides him with his last hope; even Stalin, a butcher, knew that.” So said the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose first compositions in the 1920s identified him as an avant-garde wunderkind. But that same singularity became a liability a decade later under the totalitarian rule of... Read more >
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The Life and Death of Classical Music
Featuring the 100 Best and 20 Worst Recordings Ever Made
Written by Norman Lebrecht
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $16.00
In this compulsively readable, fascinating, and provocative guide to classical music, Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators tells the story of the rise of the classical recording industry from Caruso’s first notes to the heyday of Bernstein, Glenn Gould, Callas, and von Karajan.
Lebrecht compellingly demonstrates that classical recording... Read more >
Featuring the 100 Best and 20 Worst Recordings Ever Made
Written by Norman Lebrecht
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $16.00
In this compulsively readable, fascinating, and provocative guide to classical music, Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators tells the story of the rise of the classical recording industry from Caruso’s first notes to the heyday of Bernstein, Glenn Gould, Callas, and von Karajan.
Lebrecht compellingly demonstrates that classical recording... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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On Late Style
Music and Literature Against the Grain
Written by Edward W. Said
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $14.95
In this fascinating book, Edward Said looks at the creative contradictions that often mark the late works of literary and musical artists.
Said shows how the approaching death of an artist can make its way into his work, examining essays, poems, novels, films, and operas by such artists as Beethoven, Genet... Read more >
Music and Literature Against the Grain
Written by Edward W. Said
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $14.95
In this fascinating book, Edward Said looks at the creative contradictions that often mark the late works of literary and musical artists.
Said shows how the approaching death of an artist can make its way into his work, examining essays, poems, novels, films, and operas by such artists as Beethoven, Genet... Read more >
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On Late Style
Music and Literature Against the Grain
Written by Edward W. Said
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $25.00
In his fascinating last book, Edward Said looks at a selection of essays, poems, novels, films, and operas to determine what late style may explain about the evolution of the creative life. He discusses how the approaching death of an artist can make its way “with anachronism and anomaly” into his... Read more >
Music and Literature Against the Grain
Written by Edward W. Said
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $25.00
In his fascinating last book, Edward Said looks at a selection of essays, poems, novels, films, and operas to determine what late style may explain about the evolution of the creative life. He discusses how the approaching death of an artist can make its way “with anachronism and anomaly” into his... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
|
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Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste
A Lester Bangs Reader
Written by Lester Bangs
Edited by John Morthland
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $15.95
Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguably the most influential critic of rock and roll. Writing in hyper-intelligent Benzedrine prose that calls to mind Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, he eschewed all conventional thinking as he discussed everything from Black Sabbath being the first truly Catholic band... Read more >
A Lester Bangs Reader
Written by Lester Bangs
Edited by John Morthland
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $15.95
Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguably the most influential critic of rock and roll. Writing in hyper-intelligent Benzedrine prose that calls to mind Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, he eschewed all conventional thinking as he discussed everything from Black Sabbath being the first truly Catholic band... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Art of Writing Love Songs
Written by Pamela Phillips Oland
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2003
Price: $22.95
Finally—the first songwriting guide to the most popular music genre in history! Written by a professional songwriter, The Art of Writing Love Songs provides inspiration to anyone seeking to write captivating songs about the most enduring musical subject of all.
Readers will discover how to express their feelings in lyrics, master a... Read more >
Written by Pamela Phillips Oland
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2003
Price: $22.95
Finally—the first songwriting guide to the most popular music genre in history! Written by a professional songwriter, The Art of Writing Love Songs provides inspiration to anyone seeking to write captivating songs about the most enduring musical subject of all.
Readers will discover how to express their feelings in lyrics, master a... Read more >
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Temperament
How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization
Written by Stuart Isacoff
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $13.95
Few music lovers realize that the arrangement of notes on today’s pianos was once regarded as a crime against God and nature, or that such legendary thinkers as Pythagoras, Plato, da Vinci, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and Rousseau played a role in the controversy. Indeed, from the time of the Ancient... Read more >
How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization
Written by Stuart Isacoff
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $13.95
Few music lovers realize that the arrangement of notes on today’s pianos was once regarded as a crime against God and nature, or that such legendary thinkers as Pythagoras, Plato, da Vinci, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and Rousseau played a role in the controversy. Indeed, from the time of the Ancient... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Stardust Melodies
The Biography of Twelve of America's Most Popular Songs
Written by Will Friedwald
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2002
Price: $27.50
In Stardust Melodies, Will Friedwald takes each of these legendary songs apart and puts it together again, with a staggering wealth of detail and unprecedented understanding.
Each chapter gives us an extended history of one song—the circumstances under which it was written and first performed—and then explores its musical and lyric content... Read more >
The Biography of Twelve of America's Most Popular Songs
Written by Will Friedwald
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2002
Price: $27.50
In Stardust Melodies, Will Friedwald takes each of these legendary songs apart and puts it together again, with a staggering wealth of detail and unprecedented understanding.
Each chapter gives us an extended history of one song—the circumstances under which it was written and first performed—and then explores its musical and lyric content... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
FM
The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio
Written by Richard Neer
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 18, 2001
Price: $19.00
"It was all so honest, before the end of our collective innocence. Top Forty jocks screamed and yelled and sounded mightier than God on millions of transistor radios. But on FM radio it was all spun out for only you. On a golden web by a master weaver driven by fifty... Read more >
The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio
Written by Richard Neer
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 18, 2001
Price: $19.00
"It was all so honest, before the end of our collective innocence. Top Forty jocks screamed and yelled and sounded mightier than God on millions of transistor radios. But on FM radio it was all spun out for only you. On a golden web by a master weaver driven by fifty... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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FM
The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio
Written by Richard Neer
Foreword by Steven Van Zandt
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2001
Price: $19.00
"It was all so honest, before the end of our collective innocence. Top Forty jocks screamed and yelled and sounded mightier than God on millions of transistor radios. But on FM radio it was all spun out for only you. On a golden web by a master weaver driven by fifty... Read more >
The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio
Written by Richard Neer
Foreword by Steven Van Zandt
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2001
Price: $19.00
"It was all so honest, before the end of our collective innocence. Top Forty jocks screamed and yelled and sounded mightier than God on millions of transistor radios. But on FM radio it was all spun out for only you. On a golden web by a master weaver driven by fifty... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Operator
David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood
Written by Thomas R. King
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2001
Price: $15.95
“A crazy American epic” –Newsweek
Complex, contentious, and blessed with the perfect-pitch ability to find the next big talent, David Geffen has shaped American popular culture and transformed the way Hollywood does business. His dazzling career has included the roles of power agent, record-industry mogul, Broadway producer, and billionaire Hollywood studio founder–but... Read more >
David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood
Written by Thomas R. King
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2001
Price: $15.95
“A crazy American epic” –Newsweek
Complex, contentious, and blessed with the perfect-pitch ability to find the next big talent, David Geffen has shaped American popular culture and transformed the way Hollywood does business. His dazzling career has included the roles of power agent, record-industry mogul, Broadway producer, and billionaire Hollywood studio founder–but... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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