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Musical Motley
Written by Ernest Newman
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 10, 2013
Price: $18.99
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Written by Ernest Newman
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 10, 2013
Price: $18.99
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On Music and Musicians
Written by Robert Schumann
Edited by Konrad Wolff
Translated by Paul Rosenfeld
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2013
Price: $12.99
Edited by Konraad Wolff
Translated by Paul Rosenfeld
With twenty black-and-white illustrations
Schumann’s literary gifts and interests almost equaled his musical ones. From boyhood on he was drawn to literary expression, and his writings on music belong to the best among the romantic literature of the 19th century. The same fire, poetry, directness of... Read more >
Written by Robert Schumann
Edited by Konrad Wolff
Translated by Paul Rosenfeld
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2013
Price: $12.99
Edited by Konraad Wolff
Translated by Paul Rosenfeld
With twenty black-and-white illustrations
Schumann’s literary gifts and interests almost equaled his musical ones. From boyhood on he was drawn to literary expression, and his writings on music belong to the best among the romantic literature of the 19th century. The same fire, poetry, directness of... Read more >
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Franz Liszt, Volume 1
The Virtuoso Years: 1811-1847
Written by Alan Walker
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 20, 2013
Price: $22.99
Franz Liszt--child prodigy, virtuoso pianist, co-founder with Chopin and Schumann of the Romantic movement in music--has been the subject of literally hundreds of biographies, but it is only in the last few decades that the importance of Liszt the composer, as opposed to Liszt the Romantic hero, has been recognized. This... Read more >
The Virtuoso Years: 1811-1847
Written by Alan Walker
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 20, 2013
Price: $22.99
Franz Liszt--child prodigy, virtuoso pianist, co-founder with Chopin and Schumann of the Romantic movement in music--has been the subject of literally hundreds of biographies, but it is only in the last few decades that the importance of Liszt the composer, as opposed to Liszt the Romantic hero, has been recognized. This... Read more >
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Days That I'll Remember
Spending Time with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Written by Jonathan Cott
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $25.95
Jonathan Cott met John Lennon in 1968 and was friends with him and Yoko Ono until John's death in 1980. He has kept in touch with Yoko since that time, and is one of the small group of writers who understands her profoundly positive influence on Lennon. This deeply personal book... Read more >
Spending Time with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Written by Jonathan Cott
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $25.95
Jonathan Cott met John Lennon in 1968 and was friends with him and Yoko Ono until John's death in 1980. He has kept in touch with Yoko since that time, and is one of the small group of writers who understands her profoundly positive influence on Lennon. This deeply personal book... Read more >
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Days That I'll Remember
Spending Time with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Written by Jonathan Cott
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $12.99
Jonathan Cott met John Lennon in 1968 and was friends with him and Yoko Ono until John's death in 1980. He has kept in touch with Yoko since that time, and is one of the small group of writers who understands her profoundly positive influence on Lennon. This deeply personal book... Read more >
Spending Time with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Written by Jonathan Cott
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $12.99
Jonathan Cott met John Lennon in 1968 and was friends with him and Yoko Ono until John's death in 1980. He has kept in touch with Yoko since that time, and is one of the small group of writers who understands her profoundly positive influence on Lennon. This deeply personal book... Read more >
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Morning Glory
A Biography of Mary Lou Williams
Written by Linda Dahl
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: September 19, 2012
Price: $19.99
Mary Lou Williams -- pianist, arranger, composer, and probably the most influential woman in the history of jazz -- receives the attention she has long deserved in the definitive biography by a leading scholar of women in jazz.
The illegitimate child of an impoverished and indifferent mother, Williams began performing publicly at... Read more >
A Biography of Mary Lou Williams
Written by Linda Dahl
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: September 19, 2012
Price: $19.99
Mary Lou Williams -- pianist, arranger, composer, and probably the most influential woman in the history of jazz -- receives the attention she has long deserved in the definitive biography by a leading scholar of women in jazz.
The illegitimate child of an impoverished and indifferent mother, Williams began performing publicly at... Read more >
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The Romantic Revolution
A History
Written by Tim Blanning
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $15.00
“A splendidly pithy and provocative introduction to the culture of Romanticism.”—The Sunday Times
“[Tim Blanning is] in a particularly good position to speak of the arrival of Romanticism on the Euorpean scene, and he does so with a verve, a breadth, and an authority that exceed every expectation.”—National Review
... Read more >
A History
Written by Tim Blanning
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $15.00
“A splendidly pithy and provocative introduction to the culture of Romanticism.”—The Sunday Times
“[Tim Blanning is] in a particularly good position to speak of the arrival of Romanticism on the Euorpean scene, and he does so with a verve, a breadth, and an authority that exceed every expectation.”—National Review
... Read more >
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Love Rock Revolution
K Records and the Rise of Independent Music
Written by Mark Baumgarten
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $17.95
Punk isn't a sound--it's an idea! In 1982, K Records released its first cassette and put its own spin on punk's defiant manifesto: You don't need anyone's permission to make music. Thirty years later, the label continues to operate in the underground while rightfully claiming a role as one of the... Read more >
K Records and the Rise of Independent Music
Written by Mark Baumgarten
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $17.95
Punk isn't a sound--it's an idea! In 1982, K Records released its first cassette and put its own spin on punk's defiant manifesto: You don't need anyone's permission to make music. Thirty years later, the label continues to operate in the underground while rightfully claiming a role as one of the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Love Rock Revolution
K Records and the Rise of Independent Music
Written by Mark Baumgarten
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $17.95
Punk isn't a sound--it's an idea! In 1982, K Records released its first cassette and put its own spin on punk's defiant manifesto: You don't need anyone's permission to make music. Thirty years later, the label continues to operate in the underground while rightfully claiming a role as one of the... Read more >
K Records and the Rise of Independent Music
Written by Mark Baumgarten
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $17.95
Punk isn't a sound--it's an idea! In 1982, K Records released its first cassette and put its own spin on punk's defiant manifesto: You don't need anyone's permission to make music. Thirty years later, the label continues to operate in the underground while rightfully claiming a role as one of the... Read more >
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The Jazz Loft Project
Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965
Written by Sam Stephenson
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 30, 2012
Price: $24.99
In 1957, Eugene Smith, a thirty-eight-year-old magazine photographer, walked out of his comfortable settled world—his longtime well-paying job at Life and the home he shared with his wife and four children in Croton-on-Hudson, New York—to move into a dilapidated, five-story loft building at 821 Sixth Avenue (between Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth streets)... Read more >
Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965
Written by Sam Stephenson
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 30, 2012
Price: $24.99
In 1957, Eugene Smith, a thirty-eight-year-old magazine photographer, walked out of his comfortable settled world—his longtime well-paying job at Life and the home he shared with his wife and four children in Croton-on-Hudson, New York—to move into a dilapidated, five-story loft building at 821 Sixth Avenue (between Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth streets)... Read more >
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Stradivari's Genius
Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection
Written by Toby Faber
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 9, 2012
Price: $11.99
“’Tis God gives skill, but not without men’s hands: He could not make Antonio Stradivari’s violins without Antonio.”
–George Eliot
Antonio Stradivari (1644—1737) was a perfectionist whose single-minded pursuit of excellence changed the world of music. In the course of his long career in the northern Italian city of Cremona, he created more... Read more >
Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection
Written by Toby Faber
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 9, 2012
Price: $11.99
“’Tis God gives skill, but not without men’s hands: He could not make Antonio Stradivari’s violins without Antonio.”
–George Eliot
Antonio Stradivari (1644—1737) was a perfectionist whose single-minded pursuit of excellence changed the world of music. In the course of his long career in the northern Italian city of Cremona, he created more... Read more >
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Site and Sound
The Architecture and Acoustics of New Opera Houses and Concert Halls
Written by Victoria Newhouse
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $50.00
Victoria Newhouse, noted author and architectural historian, addresses the aesthetics and acoustics in concert halls and opera houses of the past, present, and future in this stunning companion to the highly regarded Towards a New Museum. Site and Sound explores the daunting, perennial question: Does the music serve the space, or... Read more >
The Architecture and Acoustics of New Opera Houses and Concert Halls
Written by Victoria Newhouse
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $50.00
Victoria Newhouse, noted author and architectural historian, addresses the aesthetics and acoustics in concert halls and opera houses of the past, present, and future in this stunning companion to the highly regarded Towards a New Museum. Site and Sound explores the daunting, perennial question: Does the music serve the space, or... Read more >
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Who Wrote The Book Of Love?
Written by Richard Crouse
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 15, 2012
Price: $11.99
¸ The words to Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" were initially so risqué they had to be completely rewritten - in the hallway of the studio, as time was running out - before the song could be recorded. (He wrote the original version while working as a dishwasher in a bus station in... Read more >
Written by Richard Crouse
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 15, 2012
Price: $11.99
¸ The words to Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" were initially so risqué they had to be completely rewritten - in the hallway of the studio, as time was running out - before the song could be recorded. (He wrote the original version while working as a dishwasher in a bus station in... Read more >
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Everybody Loves Our Town
An Oral History of Grunge
Written by Mark Yarm
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $15.00
An Oral History of Grunge
Written by Mark Yarm
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $15.00
A Time Magazine Best Book of 2011, Featuring Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Mudhoney and more!
Twenty years after the release of Nirvana’s landmark album Nevermind comes Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, the definitive word on the grunge era, straight from the mouths of those at the...
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How to Wreck a Nice Beach
The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks
Written by Dave Tompkins
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $25.95
The history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weapon
The vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, once guarded phones from eavesdroppers during World War II; by the Vietnam War, it was repurposed as a voice-altering tool for musicians, and is now the ubiquitous voice of popular... Read more >
The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks
Written by Dave Tompkins
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $25.95
The history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weapon
The vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, once guarded phones from eavesdroppers during World War II; by the Vietnam War, it was repurposed as a voice-altering tool for musicians, and is now the ubiquitous voice of popular... Read more >
How to Wreck a Nice Beach
The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks
Written by Dave Tompkins
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $22.95
The history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weapon
The vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, once guarded phones from eavesdroppers during World War II; by the Vietnam War, it was repurposed as a voice-altering tool for musicians, and is now the ubiquitous voice of popular... Read more >
The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks
Written by Dave Tompkins
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $22.95
The history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weapon
The vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, once guarded phones from eavesdroppers during World War II; by the Vietnam War, it was repurposed as a voice-altering tool for musicians, and is now the ubiquitous voice of popular... Read more >
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Writing Gordon Lightfoot
The Man, the Music, and the World in 1972
Written by Dave Bidini
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $13.99
From acclaimed musician and author Dave Bidini comes a brilliantly original look at a folk-rock legend and the momentous week in 1972 that culminated in the Mariposa Folk Festival.
July, 1972. As musicians across Canada prepare for the nation's biggest folk festival, held on Toronto Island, a series of events unfold that... Read more >
The Man, the Music, and the World in 1972
Written by Dave Bidini
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $13.99
From acclaimed musician and author Dave Bidini comes a brilliantly original look at a folk-rock legend and the momentous week in 1972 that culminated in the Mariposa Folk Festival.
July, 1972. As musicians across Canada prepare for the nation's biggest folk festival, held on Toronto Island, a series of events unfold that... Read more >
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Bob Dylan in America
Written by Sean Wilentz
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
Written by Sean Wilentz
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
Sean Wilentz discovered Bob Dylan’s music as a teenager growing up in Greenwich Village. Now, almost half a century later, he revisits Dylan’s work with the skills of an eminent American historian as well as the passion of a fan.
Beginning with Dylan’s explosion onto the scene in 1961, Wilentz follows the...
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Guitars Illustrated
A Stunning Visual Catalog Charting the Origins of Over 250 of the Most Influential Makes and Models
Written by Terry Burrows
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $40.00
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A Stunning Visual Catalog Charting the Origins of Over 250 of the Most Influential Makes and Models
Written by Terry Burrows
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $40.00
Read more >
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The Strangest Tribe
How a Group of Seattle Rock Bands Invented Grunge
Written by Stephen Tow
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $18.95
Grunge isn’t dead – but was it every truly alive? Twenty years after the height of the movement, The Strangest Tribe redefines grunge as we know it. Stephen Tow takes a second look at the music and community that vaulted the likes of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, and Soundgarden to international fame... Read more >
How a Group of Seattle Rock Bands Invented Grunge
Written by Stephen Tow
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $18.95
Grunge isn’t dead – but was it every truly alive? Twenty years after the height of the movement, The Strangest Tribe redefines grunge as we know it. Stephen Tow takes a second look at the music and community that vaulted the likes of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, and Soundgarden to international fame... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Strangest Tribe
How a Group of Seattle Rock Bands Invented Grunge
Written by Stephen Tow
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $18.95
Grunge isn’t dead – but was it every truly alive? Twenty years after the height of the movement, The Strangest Tribe redefines grunge as we know it. Stephen Tow takes a second look at the music and community that vaulted the likes of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, and Soundgarden to international fame... Read more >
How a Group of Seattle Rock Bands Invented Grunge
Written by Stephen Tow
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $18.95
Grunge isn’t dead – but was it every truly alive? Twenty years after the height of the movement, The Strangest Tribe redefines grunge as we know it. Stephen Tow takes a second look at the music and community that vaulted the likes of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, and Soundgarden to international fame... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Everybody Loves Our Town
An Oral History of Grunge
Written by Mark Yarm
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $11.99
An Oral History of Grunge
Written by Mark Yarm
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $11.99
Twenty years after the release of Nirvana’s landmark album Nevermind comes Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, the definitive word on the grunge era, straight from the mouths of those at the center of it all.
In 1986, fledgling Seattle label C/Z Records released Deep Six, a compilation featuring a...
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The Romantic Revolution
A History
Written by Tim Blanning
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 2, 2011
Price: $11.99
“A splendidly pithy and provocative introduction to the culture of Romanticism.”—The Sunday Times
“[Tim Blanning is] in a particularly good position to speak of the arrival of Romanticism on the Euorpean scene, and he does so with a verve, a breadth, and an authority that exceed every expectation.”—National Review
... Read more >
A History
Written by Tim Blanning
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 2, 2011
Price: $11.99
“A splendidly pithy and provocative introduction to the culture of Romanticism.”—The Sunday Times
“[Tim Blanning is] in a particularly good position to speak of the arrival of Romanticism on the Euorpean scene, and he does so with a verve, a breadth, and an authority that exceed every expectation.”—National Review
... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Classical Music
The 50 Greatest Composers and Their 1,000 Greatest Works
Written by Phil G. Goulding
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2011
Price: $13.99
MAKE A SOUND INVESTMENT IN CLASSICAL MUSIC
Who are the ten most important classical composers? Who in the world was Palestrina? Why did Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" cause a riot? Which five of each important composer's works should you buy? What is a concerto and how does it differ from a sonata?
Maybe... Read more >
The 50 Greatest Composers and Their 1,000 Greatest Works
Written by Phil G. Goulding
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2011
Price: $13.99
MAKE A SOUND INVESTMENT IN CLASSICAL MUSIC
Who are the ten most important classical composers? Who in the world was Palestrina? Why did Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" cause a riot? Which five of each important composer's works should you buy? What is a concerto and how does it differ from a sonata?
Maybe... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Elvis: My Best Man
Radio Days, Rock 'n' Roll Nights, and My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley
Written by George Klein and Chuck Crisafulli
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $15.00
When George Klein was an eighth grader at Humes High, he couldn’t have known how important the new kid with the guitar—the boy named Elvis—would later become in his life. But from the first time GK (as he was nicknamed by Elvis) heard this kid sing, he knew that Elvis Presley... Read more >
Radio Days, Rock 'n' Roll Nights, and My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley
Written by George Klein and Chuck Crisafulli
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $15.00
When George Klein was an eighth grader at Humes High, he couldn’t have known how important the new kid with the guitar—the boy named Elvis—would later become in his life. But from the first time GK (as he was nicknamed by Elvis) heard this kid sing, he knew that Elvis Presley... Read more >
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