Cover Story
Album Cover Art
Written by The Staff of Wax Poetics
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2009
Price: $24.95
“Reading Wax Poetics, Brooklyn’s glossy, reverent, visually immaculate zine dedicated to funk, soul, hip hop, and the other obsessions of crate-diggers worldwide, is enough to make you wish neither compact discs nor the Internet had ever been invented.”
—
The Village Voice Cover Story: Album Cover Art, the second book from...
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Motown
Music, Money, Sex, and Power
Written by Gerald Posner
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $13.99
In 1959, twenty-nine-year-old Berry Gordy, who had already given up on his dream to be a champion boxer, borrowed eight hundred dollars from his family and started a record company. A run-down bungalow sandwiched between a funeral home and a beauty shop in a poor Detroit neighborhood served as his headquarters...
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Wax Poetics Anthology Volume 1
Written by The Staff of Wax Poetics
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2009
Price: $39.95
“The fandom driving the magazine is infectious, and the best pieces are simply essential... A large part of Anthology’s draw, as with
Wax Poetics the magazine, is how gorgeous it looks: Many pieces come with lovingly reproduced album covers and 45 labels, arrayed neatly like so much recordcollector porn.”
—The Onion...
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Wax Poetics Anthology Volume 2
Written by The Staff of Wax Poetics
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2008
Price: $39.95
Wax Poetics Anthology, Volume 2, the third book from the esteemed music journal showcasing everyone from jazz and Hip Hop heavyweights to soul and funk musicians, gathers articles from Issues 6 through 10 into a musthave hardbound edition for record collectors and music connoisseurs alike.
When
Wax Poetics debuted in 2001...
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Motown
Music, Money, Sex, and Power
Written by Gerald Posner
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $15.95
In 1959, twenty-nine-year-old Berry Gordy, who had already given up on his dream to be a champion boxer, borrowed eight hundred dollars from his family and started a record company. A run-down bungalow sandwiched between a funeral home and a beauty shop in a poor Detroit neighborhood served as his headquarters...
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