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Piano

The Making of a Steinway Concert Grand

James Barron Times Books

"This engaging narrative about the preservation of a great tradition by skilled craftsmen is the work of a writer who is quite a skilled craftsman himself. James Barron, an indefatigable reporter, has woven out of his scrupulous research a fascinating story of an all but vanished art, and of the men who created it."—Robert A. Caro, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Image-Music-Text Roland Barthes; Translated by Stephen Heath Hill and Wang These essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena...

Trade Paperback : $12.99 Buy	How to Play Bass Guitar Everything You Need to Know to Play the Bass Guitar Laurence Canty St. Martin's Griffin Learning to play the bass guitar is easy with the help of Laurence Canty's step-by-step instructions and clear advice-even if you've never played an instrument...

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The Indie Band Survival Guide

The Complete Manual for the Do-It-Yourself Musician

Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan St. Martin's Griffin

The Indie Band Survival Guide is the ultimate resource for musicians looking to record, distribute, market, and sell their music for less than most rock stars...

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My So-Called Punk

Green Day, Fall Out Boy, The Distillers, Bad Religion---How Neo-Punk Stage-Dived into the Mainstream

Matt Diehl St. Martin's Griffin

When it began, punk was an underground revolution that raged against the mainstream; now punk is the mainstream. Tracing the origins of Grammy-winning...

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The Essential Canon of Classical Music

David Dubal North Point Press

"David Dubal's The Essential Canon of Classical Music is an engaging and informative listener's companion. It will help to introduce the beauty and extraordinary legacy of the classical music repertoire from all historic periods to a wide audience."—Joseph W. Polisi, President of the Julliard School

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Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	But Beautiful A Book About Jazz Geoff Dyer Picador "May be the best book ever written about jazz."--David Thomson, Los Angeles Times In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the...

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	Scars of Sweet Paradise The Life and Times of Janis Joplin Alice Echols Picador Janis Joplin was the skyrocket chick of the sixties, the woman who broke into the boys' club of rock and out of the stifling good-girl femininity of postwar...

Trade Paperback : $11.95 Buy	How to Play Keyboards Everything You Need to Know to Play Keyboards Roger Evans St. Martin's Griffin How to Play Keyboards offers an exciting new way to learn to play. Its easy-to-follow instructions and systematic approach enable you to start playing popular...

Trade Paperback : $11.95 Buy	How to Play Piano Everything You Need to Know to Play the Piano Roger Evans St. Martin's Griffin Learning to play the piano has never been easier. With easy-to-follow illustrations and fun practice pieces, this comprehensive step-by-step guide will have...

Trade Paperback : $11.95 Buy	How to Play Guitar Everything You Need to Know to Play the Guitar Roger Evans St. Martin's Griffin In How to Play Guitar guitar players of all levels will find a wealth of instruction and inspiration. Whether you want to play pop, folk, country, rock, blues,...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Love Bomb And Other Musical Pieces James Fenton Faber and Faber, Inc. Three Libretti—Ranging In Setting From Ancient Jerusalem To Pre-Apocalyptic London—From An Acclaimed Poet This volume of libretti marks new...

Trade Paperback : $15.95 Buy	When We Get to Surf City A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams Bob Greene St. Martin's Griffin Includes a bonus excerpt from Bob Greene’s forthcoming Late Edition: A Love Story "There is something absolutely magical about Bob Greene's voice.”—Jeffrey...

Trade Paperback : $15.95 Buy	Nothing Feels Good Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo Andy Greenwald St. Martin's Griffin Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo tells the story of a cultural moment that's happening right now-the nexus point where teen culture, music,...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	A Romance on Three Legs Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano Katie Hafner Bloomsbury USA “When Gould was paired with the right composer…he could make you wonder if he was altogether human. And reading Hafner on Gould is sometimes as much fun as...

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Positively 4th Street

The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina

David Hajdu North Point Press

"A hauntingly evocative blend of biography, musicology and pop cultural history."—Janet Maslin, The New York Times

National Books Critics Circle Awards - Nominee - Biography/Autobiography
Firecracker Award - Nominee - Music

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Trade Paperback : $11.95 Buy	How to Play the Flute Everything You Need to Know to Play the Flute Howard Harrison St. Martin's Griffin How to Play the Flute is a new kind of flute tutor. It combines over fifty carefully selected musical pieces with illustrations, diagrams, and text to give...

Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	Colored Lights Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz John Kander and Fred Ebb as told to Greg Lawrence; With an Introduction by Liza Minnelli and a Foreword by Harold Prince Faber and Faber, Inc. Composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb are the longest-running song-writing partnership in Broadway history, having first joined forces in 1962. The...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	The New York Times Essential Library: Classical Music A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings Allan Kozinn Times Books "An excellent book of its kind."—*Booklist*

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Digging for Dirt

The Life and Death of ODB

Jaime Lowe Faber and Faber, Inc.

A fan's exploration of the man behind the myth Ol’ Dirty Bastard (aka Russell Jones) rose to fame with the Wu-Tang Clan in the early ’90s, his unorthodox...

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Hardcover : $10.00 Buy	Sacred Geometry Wooden Books Miranda Lundy Walker & Company Geometry is one of a group of special sciences - Number, Music and Cosmology are the others - found identically in nearly every culture on earth. In this small...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Rotten No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs John Lydon with Keith and Kent Zimmerman Picador "I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die."--John Lydon Punk has been romanticized and embalmed in various media. It has...

Trade Paperback : $21.00 Buy	The Tristan Chord Wagner and Philosophy Bryan Magee Picador "The Tristan Chord is quite simply indispensable . . . This is an enlightening and exciting exploration of a great artist and cultural icon . . . Should take its place among any Wagnerian's short list of required reading."—John Rockwell, The New York Times

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	The Old, Weird America The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes Greil Marcus Picador "This book is terminal, goes deeply into the subconscious, and plows through that period of time like a rake. Griel Marcus has done it again."—Bob Dylan