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4th of July, Asbury Park
A History of the Promised Land
Daniel Wolffe
Bloomsbury USA
"Wonderfully evocative . . . a grand, sad story of racism and real estate, political hardball and seaside pleasure-seeking."—
A.O. Scott,
The New York Times Book Review
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And It Don't Stop
The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years
Edited by Raquel Cepeda; Foreword by Nelson George
Faber and Faber, Inc.
"An irresistible compilation of the most stylish prose and revelatory interviews of the last twenty-five years on hip-hop,
And It Don't Stop
is required reading for any serious devotee of contemporary urban culture . . . A glorious reminder of how influential journalists have been, and continue to be, in helping to shape and create this [music]."—
Jason King, New York University
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Bob Marley
The Untold Story
Chris Salewicz
Faber and Faber, Inc.
“Chris Salewicz’s account of the life of the late, great Robert Nesta Marley contains a raft of never-before published interviews with scores of people who knew the reggae singer. Indeed, Salewicz—a respected journalist whose Joe Strummer biography is also well worth a read—got to know Marley in 1979, and it’s this authenticity that sets the book apart from other biographies about the man and the legend. From Bob’s humble beginnings in Nine Miles to the years in Kingston and the fame, fortune and untimely death in 1981,
Bob Marley: The Untold Story
is the definitive account of the man and the myth.”—
Steve Richards,
The Independent
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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...
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Can't Stop Won't Stop
A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Jeff Chang; Introduction by DJ Kool Herc
Picador
"The birth of hip-hop out of the ruin of the South Bronx is a story that has been told many times, but never with the cinematic scope and the analytic force that Chang brings to it. Robert Moses unleashes the destructive juggernaut of the Cross-Bronx Expressway; landlords set fire to worthless tenements; police stand by and do nothing; and, against a backdrop of gang warfare, peacemaking d.j.s lay down the heavy beats and spidery loops around which a rapping, dancing, graffiti-painting culture grows. This is one of the most urgent and passionate histories of popular music ever written. Chang is blind to no one's greed or viciousness, but he retains an idealistic view of a music that speaks the truth about the alternately stultifying and horrifying urban landscapes that the parents who hate hip-hop have made."—
The New Yorker
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Catch a Fire
The Life of Bob Marley
Timothy White
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"White has a deep appreciation for reggae's immediacy, hypnotic power, and contradictions . . . An exhaustively researched labor of love."—
Chicago Sun-Times
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Clawing at the Limits of Cool
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever
Farah Jasmine Griffin and Salim Washington
Thomas Dunne Books
“This marvelous book constitutes a much-needed paradigm shift in the story of jazz—a shift that skillfully fuses cultural and music criticism with a rich historical sensibility that highlights black genius as an artistic exploration and an existential adventure against the backdrop of our flawed democratic experiment called America. Griffin and Washington are preeminent critics of our time!”—
Cornel West, author of
Race Matters
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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...
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Coltrane
The Story of a Sound
Ben Ratliff
Picador
“Ratliff suggests, intelligently and persuasively, that Coltrane had, among other attributes, a 'mystic's sensitivity for the sublime, which runs like a secret river under American culture.' Ratliff patiently explicates Coltrane's legend, writing in short, aphoristic bursts, often as elliptically as his subject played tenor saxophone, but never less than lucidly.”—
Pankaj Mishra,
The New York Times Book Review
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The Devil's Horn
The Story of the Saxophone, from Noisy Novelty to King of Cool
Michael Segell
Picador
"Based on the exuberance that is everywhere to be found in
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it's clear [Segell] grasps the jazzman's dictum that it's the journey, not the destination."—
The New York Times Book Review
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Electric Eden
Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music
Rob Young
Faber and Faber, Inc.
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title In the late 1960s, with popular culture hurtling forward on the sounds of rock music, some brave musicians...
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The Elements of Music
Melody, Rhythm, and Harmony
Wooden Books
Dr. Jason Martineau
Walker & Company
An elegant primer on the principles and theories of music. This innovative book presents the elements of music by building upon the long-known fundamentals...
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England's Dreaming, Revised Edition
Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond
Jon Savage; With a new introduction by the author
St. Martin's Griffin
England's Dreaming is the ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and the moment they defined for music fans in England and the United States....
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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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Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit
101 Best-Loved Psalms, Gospel Hymns & Spiritual Songs of the African-American Church
Gwendolin Sims Warren
Holt Paperbacks
For over 200 years in African-American churches throughout the country, gospel and spiritual music have offered solace and been a source of celebration,...
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The Fabulous Sylvester
The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco
Joshua Gamson
Picador
"[This book is] almost as engaging as the times it so energetically resurrects. Filled with interviews from Sylvester's friends, family, fellow musicians, and admirers, Gamson's account vibrantly reconstructs pre-AIDS San Francisco—the baths and bars, the dizzying sense of personal freedom, and the tragedies that followed when the drugs-and-disco-fueled bacchanal came crashing down . . . Gamson efficiently weaves, among what sometimes seems a never-ending party along Castro Street, the serious issues San Francisco also grappled with, including antigay crusades and the shocking assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk. Of course, as the book reaches its later chapters, the shadow of AIDS grows more ominous. Complications from the disease would claim Sylvester in 1988. Yet, this isn't a dour book, and Gamson's descriptions of places and people crackle with humor and zest."—
Renée Graham,
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ALA Stonewall Book Award - Winner - Nonfiction
Lambda Literary Award - Nominee - Biography
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Fever
How Rock 'n' Roll Transformed Gender in America
Tim Riley
Picador
"In his new book,
Fever
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Ron Rosenbaum,
The New York Observer
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Funk
The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One
Rickey Vincent; Foreword by George Clinton
St. Martin's Griffin
Funk: It's the only musical genre ever to have transformed the nation into a throbbing army of bell-bottomed, hoop-earringed, rainbow-Afro'd warriors on the...
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Girl Power
The Nineties Revolution in Music
Marisa Meltzer
Faber and Faber, Inc.
"Writing from personal and journalistic perspectives, Meltzer packs plenty of solid information into this innovative popular history . . . Students of comparative feminist history, psychology, and modern musical genres will find this absorbing. It provides a personal frame of reference for those who lack their own but have an interest in the music and the era."—
Carol J. Binkowski, Bloomfield, New Jersey,
Library Journal
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Hallelujah Junction
Composing an American Life
John Adams
Picador
"John Adams makes a superb contribution to the tradition of composer-as-writer. Adams, renowned for marrying the pulsating minimalism of Steve Reich and Philip Glass to the expansive, big-boned symphonic sound of Bruckner and Sibelius, recounts his struggle to find his musical voice with surprising honesty. He tallies his failures (which include a homemade synthesizer dubbed 'the Studebaker') and chronicles fighting his way to make pathbreaking works such as the monumental Harmonielehre for orchestra and the operas
Nixon in China
and
Doctor Atomic
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Christopher Delaurenti,
The Stranger
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Harmonograph
A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music
Wooden Books
Anthony Ashton
Walker & Company
During the nineteenth century, a remarkable scientific instrument known as a harmonograph revealed the beautiful patterns found in music. Harmonograph is an...
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Hotter Than That
The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture
Krin Gabbard
Faber and Faber, Inc.
“This is the smartest book about a single musical instrument that I've ever read. Like Miles Davis, who attended Juilliard and apprenticed with Charlie Parker, Krin Gabbard turns his immense learning into lines that are quick, witty, and irresistibly alluring. How did the trumpet emerge as the first-chair instrument in jazz history? What is this beautiful horn's significance as an instrument of desire and romance? A triumph of the new jazz studies,
Hotter than That
is for all who play music (especially for all trumpeters), and for all who are yearning for an enriched understanding of what and how the music called jazz means.”—
Robert G. O'Meally, author of
Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday
and founder of The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University
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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,...
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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...
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