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Retromania

Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past

Simon Reynolds Faber and Faber, Inc.

One of The Telegraph’s Best Music Books 2011 We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours,...

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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...

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 : $15.00 Buy	Runaway Dream Born to Run and Bruce Springsteen's American Vision Louis P. Masur Bloomsbury Press “Masur, as his title suggests, has ‘an affinity for the American themes that permeate [Springsteen’s] work,’ and his book is essentially an extended cultural essay about those.”—*Chicago* *Tribune*

Hardcover : $12.00 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 : $19.00 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...

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Sing Me Back Home

Love, Death, and Country Music

Dana Jennings Faber and Faber, Inc.

"Boozing and brawling and country music might not be the first things that come to mind when you think of New Hampshire . . . But after reading Sing Me Back Home, you're likely to agree with Dana Jennings, a native of one of the rougher regions of that state, that the feel-bad songs of Hank Williams and George Jones and Loretta Lynn are the soundtrack for the lives we all live."—David Kirby, The New York Times

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Slanted and Enchanted

The Evolution of Indie Culture

Kaya Oakes Holt Paperbacks

“Relays indie's development . . . with uncommon insight . . . [and] makes an impassioned, optimistic case for indie's vitality that doesn't assume readers are coming to [the] book already well versed in the subject . . . A comprehensive approach to a subject that is too often reduced to discrete parts . . . Fresh and perceptive.”—San Francisco Chronicle

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Somebody Scream! Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power Marcus Reeves Faber and Faber, Inc. "A strong and timely book for the new day in hip-hop. Don't miss it!"—Cornel West For many African Americans of a certain demographic the sixties and...

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	Sound A Novel T. M. Wolf Faber and Faber, Inc. Built on musical notation and modeled after hip-hop beats, an innovative first novel set on the New Jersey shore among neon-lit arcades, riot-haunted blocks,...

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	The Sound of Freedom Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America Raymond Arsenault Bloomsbury Press “A notable addition to the historical record…Arsenault’s book is a timely reminder of the worm of history turning once more.”—Boston Globe On Easter Sunday...

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

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Video Slut

How I Shoved Madonna Off an Olympic High Dive, Got Prince into a Pair of Tiny Purple Woolen Underpants, Ran Away from Michael Jackson's Dad, and Got a Waterfall to Flow Backward So I Could Bring Rock Videos to the Masses

Sharon Oreck Faber and Faber, Inc.

When video killed the radio star, Sharon Oreck was calling the shots. Video Slut takes an irreverent look behind the scenes of the music-video industry...

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Trade Paperback : $17.95 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...