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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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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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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...
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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
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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...
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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
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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
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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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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...
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