Vintage, December 1992. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. This is the most readable and comprehensive guide to enjoying over five hundred years of classical music--from Gregorian chants, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Johannes Brahms, Igor Stravinsky, John Cage, and beyond. The Vintage Guide to Classical Music.....
Duke University Press Books, April 2008. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Tiki torches, cocktails, la dolce vita, and the music that popularized them--Mondo Exotica offers a behind-the-scenes look at the sounds and obsessions of the Space Age and Cold War period as well as the renewed.....
Rogan House, 1998. Hardcover. 735 pages. A very good copy in a dust jacket with a few tears to the edges. This biography delves beneath the myth to reveal story of The Byrds. It features interviews with all the original members, plus producers, managers, publicists, groupies and scene setters. Songs.....
Duke University Press Books, May 2001. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. The forgotten history of the "all-girl" big bands of the World War II era takes center stage in Sherrie Tucker's Swing Shift. American demand for swing skyrocketed with the onslaught of war as millions--isolated from loved ones--sought diversion.....
Miller Freeman Books, 2000. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First edition (first printing). About fine in (paperback). With former owenr's blind stamp on the title page. Unopened CD at rear. This book explores the evolution of 19 intriguing artists bred by the unique 1960s music scene, and traces the musical and.....
St. Martin's Griffin, January 1995. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). George, he said, I don't know if you'd be interested, but there's a chap who's come in with a tape of a group he runs. They haven't got a recording contract, and I wonder if you'd.....
Macmillan, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 216 pages. Memoir by the first manager of the Beatles who booked their earliest gigs and drove them to Hamburg, Germany where they gained vital experience as musicians and performers. Illustrated from black-and-white photographs. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very.....
Westminster John Knox Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Renowned British music journalist and author Steve Turner surveys the religious and spiritual influence of the Beatles, the band that changed the history of music forever. With new interviews, never-before-published.....
Barnes and Noble, January 2002. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
Sasquatch Books, April 2016. Hardcover. A very good copy with no dust jacket. A fascinating portrait of icon Woody Guthrie, the Pacific Northwest, and folk music--all set against the backdrop of a tumultuous moment in American history In 1941, Woody Guthrie wrote 26 songs in 30 days--including classics like "Roll.....
Little Brown & Co (T), January 1996. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. When Jerry Garcia died in 1995, people around the world mourned his death. As the lead singer and spiritual center of the traveling band the Grateful Dead, Garcia commanded a large and.....
Princeton Architectural Press, November 2015. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. The 1960s were a period of radical cultural, social, and political upheaval in the United States and around the globe; yet in just three years, between 1969 and 1972, Village Voice "Scenes" columnist, WPLJ FM radio host, and cult.....
Simon & Schuster, November 2022. Hardcover. A new copy. The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One--and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into.....
Omnibus Pr & Schirmer Trade Books, November 1996. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers. A biography of Leonard Cohen which traces his path from Montreal to New York via Greece and his Zen retreat in California. It analyzes 118 songs, 18 tours, and scores of television and radio appearances and.....
Strange Attractor Press, November 2014. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). An obsessively researched biography of the three seminal music groups Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound that also illuminates the history of the English underground scene. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with members of the.....
Sona Books, August 2022. Hardcover. A new copy. Packed with rare photographs and stunning on-the-page facsimile memorabilia, this book provides an insight into the unique journey of one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century - Elvis Presley. Follow the incredible story of the man they call.....
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, March 2019. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). From his early work as lyricist for West Side Story to acclaimed creations such as A Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park with George, and Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim is widely regarded as the most important.....
Algonquin Books, April 2021. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. "Thompson is a master showman . . . [Beeswing is] everything you'd hope a Richard Thompson autobiography would be . . . It's both major and minor, dirge and ditty, light on its feet but.....
Haymarket Books, August 2015. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Provocative and prolific, Boots Riley has written lyrics as the frontman of underground favorites The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club, as well as solo artist, for more than two decades. An activist, educator, and emcee, Riley's singular lyrical stylings combine.....
Riverhead Books, 2010. Trade Paperback. 208 pages. From the founder of the Wu-Tang Clan--celebrating their 25th anniversary this year--an inspirational book for the hip hop fan. The RZA, founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, imparts the lessons he's learned on his journey from the Staten Island projects to international superstardom. A......
Lyle Stuart, Inc., 1982. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Simon & Schuster, October 2020. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This extraordinarily intimate and "gripping" (Vanity Fair) biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was. Janis Joplin's first transgressive act was to be a......
Corvina Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 286 pages. An examination of Gypsy music and how it relates to Hungarian music, by the Hungarian ethnomusicologist. First published in 1971 under the title Ciganyzene. This English language edition translated by Fred Macnicol. Some illustrations in color. First English edition (first printing). A......
Park Street Press, September 2017. Trade Paperback. Remainder Copy - like new. Explores the visionary, mystical, and ecstatic traditions that influenced the music of the 1960s - Examines the visionary, spiritual, and mystical influences on the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, the Incredible String.....
Two Dollar Radio, November 2017. Trade Paperback. A new copy. * 2018 "12 best books to give this holiday season" --TODAY (Elizabeth Acevedo) * A "Best Book of 2017" --Rolling Stone (2018), NPR, Buzzfeed, Paste Magazine, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, CBC, Stereogum, National Post, Entropy, Heavy, Book Riot.....