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The Complete Record Cover Collection

The Complete Record Cover Collection

Robert Crumb

The Arts: General & Reference; Art & design styles: from c 1960; Decorative arts; Music; Society & Social Sciences

Hardback

A landmark work that pays splendid homage to a forgotten era of seminal American music. [more]

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The Birth of an Opera: Fifteen Masterpieces from Poppea to Wozzeck

The Birth of an Opera: Fifteen Masterpieces from Poppea to Wozzeck

Michael Rose

Music; Opera

Hardback

The Birth of an Opera offers illuminating insight into how operas are written and the personalities, incidents, and musical... [more]

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Steady Steady: The Life and Music of Seaman Dan

Steady Steady: The Life and Music of Seaman Dan

Karl Neuenfeldt, Seaman Dan

Music; Jazz; Blues; Biography: arts & entertainment

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Born on Thursday Island in 1929, Seaman Dan didnt release his debut album, Follow the Sun, until his 70th birthday. In the... [more]

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Earthbound: The Bakerloo Line

Earthbound: The Bakerloo Line

Paul Morley

Music; Rock & Pop music; Literary essays; Short stories; Cultural studies; Travel & holiday; Travel writing

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Mixes memoir and manifesto to create something paradoxical: an obituary for pre-digital ways of experiencing art that's gleeful... [more]

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I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

Sylvie Simmons

Music; Folk & traditional music; Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

The genius behind such classic songs as Suzanne , Bird on the Wire and Hallelujah , Leonard Cohen has been one of the... [more]

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Rod: The Autobiography

Rod: The Autobiography

Rod Stewart

Music; Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Autobiography: arts & entertainment

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Rod Stewart was born working-class son of a Scottish plumber in North London. He was never, as some stories later had it,... [more]

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Introducing Wagner: A Graphic Guide

Introducing Wagner: A Graphic Guide

Kevin Scott, Michael White

Music; Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900); Opera; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

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A fascinating graphic novel-style introduction to the classical composer everyone has heard of - and few truly understand... [more]

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Pete Townshend: Who I am

Pete Townshend: Who I am

Pete Townshend

Music; Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Autobiography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

He is one of the greatest musical talents Britain has ever produced. But even as the principle songwriter and lead guitarist... [more]

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Here Comes Everybody: The Story of The Pogues

Here Comes Everybody: The Story of The Pogues

James Fearnley

Music; Rock & Pop music

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Reviled by traditionalists for their frequently fast, often riotous interpretations of Irish folk songs, the Pogues rose from... [more]

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Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music

Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music

Burt Bacharach

Music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: arts & entertainment; Autobiography: arts & entertainment

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Burt Bacharach is one of the most celebrated and legendary song-writers of the twentieth century. Throughout his sixty year... [more]

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Anna Amalia, Grand Duchess: Patron of Goethe and Schiller

Anna Amalia, Grand Duchess: Patron of Goethe and Schiller

Frances A. Gerard

Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography; Biography: historical, political & military; European history

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Widowed Grand-duchess Anna Amalia battled against court intrigues and financial pressures, but succeeded in holding the estates... [more]

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Platform Papers #35: The Music of Place - Reclaiming a Practice

Platform Papers #35: The Music of Place - Reclaiming a Practice

Jon Rose

Music

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‘How do you maintain live music in a culture that does not value it?’ asks Jon Rose, acclaimed improvising... [more]

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The Merciless Book of Metal Lists

The Merciless Book of Metal Lists

Howie Abrams, Sacha Jenkins

Music; Heavy Metal music; Reference works; Humour

Paperback

The Merciless Book of Metal Lists is the sometimes serious, sometimes satiric exploration into all that is glorious, as well... [more]

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Legends of the Blues

Legends of the Blues

William Stout

Portraits in art; Music; Blues; Graphic novels: true stories & non-fiction

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William Stout presents 100 legends of the blues ranging from classic to contemporary, British and American, interpreting their... [more]

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A Distant Prospect

A Distant Prospect

Annette Young

Chamber ensembles; Fiction & Literature

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Set against the vivid background of 1920s Sydney, A Distant Prospect is an intimate, hilarious and ultimately deeply moving... [more]

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Death-devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde

Death-devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde

Roger Scruton

Music; Opera; Philosophy: aesthetics

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In Death-Devoted Heart Roger Scruton argues that Tristan und Isolde has profound religious meaning. Blending philosophy, criticism... [more]

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Changing Lives: Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music

Changing Lives: Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power...

Tricia Tunstall

Music

Paperback

Reminds us of how arts education can change lives. --Gary Stager, Huffington Post [more]

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Women Make Noise: Girl Bands from Motown to the Modern

Women Make Noise: Girl Bands from Motown to the Modern

Julia Downes

Music; Music reviews & criticism; Music: styles & genres

Paperback

A first celebration of girl bands in many genres With a unique focus on the talented girl bands of the past fifty years New... [more]

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Shirl: The Life of Legendary Larrikin Graeme 'Shirley' Strachan

Shirl: The Life of Legendary Larrikin Graeme 'Shirley' Strachan

Jeff Apter

Music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: general; Biography: arts & entertainment

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He was always 'Shirley', from the time his teenage surfie mates re-christened him to the day he died in a helicopter crash... [more]

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A Natural Woman

A Natural Woman

Carole King

Music; Rock & Pop music; Autobiography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

A memoir by the iconic singer-songwriter chronicling her story from her beginnings in Brooklyn through her remarkable success... [more]

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The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of  Hallelujah

The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent...

Alan Light

Music; Music reviews & criticism; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

Hardback

A fascinating account of the making, remaking, and unlikely popularizing of one of the most played and recorded rock songs... [more]

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Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal

Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal

Jon Wiederhorn, Katherine Turman

Music; Heavy Metal music

Hardback

Offers an examination of the cultural phenomenon of heavy metal, a much-maligned genre that has not only stood the test of... [more]

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The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild

The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild

Hannah Rothschild

Jazz; Biography; Biography: general; British & Irish history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000

Paperback

* The extraordinary story of Pannonica - a British-born Rothschild daughter who abandoned her children to live in New York... [more]

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Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock 'n' Roll

Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock 'n' Roll

Marc Dolan

Music; Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

Paperback

A vibrant biography of one of the greatest rock 'n' rollers, the America that made him, and the America he made. [more]

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Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division

Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division

Peter Hook

Music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Autobiography: arts & entertainment; Memoirs

Paperback

As co-founder of Joy Division, the author provided the propulsive bass guitar melodies of Love Will Tear Us Apart , and was... [more]

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