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The World of Marty Stuart

An awe-inspiring collection that explores the life and legacy of a beloved star, storyteller, collector, photographer, and chief country ...

Punk, Post Punk, New Wave - Onstage, Backstage, In Your Face, 1978-1991

Photographer and filmmaker Michael Grecco was in the thick of things, documenting the club scene in places like Boston and New York as pu...

A Sound Mind - How I Fell in Love with Classical Music (and Decided to Rewrite its Entire History)

'Exhilarating' - Sunday Times 'Funny and moving' - Jarvis Cocker Music critic and writer Paul Morley weaves together memoir and history i...

Music Is History

Questlove collects the 500 songs that have changed not just popular music, but also the world

Death Metal

Featuring exclusive interviews with key figures, from Napalm Death vocalist Barney Greenway to guitarist Bill Steer of Gentlemans Pistols...

Limited Edition of One - How to Succeed in the Music Industry Without Being Part of the Mainstream

"A memoir of Steven Wilson whose celebrated band Porcupine Tree began as teenage fiction before unintentionally evolving into a reality t...

Music by the Numbers - From Pythagoras to Schoenberg

"A fascinating investigation of the relationship between math and music--what they have in common, how they differ, and how each has info...

Krautrock

Krautrock is not a music genre. Krautrock is a way of life. Its sonic diversity and global reach belie the common culture from where it e...

'70s Teen Pop

Teen pop is a sub-genre of popular music marketed to tweens and teens. Its melodic yearning and veneer of sincerity appeal to an emerging...

All the Leaves Are Brown - How the Mamas & the Papas Came Together and Broke Apart

Few songs have captured the contradictions and ambiguities of the 1960s as memorably as "California Dreamin',? the iconic folk music sing...

Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano's Bella Ciao

Bella Ciao is the album that kick-started the Italian folk revival in the mid-1960s, made by Il Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano, a group of res...

Holding the Note - Writing On Music

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker writes on some of the essential musicians of our time.

Love and Let Die - Bond, the Beatles and the British Psyche

The Beatles are the biggest band there has ever been. James Bond is the single most successful movie character of all time. They are also...

Rumours of Glory - A Memoir

Award-winning songwriter and pioneering guitarist Bruce Cockburn has been shaped by politics, protest, romance, and spiritual discovery. ...

The Byrds: 1964-1967

A new large-format 400-page collectible art book curated by the band's three surviving founding members. When the Byrds released "Mr. Tam...

Foo Fighters: The Band that Dave made - Autorisierte englische Originalausgabe

From the ashes of Nirvana, Dave Grohl rose as a oneman band with a self-titled album: The Foo Fighters. Now, 25 years on, and with a rock...

Opera Meets New Media - Puccini, Ricordi and the Rise of the modern Entertainment Industry

Goodbye Russia - Rachmaninoff in Exile

Reeling from the trauma of a life in upheaval, he wrote almost no music and quickly had to reinvent himself as a fêted virtuoso pianist, ...

Mozart in Italy - Coming of Age in the Land of Opera

At thirteen years old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a child prodigy who had captured the hearts of northern Europe, but his father Leopold ...

Hymns for Public Worship

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. T...

The Silver Beatles - A Story of Struggle, Luck and Genius: The Beatles before they became the Beatles

A story of struggle, luck and genius: the Beatles before they became the Beatles Marco Crescenzi, an expert about everything concerning t...

The New Wave of British Heavy Metal Encyclopedia

20 Jahre Plattensammeln und über zwei Jahre Recherche stecken in diesem Standardwerk über die Geschichte der New Wave Of British Heavy Me...

Humming

Humming is a ubiquitous and mundane act many of us perform. The fact that we often hum to ourselves, to family members, or to close frien...

Carols for Choirs 5 - Fifty Christmas Carols

for SATB, accompanied and unaccompaniedCarols for Choirs 5 continues the tradition of its predecessors by providing a complete resource f...

Balkan Accordion - 14 mittelschwere Stücke für Akkordeon. für Akkordeon.

Der vorliegende Band "Balkan Akkordeon" ist eine Notensammlung bekannter Instrumentalstücke, Lieder und Tänze mit sehr differenzierten os...

Electronic: From Kraftwerk to the Chemical Brothers - From Kraftwerk to the Chemical Brothers

Accompanying the exhibition Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers, this book offers an insight into the visual culture of e...

Cosmic Price Guide - to original Krautrock records

An A-Z guide to rare and collectable KRAUTROCK records. 448 pages of essential KRAUTROCK collecting data covering label numbers, current ...

The Book of Mac - Remembering Mac Miller

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER! An album-by-album celebration of the life and music of Mac Miller through oral histories, intimate reflectio...

Santa Barbara Sonata - The Canadian Brass

A sonata in four movements, each associated with an aspect of Santa Barbara, California in the summer months (when the Music Academy of t...

Adrian Rollini - The Life and Music of a Jazz Rambler

Adrian Rollini (1903-1956), an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, played the bass saxophone, piano, vibraphone, and an array of other i...

Singing Like Germans - Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms

In Singing Like Germans, Kira Thurman tells the sweeping story of Black musicians in German-speaking Europe over more than a century. Thu...

Blues - A Regional Experience

Examining the blues genre by region, and describing the differences unique to each, make this a must-have for music scholars and lay read...

Johnny Cash: The Life in Lyrics - The official, fully illustrated celebration of the Man in Black

Das Leben des Man in Black anhand seiner Texte und seltener Fotos und Erinnerungsstücke, mit Kommentaren von Freunden und Familie, in ein...

Art of Judging Music

The musical critic of the New York Herald Tribune - in this collection of pieces through a number of years as a commentator on matters mu...

The Words and Music of George Harrison

This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the music of George Harrison, revealing him as one of the most gifted and authentic singer...

The Beyonce Effect - Essays on Sexuality, Race and Feminism

Since her late-1990s debut as a member of the R&B trio Destiny's Child, Beyonce Knowles has garnered both praise and criticism. While som...

Switched On - Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution

The Moog synthesizer "bent the course of music forever," Rolling Stone declared. Bob Moog walked into history in 1964 when his homemade c...

Bruce Springsteen - Like a Killer in the Sun - Songtexte

Erste autorisierte und einzige deutsche Ausgabe von Springsteens Lyrics Bruce Springsteens Lyrics erscheinen zusammengenommen als Kapitel...

Depeche Mode: Monument

The most complete book on Depeche Mode. Ever.

Fleetwood Mac Everywhere - The Music and the Musicians. Autorisierte englische Originalausgabe

The great British-American-male-female-old-new-blues-rockballad band: Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie N...

All Music Guide to Soul - The Definitive Guide to R&B and Soul

ALL MUSIC GUIDE TO SOUL

Taboo Tunes - A History of Banned Bands & Censored Songs

TABOO TUNES A HISTORY OF BANNED BANDS & CENSORED SONGS

The Jazz Singers - The Ultimate Guide

JAZZ SINGERS: THE TOP 500

The Philosophy of Modern Song

"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 P...

No Sleep - NYC Nightlife Flyers 1988-1999

No Sleep is a visual history of the halcyon days of New York City club life as told through flyer art. Spanning the late 80s through the ...

All You Need to Know About the Music Business - Ninth Edition

Trade paperback. LA lawyer Donald Passman's industry bible is back in a newly updated seventh edition, adjusted for recent developments t...

Schubert's Winter Journey - Anatomy of an Obsession

An exploration of the world's most famous and challenging song cycle, Schubert's Winter Journey (Winterreise), by a leading interpreter o...

The Jazz Standards - A Guide to the Repertoire

An introduction for new fans, a useful handbook for jazz enthusiasts and performers, and an important reference for students and educator...

The Motherlode - 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop

An illustrated highlight reel of more than 100 women in rap who have helped shape the genre and eschewed gender norms in the process. Som...

Music - The Definitive Visual History

A complete and harmonious history of music, from prehistory to the present day!Have you ever wondered how blues influenced rock music? Or...

Music Is History

Music Is History combines Questlove's deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years.

Music - A Subversive History

Originally published in hardcover by Basic Books in 2019.

The War on Music - Reclaiming the Twentieth Century

In a book of reconciliation and remembrance, John Mauceri uses a lifetime of experience to answer the question "Why, seventy-five years a...

Musicals - The Definitive Illustrated Story

Come along backstage and peek inside the spectacular and sometimes scandalous world of musical theatre. See the world's most-loved musica...

DJ Screw - A Life in Slow Revolution

How a DJ’s innovative chopped and screwed technique changed the Houston hip-hop scene.

Burning Down the Haus - Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

It began with a handful of East Berlin teens who heard the Sex Pistols on a British military radio broadcast to troops in West Berlin, an...

Nightingales in Berlin - Searching for the Perfect Sound

A celebrated figure in myth, song, and story, the nightingale has captivated the imagination for millennia, its complex song evoking a pr...

Song - A History in 12 Parts

Choosing twelve illustrative songs, John Potter offers a personal tour of the vibrant tradition of song, from John Dowland's "Flow My Tea...

Metallica All the Songs

The latest in the bestselling All the Songs series, this is the most in-depth exploration of Metallica's songs ever written. The latest b...

Composers Who Changed History

This intricate visual celebration of the world's most celebrated composers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and works. Whethe...