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André Malraux
Artists, reporters, musicians, and groupies chronicle the emergence of punk music in New York's underground and give backstage accounts of d... (Source: Google Books API)
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Jon Savage
WINNER OF THE RALPH J. GLEASON AWARD INCLUDES FOREWORD BY JOHNNY MARR Award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage's definitive... (Source: Google Books API)
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Albert Mudrian
This exciting history, featuring an introduction by famed DJ John Peel, tells the two-decade-long history of grindcore and death metal throu... (Source: Google Books API)
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Lou Reed
AN UPDATED, COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF LYRICS FROM THE VELVET UNDERGROUND FOUNDER AND SOLO ARTIST LOU REED, INCLUDING INTRODUCTIONS BY MART... (Source: Google Books API)
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Michael Eric Dyson
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER "Dyson writes with the affection of a fan but the rigor of an academic. .... (Source: Google Books API)
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David Lewin
David Lewin's Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations is recognized as the seminal work paving the way for current studies in math... (Source: Google Books API)
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Tom Moon
A guide to music provides recommendations on one thousand recordings that represent the best in such genres as classical, jazz, rock, pop, b... (Source: Google Books API)
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Denise P. Gallo
A comprehensive annotated bibliography of all the printed materials on Gioachino Rossini, the famous 19th-century composer (Source: Google Books API)
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Greg Renoff
A vivid and energetic history of Van Halen's legendary early years After years of playing gigs everywhere from suburban backyards to dive ba... (Source: Google Books API)
This book introduces music education majors to basic instrumental pedagogy for the instruments and ensembles most commonly found in the elem... (Source: Google Books API)
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David Margolick
The story of the song that foretold a movement and the Lady who dared sing it. Billie Holiday's signature tune, 'Strange Fruit', with its gr... (Source: Google Books API)
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Caroline Potter
Satie's music and ideas are inextricably linked with the City of Light. This book situates Satie's work within the context and sonic environ... (Source: Google Books API)
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Michael Saffle
First published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (Source: Google Books API)
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Robert Palmieri
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (Source: Google Books API)
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Vic Hobson
The book Jazzmen (1939) claimed New Orleans as the birthplace of jazz and introduced the legend of Buddy Bolden as the First Man of Jazz. ... (Source: Google Books API)
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John Rahn
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (Source: Google Books API)
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Nat Hentoff
This book is a selective tribute and guide to the jazz life, the players, and the music. It is not a chronological or comprehensive history,... (Source: Google Books API)
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Andy R. Brown
This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research activities that have contributed to the formation of the international and ... (Source: Google Books API)
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John F. Link
This is a comprehensive guide to research on the American composer Elliott Carter (b. 1908), widely acknowledged as one of the greatest comp... (Source: Google Books API)
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Isabella van Elferen
Is "goth music" a genre, and if so, how does it relate to the goth subculture? The music played at goth club nights and festivals encompasse... (Source: Google Books API)
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Rachel Carroll
Bringing together exciting new interdisciplinary work from emerging and established scholars in the UK and beyond, Litpop addresses the ques... (Source: Google Books API)
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Paul Edwards
A first of its kind collection, How to Rap is an insightful and intelligent breakdown of the elements of rap for anyone wanting to learn the... (Source: Google Books API)
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Robert Adlington
For a century and more, the idea of democracy has fuelled musicians imaginations. Seeking to go beyond music s proven capacity to contrib... (Source: Google Books API)
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Martin Tröndle
Classical Concert Studies: A Companion to Contemporary Research and Performance is a landmark publication that maps out a new interdisciplin... (Source: Google Books API)
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Monty Adkins
More than forty years after the composer's death, the music of Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) continues to be recorded and performed and to att... (Source: Google Books API)
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Nanette Nielsen
German music critic and opera producer Paul Bekker (1882 “1937) is a rare example of a critic granted the opportunity to turn his ideas int... (Source: Google Books API)
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Rufus Hallmark
German Lieder in the Nineteenth-Century provides a detailed introduction to the German lied. Beginning with its origin in the literary and m... (Source: Google Books API)
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Albert Mudrian
Decibel magazine is regarded as the best extreme music magazine around. Precious Metal gathers pieces from Decibel's most popular feature, t... (Source: Google Books API)
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Tim Shephard
As a coherent field of research, the field of music and visual culture has seen rapid growth in recent years. The Routledge Companion to Mus... (Source: Google Books API)
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Kenneth M. Smith
Commentary on Skryabin has struggled to situate an understanding of the composer's music within his idiosyncratic philosophical world views.... (Source: Google Books API)
