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  • Best Damn Hip Hop Writing
    Travis 'Yoh' Phillips
    Best Damn Hip Hop Writing: The Book of Yoh encapsulates one of the defining voices in hip hop music criticism today. Each essay in this collection is written by Yoh (Travis Phillips), a writer whose work has been featured in various leading hip hop publications, including DJBooth, Mass Appeal, and The Hundreds.  Yoh’s writing is engaging, enticing, and often daring.  Edited by ...
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    25,26 €

  • I FOUND MY FRIENDS
    NICK SOULSBY
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    19,73 €

  • Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic
    Amy Horowitz
    The relocation of North African and Middle Eastern Jews to Israel in the 1950s and 1960s brought together communities from Egypt, Iraq, Kurdistan, Yemen, and many other Islamic countries, as well as their unique music styles. In the unstable, improvisatory spaces of transit camps, development towns, and poor neighborhoods, they created a new pan-ethnic Mizrahi identity and a ho...
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    46,99 €

  • Medieval and Early Modern Soundscapes
    Sheds new light on the concept of 'soundscapes', enriching our understanding of the functions of music and sound in medieval and early modern cultures.Scholarly interest in the idea of the 'soundscape' has grown steadily in recent years, particularly in relation to the ways in which music and sound shaped communities, articulated social hierarchies, and marked significant event...
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    35,19 €

  • The Bent Kings
    Tammy Lockamy
    Take a trip back in time to experience the ’BRITISH MUSIC INVASION’ of the 1960s!In the bustling streets of Lansbury, England, a musical revolution is about to take place. Nineteen-year-old Johnny Bentley, a poet with a heart full of melodies, dreams of assembling the ultimate blues-rock band. With his childhood friend Mabel King, whose voice echoes with the soulful legacy of h...
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    14,71 €

  • Geraldo Azevedo
    Geraldo Azevedo / Leo Morel / Sergio Cohn
    Geraldo Azevedo é um dos mais importantes nomes da onda nordestina que revitalizou a música brasileira a partir da segunda metada dos anos 1970. Considerado um dos melhores violonistas da sua geração, criou uma música original e de grande beleza, sempre em diálogo com a cultura nordestina.“Eu entendi que o artista é quem faz as coisas com amor e buscando sempre ter um aprimoram...
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    25,48 €

  • We are The Mods
    David G. Oldham
    We are the Mods: The Story of a Generation That Refused to Be OrdinaryThey were the children of bomb sites and utility furniture, born into a country that had survived the war but never quite recovered from it. Their parents demanded quiet and gratitude. They offered neither. Instead, they spent their wages on Italian cloth and American records, on the cut of a lapel and the pu...
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    13,20 €

  • Washington, D.C. - U Street Corridor
    James G. II Edwards
    'A masterful exploration of how a community created cultural magic within the constraints of segregation, and how that legacy continues to shape one of America’s most important neighborhoods.'From the jazz clubs that launched Duke Ellington’s career to the contemporary debates over gentrification, U Street has been at the center of African American cultural life in the nation’s...
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    26,98 €

  • ETERÓFONO, CAVIDAD Y VOLTAJE
    Cristina Lobo / Manuel Rodsua
    ETERÓFONO, CAVIDAD Y VOLTAJE Alquimia, Sonido y Vigilancia en la Guerra Fría¿En qué momento el sonido dejó de ser expresión artística para convertirse en una arquitectura invisible de control y espionaje?Esta obra revela el fascinante territorio donde la física de ondas, el misticismo tecnológico, la música experimental y las cloacas de la inteligencia geopolítica se cruzaron a...
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    30,78 €

  • The Blues They Found
    Simon Godfrey
    The Forgotten Story of the Blues Boom in BritainIn October 1958 a Chicago guitarist walked onto a Leeds stage with a Fender Telecaster turned up louder than anything the room had ever heard. Some walked out. The papers called it 'screaming guitar and howling piano.' A handful of young Britons stayed, listened, and began a quiet, stubborn search that would reshape popular music....
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    17,76 €

  • Peetie Wheatstraw
    Simon Godfrey
    Before Robert Johnson’s devil haunted the crossroads, Peetie Wheatstraw was already laughing with the Devil’s daughter.Born William Bunch, the son of Arkansas sharecroppers, Wheatstraw arrived in East St. Louis in 1929 with little more than a self-taught knowledge of piano and guitar-and a shrewd understanding of how to make himself heard. Within a year, he had transformed hims...
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    16,85 €

  • IL SOUND INTERDIMENSIONALE DI NAPOLI. Documentario su carta di una civiltà musicale tradita
    Louis Siciliano
    Questa non è una storia della musica napoletana. È la denuncia di come una delle civiltà del suono più complesse del pianeta sia stata ridotta a cartolina e di come continui a vivere clandestina, nelle mani di musicisti che nessuno programma e nei laboratori che nessuno finanzia. Allo stesso tempo è anche un opportunità per il lettore, di conoscere ed esplorare il Sound Interdi...
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    28,39 €

  • Independence in 21st-Century Popular Music
    Can music be made 'independently' in the 21st century?More than a generation of musicians, music workers, and music companies have now been operating in the context of the profound shifts in music production and dissemination in the 'digital era.' Scholarly focus on musical independence has often been centered on genres, like punk and indie, rooted in the US and UK. This volume...
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    50,63 €

  • One Sound, Two Worlds
    Michael Rauhut
    For all of its apparent simplicity-a few chords, twelve bars, and a supposedly straightforward American character-blues music is a complex phenomenon with cultural significance that has varied greatly across different historical contexts. One Sound, Two Worlds examines the development of the blues in East and West Germany, demonstrating the multiple ways social and political co...
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    46,82 €

  • Bob Dylan’s Bringing It All Back Home Side B
    Mike Johnson
    The four songs on Side B of the 1965 Album, Bringing It All Back Home represent the pinnacle of Dylan’s acoustic achievement.’Mr Tambourine Man,’ ’Gates of Eden,’ ’It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)’ and ’It’s All Over Now Baby Blue’ are vintage, quintessential Dylan, a climax to four years of musical and lyrical development. They encapsulate the early, acoustic Dylan, and sur...
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    29,46 €

  • The Wedding Music Canon
    Matthew Campbell
    Every wedding runs on music. Until now, no one had organized seven decades of it into a single reference.The Wedding Music Canon collects the best wedding songs from the 1950s through the 2010s, organized by decade and by genre within each decade. Every song was chosen by hand by an experienced wedding DJ, not pulled from an algorithm or a streaming chart. It’s the reference pr...
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    23,68 €

  • THE INTERDIMENSIONAL SOUND OF NAPLES. A Documentary on Paper
    Louis Siciliano
    This is not a history of Neapolitan music. It is an exposé of how one of the most complex sonic civilizations on Earth has been reduced to a postcard, and of how it continues to survive underground, in the hands of musicians nobody books and in labs nobody funds. At the same time, it is an invitation for readers to discover and explore the Interdimensional Sound of Naples, whic...
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    24,97 €

  • Scrapper Blackwell
    Simon Godfrey
    SCRAPPER BLACKWELL: BORROWED BLUESHe helped shape the sound of the blues. Then the world forgot his name.Before Robert Johnson recorded 'Sweet Home Chicago,' Scrapper Blackwell was already playing the guitar lines that would help shape its musical ancestry.A brilliant, unconventional guitarist from Indianapolis, Blackwell became half of one of the greatest partnerships in early...
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    16,87 €

  • Voice of a Generation
    Marquis H.K.
    Britain in the 1980s was in the grip of a socio-economic crisis, with mass unemployment, riots breaking out in all the major cities, the closure of industries, and the height of the Cold War.This in turn spawned a generation of disaffected youth who fought back with their music coupled with a defiant look and attitude. The UK punks of the 80s were living on the fringe and stick...
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    45,21 €

  • Music and Dances from Central Nepal
    In this book, performer, educator, and writer Subi Shah presents an essential commentary and analysis of Himalayan folk music and performance. Having documented his musical tradition since the 1960s, Shah has created in-depth analyses of song, dance, music, poetry, and drama within their local and spiritual contexts. Shah’s detailed contribution to this field is invaluable read...
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    36,89 €

  • Otis Rush
    Simon Godfrey
    Play 'Double Trouble' for someone who’s never heard the name Otis Rush, and watch their face change. That minor-key ache. That guitar answering the voice like a second singer picking a fight. Somewhere around the second chorus, they’ll ask who this is - and you’ll have to explain that you’re probably the first person who ever told them.Eric Clapton names him as one of his three...
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    16,83 €

  • Learning with Ludwig
    Matthew Brown
    Beethoven’s Freude theme-or 'Ode to Joy'-is perhaps the most iconic melody ever created. This book sets out to show why the Freude theme has acquired this almost mythic status and what its use in the finale of the Ninth Symphony reveals about the mechanics of tonal composition. The book explains how the finale of the Ninth Symphony offers a crash course in music theory made pos...
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    35,92 €

  • Emo Revival
    Andrew Sacher
    The story of the reinvention of punk rock’s most misunderstood subgenre, featuring Algernon Cadwallader, Title Fight, Modern Baseball, and the dozens of other bands who saved emo from implosion. Emo didn’t start with the rise of bands like Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance and it didn’t end with their turn-of-the-2010s drop-offs either. When emo faded from the mainstream, m...
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    23,09 €

  • LA BANDA SONORA DE LA REVOLUCIÓN
    Cristina Lobo / Manuel Rodsua
    LA BANDA SONORA DE LA REVOLUCIÓN Música, Logias y Poder Secreto Cristina Lobo & Manuel RodsuaLa historia no cede al azar: se afina el compás... y empieza a estallar.Existe una persistente ilusión en la historia oficial que reduce el arte de los sonidos a la mera emoción, al ornamento o al entretenimiento popular. Sin embargo, en los sótanos de las grandes transformaciones polít...
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    30,83 €

  • GUERRA EN EL ESPECTRO
    Cristina Lobo / Manuel Rodsua
    GUERRA EN EL ESPECTRO Espionaje, radares y la cara oculta del sintetizador¿Es el sintetizador una inocente herramienta de la ingeniería musical o el nodo donde convergen la investigación militar, el espionaje geopolítico, el control neurobiológico y las vanguardias esotéricas del siglo XX?En esta rigurosa investigación, Cristina Lobo y Manuel Rodsua desmantelan la narrativa con...
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    30,87 €

  • Xorazm Dostonlaridagi Cholg’u Kuylarining Ahamiyati
    Sariyev Himoyat Matchonboyevich
    Xorazm Dostonlaridagi Cholg’u Kuylarining Ahamiyati (The Significance of Instrumental Melodies in Khorezm Epics) explores the artistic, aesthetic, and dramatic importance of instrumental melodies in the Khorezm school of Uzbek epic performance. The study presents folk epics as a richly syncretic art form in which narrative, vocal expression, and instrumental music work together...
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    23,87 €

  • Bicentenário Da Independência
    Thiarles Soares Silva
    Sobre o livro Bicentenário da IndependênciaThiarles Soares Silva é um escritor brasileiro e publica seu livro de estreia no gênero ensaio/dialógico, com uma obra de não-ficção chamada Bicentenário da Independência, comemorativa pelo Bicentenário da Independência. Um trabalho que é, na intenção do autor, um diálogo aberto com a Brasilidade, dialogando com as grandes obras não-fi...
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    51,95 €

  • A Life on the Ocean Wave
    Andrew Lamb
    The definitive biography of Henry Russell, famed nineteenth-century songwriter and performer.Henry Russell was an entertainer and songwriter-arguably the leading popular singer, on both sides of the Atlantic, in the 1840s-who is best remembered today for his song 'A Life on the Ocean Wave' and for such classics as 'Woodman, Spare that Tree! and 'Cheer Boys, Cheer!' A child perf...
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    28,37 €

  • Music and Urban Life in Baroque Germany
    Tanya Kevorkian
    Music and Urban Life in Baroque Germany offers a new narrative of Baroque music, accessible to non-music specialists, in which Tanya Kevorkian defines the era in terms of social dynamics rather than style and genre development. Towns were crucial sites of music-making. Kevorkian explores how performance was integrated into and indispensable to everyday routines, celebrations su...
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    46,08 €

  • Wake Me, Shake Me
    Mitchell Cohen
    New York City in the 1960s was a musical melting pot, in which folk, R&B, rock and roll, blues, girl groups and Brill Building pop produced a wealth of great artists and records. This book tells their story. Using numerous new interviews with major figures from the time as well as contemporaneous trade magazines and other sources, author Mitchell Cohen captures this rich (but ...
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    21,76 €