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Katrina Dyonne · 242 pages
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Angela Y. Davis · 427 pages
From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday as powerful articul
The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
Ned Sublette · 368 pages
"Offering a new perspective on the unique cultural influences of New Orleans, this entertaining history captures the soul of the city and reveals its impact on the rest of the nation. Focused on New Orleans' first century of existence, a comprehensive, chronological narrative of the political, cultural, and musical development of Louisiana's early years is presented. This innovative history tracks
Hamilton: The Revolution
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter · 287 pages
Offers a behind-the-scenes view of Hamilton the musical, detailing the many dramatic episodes in Alexander Hamilton's life.
The Band That Played On: The Extraordinary Story of the 8 Musicians Who Went Down with the Titanic
Steve Turner
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
M.T. Anderson · 464 pages
National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony. In September 1941, Adolf Hitler s Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history almost three years of bombardment and starvation that cu
Evening in the Palace of Reason
James Gaines · 368 pages
"James R. Gaines's Evening in the Palace of Reason sets up what seems to be the ultimate mismatch: a young, glamorously triumphant warrior-king, heralded by Voltaire as the very It Boy of the Enlightenment, pitted against a devout, bad-tempered composer of "outdated" music, a scorned genius in his last years, symbol of a bygone world. The sparks from their brief conflict illuminate a pivotal momen
Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph
Roxane Orgill · 60 pages
When Esquire magazine planned an issue to salute the American jazz scene in 1958, graphic designer Art Kane pitched a crazy idea: how about gathering a group of beloved jazz musicians and photographing them? He didn t own a good camera, didn t know if any musicians would show up, and insisted on setting up the shoot in front of a Harlem brownstone.
Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day
Joel Selvin · 363 pages
This cultural history by celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the story of the Rolling Stones' infamous Altamont concert outside San Francisco -- the disastrous historic event that marked the end of the idealistic 1960s.
Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy
Mike Love, James S. Hirsch · 436 pages
Mike Love tells the story of his legendary, raucous, and ultimately triumphant five-decade career as the front man of The Beach Boys, the most popular American band in history -- timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of "Good Vibrations." Love describes the stories behind his lyrics for pop classics such as "Good Vibrations," "California Girls," "Surfin' USA," and "Kokomo," while providing v
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 2: 1981-1983
Ed Piskor · 112 pages
"Book 2 covers the early years of 1981-1983, when Hip Hop has made a big transition from the parks and rec rooms to downtown clubs and vinyl records. The performers make moves to separate themselves from the paying customers by dressing more and more flamboyantly until a young group called RUN-DMC comes on the scene to take things back to the streets. This volume covers hits like Afrika Bambaataa'
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Jeff Chang, D.J. Kool Herc · 546 pages
Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop has been a generation-defining global movement. In a post-civil rights era rapidly transformed by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop gave voiceless youths a chance to address these seismic changes, and became a job-making engine and the Esperanto of youth rebellion. Hip-hop crystallized a multiracial generation's worldview
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars · 464 pages
Celebrate thirty years of the world's most notorious rock band with the deluxe collectors' edition of The Dirt—the outrageous, legendary, no-holds-barred autobiography of Mötley Crüe. Fans have gotten glimpses into the band's crazy world of backstage scandals, celebrity love affairs, rollercoaster drug addictions, and immortal music in Mötley Crüe books like Tommyland and The Heroin Diaries, but n
Behind the Shades
Clinton Heylin · 928 pages
In virtually all areas of Dylan's life - Heylin is able to provide a fascinating picture of a man who, over thirty years, has changed the course of popular music from the 1960s to today, and also won three Grammy awards.
The Rolling Stone Interviews
Joe Levy, Jann S. Wenner · 481 pages
The greatest interviews with the greatest rock stars, movie stars, and cultural icons--uncensored and unfiltered--are published together in one remarkable volume in celebration of "Rolling Stones" 40th anniversary.
Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Part in Its Downfall
Luke Haines · 243 pages
A blackly comic memoir from inside the British music scene in the 90s, by singer songwriter and Auteurs front man Luke Haines First, you fail. After four years of gigs no-one attends, songs no-one hears, perfected haircuts no-one sees, late 80s Camden - where Shane McGowan is lord of the manor, pubs close in the afternoons, and dance music rules - is no place for a cultured singer songwriter like
Under the Ivy: The Life & Music of Kate Bush
Graeme Thomson · 346 pages
The first ever in-depth study of Kate Bush's life and career, Under The Ivy features over 70 unique and revealing new interviews with those who have viewed from up close both the public artist and the private woman: old school friends, early band members, long-term studio collaborators, former managers, producers, musicians, video directors, dance instructors and record company executives.