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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Wu-Tang Manual
The RZA, Chris Norris · 243 pages
Uses a manual format which uses a special code to understand RZA hip-hop and philosophy. Also provides information about each member of the group. Demonstrates its history and mythology, and releases the mysteries behind its earliest "dynasty."
Listen to This
Alex Ross · 366 pages
Après le succès de The Rest is Noise, le critique américain Alex Ross revient avec Listen to This, un cocktail revigorant d'essais sur la musique pop, rock, jazz et classique.
Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture
Simon Reynolds · 454 pages
Generation Ecstasy is the story of rave culture and techno music. Challenging traditional ideas about music and spawning a global network of underground scenes based on the frenzied euphoria of the all-night dance party, rave is the most innovative, influential, and controversial pop phenomenon since punk rock. A celebration of rave's quest for the perfect beat and the ultimate rush, Generation Ec
Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
Chuck Klosterman · 277 pages
The Dark Stuff: Selected Writings on Rock Music, 1972-1993
Nick Kent · 352 pages
This work by the rock critic Nick Kent, profiles Brian Wilson, Miles Davis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Sid Vicious, and Kurt Cobain and more.
Bowie
Simon Critchley · 191 pages
Critchley, whose writings on philosophy have garnered widespread praise, melds personal narratives of how Bowie lit up his dull life in southern England’s suburbs with philosophical forays into the way concepts of authenticity and identity are turned inside out in Bowie’s work.
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
Ahmir Questlove Thompson, Ben Greenman · 288 pages
Mo' Meta Blues is a punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the greats, the fakes, the philosophers, the heavyweights, and the true originals of the music world. He digs deep into the album cuts of his life and unearths some pivotal moments in black art, hip hop, and pop culture.
The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs
Greil Marcus · 313 pages
Selects ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008 that embody rock and roll as a thing in itself--in the story each song tells, inhabits, and creates in its legacy.
Silence
John Cage · 276 pages
Silence, A Year from Monday, M, Empty Words and X (in this order) form the five parts of a series of books in which Cage tries, as he says, "to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them." Often these writings include mesostics and essays created by subjecting the work of other writers to chance procedures using the I Ching (what Cage called "writing t
Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and EMO
Andy Greenwald · 320 pages
Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo tells the story of a cultural moment that's happening right now-the nexus point where teen culture, music, and the web converge to create something new. While shallow celebrities dominate the headlines, pundits bemoan the death of the music industry, and the government decries teenagers for their morals (or lack thereof) earnest, heartfelt bands
U2 at the End of the World
Bill Flanagan · 508 pages
U2 at the End of the World takes you across four continents over four years with the biggest rock band of the last decade. In that time U2 shares adventures and ideas with a host of cultural big shots, including Bill Clinton and Mick Jagger, Salman Rushdie and Pearl Jam, Wim Wenders and R.E.M. From Dublin to Mexico, Tokyo to Hollywood, U2 at the End of the World takes you to the strange intersecti
I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon
Toure · 163 pages
Drawing on new research and enlivened by author Touré's unique pop-cultural fluency, I would die 4 u relies on interviews with Prince's band members, former girlfriends, musicologists, and even Bible scholars to deconstruct the artist's life and work.--Publisher's description.
The Illustrated Collector's Guide to Alice Cooper
Dale Sherman · 399 pages
Petty: The Biography
Warren Zanes · 323 pages
Zanes provides an honest and evocative examination of Petty's music, and the remarkable rock and roll history he and his band helped to write. Petty was a kid without a whole lot of promise; rock and roll made it otherwise. His story has all the drama of a rock and roll epic. Dark and mysterious, Petty manages to come back, again and again, showing us what the music can do and where it can take us
Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd
Nick Mason · 359 pages
Lennon Remembers: The Full Rolling Stone Interviews from 1970
Jann S. Wenner, John Lennon · 182 pages
"Here, available for the first time in full, are the extraordinary interviews with John Lennon conducted by Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner in 1970." "With characteristic honesty and deadpan wit, Lennon discusses the breakup of the Beatles, his favorite tracks with the group and how they were made, fellow musicians including the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, his attitude toward revolution and dru
Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult
Dayal Patterson · 484 pages
KISS: Behind the Mask: The Official Authorized Biography
David Leaf, Ken Sharp · 503 pages
Stone Alone: The Story of a Rock 'n Roll Band
Bill Wyman · 608 pages
Wyman, bass player for the Rolling Stones, leaves no word unturned in this comprehensive, readable, witty account of the group from its beginnings as a struggling rhythm-and-blues band in 1962 to its superstar status and the death of founder and lead guitarist Brian Jones in 1969. With the help of veteran rock journalist Coleman, Wyman turns his exhaustive diary and other files into this well-writ
Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk
John Doe, Tom DeSavia · 277 pages
Explores the nascent Los Angeles punk rock movement and its evolution to hardcore punk. Authors John Doe and Tom DeSavia have woven together an enthralling story of the legendary west coast scene from 1977-1982 by enlisting the voices of people who were there.
No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan
Robert Shelton · 573 pages
Explores the artistic and spiritual births, deaths, and rebirths, the guises and incarnations, that are Bob Dylan.
Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music
Christoph Cox, Daniel Warner · 454 pages