Category: Music Studies and Biographies of Musicians

Reading Country Music: Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, and Honky Tonk Bars

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Duke University Press Books : July 1998

Seller ID: 454031

ISBN-13: 9780822321682

With its steel guitars, Opry stars, and honky-tonk bars, country music is an American original. The most popular music in America today, it's also big business. Amazing, then, that country music has been so little studied by critics, given its predominance in American culture. Reading Country Music acknowledges the significance of country music as part of an authentic American heritage and turns a loving, critical eye toward understanding the sweep of this peculiarly American phenomenon.Bringing together a wide range of scholars and critics from literature, communications, history, sociology, ...
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This Woman's Work: Essays on Music

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Hachette Books : May 2022

Seller ID: 783203

ISBN-13: 9780306829000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Tougher Than Leather: The Rise of Run-DMC

By: Adler, Bill

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Consafos Pr : July 2002

Seller ID: 801047

ISBN-13: 9780965653565

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

I Am Michael Alago: Breathing Music. Signing Metallica. Beating Death.

By: Alago, Michael,Davis-Chanin, Laura

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Backbeat : March 2020

Seller ID: 459728

ISBN-13: 9781617137259

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Record label executive, photographer, and author, Michael Alago takes readers through this amazing journey that is his life. Alago grew up in Brooklyn, New York, in a large, spirited, and devoted Puerto Rican family. Through his early passion for music, art, theater, and photography, he soon found himself rubbing elbows with many downtown NYC scene makers, from Stiv Bators to Jean Michel Basquiat, Cherry Vanilla and Wayne County to Deborah Harry and Robert Mapplethorpe. As an underage teenager going to Max's Kansas City, CBGB, and various art galleries, Alago also began running The Dead Boys f...
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Deep Community: Adventures in the Modern Folk Underground

By: Alarik, Scott

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 512474

ISBN-13: 9780972027014

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The mainstream music industry is in historic decline, but the small substream world of folk music is thriving as never before. Why? This book, written by renowned folk critic Scott Alarik, creates an intimate portrait of the modern folk world in interview
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Chromatic: The Crossroads of Color and Music

By: Alarm

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Alarm Press : September 2011

Seller ID: 702341

ISBN-13: 9780982638958

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The relationship between music and art has become so intertwined that it can be hard to imagine one outside the context of the other. And of their countless unions, we often are drawn to both the most colorful and the most dreadful--the most radiant and luminous as well as the darkest and most fear inspiring. This vivid collection of contemporary, underground musicians and artists documents those who explore the dynamic relationship between music and color. Over more than 350 pages, "Chromatic" presents powerful album art, over-saturated stage shows, symbolic album themes, composers who expe...
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Marian Anderson: A Singer's Journey: The First Comprehensive Biography

By: Anderson/Keiler, Allan

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Scribner : February 2000

Seller ID: 647102

ISBN-13: 9780684807119

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Born in 1897, Marian Anderson fell in love with music at an early age. Almost a century later, The New York Times would declare that "Miss Anderson's place as the high priestess of American musicians, whatever their color, is not to be denied". Yet success did not come easy for this talented singer. Although in 1938 she would become the first African-American singer to perform at the White House, just one year later, the Daughters of the American Revolution denied Anderson use of their concert hall (instead, she performed for a crowd of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial). But Anderson persevered,...
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The Bass Book: A Complete Illustrated History of Bass Guitars

By: Bacon, Tony,Moorhouse, Barry

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Backbeat Books : July 2008

Seller ID: 460034

ISBN-13: 9780879309244

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

(Book). Revised and expanded edition of every bass player's favorite book. Since it was first published in 1995, the best-selling Bass Book has become the standard text for anyone searching for a complete history of bass guitars. In this revised and expanded edition, it offers a complete illustrated history of bass guitars, from Fender's first electric model in the 1950s through all the major models of the next 50 years that formed the foundation for modern music. The book features original interviews with bass makers past and present, dozens of unusual, specially commissioned color photos, an...
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And A Voice to Sing With: A Memoir

By: Baez, Joan

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : July 2009

Seller ID: 587062

ISBN-13: 9781439169643

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

- The perfect time for a reissue: In October 2009, PBS will air a ninety-minute primetime special on Joan Baez as part of the Emmy Award-winning American Masters series. Told often from Baez's perspective, but supported by a rich performance and historical archive, the documentary centers on her career as a musician, power as an artist, those who influenced her, and those she championed. She will also be on a 27-city U.S. tour starting July 2009.. - A musical force and a catalyst for social change: At the age of eighteen Baez was an international star with a Time magazine cover story; fifty ye...
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And A Voice to Sing With: A Memoir

By: Baez, Joan

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : July 2009

Seller ID: 732107

ISBN-13: 9781439169643

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

- The perfect time for a reissue: In October 2009, PBS will air a ninety-minute primetime special on Joan Baez as part of the Emmy Award-winning American Masters series. Told often from Baez's perspective, but supported by a rich performance and historical archive, the documentary centers on her career as a musician, power as an artist, those who influenced her, and those she championed. She will also be on a 27-city U.S. tour starting July 2009.. - A musical force and a catalyst for social change: At the age of eighteen Baez was an international star with a Time magazine cover story; fifty ye...
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Daybreak

By: Baez, Joan

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Dial Press : January 1968

Seller ID: 787229

ISBN: B0006BW69Q

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Mainlines, Blood Feasts, And Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader

By: Bangs, Lester

Price: $6.00

Publisher: : October 2013

Seller ID: 690903

ISBN-13: 9780375713675

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguably the most influential critic of rock and roll. Writing in hyper-intelligent Benzedrine prose that calls to mind Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, he eschewed all conventional thinking as he discussed everything from Black Sabbath being the first truly Catholic band to Anne Murray's smoldering sexuality. In Mainlines, Blood Feasts, Bad Taste fellow rock critic John Morthland has compiled a companion volume to Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, the first, now classic collection of Bangs's work. Here are excerpts from an autob...
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Let It Blurt

By: Bangs, Lester/DeRogatis

Price: $6.50

Publisher: : September 2010

Seller ID: 690132

ISBN-13: 9780767905091

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Let It Blurt is the raucous and righteous biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82)--the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. No writer on rock 'n' roll ever lived harder or wrote better--more passionately, more compellingly, more penetratingly. He lived the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, guzzling booze and Romilar like water, matching its energy in prose that erupted from the pages of Rolling Stone, Creem, and The Village Voice. Bangs agitated in the seventies for sounds that were harsher, louder, more electric, and more alive, in the course of which he charted and de...
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Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

By: Bareilles, Sara

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : October 2019

Seller ID: 751311

ISBN-13: 9781982142223

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Check out Little Voice on Apple TV+ Little Voice is inspired by a lost song from Sara Bareilles's first studio album. This updated New York Times bestselling collection of essays by seven-time Grammy nominated singer songwriter Sara Bareilles "resonates with authentic and hard-won truths" (Publishers Weekly)--and features new material on the hit Broadway musical, Waitress. Sara Bareilles "pours her heart and soul into these essays" (Associated Press), sharing the joys and the struggles that come with creating great work, all while staying true to yourself. Imbued with humor and marked by Sara...
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Afropop: An Illustrated Guide to Contemporary African Music

By: Barlow, Sean,Eyre, Banning,Vartoogian, Jack

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Book Sales : January 1995

Seller ID: 785267

ISBN-13: 9780785804437

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Discusses contemporary African popular music and musicians.
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Music + Revolution: Greenwich Village in the 1960s

By: Barone, Richard

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Backbeat : September 2022

Seller ID: 812316

ISBN-13: 9781493063017

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Large Review copy sticker on cover
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Beatles: Illustrated Lyrics

By: Beatles - Aldridge, Alan

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 808578

ISBN-13: 9781579120580

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A must-have for every Fab Four fan, this classic visual tribute to their music is now available in a handsomely repackaged and affordable paperback edition. The music and lyrics of the Beatles have proven them to be artists of the page as well as the stage and have here provided inspiration to dozens of artists. Rendered in full color on every page are extravagantly colorful scenes and images, from the psychedelic visions evoked by Strawberry Fields to the youthful innocence that springs from She Loves You. Witty commentary and candid insights from John, Paul, George and Ringo make this a ver...
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