But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer
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Category: Music
Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano... In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern ...Show more
Sonic Life - A Memoir by Thurston Moore
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Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art - from his teen years as a music obsessive in small-town Connecticut, to the formation of his legendary rock group, to thirty years of creation, experimentation, and wonder. "Downtown scientists rejoice! F ...Show more
Puff Down Underground Hip-Hop Zine #3 by Bobby Albazi
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Category: Music
A packed issue!Features detailed interviews with Philadelphia MC and producer Anwar HighSign (fka Has-Lo), Atlanta-based MC Mondo Slade, Russian DJ and label head DJ OG-S and Melbourne DJ Pates.Anwar HighSign discusses his 'Vision Board' single, Wu-Tang Clan b-sides, 'In Case I Don't Make It', 'The Paul ...Show more
What's Good: Notes on Rap and Language by Daniel Levin Becker
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Category: Music
A love letter to the verbal artistry of hip-hop, What’s Good is a work of passionate lyrical analysis. Much has been asserted about hip-hop’s lyrical inventiveness, but there have been very few, if any, dives as deep into the way rap lyrics function. The book is as up to the moment as possible and embr ...Show more
The Stone Age: Sixty Years of the Rolling Stones by Lesley-Ann Jones
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Category: Music
The Rolling Stones juggernaut appraised and dissected as never before - the good, the bad, the ugly. As Lesley-Ann Jones writes, the Rolling Stones are "still roaming the globe like rusty tanks without a war to go to. Jumping, jacking, flashing, posturing, these septuagenarian caricatures with faces th ...Show more
Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs by Greil Marcus
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Category: Music
Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs "The most interesting writer on Dylan over the years has been the cultural critic Greil Marcus. . . . No one alive knows the music that fueled Dylan's imagination better. . . . Folk Music . . ...Show more
Lost in Music by Giles Smith
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Category: Music
'In the Spring of 1989, shortly after my twenty-seventh birthday, as I stood in the sleet at a bus stop in Colchester, it dawned on me that I had probably, all things considered, failed in my mission to become Sting. At least, for the time being.'Lost in Music is about growing up with pop music - about ...Show more
Woody Guthrie: A Life by Joe Klein
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Category: Music
The classic biography of the hugely influential American folk singer who inspired a generation of songwriters, including Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan. With a foreword by Billy Bragg. Few artists have captured the American experience of their time as wholly as folk legend Woody Guthrie. Singer, son ...Show more
Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan
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Category: Music
"Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Seán O’Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life and creativity. The book examines questions of belief, art, music, freedom, grief and love. It draws candidly o ...Show more
Quantum Listening by Oliveros Pauline
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Category: Music | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
What is the difference between hearing and listening? When do you stop hearing the sound? When does memory begin? Is sound intelligent? Does sound have consciousness? Beginning in the 1960s, musician and composer Pauline Oliveros started experimenting with bringing together meditation, political activis ...Show more
Blondie by Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Connor, Blondie, Z2 Comics
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Category: Music
Combining an imaginative take on an oral history of the band, interspersed with artistic interpretations of 10 songs from their catalog, BLONDIE: AGAINST THE ODDS captures the friction of NYC as the band fought their way to prominence, as well as the power and energy contained within the songs that fuel ...Show more
Do You Believe in the Power of Rock and Roll? by John Robb
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Category: Music
"'John Robb is as punk rock as The Clash." -- Alan McGee Do You Believe in the Power of Rock & Roll?--A history of alternative rock from music writer John Robb, with the music still ringing in his ears. This collection follows Robb's journey from the late 1970s, when he was first caught up in punk's ...Show more