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Modern Moves: Dancing Race during the Ragtime and Jazz Eras by Danielle Robinson 9780199779222
RRP: €46.40€36.53Modern Moves traces the movement of American social dance styles between black and white cultural groups and between immigrant and migrant communities during the early twentieth century. Its central focus is New York City, where the confluence of two key... -
Suzanne Vega On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Lisa Torem 9781789522815
RRP: €19.03€13.82In 1985, Suzanne Vega released her debut, garnering platinum status in the U.K and this New York-based singer-songwriter's self-titled album claimed the number 80 spot on Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Best Albums of the Eighties. AUTHOR: Lisa Torem, a... -
The 33 1/3 B-sides: New Essays by 33 1/3 Authors on Beloved and Underrated Albums by Will Stockton
RRP: €23.79€19.00If given another chance to write for the series, which albums would 33 1/3 authors focus on the second time around? This anthology features compact essays from past 33 1/3 authors on albums that consume them, but about which they did not write. It... -
Music Outside: Contemporary Jazz in Britain by Ian Carr 9780955090868
RRP: €23.79€20.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955090868Author Ian CarrFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Northway PublicationsPublisher Northway Publications -
The Aesthetic Of Our Anger: Anarcho-Punk, Politics and Music by Matthew Worley
RRP: €23.80€15.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570273186Author Matthew WorleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Minor CompositionsPublisher Autonomedia -
Call Me Lucky: Bing Crosby's Own Story by Bing Crosby 9780306810879
RRP: €21.41€19.08Reissued to coincide with the paperback publication of the definitive Bing biography by Gary Giddins, here is "a collection of anecdotes and reminiscences that is as warm and witty as any Crosby performance. [Bing] could have surely become a full-time... -
The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music by Tom Breihan 9780306826542
RRP: €20.22€15.58When Tom Breihan launched his Stereogum column in early 2018, "The Number Ones"-a space in which he has been writing about every #1 hit in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, in chronological order-he figured he'd post capsule-size reviews for each... -
Rock 'n' Roll Jews by Prof. Michael Billig 9780907123538
RRP: €9.51€7.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize: Non-fiction 2000.Book InformationISBN 9780907123538Author Prof. Michael BilligFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV by Erik Davis
RRP: €11.89€9.13In this wickedly entertaining and thoroughly informed homage to one of rock music's towering pinnacles, Erik Davis investigates the magic-black or otherwise-that surrounds this album. Carefully peeling the layers from each song, Davis reveals their dark... -
Nirvana: The True Story by Everett True 9781844496402 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.79€15.30As Assistant Editor on Melody Maker, Everett True was the first journalist to cover the Seattle music scene in early 1989 and interview Nirvana. He is responsible for bringing Hole, Nirvana, Pavement, Soundgarden and a host of other bands to public... -
Visions of Jazz: The First Century by Gary Giddins 9780195132410
RRP: €28.55€21.60Poised to become a jazz classic, Gary Giddins' Visions of Jazz: The First Century contains no fewer than 78 chapters illuminating the lives of virtually all major figures in jazz history. From Louis Armstrong's renegade style trumpet playing to Frank... -
The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945 by Gunther Schuller 9780195071405
RRP: €32.12€24.99Taking up where Early Jazz (OPB, #6.95) leaves off, this second volume of Gunther Schuller's history of jazz considers the swing era - the age of dance bands and radio shows. Tracing the origins of swing and its effects on American musical and social... -
Beyond Sketches of Spain: Tete Montoliu and the Construction of Iberian Jazz by Benjamin Fraser
RRP: €37.47€32.34Few musicians shaped Iberian jazz more than pianist Vicenc "Tete" Montoliu i Massana (1933-97). Fascinated by the modernist aesthetics of mid-century jazz, Montoliu was known for a carefully crafted mix of lyricism and dissonance, a penchant for... -
Liverpool Music Roots by Dave Jones
RRP: €35.69€26.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781919616537Author Dave JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint This Day in Music BooksPublisher This Day in Music Books -
Rock 'n' Roll Unravelled: From its Roots to Mid-1970s Punk by Derek Shelmerdine 9780993589409
RRP: €29.69€22.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993589409Author Derek ShelmerdineFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint DCA Rock'n'Roll LtdPublisher DCA Rock'n'Roll Ltd -
Rent: The Movie - Vocal Selections by Jonathan Larson 9781423406266
RRP: €34.50€23.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423406266Author Jonathan LarsonPage Count 150Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation -
The Yardbirds: The Band That Launched Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page by Alan Clayson 9780879307240
RRP: €21.41€16.23Although together for only five years The Yardbirds exerted tremendous influence on the music and style of the '60s and for decades beyond. Their impact has been felt throughout the rock genre from psychedelia to blues-rock heavy metal and the music... -
Let's Make Lots of Money: My Life as the Biggest Man in Pop by Tom Watkins
RRP: €19.03€13.82LONGLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC PRIZE 2017The coke-fuelled mania behind pop's greatest successes Tom Watkins is the famously entertaining pop Svengali with killer commercial instincts and prodigious talent for design. He propelled the Pet Shop Boys,... -
The Beat, the Scene, the Sound: A DJ's Journey through the Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of House Music in New York City by DJ Disciple
RRP: €29.75€25.93A thrilling and tumultuous, behind-the-scenes account of house music in NYC.The Beat, the Scene, the Sound follows DJ Disciple and his behind-the-scenes account of how DJs, promoters, fans, and others transformed house music from a DIY project into an... -
Song Book: Words for 100 Popular Songs Ffion Mercer 9780863884115
RRP: €22.60€20.08Featuring large clear print, the "Song Book" contains the words to 100 popular songs that are ideal for group sing-along sessions. The book is divided into six sections: traditional folk songs, choruses from old time variety, songs from World War II,... -
Crosby, Stills & Nash: The Biography by Dave Zimmer 9780306816154
RRP: €19.03€16.34Crosby, Stills & Nash created some of the most indelible songs and beautiful harmonies of the late 1960s and early 1970s: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," Woodstock," Teach Your Children." This copiously illustrated account of the trio's personal and musical... -
The Dark Stuff by Nick Kent 9780571232710
RRP: €15.46€10.19In The Dark Stuff Nick Kent profiles twenty-two of the most gifted and self-destructive talents in rock history. From Brian Wilson to Syd Barrett, the Rolling Stones to Neil Young, Iggy Pop to Lou Reed, he offers intimate portraits that are unimaginable... -
Livin' Just to Find Emotion: Journey and the Story of American Rock by David Hamilton Golland 9781538187012
RRP: €29.75€26.41A long-overdue and definitive account of America's timeless rock bandSince exploding on the scene in the late 70s, Journey has continued to inspire generations of fans with "Don't Stop Believin'" and other hits. Celebrating the band's fiftieth... -
Early Music: A Very Short Introduction by Professor Thomas Forrest Kelly
RRP: €10.70€9.46The music of the medieval, Renaissance, and baroque periods have been repeatedly discarded and rediscovered ever since they were new. An interest in music of the past has been characteristic of a part of the musical world since the early 19th century... -
I Am the Warrior: My Crazy Life Writing the Hits and Rocking the MTV Eighties by Holly Knight
RRP: €26.18€16.72Holly Knight's singular music career included crafting a good part of the soundtrack to the MTV eighties with mega-hits for Tina Turner ("The Best"), Pat Benatar ("Love Is A Battlefield"), and Patty Smyth ("The Warrior")-songs that celebrated female... -
Dave Brubeck's Time Out by Stephen A. Crist 9780190217723
RRP: €35.09€20.25Dave Brubeck's Time Out ranks among the most popular, successful, and influential jazz albums of all time. Released by Columbia in 1959 alongside such other landmark albums as Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and Charles Mingus's Mingus Ah Um, Time Out became... -
Talking Heads - Fear of Music by Jonathan Lethem
RRP: €11.89€9.13Fear of Music, the third album by Talking Heads, was recorded and released in 1979. It is, like each of their first four albums, a masterpiece. Edgy, paranoid, funky, addictive, rhythmic, repetitive, spooky, and fun - with Brian Eno's production, it's a... -
Bob Dylan In America by Sean Wilentz
RRP: €13.08€9.25A brilliantly written and groundbreaking book about Dylan's music - now the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2016 - and its musical, political and cultural roots in early 20th-century AmericaGrowing up in Greenwich Village in the 1960s Sean... -
The Pogues' Rum, Sodomy and the Lash by Jeffrey T. Roesgen 9780826429162
RRP: €11.89€9.13This album is the prime example of The Pogue's uncanny ability to evoke the lives of the drunken, downtrodden and abused.To absorb Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash is to be taken on a wild voyage with a cast of downtrodden revolutionaries. Despite this notion,... -
The Oxford Book of Carols by Percy Dearmer
RRP: €33.26€25.37A firm favourite with choirs for many years, this is a classic collection of traditional carols.About the AuthorRalph Vaughan Williams, born in Gloucestershire on 12 October 1872, read History at Cambridge and went to the Royal College of Music where his... -
Sharon Osbourne Survivor: My Story - the Next Chapter by Sharon Osbourne 9780751540543
€15.15'Vintage Sharon . . . fiery and passionate' - HEAT 'The formidable Mrs O is just as honest and open in this second instalment of her life story as the first . . . a real page-turner' - WOMAN 'Shazza goes even deeper to reveal the secrets behind the... -
Ugly Beauty: Jazz in the 21st Century Philip Freeman 9781789046328
RRP: €20.22€17.39What does jazz "mean" 20 years into the 21st century? Has streaming culture rendered music literally meaningless, thanks to the removal of all context beyond the playlist? Are there any traditions left to explore? Has the destruction of the... -
The Chitlin' Circuit: And the Road to Rock 'n' Roll by Preston Lauterbach
RRP: €16.65€14.27For generations, "chitlin' circuit" has meant second tier-brash performers in raucous nightspots far from the big-city limelight. Now, music journalist Preston Lauterbach combines terrific firsthand reportage with deep historical research to offer a... -
Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro by Michell Kort 9780312303181
€18.12Laura Nyro was a pioneering singer-songwriter of the 1960s and 1970s whose songs were covered by the Fifth Dimension, Blood, Sweat and Tears, and Three Dog Night. This biography uncovers details of her life including her romance with Jackson Browne and... -
Agnetha Faltskog the Girl with the Golden Hair by Daniel Ward 9781781555217
€20.71Her iconic blonde looks, stunning voice and songs of loneliness and melancholy have endeared her to millions, yet Agnetha Faltskog remains an enigmatic and distant figure. From her success as a teenage singer and songwriter in Sweden in the late 1960 s... -
Blues For Dummies Lonnie Brooks 9780764550805
RRP: €22.60€15.65Get your mojo working as you take a musical trip from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago's gritty South Side and points beyond with Blues For Dummies, an insightful, toe-tappin', music lovers' guide to the blues. Popular blues guitarist Lonnie Brooks... -
Lee, Myself & I: Inside The Very Special World Of Lee Hazlewood Wyndham Wallace 9781908279729
RRP: €17.79€11.00If I had a name like Wyndham Wallace I would not associate or correspond with anyone with a simple name like mine. However, since you have lowered yourself to such depths, how can my old Indian heart (west not east) not respond favourably. -Lee... -
Pharrell: Carbon, Pressure & Time: Personal View of Jewelry, A by Pharrell 9780847899173
RRP: €59.50€42.21With pieces drawn from the extensive personal collection of Pharrell Williams, this is a stunning and unprecedented exploration of the 'bling' in hip-hop culture and fashion. Few recording artists have had a greater hand in incorporating the culture of... -
I Saw the World End: A Study of Wagner's Ring by Deryck Cooke 9780193153189
RRP: €78.54€62.01Wagner's Ring is a great masterpiece. But because of the work's rich complexity it is difficult to think sensibly about its text and music. Deryck Cooke, author of The Language of Music and completer of Mahler's Tenth Symphony, displays his masterly... -
Singing J Yoon Irons (University of Derby, UK) 9781838673321
RRP: €19.03€14.15We are 'hard-wired' to sing - singing has defined our evolution. Through singing we express our feelings, communicate and connect with others. We are all singers: singing is part of us and defines cultures worldwide. Singing also, importantly, makes us...