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The Aesthetics Of Rock by Richard Meltzer 9780306802874
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.30This infamous book has enjoyed a lively underground reputation since its first publication in 1970. Richard Meltzer (a.k.a. R. Meltzer) took his training as a young philosopher and applied it with... -
White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race by Stephen Duncombe
Booksplease Price: $51.42From the Clash to Los Crudos, skinheads to afro-punks, the punk rock movement has been obsessed by race. And yet the connections have never been traced in a comprehensive way.White Riot is the... -
When Surface Was Depth by Michael Bracewell 9780306811302
Booksplease Price: $32.82He's the only person to whom The Velvet Underground ever played as an audience of one, the first British writer to talk to Patti Smith after her seventeen-year hiatus from rock. One reviewer hailed... -
The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music by Richard Williams 9780393076639
RRP: $80.93Booksplease Price: $69.19"It is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions." Miles Davis's Kind of Blue is the best-selling piece of music in... -
Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader by Benjamin Hedin 9780393327427
RRP: $40.95Booksplease Price: $38.96Hailed by Publishers Weekly as "not only the best writing on the ever-changing folk singer, but also some of the best writing about any musician around," Studio A presents Bob Dylan's unique literary... -
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07Until his death aged thirty-three in 1982, Lester Bangs wrote wired, rock 'n' roll pieces on Iggy Pop, The Clash, John Lennon, Kraftwerk, Lou Reed. As a rock critic, he had an eagle-eye for... -
Perspectives by Incongruity: First of the Year by Benj DeMott 9781412843119
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $87.34Diversity and "perspective by incongruity" dene the approach to changing times in this fourth volume of the First of the Year series. Insights come from interesting minds in unobvious... -
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2005: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Pop, Country, & More by J. T. LeRoy 9780306814464
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.41Da Capo Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals of them all. Celebrating the year in music writing by gathering a rich array of essays, missives, and musings on every... -
Nico, Songs They Never Play on the Radio by James Young
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42_______________ 'A coolly literary masterpiece' - Greil Marcus, Esquire 'Sad, funny, brilliant' - The Daily Telegraph 'In classic fish-out-of-water fashion Young writes with wry amusement... -
Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky: Music and Myth by Karen Kelly 9780814747261
Booksplease Price: $176.61Music industry insiders on the nature of fame Our cultural darlings make music; we make them mythic. Every musical genre begets a community of listeners, performers, and critics, and quite often... -
Who on the Who by Egan Sean 9781613736135
RRP: $60.43Booksplease Price: $41.59The Who were a mass of contradictions. They brought intellect to rock but were the darlings of punks. They were the quintessential studio act yet were also the greatest live attraction in the world... -
The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual by Eric Lott 9780465041862
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $41.32What ever happened with that liberal intellectual "boom" of the 1980s and 1990s? In The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual , Eric Lott- author of the prizewinning Love and Theft - shows that the... -
The Dylan Companion by David Gutman 9780306809682
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $30.75"To this day, wherever great rock music is being made, there is the shadow of Bob Dylan," said Bruce Springsteen at the induction of Dylan into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. Or to quote... -
Design and Crime: (And Other Diatribes) by Hal Foster 9781844676705
Booksplease Price: $35.02In these diatribes on the marketing of culture and the branding of identity, the development of spectacle-architecture and the rise of global cities, Hal Foster surveys our new political economy of... -
Harry Smith - The Avant-Garde in the American Vernacular . Perchuck 9780892367351
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $52.61This title presents a superbly illustrated and insightful examination of the life and works of Harry Smith, one of America's most significant post-war creative talents. Filmmaker, musicologist,... -
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2002: The Year's Finest Writing On Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country, & More by Jonathan Lethem 9780306811661
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.30It's here: the third and latest volume in the series that you have come to rely upon for your music-reading fix. The 2002 volume will celebrate the year's best writing about music and its culture, as... -
Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky: Music and Myth by Karen Kelly 9780814747278
Booksplease Price: $60.61Our cultural darlings make music; we make them mythic. Every musical genre begets a community of listeners, performers, and critics, and quite often those categories are blurred. From the principled... -
A Year on Earth with Mr Hell by Young Kim 9798985378177
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $27.22A Year on Earth With Mr. Hell is the critically acclaimed debut memoir by Young Kim. The book explores a liberated woman's erotic experience in a clandestine affair without the cliched political and... -
Brand New Beat: The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine Peter Richardson 9780520399396
RRP: $46.80Booksplease Price: $37.34How the iconic publication's unruly first decade rewrote the rules of journalism. Rolling Stone's first decade was truly rock and roll: chaotic, wild, and unpredictable. Brand New Beat charts the... -
Roadrunner by Joshua Clover
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.07Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers' 1972 song "Roadrunner" captures the freedom and wonder of cruising down the highway late at night with the radio on. Although the song circles Boston's... -
Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll by Florence Dore 9780231185226
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $153.31The 1950s witnessed both the birth of both rock and roll and the creation of Southern literature as we know it. Around the time that Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley put their electric spin on Southern... -
Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll by Florence Dore
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $35.88The 1950s witnessed both the birth of both rock and roll and the creation of Southern literature as we know it. Around the time that Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley put their electric spin on Southern... -
Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s Nick Bromell 9780226075624
Booksplease Price: $42.88Tomorrow Never Knows takes us back to the primal scene of the 1960s and asks: what happened when young people got high and listened to rock as if it really mattered - as if it offered meaning and... -
Listen: The Stages and Studios that Shaped American Music Rhona Bitner 9780789345721
RRP: $31.16Booksplease Price: $24.32Prompted by the closing of New York s famed CBGB, Rhona Bitner embarked on a thirteen-year journey to photograph 403 venues across twenty-six states and eighty-nine cities the studios, concert halls,... -
Highway 61 Resurfaced by Bill Fitzhugh 9781788423380
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $16.75It all starts when Southern Belle Lollie Woolfolk sashays into Rick Shannon's office at Rockin' Vestigations in Vicksburg. She hires him to find the grandfather she never met, one-time blues producer... -
Hollywood & God Robert Polito 9780226103655
Booksplease Price: $30.85Hollywood & God is a virtuosic performance, filled with crossings back and forth from cinematic chiaroscuro to a kind of unsettling desperation and disturbing - even lurid-hallucination. From the... -
Aesthetics of Pop Music by D Diederichsen
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $17.80In this short book, the leading German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen puts forward a fresh and original account of pop music. He argues that pop music is not so much a form of music as a... -
A Brief History of Rock, Off the Record by Wayne Robins
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.82The birth of rock 'n' roll signaled the blossoming of a new teenage culture, dividing generations and introducing a new attitude of rebellion and independence. From Chuck Berry to the Beatles, from... -
Aesthetics of Pop Music by D Diederichsen 9781509552023
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $70.79In this short book, the leading German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen puts forward a fresh and original account of pop music. He argues that pop music is not so much a form of music as a... -
Ziggyology by Simon Goddard
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $26.03He came from Outer Space...It was the greatest invention in the history of pop music - the rock god who came from the stars - which struck a young David Bowie like a lightning bolt from the heavens... -
What's Big and Purple and Lives in the Ocean: The Moby Grape Story Cam Cobb 9781911036319
RRP: $29.15Booksplease Price: $20.65Moby Grape are a genuine cult phenomenon. Their story, a mixture of myth and truth, is a cautionary tale, a triumph, and a tragedy all at once. Though they are seen as a symbol of 1960s San... -
Play This Book Loud: Noisy Essays Joe Bonomo 9780820373805
RRP: $56.45Booksplease Price: $35.86More than at any time in human history, our daily lives are scored and imprinted by music. We listen while bicycling, while taking walks, on the train to and from work, and at home on stereos or... -
Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America by Tom Vanderbilt 9780226846941
Booksplease Price: $34.50On the road to Survival City, Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocalypse we once envisioned and chronicling a time in which we... -
Maria Callas's Lyric and Coloratura Arias by Ginger Dellenbaugh
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.65More than 40 years after her death, the legend of Maria Callas, "La Divina Assoluta," remains unsurpassed. Much has been written about her sensational opera career and fraught private life, from her... -
The Passion of Pedro Almodóvar: A Self-Portrait in Seven Films James Miller 9780231220040
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $37.71The films of Pedro Almodovar teem with characters who at once are and are not alter egos of the director. In film after film, the Spanish auteur mines his past for alternative selves, telling and... -
Robert Johnson, Mythmaking, and Contemporary American Culture by Patricia R. Schroeder
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $37.09Mississippi bluesman Robert Johnson died young and left behind just twenty-nine recorded songs. But the legacy, legends, and lore surrounding him loom large in American music history. Merging... -
Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story by Nick Tosches
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00'The greatest rock 'n' roll biography ever written' Rolling Stone'You're lookin' at a livin' legend.' He said, and then fell silent for a moment. 'Y'know, that really worries me. I always thought a... -
The Ink in the Grooves: Conversations on Literature and Rock 'n' Roll by Florence Dore 9781501766206
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $19.99Drop the record needle on any vinyl album in your collection, then read the first pages of that novel you've been meaning to pick up-the reverberations between them will be impossible to miss. Since... -
Murder and the Movies by David Thomson
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $34.09A renowned movie critic on film's treatment of one of mankind's darkest behaviors: murder "[Thomson's] analysis of death in Hitchcock movies is gorgeous. His restlessness is palpable. There is an... -
Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America by Josh Kun 9780520244245
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $48.91Ranging from Los Angeles to Havana to the Bronx to the U.S.-Mexico border and from klezmer to hip hop to Latin rock, this groundbreaking book injects popular music into contemporary debates over...