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Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth: A Times Book of the Year by Cathi Unsworth 9781788706278
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.28A Times Book of the YearA Mojo Book of the YearA Louder Than War Book of the YearA Waterstones Book of the YearA Resident Book of the Year'A beautifully written, meticulously researched account. 4/5... -
The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics by Ramzi Fawaz
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.942017 The Association for the Studies of the Present Book Prize Finalist Mention, 2017 Lora Romero First Book Award Presented by the American Studies Association Winner of the 2012 CLAGS Fellowship... -
Pop When the World Falls Apart: Music in the Shadow of Doubt by Eric Weisbard
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94Hearing Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan once said, was "like busting out of jail." But what happens when popular music isn't as simple as rock-and-roll rebellion? How does pop respond to such events as a... -
Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music by Eric Weisbard
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €22.99In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England Psalm-Singer to Jay-Z's 2010 memoir Decoded. Drawing... -
Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music by Eric Weisbard 9781478011941
RRP: €123.76Booksplease Price: €99.90In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England Psalm-Singer to Jay-Z's 2010 memoir Decoded. Drawing... -
Dance on Saturday: Stories by Elwin Cotman 9781618731722
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.08Philip K. Dick Award finalist In the title novella, Cotman imagines a group of near-immortals living in Pittsburgh in an uneasy truce with Lord Decay. Their truce is threatened when one of them... -
Snapshots 1971-77 by Michael Lesy
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €21.48In the summer of 1971, Michael Lesy and a friend found most of the snapshots in Snapshots 1971-77 in a dumpster behind a gigantic photo-processing plant in San Francisco. The photos were in the trash... -
Diet and the Disease of Civilization by Adrienne Rose Bitar 9780813589640
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94Diet books contribute to a $60-billion industry as they speak to the 45 million Americans who diet every year. Yet these books don't just tell readers what to eat: they offer complete philosophies... -
Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form by Hillary L. Chute 9780674504516
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €31.89In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima's Ground Zero, comics display a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Investigating how hand-drawn comics has come of... -
Little Richard: The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll by David Kirby 9781441194060
Booksplease Price: €24.93This book is a concise, evocative, and thoroughly researched study of one of the great rock'n'roll pioneers. After "Tutti Frutti," Little Richard began garnering fans from both sides of the civil... -
Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief by Mark Feeney
Booksplease Price: €26.53Was it an omen? Richard Nixon and the film industry arrived in Southern California in the same year, 1913. As Mark Feeney relates in this unusual and unusually absorbing book, Nixon and the movies... -
Fun City Cinema: New York City and the Movies that Made It: New York City and the Movies that Made It by Jason Bailey
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €25.78A visual history of 100 years of filmmaking in New York City, featuring exclusive interviews with NYC filmmakers Fun City Cinema gives readers an in-depth look at how the rise, fall, and... -
Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century by Jed Rasula
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €24.70In 1916, as World War I raged around them, a group of bohemians gathered at a small cabaret in Zurich, Switzerland. After decorating the walls with art by Picasso and other avant-garde artists, they... -
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound by Daphne A Brooks 9780674292208
RRP: €24.93Booksplease Price: €19.35Winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, Rock & Roll Hall of FameWinner of the American Book Award, Before Columbus FoundationWinner of the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles AwardWinner of the MAAH... -
The Magic Years: Scenes from a Rock-and-Roll Life by Jonathan Taplin 9781597145732
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.91"[Jonathan Taplin] was the one who made Mean Streets and The Last Waltz possible, for which I will always be grateful. We had quite a few adventures on both projects, and they're all chronicled in... -
Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses by Howard Hampton
RRP: €32.07Booksplease Price: €27.52Twenty years as an outsider scouring the underbelly of American culture has made Howard Hampton a uniquely hard-nosed guide to the heart of pop darkness. Bridging the fatalistic, intensely charged... -
A New History of German Literature by David E. Wellbery
RRP: €55.87Booksplease Price: €47.98The revolutionary spirit that animates the culture of the Germans has been alive for at least twelve centuries, far longer than the dramatically fragmented and reshaped political entity known as... -
Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues by Paul Garon
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €24.51Universally recognized as one of the greatest blues artists, Memphis Minnie (1897--1973) wrote and recorded hundreds of songs. Blues people as diverse as Muddy Waters, Johnny Shines, Big Mama... -
In the Land of Men: A Memoir by Adrienne Miller
Booksplease Price: €14.90A fiercely personal memoir about coming of age in the male-dominated literary world of the nineties, becoming the first female literary editor of Esquire, and Miller's personal and working... -
Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee by Shelley Fisher Fishkin 9780813575971
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €36.34Winner of the John S. Tuckey 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award for Mark Twain Scholarship from The Center for Mark Twain Studies American novelist E.L. Doctorow once observed that literature "endows... -
The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler by Ben Urwand 9780674088108
RRP: €32.07Booksplease Price: €27.52To continue doing business in Germany after Hitler's ascent to power, Hollywood studios agreed not to make films that attacked the Nazis or condemned Germany's persecution of Jews. Ben Urwand reveals... -
Audio Culture,: Readings in Modern Music by Christoph Cox 9781501318368
Booksplease Price: €52.23The groundbreaking Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Continuum; September 2004; paperback original) maps the aural and discursive terrain of vanguard music today. Rather than offering a... -
Grown Up All Wrong: 75 Great Rock and Pop Artists from Vaudeville to Techno by Robert Christgau 9780674003828
RRP: €51.11Booksplease Price: €31.90Two generations of American music lovers have grown up listening with Robert Christgau, attuned to his inimitable blend of judgment, acuity, passion, erudition, wit, and caveat emptor. His writings,...