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Music and Sound in the Films of Dennis Hopper Stephen Lee Naish 9781032737690
Booksplease Price: $117.16Across his directorial films, American filmmaker Dennis Hopper used music and sound to propel the narrative, signpost the era in which the films were made, and delineate the characters' place within... -
Mine Eyes Have Seen: Bearing Witness to the Struggle for Civil Rights by Bob Adelman 9780500543481
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $11.82This searing collection of photographs by LIFE photographer Bob Adelman takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through Americas Civil Rights Movement. These unforgettable photographs of Americas... -
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Wow! Said the Owl by Tim Hopgood 9780230757417 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $5.73At night, when we are feeling tired and ready for bed, owls are just waking up. But this curious little owl decides to stay awake all day, instead of all night, and discovers a world bursting with... -
Fat Time and Other Stories Jeffery Renard Allen 9781644452394
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.97In Fat Time and Other Stories, Jimi Hendrix, Francis Bacon, the boxer Jack Johnson, Miles Davis, and a space-age Muhammad Ali find themselves in the otherworldly hands of Jeffery Renard Allen,... -
Pat Metheny: Stories beyond Words Bob Gluck 9780226834450
RRP: $35.10Booksplease Price: $33.35An in-depth exploration of the style and influence of Pat Metheny, a truly distinctive musical voice of our time. Guitarist and composer Pat Metheny, among the most acclaimed, visionary musicians of... -
Birdland, The Jazz Corner of the World: An Illustrated Tribute, 1949-1965 by ,Leo,T. Sullivan 9780764355868
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $33.58Birdland was a legendary nightclub in New York City and, from 1949 to 1965, was the scene for the greatest jazz music and musicians in the world. This illustrated book offers a history of this... -
What It Is: The Life of a Jazz Artist by Dave Liebman 9780810888999
Booksplease Price: $101.40Dave Liebman is one of the leading forces in contemporary jazz. Prominently known for performing with Miles Davis and Elvin Jones, he has exerted considerable influence as a saxophonist, bandleader,... -
Dameronia: The Life and Music of Tadd Dameron by Paul Combs 9780472035632
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $47.07Dameronia is the first authoritative biography of Tadd Dameron, an important and widely influential figure in jazz history as one of the most significant composers and arrangers of jazz, swing,... -
Jazz and Blues Musicians of South Carolina: Interviews with Jabbo, Dizzy, Drink, and Others by Benjamin Franklin 9781570037436
RRP: $66.30Booksplease Price: $53.43This book offers an oral history of musical genres from the Palmetto state musicians who helped define the sounds.From Jabbo Smith, Dizzy Gillespie, and Drink Small to Johnny Helms, Dick Goodwin, and... -
Soul Music: The Pulse of Race and Music by Candace Allen 9781908096210
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $21.18Can classical music change lives? In Soul Music, novelist Candace Allen embarks on a personal journey that takes her from the streets of London and Scotland to Venezuela, where the Sistema scheme has... -
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John Lewis and the Challenge of ""Real"" Black Music by Christopher Coady 9780472053209
RRP: $64.25Booksplease Price: $60.72For critics and listeners, the reception of the 1950s jazz-classicalhybrid Third Stream music has long been fraught. In John Lewis and theChallenge of "Real" Black Music, Christopher Coady explores... -
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John Lewis and the Challenge of ""Real"" Black Music by Christopher Coady 9780472073207
Booksplease Price: $146.74For critics and listeners, the reception of the 1950s jazz-classical hybrid Third Stream music has long been fraught. In John Lewis and the Challenge of "Real" Black Music, Christopher Coady explores... -
Coltrane: Chasin' The Trane by J. Thomas 9780306800436
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.30Always elusive, constantly moving, incessantly changing, John Coltrane stood astride the jazz world of the late'50s and'60s. He was a giant of the saxophone and a major composer. His music influenced... -
Music in a New Found Land: Themes and Developments in the History of American Music by Wilfrid Mellers
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $97.87The subject of this book is accurately defined by its subtitle. Music in a New Found Land does not pretend to be a comprehensive history of American music. Nor does Mellers strive to catalog what he... -
Last Stop, Carnegie Hall: New York Philharmonic Trumpeter William Vacchiano by Brian Shook 9781574413069
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.63William Vacchiano (1912-2005) was principal trumpet with the New York Philharmonic from 1942 to 1973, and taught at Juilliard, the Manhattan School of Music, the Mannes College of Music, Queens... -
Jazz Musicians, 1945 to the Present by David Dicaire 9780786420971
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $49.12From its very beginnings, the nature of jazz has been to reinvent itself. As the musical genre evolved from its roots--blues, European music, Voodoo ceremonies, and brass bands that played at... -
Global Popular Music: A Research and Information Guide, Volume 1: Global Perspectives in Popular Music Studies Clarence Bernard Henry 9781032830186
RRP: $273.00Booksplease Price: $250.93Global Popular Music: A Research and Information Guide offers an essential annotated bibliography of scholarship on popular music around the world in a two-volume set. Featuring a broad range of... -
Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz by Benjamin Cawthra 9780226100746
Booksplease Price: $54.44Miles Davis, supremely cool behind his shades. Billie Holiday, eyes closed and head tilted back in full cry. Blue Notes in Black and White charts the development of jazz photography from the swing... -
The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music by Ben Ratliff 9780805090864
Booksplease Price: $20.32Jazz is conducted almost wordlessly: John Coltrane rarely told his quartet what to do, and Miles Davis famously gave his group only the barest instructions before recording his masterpiece "Kind of... -
Jimi Hendrix and the Cultural Politics of Popular Music by Aaron Lefkovitz 9783319770123
Booksplease Price: $91.14This book, on Jimi Hendrix's life, times, visual-cultural prominence, and popular music, with a particular emphasis on Hendrix's relationships to the cultural politics of race, gender, sexuality,... -
A Light in the Darkness: The Music and Life of Joaquín Rodrigo by Javier Suárez-Pajares 9781324004455
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $59.63Joaquin Rodrigo is best known as the composer of one of the most popular works of music in the classical repertoire-the Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra. Jazz great Miles Davis said of... -
Same Old Song: The Enduring Past in Popular Music by John Paul Meyers 9781496850874
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70Popular music and its listeners are strongly associated with newness and youth. Young people can stay up late dancing to the latest hits and use cutting-edge technology for listening to and sharing... -
Soviet Americana: The Cultural History of Russian and Ukrainian Americanists by Sergei Zhuk 9781350130128
Booksplease Price: $71.80The Americanist community played a vital role in the Cold War, as well as in large part directing the cultural consumption of Soviet society and shaping perceptions of the US. To shed light onto this... -
The Cowboy and the Dandy: Crossing Over from Romanticism to Rock and Roll by Perry Meisel 9780195118179
Booksplease Price: $191.82What is rock and roll and where does it come from? In this new study of music, literature, and culture, Perry Meisel shows how rock and roll joins both Romanticism and the blues tradition by testing... -
The Herridge Style: The Life and Work of a Television Revolutionary by Robert Herridge 9781985901452
Booksplease Price: $111.54Writer, director, and producer Robert Herridge left an enduring mark on the small screen, from his stewardship of Camera Three in the early 1950s through the exciting days of live television. The... -
Bird: The Legend Of Charlie Parker by Robert Reisner 9780306800696
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.41More than to any other musician, the credit for the birth of modern jazz belongs to Charles "Yardbird" Parker--known to his friends and fans simply as "Bird." Parker's virtuoso... -
George Harrison on George Harrison: Interviews and Encounters by Ashley Kahn 9781641607278
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $31.65George Harrison on George Harrison is an authoritative, chronologically arranged anthology of Harrison's most revealing and illuminating interviews, personal correspondence, and writings, spanning... -
The Herridge Style: The Life and Work of a Television Revolutionary by Robert Herridge 9781985901469
Booksplease Price: $53.63Writer, director, and producer Robert Herridge left an enduring mark on the small screen, from his stewardship of Camera Three in the early 1950s through the exciting days of live television. The... -
WOW! It's Night-time by Tim Hopgood
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $10.80Step into a night-time world with Tim Hopgood, creator of the bestselling WOW! Said the Owl. Your favourite little owl is back, and in WOW! It's Night-Time, she's ready to explore the wonders of the... -
Vercoquin and the Plankton by Boris Vian
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06A nonconformist satire of both bureaucracy and nonconformism from the French polymath and author of Foam of the Days Written at the age of 23 for his friends in the winter of 1943-44, Vercoquin... -
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This Is Where I Came In: Black America in the 1960s by Gerald L. Early 9780803218239 [USED COPY]
RRP: $72.15Booksplease Price: $2.44The fascinating and turbulent black America of the 1960s emerges in these essays, through the lenses of dissent and its contradictions. Gerald L. Early revisits this volatile time in American... -
From Satchmo To Miles by Leonard G. Feather 9780306803024
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.41Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Norman Granz, Oscar Peterson, Ray Charles, Don Ellis, and Miles Davis,these are the dozen... -
Listening to Prestige: Chronicling Its Classic Jazz Recordings, 1949–1972 by Tad Richards 9798855804959
Booksplease Price: $36.33A complete chronicle of one of the greatest postwar jazz labels.Founded by jazz enthusiast Bob Weinstock, Prestige Records recorded the leading jazz artists of its day, many of whom were at or... -
Pat Metheny: Stories beyond Words by Bob Gluck 9780226825274
RRP: $179.40Booksplease Price: $172.67An in-depth exploration of the style and influence of Pat Metheny, a truly distinctive musical voice of our time. Guitarist and composer Pat Metheny, among the most acclaimed, visionary musicians of... -
A Love Supreme: The Creation Of John Coltrane's Classic Album by Ashley Kahn 9781783786053
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00A deeply researched and beautifully illustrated study of saxophone legend John Coltrane's signature album. Written with the full co-operation of the Coltrane family and featuring the voices of... -
The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atom Bomb by Jeff Hughes 9780231131537
Booksplease Price: $40.27Launched in 1942, the Manhattan Project was a well-funded, secret effort by the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada to develop an atomic bomb before the Nazis. The results-the bombs named... -
PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice by Sasha Wolf
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $31.82How does a photographic project or series evolve? How important are "style" and "genre"? What comes first-the photographs or a concept? PhotoWork is a collection of interviews by forty photographers... -
Rethinking Mahler by Jeremy Barham
RRP: $181.35Booksplease Price: $174.92As one of the most popular classical composers in the performance repertoire of professional and amateur orchestras and choirs across the world, Gustav Mahler continues to generate significant... -
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith by John Szwed 9780374282240
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $32.51He was an anthropologist, a filmmaker, a painter, a folklorist, a mystic, and a walking encyclopedia. He taught Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe about the occult, swapped drugs with Timothy Leary,... -
The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience by Sean Manning
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.95In The Show I'll Never Forget , writer Sean Manning has gathered an amazing array of unforgettable concert memories from a veritable A-list of acclaimed novelists, poets, biographers, cultural...