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Medicine Show by Tom Yuill 9780226971650
Booksplease Price: £14.88From "Veritas": Imagining Heaven as Istanbul, or a beach south of Istanbul, Where your friends are preparing an apartment for you. And your Beloved. And sleeping fathers, babies plump. And shining as... -
Let Freedom Swing: Collected Writings on Jazz, Blues and Gospel by Howard Reich 9780810127050
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.33A swing note is, to the listener of the rhythm, an unexpected note, and it is the spark of life in jazz and its relatives. Whether playing the standards or the most experimental piece, it is how a... -
Let's Dance: A Celebration of Ontario's Dance Halls and Summer Dance Pavilions by Peter Young 9781896219028
Booksplease Price: £18.84Let's Dance: A Celebration of Ontario's Dance Halls and Summer Dance Pavilions is a nostalgic musical journey, recapturing the unforgettable music of youth and lasting friendships, the days when the... -
Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946 by Gary Giddins
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.25Bing Crosby dominated American popular culture in a way that few artists ever have. From the dizzy era of Prohibition through the dark days of the Second World War, he was a desperate nation's most... -
I Remember Jazz: Six Decades Among the Great Jazzmen by Al Rose 9780807125717
Booksplease Price: £29.79Al Rose has known virtually every noteworthy jazz musician of this century. For many of them he has organized concerts, composed songs that they later played or sang, and promoted their acts. He has,... -
Lost Chords: White Musicians and Their Contribution to Jazz by Richard M. Sudhalter 9780195148381
RRP: £19.49Booksplease Price: £16.97Many jazz fans and critics -- and even some jazz musicians -- contend that white players have contributed little of substance to the music. Now, with Lost Chords, musician-historian Richard M... -
Medicine Show by Tom Yuill 9780226971643
Booksplease Price: £56.22From "Veritas": Imagining Heaven as Istanbul, or a beach south of Istanbul, Where your friends are preparing an apartment for you. And your Beloved. And sleeping fathers, babies plump. And shining as... -
Chasin' the Sound: Learning Jazz Improvisation through Historical Models Brian Levy 9780197643549
Booksplease Price: £26.29In Chasin' the Sound: Learning Jazz Improvisation through Historical Models, authors Brian Levy and Keith Waters use solos by famous jazz musicians to outline a melodic and rhythmic vocabulary of... -
My Big Book of Outdoors Tim Hopgood 9781406384826
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £12.30Discover the great outdoors with this beautifully illustrated treasury that celebrates the wonder of nature in four glorious seasons.From vibrant springtime flowers to sweet fruits on summer trees,... -
Where We Know: New Orleans As Home by David Rutledge 9780984457618
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.19"Where We Know creates a mosaic of the ultimate mosaic city...these writers illuminate the city's past and the present in a gritty homage fit for natives and foreigners alike. Designed as though Chin... -
Valaida Candace Allen 9781844081721
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Valaida listened hard. After the melody's intro and Earl's left-hand-to-right-hand cascades of piano sound, her space opened, and Valaida jumped in. She blew. She entered the music, saw the... -
New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History by Bruce Boyd Raeburn 9780472116751
Booksplease Price: £71.22New Orleans Style tells the tale of the recognition of New Orleans jazz as a discrete style and how that recognition affected the writing of American jazz history.The men and women who participated... -
Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories by Elijah Wald 9780306831409
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £20.34Bestselling music historian Elijah Wald follows Jelly Roll Morton on a journey through the hidden worlds and forbidden songs of early blues and jazzIn Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden... -
Jazz in Black and White: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Jazz Community by Charles D. Gerard 9780275974398
Booksplease Price: £29.88Is jazz a universal idiom or is it an African-American art form? Although whites have been playing jazz almost since it first developed, the history of jazz has been forged by a series of... -
Jazz by Gary Giddins 9780393068610
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £35.59In this vivid history of jazz, a respected critic and a leading scholar capture the excitement of America's unique music with intellectual bite, unprecedented insight, and the passion of unabashed... -
Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance by Noam Chomsky 9780241482612
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.49An essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular undergraduate lecture series 'What is Politics?'Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this... -
Sunset Swing by Ray Celestin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Here ends one of the finest achievements of recent crime fiction' - Sunday Telegraph'Outstanding' - The Times*Winner of the 2022 CWA Historical Dagger and Gold Dagger*Los Angeles. Christmas, 1967. A... -
The Cambridge Companion to Gershwin by Anna Harwell Celenza 9781108437646
Booksplease Price: £33.26George Gershwin is often described as a quintessentially American composer. This Cambridge Companion explains why, engaging with the ways in which his music was shaped by American political,... -
African Americans in U.S. Foreign Policy: From the Era of Frederick Douglass to the Age of Obama by Linda M. Heywood 9780252080418
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Bookended by remarks from African American diplomats Walter C. Carrington and Charles Stith, the essays in this volume use close readings of speeches, letters, historical archives, diaries, memoirs... -
Quincy Jones: His Life in Music by Clarence Bernard Henry 9781496814883
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Quincy Jones (b. 1933) is one of the most prolific composers, arrangers, bandleaders, producers, and humanitarians in American music history and the recording and film industries. Among pop music... -
African Americans in U.S. Foreign Policy: From the Era of Frederick Douglass to the Age of Obama by Linda M. Heywood
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Bookended by remarks from African American diplomats Walter C. Carrington and Charles Stith, the essays in this volume use close readings of speeches, letters, historical archives, diaries, memoirs... -
Walking with Legends: Barry Martyn's New Orleans Jazz Odyssey by Mick Burns 9780807132760
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Drummer, record producer, bandleader, jazz researcher, and cigar-chomping raconteur Barry Martyn is a New Orleans original who happens to have been born in England. Implausible though this may seem,... -
At the Vanguard of Vinyl: A Cultural History of the Long-Playing Record in Jazz by Darren Mueller 9781478030072
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.44In At the Vanguard of Vinyl, Darren Mueller examines how the advent of the long-playing record (LP) in 1948 revolutionized the recording and production of jazz in the 1950s. The LP's increased... -
That's Enough Folks: Black Images in Animated Cartoons, 1900-1960 by Henry T. Sampson 9780810832503
Booksplease Price: £117.92An authoritative and valuable resource for students and scholars of film animation and African-American history, film buffs, and casual readers. It is the first and only book to detail the history of... -
In with the In Crowd: Popular Jazz in 1960s Black America by Mike Smith 9781496851154
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Most studies of 1960s jazz underscore the sounds of famous avant-garde musicians like John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and Albert Ayler. Conspicuously absent from these narratives are the more popular... -
Vogue x Music by Editors of American Vogue
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £38.76Vogue has always been on the cutting edge of popular culture, and Vogue x Music shows us why. Whether they're contemporary stars or classic idols, whether they made digital albums or vinyl records,... -
Zoe In Wonderland by Brenda Woods 9780425288917
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.26Zoe Reindeer has a very big imagination, but in real life she considers herself 'just Zoe1 - not measuring up to her too perfect older sister and her smarty pants little brother. Truthfully, though,... -
In with the In Crowd: Popular Jazz in 1960s Black America by Mike Smith 9781496851147
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £64.12Most studies of 1960s jazz underscore the sounds of famous avant-garde musicians like John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and Albert Ayler. Conspicuously absent from these narratives are the more popular... -
Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War by Penny M. Von Eschen
Booksplease Price: £28.25At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America... -
Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz by Christopher Washburne 9780195371628
Booksplease Price: £100.94Jazz has always been a genre built on the blending of disparate musical cultures. Latin jazz illustrates this perhaps better than any other style in this rich tradition, yet its cultural heritage has... -
Jazz Images By William Claxton Jordi Soley 9788409038893
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £28.90"The photographs of William Claxton define the essence of cool." - Jason Ankeny (AllMusic) "Claxton's innovative choices and airy style, which he called 'jazz for your eyes', worked... -
Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads by Daniel Stein 9781472587589
Booksplease Price: £42.22This book brings together an international group of scholars who chart and analyze the ways in which comic book history and new forms of graphic narrative have negotiated the aesthetic, social,... -
As Serious As Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957-1977 by Val Wilmer
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established... -
Cultural Codes: Makings of a Black Music Philosophy by Bill Banfield 9780810872868
Booksplease Price: £56.66No art can survive without an understanding of, and dedication to, the values envisioned by its creators. No culture over time has existed without a belief system to sustain its survival. Black music... -
Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz by Christopher Washburne
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.75Jazz has always been a genre built on the blending of disparate musical cultures. Latin jazz illustrates this perhaps better than any other style in this rich tradition, yet its cultural heritage has... -
The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson: Blues, Race, Identity by Julia Simon
Booksplease Price: £97.20Lonnie Johnson is a blues legend. His virtuosity on the blues guitar is second to none, and his influence on artists from T-Bone Walker and B. B. King to Eric Clapton is well established. Yet Johnson... -
Music: A Fold-Out Graphic History by Nicholas O'Neill 9781999967932
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.79Learn about how different genres started - including classical, folk, jazz, gospel, rock 'n' roll, country, punk, grunge and pop. Discover the stories of maestros including Beethoven, Wei Liangfu,... -
Richard Hageman: From Holland to Hollywood by Nico de Villiers 9781433154737
RRP: £86.50Booksplease Price: £83.15Richard Hageman (1881-1966) was celebrated during his lifetime as a conductor, pianist, vocal coach, and composer. His art songs put him solidly in the vanguard of mid-century composers and he was... -
The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson: Blues, Race, Identity by Julia Simon 9780271092560
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £25.03Lonnie Johnson is a blues legend. His virtuosity on the blues guitar is second to none, and his influence on artists from T-Bone Walker and B. B. King to Eric Clapton is well established. Yet Johnson... -
Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different Ben Brooks 9781787471986
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.80WINNER OF THE CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2018 & THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER (April 2018) ___________'This book can save lives. This book can change lives. This...