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  • In Search Of The Blues

    Black Voices, White Visions

    by Marybeth Hamilton ...
    Everyone knows the story of the Delta blues, with its fierce, raw voices and tormented drifters and deals with the devil at the crossroads at midnight. In this compelling book, Marybeth Hamilton radically rewrites that story.Archaic and primeval though the music may sound, the idea of something called 'Delta blues' emerged in the late twentieth century, the culmination of a longstanding white ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Listen Again

    A Momentary History of Pop Music

    by W. T. Lhamon Jr., Marybeth Hamilton, Josh Kun, Ned Sublette ...
    Arguing that pop music turns on moments rather than movements, the essays in Listen Again pinpoint magic moments from a century of pop eclecticism, looking at artists who fall between genre lines, songs that sponge up influences from everywhere, and studio accidents with unforeseen consequences. Listen Again collects some of the finest presentations from the celebrated Experience Music Project Pop ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

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  • Long Ago and Far Away: James Taylor - His Life and Music

    by Timothy White ...
    From The Beatles' patronage of his 1968 debut album to his Grammy awards for Hourglass, James Taylor has remained a universally acclaimed songwriter of effortless eloquence and power. In this major biography, the late Timothy White explores the myths and reality behind the personal journey of legendary singer.White examines the roots of Taylor's anguish, and his recurring problems with heroin and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Hip

    The History

    by John Leland ...
    Hip: The History is the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. How did hip become such an obsession? From sex and music to fashion and commerce, John Leland tracks the arc of ideas as they move from subterranean Bohemia to Madison Avenue and back again. Hip: The History examines how hip has helped shape - ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Citizen Keane

    The Big Lies Behind the Big Eyes

    by Cletus Nelson, Adam Parfrey ...
    Teary, big-eyed orphans and a multitude of trashy knockoffs epitomized American kitsch art as they clogged thrift stores for decades.When Adam Parfrey tracked down Walter Keane-the credited artist of the weepy waifs, for a San Diego Reader cover story in 1992-he discovered some shocking facts. Decades of lawsuits and countersuits revealed the reality that Keane was more of a con man than an artist ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • On Highway 61

    Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom

    by Dennis McNally ...
    On Highway 61 explores the historical context of the significant social dissent that was central to the cultural genesis of the sixties. The book is going to search for the deeper roots of American cultural and musical evolution for the past 150 years by studying what the Western European culture learned from African American culture in a historical progression that reaches from the minstrel era ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Devil Sent the Rain

    Music and Writing in Desperate America

    by Tom Piazza ...
    “WhateverTom Piazza writes is touched with magic." —Douglas BrinkleyAcclaimed author Tom Piazza follows hisprize-winning novel City of Refuge and the post-Katrinaclassic Why New Orleans Matters with a dynamic collection ofessays and journalism about American music and American character, in DevilSent the Rain.“TomPiazza’s writing is filled with energy, and with tender, insightful words forthe ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Shadow and Act

    by Ralph Ellison ...
    Series series Vintage International
    With the same intellectual incisiveness and supple, stylish prose he brought to his classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison examines his antecedents and in so doing illuminates the literature, music, and culture of both black and white America. His range is virtuosic, encompassing Mark Twain and Richard Wright, Mahalia Jackson and Charlie Parker, The Birth of a Nation and the Dante-esque ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Scarlett's Women

    'Gone With the Wind' and its Female Fans

    by Helen Taylor ...
    One of the most successful books ever published and the basis of one of the most popular and highly praised Hollywood films of all time, Gone With the Wind has entered world culture in a way that few other stories have.Seventy-five years on from the cinematic release of Gone with the Wind, Helen Taylor looks at the reasons why the book and film have had such an appeal, especially for women.Drawing ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • David Adams Richards of the Miramichi

    A Biographical Introduction to His Work

    by Tony Tremblay ...
    Widely considered to be one of Canada's most important authors, David Adams Richards has been honoured with a Giller Prize and two Governor General's Literary Awards. Despite this, there has been a dearth of critical appraisal of his life and works. In David Adams Richards of the Miramichi, Tony Tremblay sheds light not only on Richards' art and achievements, but also on Canadian literary ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Shmoop US History Guide: Blues Music History

    by Shmoop ...
    Dive deep into the history of Blues Music History anywhere you go: on a plane, on a mountain, in a canoe, under a tree. Or grab a flashlight and read Shmoop under the covers. Shmoop's award-winning US History Guides are now available on your eReader. Shmoop eBooks are like having a trusted, fun, chatty, expert history-tour-guide always by your side, no matter where you are (or how late it is at ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • The Long-Player Goodbye

    by Travis Elborough ...
    For nearly 60 years, since the arrival of the long-playing record in 1948, the album has provided the soundtrack to our lives. Our record collections, even if they're on CD, or these days, an iPod, are personal treasure, revealing our loves, errors of jugdement and lapses in taste. Self-confessed music obsessive, Travis Elborough, explores the way in which particular albums are deeply embedded in ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD