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  • The Bastard Instrument

    A Cultural History of the Electric Bass

    par Brian F. Wright ...
    Collections series Tracking Pop
    The Bastard Instrument chronicles the history of the electric bass and the musicians who played it, from the instrument’s invention through its widespread acceptance at the end of the 1960s. Although their contributions have often gone unsung, electric bassists helped shape the sound of a wide range of genres, including jazz, rhythm & blues, rock, country, soul, funk, and more. Their innovations ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Possibility Machine

    Music and Myth in Las Vegas

    par Jake Johnson, Celine Ayala, Kirstin Bews, Laura Dallman, Joanna Dee Das, James Deaville, Robert Fink, Pheaross Graham, Jessica A Holmes, Maddie House-Tuck0, Kelly Kessler1, Michael Kinney2, Carlo Lanfossi3, Jason Leddington4, Janis McKay5, Sam Murray6, Louis Niebur7, Lynda Paul8, Arianne Johnson Quinn9, Michael M Reinhard0, Laura Risk1, Cassaundra Rodriguez2, Arreanna Rostosky3, Brian F Wright4 ...
    Collections series Music in American Life
    Singular and star-studded writings on America’s neon-lit playgroundAt once a Technicolor wonderland and the embodiment of American mythology, Las Vegas exists at the Ground Zero of a reverence for risk-taking and the transformative power of a winning hand. Jake Johnson edits a collection of short essays and flash ideas that probes how music-making and soundscapes shape the City of Second Chances. ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • U2 Above, Across, and Beyond

    Interdisciplinary Assessments

    par Matt Hamilton, Arlan Elizabeth Hess, Ed Montano, Brian F. Wright, Fred Johnson, Steve Taylor, Theodore Louis Trost, Chris Wales ...
    Collections series For the Record: Studies in Rock and Popular Music
    U2’s success and significance are due, in large part, to finding inventive, creative solutions for overcoming obstacles and moving past conventional boundaries. As it has embraced change and transformation over and over again, its fans and critics have come to value and expect this element of U2. These new essays from the disciplines of organizational communication, music theory, literary studies, ... En savoir plus

    $62.99 CAD

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  • Love for Sale

    Pop Music in America

    par David Hajdu ...
    Named a Must-Read by Vanity Fair and BBC. "One of our sharpest music critics . . . recounts a life immersed in pop music. An engaging history." — The Wall Street JournalIn Love for Sale, David Hajdu—one of the most respected critics and music historians of our time—draws on a lifetime of listening, playing, and writing about music to show how pop has done much more than peddle fantasies... ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

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  • Black Diamond Queens

    African American Women and Rock and Roll

    par Maureen Mahon ...
    Collections series Refiguring American Music
    African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll—from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some of the genre's most iconic acts. Despite this, black women's importance to the music's history has been diminished by narratives of rock as a mostly white male enterprise. In Black Diamond Queens, Maureen Mahon draws on recordings, press coverage, ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • I Don't Sound Like Nobody

    Remaking Music in 1950s America

    par Albin Zak ...
    Collections series Tracking Pop
    "In Albin J. Zak III's highly original study, phonograph records are not just the medium for disseminating songs but musical works unto themselves. Fashioned from a mix of copyright law, recording studios and techniques, the talent of musicians and disc jockeys, the ingenuity and avarice of producers, and the appetites of record buyers, the all-powerful marketplace Zak describes is an unruly zone ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Top 40 Democracy

    The Rival Mainstreams of American Music

    par Eric Weisbard ...
    If you drive into any American city with the car stereo blasting, you'll undoubtedly find radio stations representing R&B/hip-hop, country, Top 40, adult contemporary, rock, and Latin, each playing hit after hit within that musical format. American music has created an array of rival mainstreams, complete with charts in multiple categories. Love it or hate it, the world that radio made has steered ... En savoir plus

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  • The Wrecking Crew

    The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret

    par Kent Hartman ...
    ***Winner of the Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction and Los Angeles Times bestseller"It makes good music sound better."-Janet Maslin in The New York Times***"A fascinating look into the West Coast recording studio scene of the '60s and the inside story of the music you heard on the radio. If you always assumed the musicians you listened to were the same people you saw onstage, you are in for ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

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  • We See Each Other

    A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film

    par Tre'vell Anderson ...
    A groundbreaking look at the history of transgender representation in TV and film, by an of-the-moment and in-demand culture reporter.WE SEE EACH OTHER is a personal history of trans visibility since the beginning of moving images. A literary reckoning, it unearths a transcestry that's long existed in plain sight and in the shadows of history's annals, and further contextualizes our present moment ... En savoir plus

    $36.83 CAD

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  • Paul Simon

    The Life

    par Robert Hilburn ...
    Acclaimed music writer Robert Hilburn’s “epic” and “definitive” (Rolling Stone) biography of music icon Paul Simon, written with Simon’s full participation—but without his editorial control—that “reminds us how titanic this musician is” (The Washington Post).For more than fifty years, Paul Simon has spoken to us in songs about alienation, doubt, resilience, and empathy in ways that have ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980–1983

    par Tim Lawrence ...
    As the 1970s gave way to the 80s, New York's party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hybridity. Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor chronicles this tumultuous time, charting the sonic and social eruptions that took place in the city’s subterranean party venues as well as the way they cultivated breakthrough movements in art, ... En savoir plus

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  • The Soundtrack of My Life

    par Clive Davis ...
    Music legend Clive Davis recounts an extraordinary five-decade career in the music business, while also telling a remarkable personal story of encounters with some of the greatest musical artists of our time, including Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Simon & Garfunkel, Barry Manilow, the Grateful Dead, Patti Smith, Whitney Houston, Carlos Santana, Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin, and Alicia Keys.Orphaned ... En savoir plus

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