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Explore the best music books, including captivating reads about music, piano books, and songbooks. Find bestsellers and top-recommended music books at our online bookstore.
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Orbit: Mötley Crüe: Livin' the Fast LifeThe band known as much for their talent onstage as their antics offstage, Mötley Crüe epitomized the drug-fueled, sex-riddled excess of 1980's metal acts. In the process, they forged a rock dynasty few other bands have been able to achieve. Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee,...
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Audio Mastering Secrets: The Pros Don't Want You To Know!The #1 Best Selling Audio Mastering Book The Last Three Years Combined!If you're into audio engineering, this is a great music production book to add to your home recording studio collection. Packed with step-by-step proven methods.Audio Mastering Secrets is the first audio mastering books...
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Quick How to Read MusicFor musicians, by musicians, the latest guide by the best-selling music learning author Jake Jackson. A new compact format from best-selling music author Jake Jackson. A clear, simple, direct solution for anyone learning any instrument, particularly the guitar or keyboard, and for those needing...
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The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck: The Gentleman Preferred BlondesBeginning with The Jazz Singer (1927) and 42nd Street (1933), legendary Hollywood film producer Darryl F. Zanuck (1902-1979) revolutionized the movie musical, cementing its place in American popular culture. Zanuck, who got his start writing stories and scripts in the silent film era, worked...
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Nothing But Noise: Timbre and Musical Meaning at the EdgeNothing but Noise: Timbre and Musical Meaning at the Edge explores how timbre shapes musical affect and meaning. Integrating perspectives from musicology with the cognitive sciences, author Zachary Wallmark advances a novel model of timbre interpretation that takes into account the bodily, sensorimotor dynamics...
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Rock 'n' Roll Plays Itself: A Screen HistoryA raucous cultural history of rock's relationship with the moving image. When rock 'n' roll burst into life in the 1950s, the shockwaves echoed around the world, amplified by images of untamed youth projected on cinema screens. But for the performers themselves, corporate showbusiness...
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Wake Up, Mr. West: Kanye West and the Double Consciousness of Black CelebrityBlack celebrities in America have always walked a precarious line between their perceived status as spokespersons for their race and their own individual success----and between being not black enough for the black community or too black to appeal to a broader audience. Few know...
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The Politics of Vibration: Music as a Cosmopolitical PracticeIn The Politics of Vibration Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration. Focusing on the work of three contemporary musicians-Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Pran Nath, Swedish drone composer and philosopher Catherine Christer Hennix, and Houston-based hip-hop musician DJ Screw-Boon outlines how...
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Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial PowerIn this deep dive into the Jamaican music world filled with the voices of creators, producers, and consumers, Larisa Kingston Mann--DJ, media law expert, and ethnographer--identifies how a culture of collaboration lies at the heart of Jamaican creative practices and legal personhood. In street...
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Music in Black American Life, 1600-1945: A University of Illinois Press AnthologyThis first volume of Music in Black American Life collects research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and the Black Music Research Journal, and in the University of Illinois Press's acclaimed book series Music in American Life. In these selections,...
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Queen in 3-DIn Brian May's own words and more than 300 previously unseen 3-D photographs, Queen in 3-D is an insider's look at life with the rock band Queen, told for the first time. The pictures and self-penned text tell the story of Brian's discovery of...
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Music in the Westward Expansion: Songs of Heart and Place on the American FrontierOver 400,000 people moved their families in search of a better life in the American West during the Westward Expansion. The pioneers made room for musical instruments with their guns, food, and tools, while taking only the minimal necessities that would fit into modest...
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NoMeansNo: Going NowhereNoMeansNo: Going Nowhere looks at a band whose career has spanned three decades, 14 albums and produced an alter ego that's become as much a part of the Canadian consciousness as SCTV. Through interviews with band members, bit players and fans, the book will...
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Yuming's the 14th MoonIt is not an exaggeration that Matsutoya Yumi-better known by her stage name Yuming-is one of the most influential figures in Japanese popular music history. A singer-songwriter recognized globally for her songs used in Miyazaki Hayao's beloved animations, Yuming has captured the hearts of...
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Judas Priest: Turbo 'til NowIn the follow-up to his Judas Priest: Decade of Domination book, which looked at the band's career from inception through the Defenders of the Faith album of 1984, Martin Popoff now tackles the band's incendiary "hair metal" years through to the triumphant return to...
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Korn: Every Album, Every SongRising to prominence in 1994 on the back of their eponymous debut album, Korn ushered in a new sound within heavy metal which many would try and imitate in the years that followed. Earning themselves the title of "The Godfathers of Nu Metal", the...
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The Harlem RenaissanceThe music, literature, and culture that came out of the Harlem Renaissance is still celebrated today--and continues to influence art around the world. This book explores the people and places that made the era so important. The Racial Justice in America: Excellence and Achievement...
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Dinosaur RapGet movin' and groovin' with 7 dancing dinosaurs! With funky lyrics and a catchy rap performance, this rhythmic romp encourages safe and exciting creative movements that are sure to inspire pretend play. Colorful artwork by bestselling Animal Boogie illustrator Debbie Harter and 6 pages...
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cinderella: Piano/Vocal Selections Based on the Original Album Recording(Vocal Selections). Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation of the classic Cinderella fairy tale premiered in London's West End in 2021. This songbook features standard piano/vocal arrangements with melody in the piano part for 18 songs from the production: Bad Cinderella * Beauty Has a...
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Aim To Reach: Poetry, Recovery, + Punk Rock StoriesBrien Stewart is a musician and artist who has been active in the Washington DC/Virginia music scene for the past 35 years. Currently the lead singer of the Punk Rock band RUIN BY DESIGN, his music career started as a founding member and original...
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