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More Important Than the Music A History of Jazz Discography
Bitten by the Blues The Alligator Records Story
Bruce Iglauer and Patrick A. Roberts “In what is simultaneously a coming-of-age story; an elegy for a bygone, grittier Chicago; and a case study on the many ways the color barrier was crossed musically in the mid-twentieth century, Iglauer and Roberts contextualize the blues’ story as America’s.”—Booklist 2018 352 p. 6 x 9 30 halftones 285 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-12990-7 $30.00 Your Price: $11.00
I Feel So Good
The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy
Bob Riesman “[Broonzy] was one of the most celebrated blues artists of his era, a visionary Chicago singer-songwriter who mentored Muddy Waters, introduced the music to Europe and inspired no less than Eric Clapton, Ray Davies and Pete Townshend. . . . Riesman pieces together fragments of a hitherto under-documented life.”—Chicago Tribune 2011 366 p. 6 x 9 31 halftones 286 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-71745-6 $27.50 Your Price: $8.00
Blue Notes in Black and White Photography and Jazz
Benjamin Cawthra “This first in-depth history of jazz photography provides the reader with a three-dimensional view of its fascinating subject, illuminating the music, the media, and the makers.” —Dan Morgenstern, author of Living with Jazz
Bruce D. Epperson “Traces the evolution of jazz discography from its humble beginnings as a hobbyist’s pastime and skillfully analyzes the issues confronting all discographers, past, present, and future—from plagiarism, copyright issues, and validity of sources to adaptation in the digital age.”—Allan Sutton, author of A Phonograph in Every Home 2013 304 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones 290 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-06753-7 $48.00 Your Price: $13.00
Wherever the Sound Takes You
Heroics and Heartbreak in Music Making
David Rowell “A wide-ranging exploration of the hold that music has on so many of us . . . By focusing so narrowly—e.g., on the “hang,” an obscure, expensive instrument in Switzerland, the popular rise and decline of the Hammond organ, or the cult appeal of musical aggression known as “grindcore”—Rowell offers revelations that seem universal, if often ineffable. . . . Every story concerns music, but the heart of each is people—the ones who make the music or the instruments and the ones whose lives depend on it.”—Kirkus 2019 248 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 291 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-47755-8 $22.50 Your Price: $10.00
Our Musicals, Ourselves A Social History of the American Musical Theatre
John Bush Jones “By looking at the entire continuum of musicals as a single ongoing dialog between Broadway and America, the book serves up fresh insights and eyebrow-raising parallels on each page. It starts in the nineteenth century and runs right up 2001’s Urinetown, from which it concludes that the political musical remains alive and well.”—Playbill Distributed for Brandeis University Press
2011 392 p. 7 x 10 65 halftones 287 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-09875-3 $45.00 Your Price: $11.00
2004 426 p. 6 x 91/4 292 Paper ISBN: 978-0-87451-904-4 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00
Duke Ellington’s America
Pick Up the Pieces
Harvey G. Cohen “Duke Ellington’s America attempts to get under the skin of this apparently most imperturbable of men, and the results, if hardly conclusive, are fascinating. . . . An extremely intelligent and formidably documented book.”—New Yorker 2010 720 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 288 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-11263-3 $43.00 Your Price: $11.00 289 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-11264-0 $22.50 Your Price: $8.00
Excursions in Seventies Music
John Corbett “[A] thoroughly enjoyable—and gorgeously written—joy ride down his version of 1970s memory lane. . . . Music lovers are sure to enjoy Corbett’s delightful book about a fascinating, often misunderstood time of musical innovation.” —Booklist
2019 496 p. 6 x 9 293 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-60473-2 $30.00 Your Price: $13.00
Rave On
Global Adventures in Electronic Dance Music
Matthew Collin “Here are ten x-rays of dance culture in ten global hotspots that lovingly trace the history of each locale’s sound through its DJs, promoters and proponents . . . . Both scholarly and intimate . . . . Collin’s quest is never short of illuminating.” —Observer 2018 384 p. 6 x 9 13 halftones 294 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-59548-1 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00
The Reverb Series from Reaktion Books This series explores the cultural and historical significance of music.
Peter Gabriel Global Citizen
Paul Hegarty “So much more than a biography of the Genesis founder and world music pioneer, Hegarty’s study focuses on Gabriel’s art taken as a whole, and what it tells us about being in a particular place at a particular time, be it Seventies England, Eighties New York, or the global mixing pot of Womad.”—Choice 2018 248 p. 5 3/4 x 81/4 25 halftones 295 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-976-7 $16.00 Your Price: $7.00
Jimi Hendrix Soundscapes
Marie-Paule Macdonald Macdonald follows Hendrix from the Pacific Northwest to the California coast to New York City, from his musical beginnings as a youth in Seattle to his launch, touring career, and up until his last weeks in London. Crackling with the electrifying sound of explosive creativity, Jimi Hendrix explores place and space to offer fascinating new insight into Hendrix’s resounding talent. 2015 224 p. 6 x 81/4 35 halftones 296 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-530-1 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00
Neil Young
American Traveller
Martin Halliwell “Halliwell’s study of Neil Young is a superb cultural history and a highly informed piece of music criticism. By situating Young’s songs and films in specific locations, as well as the deterritorialised realms of time and space, Halliwell explores the boundarysmashing nature of a 50-year career that has transformed the history of North American music.”—Will Kaufman, author of Woody Guthrie, American Radical 2015 224 p. 6 x 81/4 35 halftones 297 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-531-8 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00
