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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
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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
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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
2011 392 p. 7 x 10 65 halftones 287 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-09875-3 $45.00
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Duke Ellington’s America
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
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289 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-11264-0 $22.50
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A History of Jazz Discography
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
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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
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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
2004 426 p. 6 x 91/4 292 Paper ISBN: 978-0-87451-904-4 $35.00
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Pick Up the Pieces
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
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
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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. 53/4 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
Robert Schumann’s Advice to Young Musicians
Revisited by Steven Isserlis
Robert Schumann
“Isserlis has taken Schumann’s aphorisms for young musicians and set them in a modern context from the point of view of one of today’s outstanding performers. The result is humorous, down-to-earth and quirky.”—Financial Times
2017 112 p. 51/2 x 81/2 60 line drawings 298 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-48274-3 $18.00
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Robert Schumann
The Life and Work of a Romantic Composer
Martin Geck
“This is the most balanced account of Schumann’s life and work for more than a generation, one that makes us want to re-listen to Schumann’s music, knowing better the man behind it.”—Wall Street Journal
2012 320 p. 6 x 9 23 halftones, 8 line drawings 299 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-28469-9 $35.00
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Beethoven’s Symphonies
Nine Approaches to Art and Ideas
Martin Geck
This book shapes a fascinating picture of the symphonies as an oeuvre and of Beethoven as a symphonist.
“[Offers] rich inspiration for hearing Beethoven anew.”—SWR2 Cluster, on the German edition
2017 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2 18 halftones 300 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-45388-0 $26.00
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Beethoven for a Later Age
Living with the String Quartets
Edward Dusinberre
“In this brief but beguiling book, Dusinberre . . . takes us inside the complexity of [Beethoven’s] masterpieces. . . . The glimpse Dusinberre gives us of their working is fascinating.”—Telegraph
2016 232 p. 51/2 x 81/2 14 line drawings 301 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-37436-9 $30.00
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A Portrait in Four Movements
The Chicago Symphony under Barenboim, Boulez, Haitink, and Muti
Andrew Patner
“Patner’s brilliantly evocative writing, informed by a magical combination of knowledge, passion, and wit, is combined with his unerring ability to persuade the four great maestri to share many observations of great insight. Totally engrossing.” —Anthony Freud, president of the Lyric Opera of Chicago
Searching for the Perfect Sound
David Rothenberg
“Intrepid, ever-curious, and creative philosophy professor, musician, and writer Rothenberg continues his unique and paradigm-altering inquiry into the music of other species. . . . Lush with literary allusions, Rothenberg’s enlightening and inspiring nightingale immersion attunes us to ‘the vast richness of natural soundscapes’ and the glory of life itself.”—Booklist
2019 184 p. 6 x 9 14 color plates, 14 halftones, 1 line drawing 303 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-46718-4 $26.00
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The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi
Abramo Basevi
“Basevi’s animated, highly opinionated writing makes for lively reading, and in documenting the views of one of the finest Italian critics of his day the book is invaluable.”—Opera
2013 304 p. 6 x 9 1 table 304 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-09491-5 $59.00
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Macbeth
Melodramma in Four Acts. Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
Giuseppe Verdi
Verdi had a special fondness for Macbeth, and the first version of his opera based on Shakespeare’s play is arguably the most important work of his formative years. Published in three volumes, this critical edition offers the most vivid and dramatic reading to date.
2005 612 p. 101/2 x 141/2 Three-volume set. Score (two volumes cloth); Commentary 305 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-85320-8 $534.00
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Nabucodonosor
Dramma Lirico in Four Parts by Temistocle Solera
Giuseppe Verdi
Nabucodonosor, one of the early Verdi operas, is available here as a two-volume set: a full orchestral score and a critical commentary that discusses editorial decisions and identifies the sources of alternate readings of the music and libretto.
1988 674 p. 101/2 x 141/2 Two-volume set. Score (one volume cloth); Commentary 306 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-85310-9 $534.00
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Music in the Culture of the Renaissance and Other Essays
Edward E. Lowinsky
“Professor Lowinsky’s method is the only kind of ‘writing about music’ that I value.”—Igor Stravinsky
1989 1024 p. 9 x 12 Two volumes. Volume 1: xxii, 432 p.; Volume 2: viii, 562 p., 16 color plates, 10 307 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-49478-4 $534.00
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O Sing unto the Lord
A History of English Church Music
Andrew Gant
“What, fundamentally, is the function of church music, and why have clerical authorities often been suspicious of how much attention music receives? Gant engages these questions in intelligent, energetic prose. . . . [This is] a book about people and the songs that many of us don’t even know that we know.” —Publishers Weekly
2017 464 p. 6 x 9 12 color plates, 16 halftones, 26 line drawings 308 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-46962-1 $35.00
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Bach
Martin Geck
“Geck’s fresh and penetrating portrait compels the reader.” —Süddeutsche Zeitung
Distributed for Haus Publishing
2005 176 p. 5 x 8 309 Paper ISBN: 978-1-904341-16-1 $15.95
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The Missouri Harmony Songbook
2005 Edition
Allen D Carden, Compiled by Wings of Song
The Missouri Harmony was the most popular of all frontier shape-note tune books. This updated version now contains more than 300 pages of original and traditional music.
Distributed for Missouri Historical Society Press
2005 384 p. 10 x 7 10 b&w illustrations 310 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-883982-54-6 $29.95
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Sacred Music from the Cathedral at Trent
Trent, Museo Provinciale d’Arte, Codex 1375 (olim 88)
Edited by Rebecca L. Gerber
2006 1222 p. 9 x 12 6 halftones, 1 table 311 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-28809-3 $448.00
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Masses for the Sistine Chapel
Vatican City, Biblioteca Aposotlica Vaticana, Cappella Sistina, MS 14
