Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Louisiana

Relaxing classical music featuring great orchestras, voices, and piano.

Nights in Vienna

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M. William Krasilovsky

Sidney Shemel

John Gross

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Indiana

A Practical Guide to the Music Industry for Publishers, Writers, Record Compani es, Producers, Artists, Agents

A guide to the music industry, including coverage of legal, financial and economic aspects. This eighth edition features material on such subjects as: music technology; contracts; the implications of the North American Free Trade Agreement; record clubs; digital audiotape; licensing; copyrights; work-for-hire rules; and show music. There is an appendix of standard industry forms and legal extracts, almost all of which have been updated for this edition.

This Business of Music

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Maryland

The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia

In the 1960s and early 70s rock and rebellion went arm in arm. This was the generation that angrily refused to grow up, to settle down. The Who captured the zeitgeist with precision: 'I hope I die before I get old.'

Yet, thirty years later, many of the icons of rock and roll's angry childhood are not only still alive but continue to haul themselves up on stage, limping through old standards with performances that have lost all edge and meaning. As the grizzled old men of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young undertake yet another tour, Cher makes her umpteenth comeback, and Yes grind out their old standards to punters at gambling resorts, John Strausbaugh reflects acidly on the declining charm of colostomy rock.

Strausbaugh interleaves acute reflections by commentators such as Ellen Willis, and legendary figures such as John Sinclair (manager of the notorious MC5) and Tuli Kupferberg of the Fugs, with his own take on the business of rock and roll. Intemperate and savvy, he rails at the timidity of Rolling Stone's hipster capitalism, the sterility of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the appalling prospect of the Stones heading out on the road again after live appearances that were dubbed the 'Steel Wheelchairs' tour. He talks to the engaging Giorgio Gromelsky, manager of the Yardbirds, about the early days of rock and roll in London, and to Soul Coughing founder Mike Doughty about how a younger generation of musicians see the business today.

Impassioned and opnionated, Rock Til You Drop is a rousing indictment of a musical generation which started out with pretensions to be world changers and ended up merely as short-changers of their original ideals. The publishers disclaim responsibility for any further medical deterioration of aging rock and rollers who read this book.

Rock 'Til You Drop

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Texas

An alphabetically arranged guide to performers, terms and musicals in the rock world.

The Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock and Soul

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Jennifer McKnight-Trontz

Minnesota

New Wave Album Covers

Why did Frankie say "Relax"? Did anyone really want to hurt Boy George? And why didn't anybody walk in L.A.? This Ain't No Disco can't answer all these head-scratchers, but it does bring the New Wave era back with page after totally awesome page of 300 of the best album covers. This rad collection includes covers from the late 1970s to the mid-'80s and will have true believers of a certain generation totally spazzing. New Wave was defined as much by style, fashion, and graphic design as the music itselfwitness the ruffled cuffs and heavy makeup of the New Romantics, the skinny ties and peg-pants of the neo-Mods, and the unsettling robotic personae of Devo and Gary Numan. Bursting with wild hairstyles, futuristic typography, pastel shapes, and outlandish clothing, these are the album covers that defined an era and continue to influence music and fashion styles today. A nostalgic trek with a mental soundtrack, This Ain't No Disco will inspire readers to don those rubber bracelets once again and proclaim, "Let's dance this mess around!"

This Ain't No Disco

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Oklahoma

The Four Seasons

This edition is a reproduction of the first edition of The Four Seasons book. A compact disc of the music is accompanied by the sonnets which inspired the concertos and the artwork of Vivaldi's Venice. Rococo illustrations from The Metropolitan Museum of Art capture the allure of Venice.

Antonio Vivaldi  (First Edition)

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Vol 4

Elizabet Martinez - Simplemente Audio CD

Vol 3

Elizabet Martinez  - Lagrimas Audio CD

Vol 1

Elizabet Martinez - Te Alabo Audio CD

A Night of Extravagant Worship 

Paul Wilbur Live (DVD)

Sowmya Krishnamurthy

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Illinois

How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion

A cinematic narrative of glamour, grit, luxury, and luck, Fashion Killa draws on exclusive interviews with the leaders of the fashion world to tell the story of the hip-hop artists, designers, stylists, and unsung heroes who fought the power and reinvented style around the world over the last fifty years. Set in the sartorial scenes of New York, Paris, and Milan, journalist Sowmya Krishnamurthy’s reporting on the intersecting histories of hip-hop and contemporary fashion focuses on the risk takers and rebels—the artists, designers, stylists, models, and tastemakers—who challenged a systemic power structure and historically reinvented the world of haute couture. Fashion Killa is a classic tale of a modern renaissance; of an exclusionary industry gate-crashed by innovators; of impresarios—Sean “Diddy” Combs, Dapper Dan, Virgil Abloh—hoisting hip-hop from the streets to the stratosphere; of supernovas—Lil’ Kim, Cardi B, and Megan Thee Stallion—allying with kingmakers—Anna Wintour, Donatella Versace, and Ralph Lauren; of traditionalist fashion houses—Louis Vuitton, Fendi, and Saint Laurent—transformed into temples of rap gods like Kanye West, Nicki Minaj, and Travis Scott. Krishnamurthy explores the connections between the DIY hip-hop scene and the exclusive upper-echelons of high fashion. She tracks the influence of music and streetwear on the most exclusive (and exclusionary) luxury brands. At the intersection of cultural commentary and oral history, Fashion Killa commemorates the contributions of hip-hop to music, fashion, and our culture at large.

Fashion Killa ARC

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Christ for the Nations DVD

Overtaken

Ohio

One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut

The best-selling author of Love Is a Mix Tape traces his adolescence in the 1980s, a journey during which pop culture trends marked his transformation from a reclusive geek to an independent young man with a first girlfriend.

Talking to Girls about Duran Duran

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New Jersey

A listeners guide

A short history of Western music

Chris Thomas King

Virginia

The Authentic Narrative of My Music and Culture

All prior histories on the blues have alleged it originated on plantations in the Mississippi Delta. Not true, says author Chris Thomas King. In The Blues, King present facts to disprove such myths. For example, that as early as 1900, the sound of the blues was ubiquitous in New Orleans. The Mississippi Delta, meanwhile, was an unpopulated sportsman's paradise--the frontier was still in the process of being cleared and drained for cultivation. Moreover, this book is the first to argue the blues began as a cosmopolitan art form, not a rural one. Protestant states such as Mississippi and Alabama could not have incubated the blues. New Orleans was the only place in the Deep South where the sacred and profane could party together without fear of persecution. Expecting these findings to be controversial in some circles, King has buttressed his conclusions with primary sources and years of extensive research, including a sojourn to West Africa and interviews with surviving folklorists and blues researchers from the 1960s folk-rediscovery epoch. They say the blues is blasphemous; the devil's music--King says they're unenlightened. Blues music is about personal freedom.

The Blues

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How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be

The full and unbridled inside story of the last twenty years of country music through the lens of Maren Morris, Mickey Guyton, and Kacey Musgraves--their peers and inspirations, their paths to stardom, and their battles against a deeply embedded boys' club, as well as their efforts to transform the genre into a more inclusive place for all (and not just white men in trucker hats), as told by award-winning Nashville journalist Marissa R. Moss.

It was only two decades ago, but, for the women of country music, 1999 seems like an entirely different universe. With Shania Twain, country's biggest award winner and star, and The Chicks topping every chart, country music was a woman's world: specifically, country radio and Nashville's Music Row.

Cut to 2021, when women are only played on country radio 16% of the time, on a good day, and when only men have won Entertainer of the Year at the CMA Awards for a decade. To a world where artists like Kacey Musgraves sell out arenas but barely score a single second of airplay. But also to a world where these women are infinitely bigger live draws than most male counterparts, having massive pop crossover hits like Maren Morris's "The Middle," pushing the industry to confront its deeply embedded racial biases with Mickey Guyton's "Black Like Me," winning heaps of Grammy nominations, banding up in supergroups like The Highwomen and taking complete control of their own careers, on their own terms. When the rules stopped working for the women of country music, they threw them out and made their own: and changed the genre forever, and for better.

Her Country is veteran Nashville journalist Marissa R. Moss's story of how in the past two decades, country's women fought back against systems designed to keep them down, armed with their art and never willing to just shut up and sing: how women like Kacey, Mickey, Maren, The Chicks, Miranda Lambert, Rissi Palmer, Brandy Clark, LeAnn Rimes, Brandi Carlile, Margo Price and many more have reinvented the rules to find their place in an industry stacked against them, how they've ruled the century when it comes to artistic output--and about how women can and do belong in the mainstream of country music, even if their voices aren't being heard as loudly.

Her Country

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Laban Carrick Hill

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DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop

A John Steptoe New Talent Award Winner

Before there was hip hop, there was DJ Kool Herc.

On a hot day at the end of summer in 1973 Cindy Campbell threw a back-to-school party at a park in the South Bronx. Her brother, Clive Campbell, spun the records. He had a new way of playing the music to make the breaks--the musical interludes between verses--longer for dancing. He called himself DJ Kool Herc and this is When the Beat Was Born. From his childhood in Jamaica to his youth in the Bronx, Laban Carrick Hill's book tells how Kool Herc came to be a DJ, how kids in gangs stopped fighting in order to breakdance, and how the music he invented went on to define a culture and transform the world.

When the Beat Was Born

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Scarlett Russell

Cancelled library book. Catalog taping across bottom of spine. Library barcode sticker on top of back. Deactivated magnet on inner back jacket. Pages in amazing shape. Crisp, clean, devoid of dog ears. Subtle wear on spine. Great condition all around. Please see photos for reference.

Live Life the Billie Eilish Way

The ultimate guide to living your life to the fullest, featuring full-color illustrations and lessons inspired by multiple Grammy Award-winning musical phenomenon Billie Eilish. "I hope to show people that they shouldn't care what other people think of them. I am really weird and, you know what? I like it, it's special to me, and it's fun to be weird. It's you and it's your life. Do what you want."--Billie Eilish With her trademark neon hair, imaginative, fashion-forward outfits, and thought-provoking lyrics, Billie Eilish refuses to conform to others' expectations of what a young, female pop star should look and sound like. Billie refuses to be labeled, restricted, or dismissed by anyone. An instant internet sensation, she quickly reached the pinnacle of pop culture success. Only eighteen years old, she's already won four Grammy awards (Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year), is the youngest artist to record a James Bond theme song, and has graced the cover of Vogue magazine. Billie's fans admire her ability to challenge the status quo and rewrite the rules. An iconoclast who lays down her own beat, she's become the ultimate role model for today's youth, inspiring them live their lives with purpose and no regrets. Be Bad, Be Bold, Be Billie captures the essence of this extraordinary artist and influencer and the values she embodies: learning to be yourself, standing up for what you believe, and dealing with haters. Scarlett Russell explores Billie's incredible journey to stardom and offers insights and tips on how to adopt her poise and DGAF attitude to get where you want to be. Designed to reflect her distinctive style, Be Bad, Be Bold, Be Billie contains inspiring quotes from Billie and provides interactive exercises and activities to help you: Learn how to amplify your voice and make a difference in the world Identify your strengths and harness them to become your ultimate badass self Create a vision board to achieve what you want in your personal and professional life Practice self-acceptance to improve your overall emotional well-being Discover the perfect Billie song to match your mood A celebration of Billie Eilish's attitude, creativity, and commitment to her art, Be Bad, Be Bold, Be Billie is for anybody wanting a bit more Billie in their lives.

Be Bad, Be Bold, Be Billie

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Ben Folds

Alabama

A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the genre-defying icon Ben Folds comes a memoir that is as nuanced, witty, and relatable as his cult-classic songs.

"A Dream About Lightning Bugs reads like its author: intelligent, curious, unapologetically punk, and funny as hell."--Sara Bareilles

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND PASTE

Ben Folds is a celebrated American singer-songwriter, beloved for songs such as "Brick," "You Don't Know Me," "Rockin' the Suburbs," and "The Luckiest," and is the former frontman of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five. But Folds will be the first to tell you he's an unconventional icon, more normcore than hardcore. Now, in his first book, Folds looks back at his life so far in a charming and wise chronicle of his artistic coming of age, infused with the wry observations of a natural storyteller. 

In the title chapter, "A Dream About Lightning Bugs," Folds recalls his earliest childhood dream--and realizes how much it influenced his understanding of what it means to be an artist. In "Measure Twice, Cut Once" he learns to resist the urge to skip steps during the creative process. In "Hall Pass" he recounts his 1970s North Carolina working-class childhood, and in "Cheap Lessons" he returns to the painful life lessons he learned the hard way--but that luckily didn't kill him. 

In his inimitable voice, both relatable and thought-provoking, Folds digs deep into the life experiences that shaped him, imparting hard-earned wisdom about both art and life. Collectively, these stories embody the message Folds has been singing about for years: Smile like you've got nothing to prove, because it hurts to grow up, and life flies by in seconds.

Praise for A Dream About Lightning Bugs
 
"Besides being super talented, and an incredibly poignant and multifaceted musician, Ben Folds is a fantastic author. I couldn't put this book down--and not just because I taped it to my hand. Ben takes us into his mind and into his process from the very beginnings of his childhood to where he is today--one of the greatest musicians and writers that has ever graced the art."--Bob Saget

A Dream about Lightning Bugs

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Norman Lebrecht

Delaware

Hundreds of Classic and Little-Known Stories about the World's Greatest Composers and Performers

A collection of anecdotes about great composers and performers, as told by themselves, their friends and loved ones, and their colleagues; arranged chronologically by date of birth, from approximately 991 to 1928.

The Book of Musical Anecdotes

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#hardcover #burninguptour #joejonas #jonasbrothers #music #musicians #kevinjonas #boybands 

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Tennessee

On Tour with the Jonas Brothers

Burning Up: On Tour with the Jonas Brothers is your backstage pass to life with Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas. It includes never-before-seen photos of the Jonas Brothers' Look Me in the Eyes tour and exclusive images taken during Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus's Best of Both Worlds tour. You'll get a behind-the-scenes look at the band warming up, performing, and having fun backstage.
This sizzling souvenir will also give you a glimpse of the downtime that the brothers have between gigs. In addition to pictures of the group laying down tracks at the recording studio for A Little Bit Longer, giving radio interviews, and sight-seeing in London, you'll see snap-shots of them bowling, racing Go-karts, and playing video games with the Bonus Jonas, younger brother Frankie.
The dynamic photography is accompanied by a candid narrative by the Jonas Brothers themselves, chronicling their life on the road and their experiences growing up in the music world. They discuss everything from the songwriting process to the importance of family to their favorite kind of ice cream (Kevin's is rocky road!) So pick up your guitar and get ready to strum along--you're going on tour with the Jonas Brothers!

Burning Up

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California

Past, Present, and Future--the Definitive Biography of U2

Unforgettable Fire

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Alice Hudson

Malcolm MacKenzie

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New York

Songbird

These unofficial celebrity books are the perfect must-have item for every fan and pop-culture connoisseur. These books contain facts, images, historical and biographical information of interest to those with even a casual fascination with these popular icons. The books are beautifully hardbound with glitter and gloss and are sure to make an impression in any retail environment or any coffee table.

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