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Music: styles & genres

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Music: styles & genres

Paperback. Manic Street Preachers were and remain one of the most interesting, significant, and best-loved bands of the past thirty years. Their third album The Holy Bible (1994) is generally acknowledged to be their most enduring and fascinating work, and one of the most compelling and challenging records of the nineties. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 34. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Repeater
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910924983
ISBN
9781910924983
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.01

Paperback. By the time Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, and Michael Clarke entered the studio to begin work on this album, they were falling apart at the seams. The fact that it turned out to be one of the defining albums of the 60s psychedelic pop experience was either a sheer stroke of luck, or testament to McGuinn and Hillman's determination. Series: 33 1/3. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; AVGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 122 x 8. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Continuum
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826417176
ISBN
9780826417176
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.72

Paperback. A panoramic, stylish narrative history of the Rolling Stones, viewed through the impassioned and opinionated lens of Vanity Fair contributor Rich Cohen, who traveled with the band in the 1990s as a reporter for Rolling Stone Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: AVGP; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472218049
ISBN
9781472218049
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AVGL; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 294.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062309921
ISBN
9780062309921
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.52

Paperback. From 1958 to 1963, Neil Sedaka sold 25 million records - more than anyone except Elvis Presley. He thought he could do no wrong, but a year later he was all but off the charts, swept away by The Beatles and the British Invasion - a blow he never saw coming. The deejays stopped playing his records, and the public stopped buying them. Num Pages: 256 pages, 40 Black and White Illustrations in Plate Section. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 660.
Publisher
Outline Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908279422
ISBN
9781908279422
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.75

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252077098
ISBN
9780252077098
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.38

Paperback. This work traces the development of country music and its institutionalization from Fiddlin' John Carson's pioneering recordings in Atlanta in 1923 to the posthumous success of Hank Williams. The book also explores what it means to be authentic within popular culture. Num Pages: 320 pages, 37 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGL; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 233 x 36. Weight in Grams: 622.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226662855
ISBN
9780226662855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.79

Paperback. Great fun, this illustrated, fact-filled trivia guidebook to the first decade of rock & roll, breezily written (but painstakingly accurate), will take the baby boomer down a musical memory lane strewn with genuine "golden-oldies." Series: Music in American Life. Num Pages: 424 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; AVGP; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5893 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 700.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252069192
ISBN
9780252069192
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.07

Paperback. Serving as an A-Z guide to the artists and bands who have shaped jazz, this work tracks the history of jazz and its changing styles. Num Pages: 704 pages, No. BIC Classification: AVGJ; GB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 478.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
704
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141026466
ISBN
9780141026466
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 23.65

Paperback. Renaissance music in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts. Series Editor(s): Frisch, Walter. Series: Western Music in Context: A Norton History. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 546.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393929164
ISBN
9780393929164
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.49

Paperback. A concise anthology including a wide range of Renaissance music. Series Editor(s): Frisch, Walter. Series: Western Music in Context: A Norton History. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 178 x 10. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
175
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393920192
ISBN
9780393920192
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 46.36

Paperback. This anthology is designed to accompany Medieval Music, the initial offering in the Norton Introduction to Music History series. It will also undoubtedly provide a welcome addition to the heretofore severely limited repertoire of medieval pieces available in contemporary notation. Editor(s): Hoppin, Richard H. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: AVGC1; AVGC2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Edition
1st ptg thus
Number of pages
177
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393090802
ISBN
9780393090802
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 43.15

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: AVGU; AVH; BGF; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 204 x 20. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062190840
ISBN
9780062190840
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.70

Paperback. Despite Warner Brothers Records' conviction that it had mid-wifed the American equivalent of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, "Song Cycle" wasn't rock music, and it didn't sell like rock music. This title offers an intelligent take on a classic left-field album. Series: 33 1/3. Num Pages: 144 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 120 x 9. Weight in Grams: 140. Series: 33 1/3. 144 pages, Illustrations. Despite Warner Brothers Records' conviction that it had mid-wifed the American equivalent of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, "Song Cycle" wasn't rock music, and it didn't sell like rock music. This title offers an intelligent take on a classic left-field album. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AVA; AVGP. Dimension: 166 x 120 x 9. Weight: 140.
Publisher
Continuum
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826429179
ISBN
9780826429179
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.65

Paperback. A romantic account of the several years that the author spent working behind the counter at Bristol's Revolver Records - a business run from the heart rather than the head. It evokes a golden moment in British cultural history, and celebrates the magical abandon that music offers us. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWS; 3JJPN; AVGP; BM; KNTF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 204.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571311804
ISBN
9780571311804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.07

Paperback. Argues that Schubert envisioned many songs as components of cyclical arrangements that were never published as such. By studying Schubert's original manuscripts, Kramer recovers some of these "distant cycles" and accounts for idiosyncrasies in the songs which other analyses have failed to explain. Num Pages: 246 pages, 3 halftones, 80 musical examples, 4 tables. BIC Classification: AVGC4; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 173 x 243 x 16. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226452357
ISBN
9780226452357
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.13

Hardback. Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human character changed. This book addresses how music, the phonograph, and film served as cultural agents facilitating the many extraordinary social, artistic, and cultural shifts that characterized the new century and much of what followed long thereafter. Num Pages: 348 pages, 81 color, 61 b/w, 19 music examples, 4 tables. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 266 x 188 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1102.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520287372
ISBN
9780520287372
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.80
€ 54.49

Paperback. Studying Popular Music contends that popular music can be properly understood only through interdisciplinary study methods. He demonstrates this through a critical analysis of issues from the political economy of popular music, its history and ethnography, to its aesthetics and ideology. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, music. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; AVGF; AVGP; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publisher
Open University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780335152759
ISBN
9780335152759
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.00

Hardback. 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love and the emergence of psychedelic music 100 groundbreaking albums of the era - from the Beatles to the Grateful Dead and beyond All the facts, including line-ups, producers, studios and record labels The ultimate guide for all fans of the psychedelic music phenomenon Num Pages: 256 pages, 250 full-colour. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; AVGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 292 x 248. .
Publisher
Palazzo Editions Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781786750280
ISBN
9781786750280
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.00

Paperback. Herbert von Karajan was one of the twentieth century's most prodigiously gifted performing artists. This biography explores Karajan's life and music-making against the background of European music and politics in the years 1908 - 1989. Num Pages: 864 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC4; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 41. Weight in Grams: 860.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845952174
ISBN
9781845952174
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.76

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