BEST MUSIC WRITING 2008 by CARR AND GEORGE
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Category: Music
Best music writing is the definitive guide to the year in music writing, an annual feast of essays, missives, and musings on every musical style by critics, novelists, and musicians themselves. Culled from publications ranging from blogs to the New Yorker, the 2008 edition captures a year in music writ ...Show more
R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz, and Country
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Category: Music
For over three decades R. Crumb has shocked, entertained, titillated and challenged the imaginations (and the inhibitions) of comics fans the world over. The acknowledged father of "underground comix," Crumb is the single greatest influence on the alternative comics of today. The three companion sets of ...Show more
I'd Rather be the Devil: Skip James and the Blues by Stephen Calt
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Category: Music
Offering a look into the life of one of the greatest Mississippi bluesmen, this book presents a biography of the late Skip James. It draws on conversations with James himself, and paints a dark and unforgettable portrait of a man untroubled by his own murderous inclinations, and a man who achieved one m ...Show more
Hang the DJ: An Alternative Book of Music Lists by Federation of Children's Book Groups
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Category: Music
From personal blogs to end of year critic polls; from the films of Quentin Tarantino to the books of Nick Hornby; music fans have always loved to compile and to indulge, to collect and to hoard. Mixing anecdote, humour, reference and quality anorak behaviour, "Hang the DJ" is a collection of lists about ...Show more
Soul Rebel: An Intimate Portrait of Bob Marley by David Burnett
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Category: Music
On assignment in Jamaica for 'Time' magazine, photojournalist David Burnett first photographed Bob Marley in 1976 and continued to document the reggae legend on the Exodus tour throughout Europe during the spring of 1977. Burnett's vision coupled with Marley's larger-than-life charisma resulted in this ...Show more
Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector by Mick Brown
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Category: Music
In 2002, the reclusive and legendary record producer Phil Spector gave his first interview in twenty-five years to Mick Brown. The day after it was published, an actress named Lana Clarkson was shot dead in Spector's LA castle. This is Brown's odyssey into the strange life and times of Phil Spector. Beg ...Show more
Black and Proud by Geoff Brown
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Category: Music
This book is a definitive biography of James Brown, an extraordinary and controversial superstar, that encompasses his entire life until his death on Christmas Day 2006. For decades, James Brown dominated the changing face of post-war popular black music. Others have been as inspirational in the short t ...Show more
Satchmo by Steven Brower
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Category: Music
The quintessential American artist Louis Armstrong was born in 1901 in New Orleans and died in 1971 in New York City, where he had lived for many years in a modest house in Queens. The house is now a museum in his honour. It is generally accepted that he was the single greatest creative artist in the hi ...Show more
Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King by Lloyd Bradley
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Category: Music
Presents an account of the history of reggae. This book describes reggae's origins and development in Jamaica, from ska to rock-steady to dub and to reggae itself, a local music which conquered the world. It relates the story of reggae to the history of Jamaica, from Colonial Island to troubled independ ...Show more
noise of the world: non-western musicans in their own words by Bordowitz Hank
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Category: Music
One of the most comprehensive accounts to date, Noise of the World is the authentic story of a burgeoning world music scene, as told by its most seminal artists. Drawing on 20 years of original interviews, music journalist Hank Bordowitz presents the fascinating commentary of world music's most pivotal ...Show more
Moonage Daydream by BOWIE David
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Category: Music
This is the most complete, detailed exploration of one of rock n rolls creations, Ziggy Stardust. This book features more than 600 photographs selected from Mick Rock's vast archive.