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100 Best-selling Albums of the 70sby: Hamish Champ  - Product Image

100 Best-selling Albums of the 70s
by: Hamish Champ

Hardcover. San Diego, Thunder Bay Press , 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 224 pages. From singer-songwriters like Billy Joel and the Bee Gees to folk artists like John Denver and James Taylor to the rock legends Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin, you won't find a more complete list of albums that defines the '70s music scene. Each listing features the full-color, original sleeve artwork, and is packed with information about the musician lineup, track listings, and number-one singles that resulted. A celebration of this funky era. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 380133

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45 Rpmby: Drate, Spencer - Product Image

45 Rpm
by: Drate, Spencer

Softcover. New York , Princeton Architectural Press, 2nd printing, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated throughout in color. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. 45 RPM: A Visual History of the Seven-Inch Record celebrates a often overlooked, yet vital form of art, that of the seven inch sleeve. Not only are there more than 200 pictures display in this book, but an excellent history detailing the rise and fall of this format. There are basically five main chapters starting with the 50's all the way to the 90's. Each chapter is preceded by a written piece authored by different individuals, ranging from a record collector, renown sleeve artists, a music journalist and a music critic. Each provides thoughful, authorative, and interesting insights into the period of time they are introducing. The real meat is the pictures, and there are a lot of them.

Record # 350673

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Ace Records: Labels Unlimitedby: Stubbs, David - Product Image

Ace Records: Labels Unlimited
by: Stubbs, David

Softcover. London, Black Dog Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 190 pages, pictorial wrappers. Now the world's foremost blues, rockabilly, soul and rock 'n' roll reissue label, Ace Records has been responsible for unearthing lost classics and neglected pioneers for over three decades, and provided some of the finest and most influential records of the post-war era. Illustrated with many unseen archive photographs dating back to the 1920s, rare artwork and newspaper clippings. Written by established music journalist and author David Stubbs.

Record # 351664

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American Jukebox: A Photographic Journeyby: Felver, Christopher - Product Image

American Jukebox: A Photographic Journey
by: Felver, Christopher

Hardcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. A tight copy. Christopher Felver has collected over 240 photographs from tours and encounters with musicians over the past 25 years. From Doc Watson to John Cage and Mavis Staples to Sonny Rollins, this collection celebrates the tapestry and diversity of musical styles that make up the American sonic landscape.

Record # 353289

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Angels and Monsters  - Product Image

Angels and Monsters

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. "During its first two centuries, opera was dominated by sopranos. There were male sopranos, or castrati, whose supercharged voices (female vocal cords powered by male lungs) were capable of feats of vocalism that are hard to imagine today. And there were female sopranos, or prime donne, whose long battle for social acceptance and top billing was crowned in the early nineteenth century when the castrati disappeared from the opera stage and left them supreme.", "Whether they were male or female, these singers wre amazing vertuosi, perhaps the greatest singers there have ever been - "angels." Unfortunately, some of them (and often the most famous) were also capable of behaving extremely badly, both on and off stage - "monsters." This book tells their colorful stories." Clean copy.

Record # 379416

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Art of Clairtone, The: The Making of a Design Icon, 1958-1971by: Munk, Nina and Rachel Gotlieb - Product Image

Art of Clairtone, The: The Making of a Design Icon, 1958-1971
by: Munk, Nina and Rachel Gotlieb

Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A fully illustrated, stylish look back at the story behind a Canadian design icon. With 250 illustrations, including previously unpublished drawings, rare film stills, confidential memorandums, and original photography,The Art of Clairtone is a candid and in-depth look at the company's skyrocketing success and sensational collapse.

Record # 351629

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Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grungeby: Clinton Heylin - Product Image

Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grunge
by: Clinton Heylin

Hardcover. NY, Canongate , 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dustjacket, 694 pages. Destined to become a classic on the subject alongside Legs McNeil's Please Kill Me , Babylon's Burning is a groundbreaking, definitive account of punk rock, one of the most influential and lasting music movements in history--a movement that ironically was built on self-annihilation. Acclaimed critic Clinton Heylin seamlessly weaves together the lives of disparate artists who had in common not the music (there was no distribution) but the pictures, words, and fashions depicted in magazines like Creem and NME . It was a sound that eschewed conventional lyrics, promoted a gutteral musicality but yet contained a keen pop sensibility. Whether exploring the work of early progenitors like Suicide, The New York Dolls, and Patti Smith or charting the progress of the bands who legitimately took up the mantle in the eighties and nineties, Clinton Heylin brings to life the strands of a global artform. From the Sex Pistols's clarion call of a record, "Never Mind the Bollocks," to Kurt Cobain's songs of an alienated youth, Babylon's Burning is the brilliant, exhaustively researched story that once and for all defines what Punk is and is not.

Record # 374327

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Backstage Pass: Rock & Roll Photography (Portland Museum of Art)by: Levine, Laura - Product Image

Backstage Pass: Rock & Roll Photography (Portland Museum of Art)
by: Levine, Laura

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages, softcover. This striking collection of photographs features nearly every important figure in the world of rock & roll, from Elvis to Eric Clapton, the Beatles to Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix to John Coltrane. The more than fifty photographers who contribute to the volume are among the most talented in their field, including Lee Friedlander, Lynn Goldsmith, Bob Gruen, Mick Rock, and many more. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.

Record # 350012

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Been Here and Goneby: Ramsey, Jr., Frederic - Product Image

Been Here and Gone
by: Ramsey, Jr., Frederic

Hardcover. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 177 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Price clipped dust jacket with wear along edges - now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy. Report on the men and women who lived in the South and created work songs, spirituals, blues, and jazz.

Record # 611501

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Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792-1803by: Tia DeNora - Product Image

Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792-1803
by: Tia DeNora

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 232 pages. "Professor DeNora's achievement in placing Beethoven, and the reception of Beethoven's music, in social context is all the more impressive because it goes so much against the grain of conventional habits of thought. In illuminating how changing social institutions created opportunities for Beethoven to gain contemporary and posthumous recognition, and, in so doing, created new forms for thinking and talking about musical achievement-the author at once provides fresh insights into the institutional origins of 'classical' music and offers an exemplary contribution to the sociological study of the arts." Clean copy.

Record # 374294

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Broadway: The American Musicalby: Kantor, Michael and Laurence Maslon - Product Image

Broadway: The American Musical
by: Kantor, Michael and Laurence Maslon

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 470 pages, illustrated with over 500 color and b&w images including posters, programs, maps and other archival material. Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 351111

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Chasin' That Devil's Music,: Searching for the Blues (with CD)by: Gayle Dean Wardlow - Product Image

Chasin' That Devil's Music,: Searching for the Blues (with CD)
by: Gayle Dean Wardlow

Softcover. San Francisco, Backbeat Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 271 pages, b&w illustrations. Chasin' That Devil Music has the feel of a documentary about the making of a thrilling motion picture. The main focus is on the Delta blues singers of the early 20th century--artists such as Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, Son House, and Blind Lemon Jefferson who've achieved near-mythic status in blues circles. In addition, many of the articles gathered in this splendidly illustrated volume capture the process and people involved in tracking long-lost recordings nearly as elusive as the performers who made them. Here, for example, is the story of author/blues scholar Gayle Dean Wardlow's three-year hunt for the death certificate of Robert Johnson, the celebrated Mississippi bluesman and a figure whose legend has grown greater with each year since his much-debated death in 1938. The text here is nearly as raw in spots as the music that sparked it, but, as with those sounds (which can be heard on a terrific CD sampler included with the book), enthusiasts will find Chasin' That Devil Music riveting. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 374292

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Classic Rock Posters: Sixty Years of Posters and Flyers, 1952 to 2012by: Loren, Dennis - Product Image

Classic Rock Posters: Sixty Years of Posters and Flyers, 1952 to 2012
by: Loren, Dennis

Softcover. New York, Metro Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 272 page, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 350160

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Directory of Contemporary American Musical Instrument Makersby: Farrell, Susan Caust - Product Image

Directory of Contemporary American Musical Instrument Makers
by: Farrell, Susan Caust

Hardcover. Columbia MO, University of Missouri, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 216 pages. This unique reference book is a compendium of makers and manufacturers of every variety of musical instrument made in the United States circa 1981. It provides names and addresses of instrument makers indexed alphabetically. Each entry gives all known information on the total and annual number of instruments the maker has produced, the number of workers in the shop, the year the individual or firm began manufacturing instruments, whether the instruments are available on demand or made to order, and whether a brochure is available from the maker. Complete cross-references are provided for companies known by more than one name, for partnerships, and for parent and subsidiary firms. Instruments are also indexed, and makers are listed by state for the convenience of the reader. Lists of schools of instrument making and relevant organizations and publications are included as appendixes. An invaluable source of information for historians and for the rapidly growing number of collectors of musical instruments, who will be able to use the data gathered here in appraising instruments and tracing their history.

Record # 374335

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Double Lifeby: Rozsa, Miklos - Product Image

Double Life
by: Rozsa, Miklos

Hardcover. NY, Wynwood Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Rozsa was both a classical composer and extremely successful Hollywood film composer. Hence the title. He scored such films as Ben Hur, El Cid and Lust for Life and many others.

Record # 358389

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Encyclopedia Of The Violin, Anby: Bachmann, Alberto - Product Image

Encyclopedia Of The Violin, An
by: Bachmann, Alberto

Softcover. NY, Da Capo, 1st pbk, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 470 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edge wear to wrappers. Small stains on fore-edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451985

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Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music and Dance in New York, 1840-1917by: Cockrell, Dale - Product Image

Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music and Dance in New York, 1840-1917
by: Cockrell, Dale

Hardcover. New York, W.W Norton Co, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 Pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only marginal wear to edges.

Record # 2233157

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Fado and the Place of Longing: Loss, Memory and the Cityby: Elliott, Richard - Product Image

Fado and the Place of Longing: Loss, Memory and the City
by: Elliott, Richard

Hardcover. Burlington VT, Ashgate, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 245 pages, in a bright. unclipped dust jacket. Fado, often described as 'urban folk music', emerged from the streets of Lisbon in the mid-nineteenth century and went on to become Portugal's 'national' music during the twentieth. It is known for its strong emphasis on loss, memory and nostalgia within its song texts, which often refer to absent people and places. One of the main lyrical themes of fado is the city itself. Fado music has played a significant role in the interlacing of mythology, history, memory and regionalism in Portugal in the second half of the twentieth century. Richard Elliott considers the ways in which fado songs bear witness to the city of Lisbon, in relation to the construction and maintenance of the local. Elliott explores the ways in which fado acts as a cultural product reaffirming local identity via recourse to social memory and an imagined community, while also providing a distinctive cultural export for the dissemination of a 'remembered Portugal' on the global stage.

Record # 951417

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Fascinating Rhythm: The Collaboration of George and Ira Gershwin (SIGNED COPY)by: Deena Rosenberg - Product Image

Fascinating Rhythm: The Collaboration of George and Ira Gershwin (SIGNED COPY)
by: Deena Rosenberg

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 516 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. The enduring appeal of the music of George and Ira Gershwin has spawned several biographies of the talented brothers who created more than 700 popular songs before George's untimely death at age 39 in 1937--Ira died in 1983 at age 87. But never before has the collaboration itself been the subject of such intelligent and fruitful scrutiny as in this intriguing study. Rosenberg, chair of the musical theater program of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, has a gift for making scholarly points in accessible, albeit mundane language. Readers require no particular musical background in order to enjoy and respond to her original theories about the connections between George's music and Ira's lyrics. Points of comparison are frequently illustrated with side-by-side measures of music, and the striking thematic relationships between such songs as Embraceable You and The Man I Love are also compared dramatically to George's orchestral composition, including the well-known Rhapsody in Blue. This is a rich feast for music historians, musicians and connoisseurs of musical theater as well as inveterate hummers who like a Gershwin tune. Clean copy.

Record # 378636

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Felix Mendelssohn: His Life, His Family, His Musicby: Kupferberg, Herbert - Product Image

Felix Mendelssohn: His Life, His Family, His Music
by: Kupferberg, Herbert

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 176 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Dust jacket price clipped with slight rubbing, wear, sunning to edges and spine. Internally very good.

Record # 810173

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Great Haydn Quartets, Theby: Keller, Hans  - Product Image

Great Haydn Quartets, The
by: Keller, Hans

Hardcover. New York, George Brazziler , 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 253 pages. Light edgewear and sunning to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.This book offers analyses of 45 of Haydn's 60-odd string quartets with the aim of providing interpretive clues for performers. The author, an Austrian-born music critic who lived in England from 1938 until his death last year, had a life-long involvement with the string quartet as both player and teacher. Although Keller's scholarly credentials are not in question, many of his opinions and analytical remarks are both patronizing and debatable, as in the remark "it is impossible for a composer, however great, to write an intrinsic string quartet if he is not himself a quartet player."

Record # 810176

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Harlem 69 The Future of Soulby: Cosgrove, Stuart - Product Image

Harlem 69 The Future of Soul
by: Cosgrove, Stuart

Hardcover. London, Polygon, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 347 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Harlem, 1969, and the vibrant community around 125th Street is rife with creative innovation. Troubled genius Donny Hathaway, bandleader King Curtis, and Miles Davis and his visionary wife Betty Mabry are reinventing black music. Jimi Hendrix is staging a benefit concert in support of the Biafran famine victims, and helping him behind the scenes is flamboyant indie label owner and heroin kingpin, Fat Jack Taylor. The Apollo Theater is bringing the best of soul music to the crowded streets, and at the height of a blistering summer Harlem plays host to Black Woodstock, a series of free concerts starring Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder and Nina Simone.Meanwhile, a city-wide raid has led to the arrest of twenty-one members of the Black Panther Party - and ultimately to one of the most controversial trials of the era - and a heroin epidemic is spiralling out of control. Young people are dying on the streets of Harlem faster than the body count in Vietnam. Stuart Cosgrove's critically acclaimed trilogy began with Detroit 67 and was followed by Memphis 68, which won the Penderyn Prize for Music Book of the Year in 2018. Harlem 69 brings his epic story of sixties soul to its triumphant conclusion.

Record # 368858

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Historic Hymnists - A Portrait Gallery of Great Hymn Writersby: Nutter, Rev. Charles S. - Product Image

Historic Hymnists - A Portrait Gallery of Great Hymn Writers
by: Nutter, Rev. Charles S.

Hardcover. Boston, Charles S. Nutter, 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 208 pages. Black & white illustrations. Cloth covers show light rubbing at corners and edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608871

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Historical Account of The Church Hymnary: Revised Edition, Anby: Kinloch, T.F. - Product Image

Historical Account of The Church Hymnary: Revised Edition, An
by: Kinloch, T.F.

Hardcover. Cambridge, W. Heffer & Sons, Revised, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 94 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A few minor margin marks in pencil. Dark blue cover boards.

Record # 354128

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I Listen to the Wind that Obliterates My Traces: Music in Vernacular Photographs 1880-1955 (includes CDs)by: Roden, Steve (Editor) - Product Image

I Listen to the Wind that Obliterates My Traces: Music in Vernacular Photographs 1880-1955 (includes CDs)
by: Roden, Steve (Editor)

Hardcover. Atlanta, Georgia, Dust-to-Digital, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The images range from professional portraits to ethereal, accidental, double exposures - and include a range of photographic print processes, such as tintypes, ambrotypes, cdvs, cabinet cards, real photo postcards, albumen prints, and turn-of-the-century snapshots. The two CDs bring together a variety of recordings, including one-off amateur recordings, regular commercial releases, and early sound effects records. There is no narrative structure to the book, but the collision of literary quotes (Hamsun, Lagarkvist, Wordsworth, Nabakov, etc.). Recordings and images conspire towards a consistent mood that is anchored by the book s title, which binds such disparate things as an early recording of an American cowboy ballad, a poem by a Swedish Nobel laureate, a recording of crickets created artificially, and an image of an itinerant anonymous woman sitting in a field, playing a guitar. The book also contains an essay by Roden.

Record # 352264

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Jenny Lind in America (Jenny Lind's Tour Through America and Cuba)by: Rosenberg, C.G. - Product Image

Jenny Lind in America (Jenny Lind's Tour Through America and Cuba)
by: Rosenberg, C.G.

Hardcover. New York, Stringer & Townsend, 1st, 1851, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering, 226 pages. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Some pages show minor foxing. Light rubbing to corners and at top and base of spine. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 608323

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Jews on Tin Pan Alley: The Jewish Contribution to American Popular Music, 1830-1940 (SIGNED COPY)by: Kanter, Kenneth Aaron - Product Image

Jews on Tin Pan Alley: The Jewish Contribution to American Popular Music, 1830-1940 (SIGNED COPY)
by: Kanter, Kenneth Aaron

Hardcover. New York, Ktav Pub Inc, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 226 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page, with photographs throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 457049

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Leaving Home: A Conducted Tour of Twentieth-century Music with Simon Rattle by: Michael Hall - Product Image

Leaving Home: A Conducted Tour of Twentieth-century Music with Simon Rattle
by: Michael Hall

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Music's confrontation with modernity has been difficult, and has often involved the artist leaving his country for political and social reasons. In the company of a range of performers,this work reflects the difficulties encountered and the audiences' often reluctant attitude towards them.

Record # 378638

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Love in Vain: Robert Johnson, 1911-1938 by: DuPont, J. M.  - Product Image

Love in Vain: Robert Johnson, 1911-1938
by: DuPont, J. M.

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 72 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to edges. Black and white illustrations throughout by Mezzo. From 'Crossroads Blues' to 'Sweet Home Chicago', 'Hellhound on My Trail' to 'Come On In My Kitchen', Robert Johnson wrote some of the most enduring and formative songs of the original blues era, songs that would go on to help shape the birth of rock 'n' roll in the 1960s. Beloved of Clapton, Dylan and the Stones, Robert Johnson remains one of the most iconic and mythologized figures in popular music (and the first of many to die at the age of 27). Born in the in the South in Mississippi, Johnson made his way to the urban North as a traveling musician, but it was only when he returned to the South that he recorded the twenty-nine songs, in two sessions, which would create his legacy. Exploring the stories and legends that surround his life and death -- his childhood, his womanizing, his pact with the devil at the crossroads -- Mezzo and DuPont have produced a fittingly creative and beautiful depiction of this most extraordinary life.

Record # 353497

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Old English Songs from Various Sourcesby: Dobson (introduction by), Austin - Product Image

Old English Songs from Various Sources
by: Dobson (introduction by), Austin

Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co, 1st, 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 163 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by Hugh Thomson. Unfortunate foxing throughout text. Minor wear to illustrated boards with light soil to rear cover.

Record # 856820

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Old Violinsby: Haweis, Rev. H. R.  - Product Image

Old Violins
by: Haweis, Rev. H. R.

Hardcover. London, George Redway, 1st, 1898, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 292 pages, b&w illustrations. Green cloth wrappers w/ gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Rough-cut pages. Edge wear, rubbing, soiling to covers; spine yellowed. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851001

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One O'clock Jump: The Unforgettable History of the Oklahoma City Blue Devilsby: Daniels, Douglas H. - Product Image

One O'clock Jump: The Unforgettable History of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils
by: Daniels, Douglas H.

Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 274 pages. The legendary bandleader Count Basie once said of a Blue Devils performance, "It was the greatest thing I ever heard." Now, in One O'clock Jump, historian Douglas Henry Daniels tells the fascinating story of this incredible jazz band from Oklahoma City. Though the Blue Devils survived in various forms from 1923 to 1933, their legacy has been largely overlooked. Individuals who played with the band-including writer Ralph Ellison (as a teenager), trumpeter Oran "Hot Lips" Page, saxophonist Lester "Prez" Young, and bandleader Basie-went on to become celebrated artists of the twentieth century. Utilizing interviews -with the six surviving Blue Devils and with others- government records, and lively newspaper accounts of various performances, Daniels explains the importance of the band to both the individual musicians and the larger American cultural landscape.

Record # 374789

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PoPsie: American Popular Music Through The Camera Lens of William "PoPsie" Randolphby: Randolph, Michael - Product Image

PoPsie: American Popular Music Through The Camera Lens of William "PoPsie" Randolph
by: Randolph, Michael

Hardcover. Hal Leonard Corporation, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 226 pages. Haunting the recording studios, jam sessions, concert halls, and nightclubs of New York City, William "PoPsie" Randolph chronicled the postwar transformation of American music from swing and jazz, to rhythm & blues and rock n' roll. The 100,000 negatives left behind after his death in 1978 span the giddy, glitzy heyday of swing in the 1940s, the hot and cool jazz spawned in the clubs of 52nd Street, the rumbling emergence of black R&B and doo-wop, the sudden explosion of rock n' roll in the late '50s, the rise of Brill Building pop and the British Invasion of the '60s, and the growth of rock into a multibillion-dollar industry by the '70s. PoPsie's son Michael has chosen the very best of his father's collection for inclusion in this remarkable book. Here readers will find luscious black-and-white photos of everyone from Benny Goodman and Billie Holiday to Elvis, The Beatles, Hendrix, and the Rolling Stones. Insightful text explains the time, people, and place of each captured moment.

Record # 351458

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Rebel, Rebel: Anti-Styleby: Duffty, Keanan - Product Image

Rebel, Rebel: Anti-Style
by: Duffty, Keanan

Softcover. New York, Universe, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 143 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. The chapters cover: jeans & pants; T-shirts & hoodies; shirts & blouses; jackets; formal wear; dresses & skirts; footwear; accessories; hair, makeup & body art; David Bowie.

Record # 350346

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Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Rollby: Peter Guralnick - Product Image

Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll
by: Peter Guralnick

Hardcover. NY, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 763 pages, b&w illustrations. From the author of the critically acclaimed Elvis Presley biography: Last Train to Memphis brings us the life of Sam Phillips, the visionary genius who singlehandily steered the revolutionary path of Sun Records. The music that he shaped in his tiny Memphis studio with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Ike Turner, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash, introduced a sound that had never been heard before. He brought forth a singular mix of black and white voices passionately proclaiming the vitality of the American vernacular tradition while at the same time declaring, once and for all, a new, integrated musical day. With extensive interviews and firsthand personal observations extending over a 25-year period with Phillips, along with wide-ranging interviews with nearly all the legendary Sun Records artists, Guralnick gives us an ardent, unrestrained portrait of an American original as compelling in his own right as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, or Thomas Edison.

Record # 379536

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Seventies Glamourby: Wills, David - Product Image

Seventies Glamour
by: Wills, David

Hardcover. New York, Dey Street Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. In Seventies Glamour, the acclaimed Hollywood photo historian David Wills showcases the freewheeling, explosive parade that was the 1970s, highlighting its aesthetic of liberation, sexual freedom and defiant indulgence. Gorgeously reproduced, wittily curated, the photos in Seventies Glamour are as diverse as the decade they celebrate.

Record # 353088

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Taylor Guitars: 30 Years of a New American Classicby: Simmons, Michael John - Product Image

Taylor Guitars: 30 Years of a New American Classic
by: Simmons, Michael John

Hardcover. Germany, PPVMedien, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 220 pages profusely illustrated in color. The story of Taylor Guitars from small San Diego company to a company producing over 70000 quality guitars a year. Showcases many rare guitars, including instruments made by Bob Taylor before the company's founding, standard production models and custom built instruments. Clean copy.

Record # 373280

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The Grand Tradition: Seventy Years of Singing on Record 1900 to 1970 by: J. B. Steane  - Product Image

The Grand Tradition: Seventy Years of Singing on Record 1900 to 1970
by: J. B. Steane

Hardcover. Portland OR, Amadeus Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Second Edition. 628 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 378645

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The Haight: Love, Rock, and Revolutionby: Selvin, Joel and Jim Marshall - Product Image

The Haight: Love, Rock, and Revolution
by: Selvin, Joel and Jim Marshall

Hardcover. San Rafael CA, Insight Editions, 1st, 2014-10-14, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. James Joseph Marshall (1936 - 2010) was an American photographer, often of rock stars. He had extended access to numerous musicians through the 1960s and 1970s, including being backstage at The Beatles' final paid live concert in San Francisco's Candlestick Park, and was chief photographer at Woodstock. includes striking images of twentieth-century icons such as Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsburg, Grace Slick, and more.

Record # 350532

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The Story of Woodstock Live: 50 Years: Relive the Magic Artist by Artistby: Bitoun, Julien  - Product Image

The Story of Woodstock Live: 50 Years: Relive the Magic Artist by Artist
by: Bitoun, Julien

Hardcover. London, Cassell, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 239 pages illustrated in color. Issued w/o a dust jacket. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 374200

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The Troubadours and Courts of Love by: John Frederick Rowbotham - Product Image

The Troubadours and Courts of Love
by: John Frederick Rowbotham

Softcover. Kila MT, Kessinger, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, blue pictorial wrappers. This is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895, originally published by Swan Sonnenschein & Co., London, 13 illustrations, 2 maps. Clean copy.

Record # 378966

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Tin Pan Opera: Operatic Novelty Songs in the Ragtime Eraby: Larry Hamberlin - Product Image

Tin Pan Opera: Operatic Novelty Songs in the Ragtime Era
by: Larry Hamberlin

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 336 pages, b&w illustrations. Author Larry Hamberlin guides us through this large but oft-forgotten repertoire of operatic novelties, and brings to life the rich humor and keen social criticism of the era. In the early twentieth-century, when new social forces were undermining the view that our European heritage was intrinsically superior to our native vernacular culture, opera-that great inheritance from our European forebearers-functioned in popular discourse as a signifier for elite culture. Tin Pan Opera shows that these operatic novelty songs availed this connection to a humorous and critical end. Combining traditional, European operatic melodies with the new and American rhythmic verve of ragtime, these songs painted vivid images of immigrant Americans, liberated women, and upwardly striving African Americans, striking emblems of the profound transformations that shook the United States at the beginning of the American century. Clean copy.

Record # 379498

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Turn Up the Radio!: Rock, Pop, and Roll in Los Angeles 1956-1972by: Kubernik, Harvey - Product Image

Turn Up the Radio!: Rock, Pop, and Roll in Los Angeles 1956-1972
by: Kubernik, Harvey

Hardcover. Solana Beach, CA, Santa Monica Press LLC, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A very clean, unmarked copy. Color and black & white photographs throughout.

Record # 353520

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Victor Record Catalog 1927 / Catalog of Victor Recordsby: Victor Talking Machine Company - Product Image

Victor Record Catalog 1927 / Catalog of Victor Records
by: Victor Talking Machine Company

Softcover. Camden NJ, Victor Talking Machine Company, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated. Blue and gilt decorated cover with Red and Black Victorola album labels on the rear cover. Contains hundreds and hundreds of record listings, plus a "Red Seal" section and a green section in the back.

Record # 374624

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Victor Record Catalog 1928 / Catalog of Victor Records with Biographic Material, Opera Notes, Artists' Portraits, and Special Red Seal and Green Sections For Current and Historic Red Seal Recordsby: - Product Image

Victor Record Catalog 1928 / Catalog of Victor Records with Biographic Material, Opera Notes, Artists' Portraits, and Special Red Seal and Green Sections For Current and Historic Red Seal Records
by:

Softcover. Camden NJ, Victor Talking Machine Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated. Tan and gilt decorated cover with Red and Black Victorola album labels on the rear cover. Contains hundreds and hundreds of record listings, plus a "Red Seal" section and a green section in the back. Bright and clean.

Record # 374625

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Visions of Music: Sheet Music in the Twentieth Centuryby: Walas, Tony - Product Image

Visions of Music: Sheet Music in the Twentieth Century
by: Walas, Tony

Hardcover. Milwaukee WI, Hal Leonard, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong hardcover, 319 pages. Lavishly illustrated with over 700 faithful reproductions of sheet music covers in color. Pictorial boards, issued without a dust jacket.

Record # 353184

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Who Shot Rock and Roll: A Photographic History, 1955-Presentby: Buckland, Gail  - Product Image

Who Shot Rock and Roll: A Photographic History, 1955-Present
by: Buckland, Gail

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 336 pages, 298 color and b&w photos. Buckland writes about the photographers, their influences, their relationships with their subjects, how they took the images, how they saw what they saw and captured what they captured: the spirit and essence of rock'. Superb collection including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, Tina Turner, Madonna, Morrissey, Tupac Shakur, Grace Jones, Aretha Franklin, Kurt Cobain, Izzy Pop, David Bowie and many, many others.

Record # 360883

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With Strings Attached: The Art and Beauty of Vintage Guitars by: Jonathan Kellerman - Product Image

With Strings Attached: The Art and Beauty of Vintage Guitars
by: Jonathan Kellerman

Hardcover. NY, Ballantine Books , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 368 pages illustrated in color. For thirty-five years, bestselling author and accomplished musician Jonathan Kellerman has been, as he puts it in his Introduction to this lavishly illustrated, endlessly fascinating volume, "chasing fabulous sound." The result of that quest is a world-class collection of guitars, mandolins, and other stringed instruments that number more than 120 . . . and counting. Whether writing about household names such as Fender, Gibson, Martin, and Dobro or about marques revered by aficionados-D'Angelico, Hauser, Stromberg, and Torres-Kellerman brings to bear the same sure storytelling instincts and keen attention to detail that characterize his bestselling fiction, making each entry a sparkling mini-essay as much to be savored as the sensual photographs that follow.

Record # 373281

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