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Detroit Rock City
Da Capo Press 2013; US$ 16.99The definitive account of rock in the city that has produced louder, prouder, more in-your-face rock than anywhere else on Earth more...
My Brother Benjamin
Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 18.94'People are always asking, 'Aren't you proud of your famous brother?' I was, of course, but often wished he was not so famous so that one could see more of this brother who was such a joy to be with. Janet Baker has written that the air crackled when he walked into the room, and she was right...' The younger of Benjamin Britten's two sisters,... more...
Recollections of Gustav Mahler
Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 18.94First published in English in 1980, this important early memoir of Gustav Mahler is by Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858-1921), a viola player and close and devoted friend of Mahler until his marriage to Alma Schindler in 1902. She visited him in Hamburg and frequented his circle in Vienna, also accompanying him and his family on a number of the summer... more...
Mo' Meta Blues
Grand Central Publishing 2013; US$ 12.99"You have to bear in mind that [Questlove] is one of the smartest motherfuckers on the planet. His musical knowledge, for all practical purposes, is limitless." --Robert Christgau MO' META BLUES The World According to Questlove Mo' Meta Blues is a punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling... more...
You Don't Know Me but You Don't Like Me
Scribner 2013; US$ 16.00When memoirist and head writer for The A.V. Club Nathan Rabin first set out to write about obsessed music fans, he had no idea the journey would take him to the deepest recesses of both the pop culture universe and his own mind. For two very curious years, Rabin, who Mindy Kaling called smart and funny in The New Yorker , hit the roadwith two of musics... more...
The Time by the Sea
Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 18.94The Time by the Sea is about Ronald Blythe's life in Aldeburgh during the 1950s. He had originally come to the Suffolk coast as an aspiring young writer, but found himself drawn into Benjamin Britten's circle and began working for the Aldeburgh Festival. Although befriended by Imogen Holst and by E M Forster, part of him remained essentially solitary,... more...
The Rolling Stones
Lexington Books 2013; US$ 36.99The Rolling Stones: Sociological Perspectives , edited by Helmut Staubmann, draws from a broad spectrum of sociological perspectives to contribute both to the understanding of the phenomenon Rolling Stones and to an in-depth analysis of contemporary society and culture that takes The Stones a starting point. The contributors approach the Rolling... more...
Hamish MacCunn (1868-1916)
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 104.95As the first comprehensive study of MacCunns life, this book illustrates how social and cultural situations, as well as personal relationships, influenced his career. Having risen to fame in the late 1880s with a string of Scottish works, MacCunn further highlighted his Caledonian background by cultivating a Scottish artistic persona that defined... more...
Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95These essays bring together the stories of 23 debut albums over a nearly fifty year span, ranging from Buddy Holly and the Crickets in 1957 to The Go! Team in 2004. In addition to biographical background and a wealth of historical information about the genesis of each album, essayists look back at the albums and place them within multiple contexts,... more...
The Rhythm of Thought
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 30.00Between present and past, visible and invisible, and sensation and idea, there is resonance—so philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty argued and so Jessica Wiskus explores in The Rhythm of Thought . Holding the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé, the paintings of Paul Cézanne, the prose of Marcel Proust, and the music of Claude Debussy... more...









