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The British Invasion
Chrome Dreams 2004; US$ 12.00The explosion of British bands onto the American rock scene in the 1960s is examined in this thorough history. Marking the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' first trip to the United States, this look at British rock music covers in detail the pre-Beatles music that first gave Americans a taste of the British style, Beatlemania, and the British acts... more...
Apocalypse Jukebox
Soft Skull Press 2008; US$ 17.95From its indefinite beginnings through its broad commercialization and endless reinterpretation, American rock-and-roll music has been preoccupied with an end-of-the-world mentality that extends through the whole of American popular music. In Apocalypse Jukebox, Edward Whitelock and David Janssen trace these connections through American music genres,... more...
Take a Walk on the Dark Side
Touchstone 2004; US$ 19.99Take a Walk on the Dark Side is the ultimate book for today's rock and roll fan: a fascinating compendium of facts, fictions, prophecies, premonitions, coincidences, hoaxes, doomsday scenarios, and other urban legends about some of the world's most beloved and mysterious pop icons. Updating, revising, and expanding on material from his cult classic... more...
Let's Make Some Noise
University Press of Mississippi 2008; US$ 50.00Clarence Bernard Henry's book is a culmination of several years of field research on sacred and secular influences of àsé, the West African Yoruba concept that spread to Brazil and throughout the African Diaspora. Àsé is imagined as power and creative energy bestowed upon human beings by ancestral spirits acting as guardians.... more...
Sinatra
Transworld 2010; US$ 14.67In 1941, at age twenty-five, Sinatra told a friend, 'I'm going to be the best singer in the world'. Two years on, the bobbysoxers were already weeping and screaming for him in their thousands. Half a century on Bono defined him as 'the Big Bang of popular music'. 'To hell with the calendar,' a music critic wrote before his death in 1998, 'The day... more...
Another Day, Another Town
Pan Macmillan Australia 2007; US$ 23.73Slim Dusty is Australia's most loved and best-kown country music performer. He is also a bush legend and his famous song, "A Pub With No Beer", has made him one of the most celebrated fair dinkum Aussies. Written by Slim Dusty and Joy McKean, Another Day, Another Town is a warm and honest view of their amazing life together. This new, revised... more...
Introduction to the Art of Singing by Johann Friedrich Agricola
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 53.00An English translation with commentary of an important first treatise on singing by Agricola. more...
Vocal Authority
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 40.00A fascinating history of singing styles from the ancient world to the present. more...
Saturday Night Forever
Mainstream Publishing 2011; US$ 10.67If all disco means to you is records like 'I Will Survive' and 'YMCA', tacky fashions and glitter eyeshadow, this book will be a real revelation. For Alan Jones and Jussi Kantonen, disco was an essential soundtrack to their lives. They loved its total hedonistic excess, its drive, its punch and its sweet, catchy melodies. For every chart hit that... more...
Touching From a Distance
Faber and Faber 2010; US$ 13.11Revered by his peers and idolized by his fans, Ian Curtis left behind a legacy rich in artistic genius. Mesmerizing on stage but introverted and prone to desperate mood swings in his private life, Curtis died by his own hand on 18 May 1980. Touching from a Distance documents how, with a wife, child and impending international fame, Curtis was... more...









