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  • Damaged

    Musicality and Race in Early American Punk

    by Evan Rapport ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk is the first book-length portrait of punk as a musical style with an emphasis on how punk developed in relation to changing ideas of race in American society from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Drawing on musical analysis, archival research, and new interviews, Damaged provides fresh interpretations of race and American society during this ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Greeted With Smiles

    Bukharian Jewish Music and Musicians in New York

    by Evan Rapport ...
    Series series American Musicspheres
    As the Soviet Union stood on the brink of collapse, thousands of Bukharian Jews left their homes from across the predominantly Muslim cities of Central Asia, to reestablish their lives in the United States, Israel and Europe. Today, about thirty thousand Bukharian Jews reside in New York City, settled into close-knit communities and existing as a quintessential American immigrant group. For ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • What Are You Doing Here?

    A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal

    by Laina Dawes ...
    In her nuanced, extremely perceptive book, Laina Dawes champions the liberating possibilities of metal while questioning the color-blindness of the metal world, celebrating the role of black women in creating rock music, examining the reaction of the black community to black punks and metalheads, and sorting out the gender issues that complicate sisterhood in a male-dominated sphere. Her ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Kids of the Black Hole

    Punk Rock Postsuburban California

    by Dewar MacLeod ...
    Los Angeles rock generally conjures memories of surf music, The Doors, or Laurel Canyon folkies. But punk? L.A.'s punk scene, while not as notorious as that of New York City, emerged full-throated in 1977 and boasted bands like The Germs, X, and Black Flag. This book explores how, in the land of the Beach Boys, punk rock took hold.As a teenager, Dewar MacLeod witnessed firsthand the emergence of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Let Fury Have the Hour

    Joe Strummer, Punk, and the Movement that Shook the World

    Edited by Antonino D'Ambrosio ...
    Joe Strummer's untimely death at the age of fifty in December 2002 took from us one of the truly unique voices of modern music. The quintessential Rude Boy, punker, rebel musician, artist and activist, Strummer wrote some of the most important and influential music of the last century including "Guns of Brixton," "The Washington Bullets," "Spanish Bombs," "White Man in Hammersmith Palace," "London ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Cultural Dictionary of Punk

    1974-1982

    by Nicholas Rombes ...
    Neither a dry-as-dust reference volume recycling the same dull facts nor a gushy, gossipy puff piece, A Cultural Dictionary of Punk: 1974-1982 is a bold book that examines punk as a movement that is best understood by placing it in its cultural field. It contains myriad critical-listening descriptions of the sounds of the time, but also places those sounds in the context of history. Drawing on ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Heavy Metal

    The Music And Its Culture

    by Deena Weinstein ...
    Few forms of music elicit such strong reactions as does heavy metal. Embraced by millions of fans, it has also attracted a chorus of critics, who have denounced it as a corrupter of youth—even blamed it for tragedies like the murders at Columbine. Deena Weinstein argues that these fears stem from a deep misunderstanding of the energetic, rebellious culture of metal, which she analyzes, explains, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I and II

    by Eric Weisbard ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    It was the season of the blockbuster. Between August 12 and November 26 1991, a whole slew of acts released albums that were supposed to sell millions of copies in the run-up to Christmas. Metallica, Michael Jackson, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Garth Brooks, MC Hammer, and U2 - all were competing for the attention of the record-buying public at the same time. But perhaps the most attention-seeking act of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Just around Midnight

    Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination

    by Jack Hamilton ...
    By the time Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet a mere ten years earlier, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become “white”? Just around Midnight reveals the interplay of popular music and racial thought that was responsible for this shift within the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Rocking the Classics

    English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture

    by Edward Macan ...
    Few styles of popular music have generated as much controversy as progressive rock, a musical genre best remembered today for its gargantuan stage shows, its fascination with epic subject matter drawn from science fiction, mythology, and fantasy literature, and above all for its attempts to combine classical music's sense of space and monumental scope with rock's raw power and energy. Its dazzling ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Under My Thumb

    Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them

    by Rhian Jones, Eli Davies, Tamar Shlaim ...
    Women write about their experiences of loving music that doesn’t love them back – a feminist 'guilty pleasures'.e - a kind of feminist guilty pleasures.In the majority of mainstream writing and discussions on music, women appear purely in relation to men as muses, groupies or fangirls, with our own experiences, ideas and arguments dismissed or ignored. But this hasn’t stopped generations of women ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Combat Rock: A History of Punk (From It's Origins to the Present)

    by Lora Greene, HistoryCaps ...
    Bands from Jimmy Eat World to Green Day have one thing in common--they would be nothing without punk.This book explores punks earliest roots and takes the reader all the way to the present--from Second Wave and New Wave to Oi! and Punk, it's all here. Along the way, you will read all about the feuds, the gossip, and the rock and roll partying.HistoryCaps is an imprint of BookCaps Study Guides. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD