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  • A Power Stronger Than Itself

    The AACM and American Experimental Music

    by George E. Lewis ...
    Founded in 1965 and still active today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is an American institution with an international reputation. George E. Lewis, who joined the collective as a teenager in 1971, establishes the full importance and vitality of the AACM with this communal history, written with a symphonic sweep that draws on a cross-generational chorus of voices ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 1

    Edited by George E. Lewis, Benjamin Piekut ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us. The two volumes of The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies gather scholarship on improvisation from an immense range of perspectives, with contributions from ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 2

    Edited by George E. Lewis, Benjamin Piekut ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us. The two volumes of The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies gather scholarship on improvisation from an immense range of perspectives, with contributions from ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Occasional Pieces

    Writings and Interviews, 1952-2013

    by Christian Wolff ...
    As one of the original pioneering composers of the American experimental music movement and a well known scholar of classics, Christian Wolff has long been active as a significant thinker and elegant writer on music. With Occasional Pieces, Wolff brings together a collection of his most notable writings and interviews from 1950 to the present, shining a new light on American music of the second ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

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    $14.99 USD

  • The Holy or the Broken

    Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah"

    by Alan Light ...
    See the film Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song from Sony Pictures ClassicsThis “thoughtful and illuminating” (The New York Times) work of music journalism is an unforgettable, fascinating, and unexpected account of one of the most performed and beloved songs in pop history—Leonard Cohen’s heartrending “Hallelujah.”How did one obscure song become an international anthem for human triumph ... Read more

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  • Hack Music Theory, Part 1

    Learn Scales & Chords in 30 Minutes

    by Ray Harmony ...
    Series Book 1 - Hack Music Theory
    Theory is a six-letter dirty word to most musicians, but hey, musicians love dirty words, right? And just like all the other dirty words, theory is easy to learn and fun to use! After studying 'popular' and 'classical' music theory, Ray Harmony created a unique approach that he uses to compose his songs, which feature multi-platinum Grammy winners Serj Tankian (System of a Down), Tom Morello (Rage ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Voice and Verse - A Study in English Song

    by H. C. Colles ...
    This vintage book contains an analyses of English song, with a focus on the work of Henry Purcell. It is based on a course of ten lectures delivered by the author at Glasgow University in 1927. A fascinating and informative treatise, this volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in singing and verse, especially in relation to English song. Contents include: "The Nature of the Case", ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ray Davies

    Not Like Everybody Else

    by Thomas M. Kitts ...
    Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else is a critical biography of Ray Davies, with a focus on his music and his times. The book studies Davies’ work from the Kinks’ first singles through his 2006 solo album, from his rock musicals in the early 1970s to his one-man stage show in the 1990s, and from his films to his autobiography. Based on interviews with his closest associates, as well as studies of ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Songwriting Secrets of the Beatles, The

    by Dominic Pedler ...
    From humble beginnings in murky, Liverpool clubs in the early sixties, four songwriters emerged who would change the course of popular music forever: The Beatles. Within only a decade they created an arsenal of songs which set the template for all popular music that followed, and, over half a century later, their music still beats with the same vitality, pangs with the same melancholy and grips ... Read more

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  • I Love Rock 'n' Roll (Except When I Hate It)

    Extremely Important Stuff About the Songs and Bands You Love, Hate, Love to Hate, and Hate to Love

    by Brian Boone ...
    Music breeds duality. We enjoy the music we love-listening to it, talking about it, reading about it. But it's just as fun to passionately revel in mocking the music we hate. Fortunately, musicians make this two-lane path very easy to follow. Half the time they're creating timeless works of art that speak to the soul; the other half, they're recording ridiculous concept albums about robots.I Love ... Read more

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  • Nirvana - A Tour Diary: My Life on the Road with One of the Greatest Bands of All Time

    by Andy Bollen ...
    When Nirvana first exploded onto the music scene in 1991 with the anthemic 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', few people could've predicted their subsequent global impact. No one knew then that Nevermind would become one of the seminal albums of the decade, selling over 30 million copies worldwide and spearheading a whole new 'grunge' movement. In so doing, the band's lead singer Kurt Cobain was ... Read more

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