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  • 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

  • Conflict—The Unexpected Gift

    Making the Most of Disputes in Life and Work

    Conflict—The Unexpected Gift Conflict between people can be defined as a difference that causes disagreements. Authors Jack Hamilton and Elisabeth Seaman go to the root of what causes conflict and how to rebuild relationships. Interpersonal conflicts permeate our lives. Sometimes we believe that another person treated us unfairly, and that assumption causes us to become angry at the person. Such ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    Just around Midnight

    Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination

    by Jack Hamilton ...
    Narrated by Ron Butler ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 8 min

    Rooted in rhythm-and-blues pioneered by black musicians, 1950s rock and roll was racially inclusive and attracted listeners and performers across the color line. In the 1960s, however, rock and roll gave way to rock: a new musical ideal regarded as more serious, more artistic—and the province of white musicians. Decoding the racial discourses that have distorted standard histories of rock music, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Seven Deadly Sins

    Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good

    by Corey Taylor ...
    For the first time, Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor speaks directly to his fans and shares his worldview about life as a sinner. And Taylor knows how to sin. As a small-town hero in the early '90s, he threw himself into a fierce-drinking, drug-abusing, hard-loving, live-for-the moment life. Soon Taylor's music exploded, and he found himself rich, wanted, and on the road. His new and ... Read more

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  • Family Constellations

    A Practical Guide to Uncovering the Origins of Family Conflict

    **The first-ever user-friendly guide to Bert Hellinger’s Family Constellations—a powerful group therapy method for interrupting intergenerational trauma, healing painful family patterns, and reclaiming your own empowered narrativeIncludes insights on somatic wisdom, the seven stages of a constellation session, and bringing relational dynamics into awareness for healing and growth**In Family ... Read more

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  • Anatomy of a Song

    The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop

    by Marc Myers ...
    "A winning look at the stories behind 45 pop, punk, folk, soul and country classics" in the words of Mick Jagger, Stevie Wonder, Cyndi Lauper and more ( The Washington Post).Every great song has a fascinating backstory. And here, writer and music historian Marc Myers brings to life five decades of music through oral histories of forty-five era-defining hits woven from interviews with the artists ... Read more

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  • Mind the Gap

    Own your past, know your generation, choose your future

    The way you parent, the clothes you buy, your relationships with your boss and your daughter, your attitude to money and sex, are, to an extraordinary extent, defined by the era into which you were born. Parents, the church, teachers and employers think they understand youngsters because they, too, were young once. But adults no longer live in the world that existed when they were teenagers. We ... Read more

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  • Raising Good Children

    From Birth Through The Teenage Years

    Raising decent, caring, and responsible children is the most complex and challenging job in every parent’s life—and an increasingly difficult one in today’s society. Here is the most authoritative book available on this crucial subject, a valuable and sensitive guide for parents who want their children to grow up with lifelong positive values.Based on fascinating research, this groundbreaking work ... Read more

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  • Rock 'n' Roll Myths: The True Stories Behind the Most Infamous Legends

    The True Stories Behind the Most Infamous Legends

    It's perhaps the relative modernity of rock 'n' roll that makes the genre a minefield of myths and legends accepted as truth. History hasn't had time to dissect the bunk. Until now.Discover the real stories behind rock's biggest crocks, how they came to be but why they have persisted. Did Cass Elliott really asphyxiate herself with a ham sandwich? Did the Beatles spark a spliff in Buckingham? Did ... Read more

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  • The 6 Husbands Every Wife Should Have

    How Couples Who Change Together Stay Together

    Clinical psychologist and radio host Dr. Steven Craig offers a revolutionary book that helps couples identify the six different people they need to become over the course of their relationship in order to grow together rather than apart.Throughout his career as a marriage counselor, Dr. Craig has identified a common thread in strained relationships: the belief that change should be avoided at all ... Read more

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  • How to Write About Music

    Excerpts from the 33 1/3 Series, Magazines, Books and Blogs with Advice from Industry-leading Writers

    If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, you'd do best to hone your chops and avoid clichés (like the one that begins this sentence) by learning from the prime movers. How to Write About Music offers a selection of the best writers on what is perhaps our most universally beloved art form. Selections from the critically-acclaimed 33 1/3 series appear alongside new interviews and ... Read more

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