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  • Touch of Grey, or How the Grateful Dead Became Pop Stars

    by John Brackett ...
    Series series
    Touch of Grey, or How the Grateful Dead Became Pop Stars draws on extensive archival research to tell the behind-the-scenes story of how one song fundamentally transformed the legacy of one of rock’s most iconic groups.Touch of Grey, or How the Grateful Dead Became Pop Stars tells the story of how one song transformed the popular legacy of one of rock’s most iconic musical groups. John Brackett ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Live Dead

    The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness

    by John Brackett ...
    Series series Studies in the Grateful Dead
    The Grateful Dead were one of the most successful live acts of the rock era. Performing more than 2,300 shows between 1965 and 1995, the Grateful Dead’s reputation as a “live band” was—and continues to be—sustained by thousands of live concert recordings from every era of the group’s long and colorful career. In Live Dead, musicologist John Brackett examines how live recordings—from the group’s ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis

    Expanding Approaches

    Edited by Ciro Scotto, Kenneth M. Smith, John Brackett ...
    Series series Routledge Music Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches widens the scope of analytical approaches for popular music by incorporating methods developed for analyzing contemporary art music. This study endeavors to create a new analytical paradigm for examining popular music from the perspective of developments in contemporary art music."Expanded approaches" for popular music ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    Live Dead

    The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness

    by John Brackett ...
    Narrated by Christopher Grove ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 31 min

    The Grateful Dead were one of the most successful live acts of the rock era. Performing more than 2,300 shows between 1965 and 1995, the Grateful Dead's reputation as a "live band" was—and continues to be—sustained by thousands of live concert recordings from every era of the group's long and colorful career. In Live Dead, musicologist John Brackett examines how live recordings—from the group's ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The Bastard Instrument

    A Cultural History of the Electric Bass

    by Brian F. Wright ...
    Series series Tracking Pop
    The Bastard Instrument chronicles the history of the electric bass and the musicians who played it, from the instrument’s invention through its widespread acceptance at the end of the 1960s. Although their contributions have often gone unsung, electric bassists helped shape the sound of a wide range of genres, including jazz, rhythm & blues, rock, country, soul, funk, and more. Their innovations ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Love for Sale

    Pop Music in America

    by David Hajdu ...
    Named a Must-Read by Vanity Fair and BBC. "One of our sharpest music critics . . . recounts a life immersed in pop music. An engaging history." — The Wall Street JournalIn Love for Sale, David Hajdu—one of the most respected critics and music historians of our time—draws on a lifetime of listening, playing, and writing about music to show how pop has done much more than peddle fantasies... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Uncharted Territory

    What Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves

    by Mr. Chris Dalla Riva ...
    Popular music history collides with data analytics, charts, and numbers in this insightful and surprising look at the greatest hits and musicians, fads, forgotten artists, and much more. Data analyst and musician Chris Dalla Riva reframes everything you thought you knew about music.Did you know that hit songs in the late 1950s were regularly about gruesome death? That a US vice president wrote a ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Stealing All Transmissions

    A Secret History of The Clash

    by Randal Doane ...
    Stealing All Transmissions is a love story. It’s the story of how The Clash fell in love with America, and how America loved them back. The romance began in full in 1977, when select rock journalists and deejays aided the band’s quest to depose the rock of indolence that dominated American airwaves. This history situates The Clash amid the cultural skirmishes of the 1970s and culminates with their ... Read more

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  • The Monkees

    Made in Hollywood

    by Tom Kemper ...
    Series series Reverb
    The Monkees represent a vital problem for rock and pop, and perhaps the major question: is it the music that matters or the personality and image of the performers?This book explores the system behind the Monkees, the controversial made-for-tv band that scored some of the biggest hit records of the 1960s. The Monkees represent the cumulative result of a complex coordination of talented individuals ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Dilla Time

    The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

    by Dan Charnas ...
    **WINNER OF THE PEN/**JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHYNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“This book is a must for everyone interested in illuminating the idea of unexplainable genius.” —QUESTLOVEEqual parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius who transformed the sound of popular music for the twenty-first century... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • A Long Strange Trip

    The Inside History of the Grateful Dead

    by Dennis McNally ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Grateful Dead’s official historian presents the definitive chronicle of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history.“A Long Strange Trip manages to capture the entirety of the complex organism that was the Grateful Dead. . . . The most comprehensive and reliable account out there.”—Entertainment Weekly“[Dennis McNally] conjures afresh the pure, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Wild Years

    The Music and Myth of Tom Waits

    by Jay S. Jacobs ...
    Newly updated to include his critically acclaimed post-millennial work, this look at Tom Waits - both the reality and the myriad myths - reveals the man behind the curtain. A tale of how a self-taught, drunken hipster in roach-killers and a dirty beret has influenced a generation of musicians with his sound, warmth, and willingness to take chances, this biography shows how he has moved between ... Read more

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