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20 Years of Rolling Stone: What a Long, Strange Trip It's Beenby Jann S. WennerISBN 0914919105 (0-914919-10-5)
Hardcover, Friendly Pr
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31 Songsby Nick HornbyISBN 0670914266 (0-670-91426-6)
Hardcover, Viking
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The Aesthetic Understanding: Essays in the Philosophy of Art and Cultureby Roger ScrutonISBN 1890318027 (1-890318-02-7)
Softcover, St Augustine Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aesthetic Understanding: Essays in the Philosophy of Art and Culture'Book summary:Brings together essays on the philosophy of art in which a philosophical theory of aesthetic judgment is tested and developed through its application to particular examples. Each essay approaches, from its own field of study, what Roger Scruton argues to be the central problems of aesthetics - what is aesthetic experience, and what is its importance for human conduct?
The book is divided into four parts. The first contains a rsum of modern analytical aesthetics, which also serves as an introduction to subsequent chapters. It also includes an essay that reviews current theories of literary criticism. The second part is devoted to musical aesthetics and contains the theoretical core of the work. Here Scruton describes the contours of aesthetic understanding, and defends the view that the object of aesthetic experience is inherently significant, even when it has no "content" that can be described in propositional terms. He rebuts the view that music is representational, and in the third part goes on to propose a theory of representation whereby to refute the suggestion that photography is a representational art. This third section also contains a study of film. The final part comprises essays relating aesthetic judgment to the understanding of culture, humor, and design. It covers many subjects, including the prose works of Samuel Beckett and the architecture of Leninism. The essays in this book form parts of a single intellectual enterprise, which is to give analytical foundations to the criticism of literature, visual art, music, and culture.
New essays in this edition include "The Aesthetic Endeavour Today," "Upon Nothing" (a deconstruction of deconstruction), and "Humane Education." [via]
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American Popular Musicby David Lee JoynerISBN 0697114392 (0-697-11439-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Another Tear Falls: An Appreciation of Scott Walkerby Jeremy ReedISBN 1871592755 (1-871592-75-5)
Softcover, Creation Pub Group
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Arcana: Musicians on Musicby John ZornISBN 188712327X (1-887123-27-X)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arcana: Musicians on Music'Book summary:A book detailing the avant-garde practices of many of the so-called Downtown musicians, particularly those of New York, where the editor of this series, John Zorn, is based. [via]
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The Attentive Listener: Three Centuries of Music Criticismby Harry HaskellISBN 0691026416 (0-691-02641-6)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Musicby Christoph Cox, Daniel WarnerISBN 0826416152 (0-8264-1615-2)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music'Book summary:The groundbreaking Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Continuum; September 2004; paperback original) maps the aural and discursive terrain of vanguard music today. Rather than offering a history of contemporary music, Audio Culture traces the genealogy of current musical practices and theoretical concerns, drawing lines of connection between recent musical production and earlier moments of sonic experimentation. It aims to foreground the various rewirings of musical composition and performance that have taken place in the past few decades and to provide a critical and theoretical language for this new audio culture.[via]
Via writings by philosophers, cultural theorists, and composers, Audio Culture explores the interconnections among such forms as minimalism, indeterminacy, musique concrète, free improvisation, experimental music, avant-rock, dub reggae, Ambient music, HipHop, and Techno. Instead of focusing on the putative "crossover" between "high art" and "popular culture," Audio Culture takes all of these musics as experimental practices on par with, and linked to, one another. While cultural studies has tended to look at music (primarily popular music) from a sociological perspective, the concern here is philosophical, musical, and historical.
Audio Culture includes writing by some of the most important musical thinkers of the past half-century, among them John Cage, Brian Eno, Glenn Gould, Umberto Eco, Ornette Coleman, Jacques Attali, Simon Reynolds, Pauline Oliveros, Paul D. Miller, David Toop, John Zorn, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and many others. The book is divided into nine thematically-organized sections, each with its own introduction. Section headings include topics such as "Modes of Listening," "Minimalisms," and "DJ Culture." In addition, each essay has its own short introduction, helping the reader to place the essay within musical, historical, and conceptual contexts. The book concludes with a glossary, a timeline, and an extensive discography.More editions of Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music:
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Beethoven: His Spiritual Developmentby J. W. N. SullivanISBN 0766137988 (0-7661-3798-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beethoven: His Spiritual Development'Book summary:Great men, especially creative artists whose work lives after them, engage people's imagination for centuries. Beethoven, as man and composer, has inspired innumerable books both by his contemporaries and later writers, and it is proof of his endlessly fascinating, controversial nature that they all throw a different light on some aspect of his life and work. Since J.W.N. Sullivan wrote his book in 1927, much new information about Beethoven, his character, his illnesses, and his relationships has come to light, but it is still a valid contribution to the literature on the composer. Sullivan's basic theory is that Beethoven's greatness lies in his extraordinary perceptions, his heightened experiences and "states of consciousness," and his ability to organize and synthesize these into a musical expression of a "view of life." He asserts that Beethoven's initial despairing, then defiant struggle against his suffering--especially his deafness and resulting isolation--gives his middle-period works their heroism, and that his ultimate acceptance of it as necessary to his creativity marks the peak of his "spirituality" and gives his latest works their unparalleled sublimity.
Like many biographies, the book reveals more about the author than the subject. Sullivan, who is not a musician, offers some interesting, if sometimes extravagantly extramusical, analyses of Beethoven's works (though elsewhere he decries injecting "meaning" into music). He sees Beethoven's late fugues as outbursts of "blind and desperate energy," another battle with hostile fate; many musicians see them as another battle with counterpoint. He also makes subjective, high-handed value judgments: he detests Wagner and dismisses Bach as too religious, while Haydn and Mozart are too shallow to equal Beethoven's struggle-generated "spirituality." The book also brings up questions about beauty and greatness in art, the relationship between moral character and genius, and the impact of a man's personal experiences upon his creativity--all age-old but forever timely. --Edith Eisler [via]
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Blues People: Negro Music in White Americaby Imamu Amiri BarakaISBN 068818474X (0-688-18474-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Chet Baker: His Life and Musicby Jeroen De Valk, Jerone De ValkISBN 189316313X (1-893163-13-X)
Softcover, Berkeley Hills Books
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Circumscribing the Open Universe: Essays on John Cage, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucierby Thomas DelioISBN 0819137480 (0-8191-3748-0)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Amer
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Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Bakerby James GavinISBN 156649284X (1-56649-284-X)
Softcover, Welcome Rain
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The Dustbin of Historyby Greil MarcusISBN 0674218582 (0-674-21858-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dustbin of History'Book summary:Noted critic Greil Marcus contemplates the connections between history and popular culture in this thoughtful collection of essays. He writes about how the Beat Generation is marketed in a three-CD boxed set and ponders the meaning of John Wayne. He recounts his own personal discovery of the work of blues legend Robert Johnson, provoking the reader to consider how one small thing -- in this case an old phonograph record -- can profoundly change a life. And those who marvel at Marcus' ability for close analysis of the seemingly simple may marvel at his brilliant essay, "Dylan as Historian," which analyzes just one apparently simple yet deeply layered song, Bob Dylan's "Blind Willie McTell." [via]
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Encyclopedia of Jazzby Leonard G. FeatherISBN 081801203X (0-8180-1203-X)
Hardcover, Horizon Pr
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Endtroducing...: 33 1/3by Eliot WilderISBN 0826416829 (0-8264-1682-9)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Flowers in the Dustbin: The Risk of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977by James MillerISBN 0684865602 (0-684-86560-2)
Softcover, Fireside
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flowers in the Dustbin: The Risk of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977'Book summary:It appears that Flowers in the Dustbin author James Miller has just about had his fill of rock & roll. After chronicling a succession of triumphs in the development of the genre and its allied ancestors and offspring, here the veteran music scribe and editor of the superb first edition of The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll surveys an environment tainted by "the Muzak of the Millennium" and "artifacts of stunning ugliness" (exemplified by Marilyn Manson and Wu-Tang Clan). Miller ponders, "What if rock and roll, as it had evolved from Presley to U2, had destroyed the very musical sources of its own vitality?" The erudite yet eminently readable author doesn't answer his query in these pages, but he does prompt a longing for a time when pop culture moved too fast and impulsively to be processed and packaged.
Miller makes it his mission to tell the story of the "explosive growth" of rock & roll by recounting creative and commercial breakthroughs, dating from Wynonie Harris's 1947 recording of the jump-blues hit "Good Rockin' Tonight" through the last-gasp mutiny of the Sex Pistols and the death of Elvis Presley in 1977. In between, the development of top-40 radio begets the payola scandal of the '50s, Norman Mailer's "white Negro" becomes the model in a line of ever-more-self-conscious mavericks, and the 1960s trinity of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan pile remarkable musical and lyrical innovations atop one another like gifted children eager for attention. Once rock had reached its zenith, from the author's perspective, it didn't so much crumble as settle into regurgitated mush. That Miller is able to chronicle these dour developments in such an involving manner is testimony to his talent as a writer and historian, and to the thrill of rock & roll when it's right. --Steven Stolder [via]
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Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary Americaby Greg TateISBN 0671729659 (0-671-72965-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Forever Changesby Andrew HultkransISBN 0826414931 (0-8264-1493-1)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The Frontiers of Meaning: Three Informal Lectures on Musicby Charles RosenISBN 0809072548 (0-8090-7254-8)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatreby Robertson Davies, Brenda Davies, Jennifer SurridgeISBN 0140275622 (0-14-027562-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre'Book summary:The following passage reveals Robertson Davies's great love of the theater, and it shows that these collected pieces, numbering 33, transcend mere criticism: "For as long as I can remember, playgoing has stood first among all pleasures with me, and although to most people it is simply a pastime, I think that I have brought qualities to it which raised it above that.... I sincerely believe that I have been a good playgoer, and that is something better, perhaps, than having been a well-known critic."
One's admiration for this literary master doubles when remembering that drama was Davies's academic field, and it constituted one of his three successful careers (he acted with the Old Vic in England). By 1962, Davies had begun to craft his playgoing notes into the Theatre Diary--snippets of which appear in this posthumously published collection. Each of these 33 pieces, introduced by the author and followed by a diary entry or two, demonstrates Davies's enormous and diverse erudition. Included are speeches, prologues to plays, articles about the theatre and opera, a discussion of folksong, a children's opera, a story set to music, and a preliminary sketch of a film script. Several personal essays shed light on his own ambitions as a playwright.
Many of these pieces were lectures, and they enjoy the immediacy and cadence of the spoken word. A spacious tone ensues; that is, complex ideas are delivered clearly, because they are intended for a listening audience. Surprisingly, this enhances the pleasure of reading them. Happy Alchemy may not appeal to the reader whose interest in theater and opera is only occasional but certainly will to any ardent Robertson Davies fan who delights in the turnings of a learned and sophisticated mind. --Hollis Giammatteo [via]
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Happy Alchemy: Writings on the Theatre and Other Lively Artsby Robertson Davies, Brenda Davies, Jennifer SurridgeISBN 0771035411 (0-7710-3541-1)
Hardcover, McClelland & Stewart
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I'll Take You There: Pop Music And the Urge for Transcendenceby Bill Friskics WarrenISBN 0826419216 (0-8264-1921-6)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I'll Take You There: Pop Music And the Urge for Transcendence'Book summary:The urge to connect with that which transcends our experience, be it a higher power, another person or some artistic ideal or aspect of nature, is one of the things that makes us human. People view the object of this quest, as well as what it means to achieve it, differently. Yet regardless of how it is understood, the urge to participate in or belong to something greater and more lasting than ourselvesa feeling born of an awareness of our mortalityis what defines us as spiritual beings.[via]
Though often dismissed as ephemeral or, worse, demonic, popular music has given voice to this quest for transcendence since its beginnings. Pop singers are rarely as outwardly spiritual as, say, their gospel counterparts; they're forever pointing beyond themselves, though, be it to some better future, some higher ideal, or to some vision of deliverance. Fontella Bass's "Rescue Me," the Four Tops's "Reach Out (I'll Be There)," Jimmy Cliff's "Many Rivers to Cross," Afrika Bambaataa's "Looking for the Perfect Beat," and U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" are but a handful of popular recordings from the past few decades that express a longing for something more. What, other than transcendence, is Jimi Hendrix talking about in "Purple Haze" when he shouts, "'scuse me, while I kiss the sky"? Or Van Morrison, in "Caravan," when he implores us to crank our radios and sail away with him into the mystic? Heard in the right light, secular and even carnal records have the power to speak to transcendental concerns, galvanizing their historical and cultural moments.
Regardless of their spiritual leanings, all of the subjects discussed in this book (including Public Enemy, Madonna, Sleater-Kinney, Tricky, Johnny Cash, Nine Inch Nails, Moby, Marvin Gaye, Eminem, Polly Harvey, Bruce Springsteen and Sly & the Family Stone) make music that expresses a basic striving for transcendence. Artists' stories and personalities inform these discussions, but only in as much as they illuminate the struggles and concerns that run through their music. I'll Take You There is a beautifully written, wide-ranging and illuminating examination of some of the most potent popular music ever recorded.More editions of I'll Take You There: Pop Music And the Urge for Transcendence:
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In the Fascist Bathroom: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992by Greil MarcusISBN 0674445775 (0-674-44577-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Fascist Bathroom: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992'Book summary:By now, first-generation rock critic Greil Marcus is better known as the author of highbrow pop-culture tomes (Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes) than as a workaday, keep-it-pithy critic. This collection of columns and short pieces (most rewritten to varying degrees for the book) churned out for New West, Artforum, The Village Voice, and Rolling Stone presents the erudite Marcus as a periodical commentator subject to deadline and word-count pressures. As such, it gives a history-as-it-happens perspective on the music scene rather than a sweeping overview, meaning it's perhaps less provocative than Marcus's more recent efforts, but it's also more readable. Invigorated by the emergence of the Sex Pistols, Marcus delighted in chronicling the music and behavior of the first wave of punk provocateurs. Here are pieces on the import of the Pistols, the Clash, Elvis Costello, the Gang of Four, and (closest to the author's heart?), the Mekons, presented largely as they were originally written, with the din still ringing in the scribe's ears. --Steven Stolder [via]
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In the Fascist Bathroom: Writings on Punk, 1977-1992by Greil MarcusISBN 0140149406 (0-14-014940-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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The Innocent Eye: On Modern Literature and the Arts the ArtsISBN 0878466541 (0-87846-654-1)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Invisible Republic : Bob Dylan's Basement Tapesby Greil MarcusISBN 0805058427 (0-8050-5842-7)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invisible Republic : Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes'Book summary:While focusing on a select group of musicians performing privately in a brief window of time, noted music and culture writer Greil Marcus cuts to the core of the American musical legacy to study it as a slightly blurred snapshot, full of shadow and mystery. Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes centers around the now legendary recordings made by Bob Dylan and The Band in 1967, and how this music signaled a change in American music by capturing the essence of the moment within the context of a rich folk tradition. During these casual sessions they recorded more than 100 songs, some originals, but most borrowed from barely remembered folk, blues, and country musicians.
This music they derived from had been part of the American fabric in an anonymous way that can only be explained as folklore and myth, and they breathed new life into it while adhering to its legacy. Though never intended for release, these recordings molded into the tradition of music as oral history, and appropriately, a few tapes were passed hand to hand, then some were pressed as bootleg records, which then spread like rumors. This folk revival conjured up a collection of timeless stories that many had heard in a slightly different form without ever knowing who started them. Just as Dylan did with the Basement Tapes, Marcus's exhilarating book extends beyond music and into the psyche of America, making the present more clear by putting the past into focus. [via]
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J. S. Bachby Albert SchweitzerISBN 0876666128 (0-87666-612-8)
Hardcover, Tfh Pubns Inc
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Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legendby Stephen DavisISBN 159240099X (1-59240-099-X)
Softcover, Gotham Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend'Book summary:As an artist and persona, Jim Morrison epitomized the late 1960s, bridging a burgeoning counterculture and popular culture, while acting out the iconoclastic rage, rampant libido, and spectacular flameout of a tumultuous era. The music he created with The Doors has sold over 50 million records worldwidewith over 13 million in the last decade alone, as their songs have been embraced by a new generation. But despite Morrisons seminal importance, there has not yet been an authoritative biography that does justice to him and his creative legacy. Until now.
Stephen Davis, the preeminent rock biographer and author of the classic Led Zeppelin history Hammer of the Gods (over 600,000 copies sold in three editions, and a #1 New York Times bestseller), has uncovered never-before-seen documents, conducted dozens of original interviews, and scoured Morrisons unpublished journals and recordings to write the definitive biography of a misunderstood legend. Jim Morrison is packed with startling new revelations about every phase of his life and career, from his troubled youth in a strict military household to his blossoming as a rock icon among the avant-garde LA scene to his voracious drug abuse and secret sexual experiments. Davis also investigates one of the greatest mysteries in rock historythe circumstances surrounding Morrisons mysterious and unsolved deathas he pieces together new evidence to tell the true and heartbreaking story of Morrisons last tragic days in Paris.
Compelling and unforgettable, Jim Morrison is destined to become a classic. [via]
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Last Night's Fun: In and Out of Time With Irish Musicby Ciaran CarsonISBN 0865475318 (0-86547-531-8)
Softcover, North Point Pr
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Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Criticby Jim DerogatisISBN 0767905091 (0-7679-0509-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Centuryby Greil MarcusISBN 0674535812 (0-674-53581-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century'Book summary:Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols: that scandalous antimusical group, invented in London in 1975 and dead within two years, which sparked the emergence of the culture called punk. "I am an antichrist!" shouted singer Johnny Rotten--where in the world of pop music did that come from? Looking for an answer, with a high sense of the drama of the journey, Marcus takes us down the dark paths of counterhistory, a route of blasphemy, adventure, and surprise.
This is no mere search for cultural antecedents. Instead, what Marcus so brilliantly shows is that various kinds of angry, absolute demands--demands on society, art, and all the governing structures of everyday life--seem to be coded in phrases, images, and actions passed on invisibly, but inevitably, by people quite unaware of each other. Marcus lets us hear strange yet familiar voices: of such heretics as the Brethren of the Free Spirit in medieval Europe and the Ranters in seventeenth-century England; the dadaists in Zurich in 1916 and Berlin in 1918, wearing death masks, chanting glossolalia; one Michel Mourre, who in 1950 took over Easter Mass at Notre-Dame to proclaim the death of God; the Lettrist International and the Situationist International, small groups of Paris--based artists and writers surrounding Guy Debord, who produced blank-screen films, prophetic graffiti, and perhaps the most provocative social criticism of the 1950s and '60s; the rioting students and workers of May '68, scrawling cryptic slogans on city walls and bringing France to a halt; the Sex Pistols in London, recording the savage "Anarchy in the U.K." and "God Save the Queen."
Although the Sex Pistols shape the beginning and the end of the story, Lipstick Traces is not a book about music; it is about a common voice, discovered and transmitted in many forms. Working from scores of previously unexamined and untranslated essays, manifestos, and filmscripts, from old photographs, dada sound poetry, punk songs, collages, and classic texts from Marx to Henri Lefebvre, Marcus takes us deep behind the acknowledged events of our era, into a hidden tradition of moments that would seem imaginary except for the fact that they are real: a tradition of shared utopias, solitary refusals, impossible demands, and unexplained disappearances. Written with grace and force, humor and an insistent sense of tragedy and danger, Lipstick Traces tells a story as disruptive and compelling as the century itself.
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Centuryby Greil MarcusISBN 0674535804 (0-674-53580-4)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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This is no mere search for cultural antecedents. Instead, what Marcus so brilliantly shows is that various kinds of angry, absolute demands--demands on society, art, and all the governing structures of everyday life--seem to be coded in phrases, images, and actions passed on invisibly, but inevitably, by people quite unaware of each other. Marcus lets us hear strange yet familiar voices: of such heretics as the Brethren of the Free Spirit in medieval Europe and the Ranters in seventeenth-century England; the dadaists in Zurich in 1916 and Berlin in 1918, wearing death masks, chanting glossolalia; one Michel Mourre, who in 1950 took over Easter Mass at Notre-Dame to proclaim the death of God; the Lettrist International and the Situationist International, small groups of Paris--based artists and writers surrounding Guy Debord, who produced blank-screen films, prophetic graffiti, and perhaps the most provocative social criticism of the 1950s and '60s; the rioting students and workers of May '68, scrawling cryptic slogans on city walls and bringing France to a halt; the Sex Pistols in London, recording the savage "Anarchy in the U.K." and "God Save the Queen."
Although the Sex Pistols shape the beginning and the end of the story, Lipstick Traces is not a book about music; it is about a common voice, discovered and transmitted in many forms. Working from scores of previously unexamined and untranslated essays, manifestos, and filmscripts, from old photographs, dada sound poetry, punk songs, collages, and classic texts from Marx to Henri Lefebvre, Marcus takes us deep behind the acknowledged events of our era, into a hidden tradition of moments that would seem imaginary except for the fact that they are real: a tradition of shared utopias, solitary refusals, impossible demands, and unexplained disappearances. Written with grace and force, humor and an insistent sense of tragedy and danger, Lipstick Traces tells a story as disruptive and compelling as the century itself.
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The Listener's Guide to Chamber Musicby Christopher HeadingtonISBN 0871965666 (0-87196-566-6)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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The Listener's Guide to Great Instrumentalistsby David HamiltonISBN 0871965682 (0-87196-568-2)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Live Through This: American Rock Music in the Ninetiesby Everett TrueISBN 0753505584 (0-7535-0558-4)
Softcover, Virgin Books Limited
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Looking for Chet Bakerby Bill MoodyISBN 0802733689 (0-8027-3368-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Readerby Lester BangsISBN 0375713670 (0-375-71367-0)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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Manchester, England: The Story of the Pop Cult Cityby Dave HaslamISBN 1841151459 (1-84115-145-9)
Hardcover, Fourth Estate
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Messiah: The Gospel According to Handel's Oratorioby Roger A. BullardISBN 0802801250 (0-8028-0125-0)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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Mingus/Mingus: Two Memoirsby Janet Coleman, Al Young, Mingus, Al Mingus YoungISBN 0879101490 (0-87910-149-0)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Moment's Notice: Jazz in Poetry & Proseby Art Lange, Nathaniel MacKeyISBN 1566890012 (1-56689-001-2)
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Mothersby Kathleen Hirsch, Katrina KenisonISBN 0865475113 (0-86547-511-3)
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Murmurby JUSTIN NIIMIISBN 0826416721 (0-8264-1672-1)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Music in Londonby George Bernard ShawISBN 0844300586 (0-8443-0058-6)
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The Nearest Far Away Place: Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, and the Southern California Experienceby Timothy WhiteISBN 0805047026 (0-8050-4702-6)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991by Michael AzerradISBN 0316787531 (0-316-78753-1)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991'Book summary:It was a musical revolution that happened in the midst of Reagan's 80s: a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations and other subversives who re-shaped and re-energized American rock music with punk rock's revolutionary do-it-yourself credo. The music that resulted was deeply personal, always challenging and immensely influential. This book traces the arc of the American indie underground in the 1980s, from obscure beginnings to the point a decade later when the mainstream sat up and took notice. Beginning with the pioneering and notorious punk band, Black Flag, the story continues with the Minutemen, Mission of Burma, Minor Threat, Husker Du, the Replacements, Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers, Big Black, Dinosaur Jr, Fugazi, Mudhoney and Beat Happening, among others. Without major label support, these bands depended on resourcefulness, creativity and an all-powerful sense of community. [via]
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The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: The Hidden World of a Paris Atelierby Thaddeus CarhartISBN 0753156210 (0-7531-5621-0)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punkby Andre Malraux, Gillian McCainISBN 0802142648 (0-8021-4264-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punkby Gillian McCain, Legs McNeilISBN 0802115888 (0-8021-1588-8)
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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dungby Lester Bangs, Greil MarcusISBN 0679720456 (0-679-72045-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung : An Anthologyby Lester Bangs, Greil MarcusISBN 039453896X (0-394-53896-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Quasi Una Fantasia: Essays on Modern Musicby Theodore AdornoISBN 1859841597 (1-85984-159-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Ranters and Crowd Pleasers: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992by Greil MarcusISBN 0385417217 (0-385-41721-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Rough Guide Classical Musicby Joe Staines, Jonathan BuckleyISBN 1858282578 (1-85828-257-8)
Softcover, Rough Guides
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rough Guide Classical Music'Book summary:Spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian chant to works by contemporary composers such as Judith Weir and Wolfgang Rihm, The Rough Guide to Classical Music forms an indispensable guide to composers and key-recordings. The book combines informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, with incisive reviews of hundreds of CDs, selecting the best of the latest recordings and the pick of the re-issues. Lively articles on such topics as sonata form, the concerto, atonality, and film music are also included. [via]
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The Rough Guide Classical Music: 100 Essential Cdsby Joe StainesISBN 1858284899 (1-85828-489-9)
Softcover, Rough Guides
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The Rough Guide To Classical Musicby Rough Guides, Duncan ClarkISBN 1843532476 (1-84353-247-6)
Softcover, Rough Guides
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rough Guide To Classical Music'Book summary:This expanded and completely revised fourth edition is a unique handbook, spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian chant via Bach and Beethoven to current leading lights such as Thomas Adès and Kaija Saariaho.
There are concise biographical profiles of more than 200 composers and informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, from chamber works to operatic epics. Topics such as the influence of jazz, notation, conducting, the madrigal, and why Stradivarius made such great violins are covered fully in feature boxes. The Rough Guide has been praised for its mix of well-known composers with more obscure, but interesting, figures (like Antoine Brumel and Barbara Strozzi), and for the way it takes contemporary music seriously.
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Shaw on Musicby Eric Bentley, Bernard ShawISBN 1557831491 (1-55783-149-1)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Sonata For Jukebox: An Autobiography of My earsby Geoffrey O'BrienISBN 1582433291 (1-58243-329-1)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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Sonata for Jukebox: Pop Music, Memory, and the Imagined Lifeby Geoffrey O'BrienISBN 1582431922 (1-58243-192-2)
Hardcover, Counterpoint
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Songbookby Nick HornbyISBN 1573223565 (1-57322-356-5)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Songbook'Book summary:The personal essays in Nick Hornby's Songbook pop off the page with the immediacy and passion of an artfully arranged mix-tape. But then, who better to riff on 31 of his favorite songs than the author of that literary music-lover's delight, High Fidelity?
"And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do," writes Hornby. More than his humble disclaimer, he captures "the narcotic need" for repeat plays of Nelly Furtado's "I'm Like a Bird," and testifies that "you can hear God" in Rufus Wainwright's coy reinterpretation of his father Loudon's "One Man Guy" ("given a neat little twist by Wainwright Junior's sexual orientation..."). Especially poignant is his reaction to "A Minor Incident," a Badly Drawn Boy song written for the soundtrack of the film version of Hornby's book About a Boy. While Hornby was writing the book, his young son was diagnosed with autism--a fact that adds greater resonance to the seemingly unrelated song he hears much later: "I write a book that isn't about my kid, and then someone writes a beautiful song based on an episode in my book that turns out to mean something much more personal to me than my book ever did." Meandering asides and observations like this linger in your mind (just like a fantastic song) long after you've flipped past the final page.
The 11-song CD that accompanies the book is a great touch, but it's too bad it doesn't contain all of the featured songs--most likely the unfortunate result of licensing difficulties. Overall, Hornby's pitch-perfect prose, the quirky illustrations from Canadian artist Marcel Dzama, and a good cause--proceeds benefit TreeHouse, a U.K. charity for children with autism, and 826 Valencia, the nonprofit Bay Area learning center--add up to make Songbook a hit. Solid gold. --Brad Thomas Parsons [via]
Sounding Off!: Music As Subversion/Resistance/Revolutionby Ron SakolskyISBN 1570270260 (1-57027-026-0)
Softcover, Autonomedia
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The Sounds Of Slavery: Discovering African American History Through Songs, Sermons, And Speechby Graham J. White, Shane WhiteISBN 080705027X (0-8070-5027-X)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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From the quotidian sounds of a plantation at dawn to the baying of hounds on the trail of runaways to whistling in Richmond, Virginia, in the 1850s, this book is the closest we'll ever get to imagining and re-creating the diverse sounds of slavery. Enhancing the experience with an 18-track CD compilationwith most of the tracks recorded in the 1930sWhite and White enable us to hear a complex history that for too long has been silent. [via]More editions of The Sounds Of Slavery: Discovering African American History Through Songs, Sermons, And Speech:
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Spider Kissby Harlan EllisonISBN 1595820582 (1-59582-058-2)
Softcover, Dh Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spider Kiss'Book summary:He claims he's not a fan of rock-and-roll, but somehow Harlan Ellison's seminal novel based on the career of Jerry Lee Lewis ended up in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. One of the first - and still one of the best - dissections of the wildly destructive rock-and-roll lifestyle, Spider Kiss isn't about giant cockroaches that attack Detroit or space invaders that smell like chicken soup. Instead, it's the story of Luther Sellers, a poor kid from Louisville with a voice like an angel who's renamed Stag Preston by a ruthless promoter. Preston's meteoric rise on the music scene is matched only by the rise in his enormous appetites - and not just for home cooking - and soon the invisible monkey named Success is riding him straight to hell. This raucous early novel reinforces Ellison's reputation as one of America's most dynamic writers. [via]
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The Spirituals and the Blues: An Interpretationby James H. ConeISBN 0883448432 (0-88344-843-2)
Softcover, Orbis Books
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Undercurrents: The Hidden Wiring of Modern Musicby WireISBN 0826464505 (0-8264-6450-5)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The Velvet Underground and Nicoby Joe HarvardISBN 0826415504 (0-8264-1550-4)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Viva Mozart: An Anthology of Appreciationby George D. SnellISBN 096216240X (0-9621624-0-X)
Softcover, Amadeus Pub Co
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Wagnerby Barry MillingtonISBN 0691027226 (0-691-02722-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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A Whore Just Like the Rest: The Music Writings of Richard Meltzerby Richard MeltzerISBN 0306809532 (0-306-80953-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Words on Music: From Addison to Barzunby Jack SullivanISBN 0821409581 (0-8214-0958-1)
Hardcover, Ohio Univ Pr
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Worst Rock-And-Roll Records of All Time: A Fan's Guide to the Stuff You Love to Hateby Jimmy Guterman, Owen O'DonnellISBN 0756750474 (0-7567-5047-4)
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Young Chet: The Young Chet Bakerby William ClaxtonISBN 382389966X (3-8238-9966-X)
Hardcover, Te Neues Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Young Chet: The Young Chet Baker'Book summary:Chet Baker was twenty-one when Charlie Parker discovered him and introduced him to such stars as Stan Getz and Gerry Mulligan. It was the beginning of a meteoric rise to fame. Within a year, his melancholy, seductively elegant trumpet solos and his silken voice had made him the epitome of "West Coast cool jazz," which expressed a whole generations attitude to life. Marked by drug addiction, several arrests and unsuccessful comeback attempts Chet Baker died at age fifty-nine in Amsterdam. In images and reminiscences by jazz photographer William Claxton, this book provides a record of Chet Bakers glorious early years, from 1952 to 1957, when he was still being called the "James Dean of jazz." Claxton accompanied the wonder boy of Californian jazz to concerts, performances, and studio sessions. His photographs show a dreamy, introverted Chet Baker whose charisma and appearance match the suggestiveness of his art.
Texts by Chris Caujolle and William Claxton
Chet Baker, born in 1929 in Yale, OK, won a trumpet audition with Charlie Parker and joined the Gerry Mulligans Quartet in 1952. Forming his own quartet in 1954, he toured the US and Europe. A heroin addict, he was in jail several times in the 1960s. Starting a second career in the 1970s, he died in Amsterdam in 1988 falling out of a hotel room window.
William Claxton, a member of the Californian jazz scene, co-founder of Pacific records and the author of the book Jazz Seen, shaped the jazz imagery with revolutionary photographs and record covers.
Chris Caujolle, born in France in 1953, is the director of the Paris-based photo agency and gallery, VU. He worked as artistic director of photography festivals in Arles, Rotterdam, and Madrid. [via]
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Young Chet: The Young Chet Baker Photographed By William Claxtonby William ClaxtonISBN 388814860X (3-88814-860-X)
Softcover, Prestel Pub
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All What Jazzby Philip LarkinISBN 8449315565 (84-493-1556-5)
Softcover, Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A
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El estilo clasico/ The Classic Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethovenby Charles RosenISBN 8420685291 (84-206-8529-1)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Gdel, Escher, Bachby D.R. HofstadterISBN 8472234592 (84-7223-459-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gdel, Escher, Bach'Book summary:¿Puede un sistema comprenderse a sí mismo ? Si esta pregunta se refiere a la mente humana, entonces nos encontramos ante una cuestión clave del pensamiento científico. Y de la filosofía. Y del arte. Investigar este misterio es una aventura que recorre la matemática, la física, la biología, la psicología y, muy especialmente, el lenguaje. Douglas R. Hofstadter, joven y ya célebre científico, nos abre la puerta del enigma con la belleza y la alegría creadora de su estilo. Sorprendentes paralelismos ocultos entre los grabados de Escher y la música de Bach nos remiten a las paradojas clásicas de los antiguos griegos y a un teorema de la lógica matemática moderna que ha estremecido el pensamiento del siglo XX : el de Kurt Gödel. Todo lenguaje, todo sistema formal, todo programa de ordenador, todo proceso de pensamiento, llegan, tarde o temprano, a la situación límite de la autorreferencia : de querer expresarse sobre sí mismos. Surge entonces la emoción del infinito, como dos espejos enfrentados y obligados a reflejarse mutua e indefinidamente. Gödel, Escher, Bach: un Eterno y Grácil Bucle, es una obra de arte escrita por un sabio. Versa sobre los misterios del pensamiento e incluye, ella misma, sus propios misterios. / Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern Twenty years after it topped the bestseller charts, Douglas R. Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is still something of a marvel. Besides being a profound and entertaining meditation on human thought and creativity, this book looks at the surprising points of contact between the music of Bach, the artwork of Escher, and the mathematics of Gödel.mathematics to the study of the human mind and the development of artificial intelligence. [via]
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