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31 Songs
by Nick Hornby

ISBN 0670914266 (0-670-91426-6)
Hardcover, Viking

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The Beatles: Anthology
by Beatles

ISBN 0811836363 (0-8118-3636-3)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc

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Puisque l'on n'est jamais mieux servi que par soi-même, les Beatles (ou du moins ce qu'il en reste...) ont donc décidé de s'auto-archiver. De s'auto-raconter. Le résultat est impressionnant. Une sorte de bible. Un monument de l'édition à l'iconographie somptueuse et dense. Un bel objet que le fan des Fab Four digne de ce nom se doit de posséder. Et si les plus calés n'apprendront sûrement rien de nouveau, cette Anthology propose de raconter chronologiquement et dans ses moindres détails l'incroyable aventure de ces quatre garçons dans le vent. Un conte de fées d'autant plus fascinant qu'il durera moins d'une décennie. Quel autre groupe pourrait en effet se targuer d'une oeuvre aussi importante et essentielle en si peu de temps ? Collage subtil d'interviews fleuves, archives photographiques de premier ordre (les premières années de la saga sont à cet égard copieusement servies en images inédites), The Beatles Anthology se feuillette au gré des humeurs, avec une écoute parallèle des albums, ou tout simplement en suivant le déroulement des événements. Unique bémol dans cette entreprise passionnante, l'absence de regard vraiment critique. Contrôlant totalement l'ouvrage, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr et Yoko Ono (dans le rôle du défunt) n'incluent qu'homéopathiquement la remise en question ou l'analyse critique. Mais malgré cet aspect "version officielle", The Beatles Anthology demeure un superbe livre pour tous les fans de musique. --Marc Zisman [via]
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The Beatles Anthology
by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison

ISBN 0811826848 (0-8118-2684-8)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc

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Puisque l'on n'est jamais mieux servi que par soi-même, les Beatles (ou du moins ce qu'il en reste...) ont donc décidé de s'auto-archiver. De s'auto-raconter. Le résultat est impressionnant. Une sorte de bible. Un monument de l'édition à l'iconographie somptueuse et dense. Un bel objet que le fan des Fab Four digne de ce nom se doit de posséder. Et si les plus calés n'apprendront sûrement rien de nouveau, cette Anthology propose de raconter chronologiquement et dans ses moindres détails l'incroyable aventure de ces quatre garçons dans le vent. Un conte de fées d'autant plus fascinant qu'il durera moins d'une décennie. Quel autre groupe pourrait en effet se targuer d'une oeuvre aussi importante et essentielle en si peu de temps ? Collage subtil d'interviews fleuves, archives photographiques de premier ordre (les premières années de la saga sont à cet égard copieusement servies en images inédites), The Beatles Anthology se feuillette au gré des humeurs, avec une écoute parallèle des albums, ou tout simplement en suivant le déroulement des événements. Unique bémol dans cette entreprise passionnante, l'absence de regard vraiment critique. Contrôlant totalement l'ouvrage, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr et Yoko Ono (dans le rôle du défunt) n'incluent qu'homéopathiquement la remise en question ou l'analyse critique. Mais malgré cet aspect "version officielle", The Beatles Anthology demeure un superbe livre pour tous les fans de musique. --Marc Zisman [via]
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Cash: The Autobiography
by Johnny Cash, Patrick Carr

ISBN 0060727535 (0-06-072753-5)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco

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He is "The Man in Black." Country music legend. The "quintessential American troubadour." An icon of rugged individualism, who's been to hell and back, and tells the tale as never before. In this unforgettable autobiography, Johnny Cash talks straight about the highs and lows, the struggles and hard-won triumphs, and the people who have shaped him.
In his own words, Cash sets the record straight--and dispels a few myths--as he looks unsparingly at his remarkable life: from his turbulent past to the joys of the present to his plans down the road. Here, too, are the friends of a lifetime, including Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, and Dr. Billy Graham. As powerful and memorable as one of his classic songs, Cash is filled with the candor, wit, and wisdom of a man who has truly "walked the line."
"Engaging.... Written with honesty and spiritual insight.... Cash's stories and strength shine."
--Chicago Sun-Times
"Insightful, relaxed, and conversational.... The stories sing."
--New York Times Book Review
"Gives a feel for what it might be like to spend some time with him.... Cash is a good storyteller.... Fascinating.... Rich anecdotes.... Interesting observations.... Any Cash fan with find a lot here to enjoy."
--Boston Globe
"Cash has always been cool."
--Country Music magazine
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Chronicles
by Bob Dylan

ISBN 0743244583 (0-7432-4458-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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As the first volume of Chronicles, Bob Dylans long-anticipated autobiography, finally appears, we are given a forcible reminder how it has never been easy to be a Dylan admirer. How could the fiercely anti-establishment composer of With God on Our Side embrace (in turn) orthodox Judaism, then fundamentalist Christianity two religions absolutely antithetical to his celebration of the unfettered human spirit ? How could the demigod of folk (and disciple of Woody Guthrie) make his controversial move into electric rock? How could this man of the streets become the arch capitalist? If no answers to these questions are to be found within the pages of Chronicles, there is nevertheless a whole host of pleasures to be encountered: literary felicities, brilliantly etched pen portraits of musical personalities he has encountered, the biting wit one might expect not to mention a thousand surprises (how could a man hardly noted for the beauty of his vocal tones be such an admirer of composers whose work he could never tackle, such as Harold Arlen, composer of Over the Rainbow?.
Those who have loved Dylans lyrics (and thats a good chunk of the academic world these days) will find the same coruscating prose here: idea and image fused into brilliant (if often opaque) word pictures, as Dylan takes us back to his early days on the New York folk scene, before he became the face of rebellion in music. There are insights into his reluctance to conform to the image his fans have of him (hence his highly unlikely conversion to religious dogmas?), and this inaugural volume of his autobiography takes the reader up to the moment of his first real celebrity. Its a fascinating and infuriating read, of a piece with Dylan the Enigma. And perhaps answers to those unanswered questions will appear in succeeding volumes. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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Chronicles: A Bob Dylan Series
by Bob Dylan

ISBN 0786273410 (0-7862-7341-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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One would not anticipate a conventional memoir from Bob Dylan--indeed, one would not have foreseen an autobiography at all from the pen of the notoriously private legend. What Chronicles: Volume 1 delivers is an odd but ultimately illuminating memoir that is as impulsive, eccentric, and inspired as Dylan's greatest music.
Eschewing chronology and skipping over most of the "highlights" that his many biographers have assigned him, Dylan drifts and rambles through his tale, amplifying a series of major and minor epiphanies. If you're interested in a behind-the-scenes look at his encounters with the Beatles, look elsewhere. Dylan describes the sensation of hearing the group's "Do You Want to Know a Secret" on the radio, but devotes far more ink to a Louisiana shopkeeper named Sun Pie, who tells him, "I think all the good in the world might already been done" and sells him a World's Greatest Grandpa bumper sticker. Dylan certainly sticks to his own agenda--a newspaper article about journeymen heavyweights Jerry Quarry and Jimmy Ellis and soul singer Joe Tex's appearance on The Tonight Show inspire heartfelt musings, and yet the 1963 assassination of John Kennedy prompts nary a word from the era's greatest protest singer.
For all the small revelations (it turns out he's been a big fan of Barry Goldwater, Mickey Rourke, and Ice-T), there are eye-opening disclosures, including his confession that a large portion of his recorded output was designed to alienate his audience and free him from the burden of being a "the voice of a generation."
Off the beaten path as it is, Chronicles is nevertheless an astonishing achievement. As revelatory in its own way as Blonde on Blonde or Highway 61 Revisited, it provides ephemeral insights into the mind one of the most significant artistic voices of the 20th century while creating a completely new set of mysteries. --Steven Stolder [via]
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The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
by Charles Rosen

ISBN 0393317129 (0-393-31712-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven is a revised and enlarged version of Charles Rosen's landmark 1970 work on the compositions of the trio of musical geniuses who formed the Viennese Classical School and forever changed the face of music. Along with clarifications, expansions, and new insights into the composers and their music, the book has been enriched by the addition of a compact disc containing two of the Beethoven piano sonatas of which the author writes. Rosen's books are always shot through with musical examples, so you'll get a great deal more out of this one if you can read music. The Classical Style is a brilliant book, composed by a genuine artist, sometimes provocative, but never sloppy in its thinking. [via]
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The Classical Style:Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
by Charles Rosen

ISBN 0571091180 (0-571-09118-0)
Hardcover, Faber

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The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven is a revised and enlarged version of Charles Rosen's landmark 1970 work on the compositions of the trio of musical geniuses who formed the Viennese Classical School and forever changed the face of music. Along with clarifications, expansions, and new insights into the composers and their music, the book has been enriched by the addition of a compact disc containing two of the Beethoven piano sonatas of which the author writes. Rosen's books are always shot through with musical examples, so you'll get a great deal more out of this one if you can read music. The Classical Style is a brilliant book, composed by a genuine artist, sometimes provocative, but never sloppy in its thinking. [via]
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
by Michael Kennedy, Joyce Bourne

ISBN 0198608845 (0-19-860884-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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When The Oxford Dictionary of Music first appeared, it was hailed by Music and Musicians as "without question the most comprehensive, detailed, reliable one-volume reference work on music now available in the English language." Fully revised and updated for this new edition, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, Fourth Edition is a rich mine of information for lovers of music of all periods and styles, providing over 10,000 entries on musical terms, works, composers, librettists, musicians, singers, and orchestras. The dictionary's coverage is exceptional, providing comprehensive work-lists for major composers, detailed entries on living composers and performers, important ballets and operas, as well as descriptions of musical instruments and their histories.
Written to appeal to general readers, musicians and musicologists alike, this volume is an indispensable addition to the reference shelf of the concert goer, the opera buff, the record buyer, or anyone involved in music, whether amateur or professional. [via]
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
by Percy Alfred Scholes, John Owen Ward

ISBN 0193113074 (0-19-311307-4)
Softcover, Oxford University Press

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excellent, practical ready-reference book with ample but concise information about music, its structure, instruments, and performance, and about composers [via]
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music: Based on the Original Publication by Percy Scholes
by Michael Kennedy, Percy Alfred Scholes

ISBN 0193113155 (0-19-311315-5)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press

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When The Oxford Dictionary of Music first appeared, it was hailed by Music and Musicians as "without question the most comprehensive, detailed, reliable one-volume reference work on music now available in the English language." Fully revised and updated for this new edition, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, Fourth Edition is a rich mine of information for lovers of music of all periods and styles, providing over 10,000 entries on musical terms, works, composers, librettists, musicians, singers, and orchestras. The dictionary's coverage is exceptional, providing comprehensive work-lists for major composers, detailed entries on living composers and performers, important ballets and operas, as well as descriptions of musical instruments and their histories.
Written to appeal to general readers, musicians and musicologists alike, this volume is an indispensable addition to the reference shelf of the concert goer, the opera buff, the record buyer, or anyone involved in music, whether amateur or professional. [via]
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The Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening
by Joseph MacHlis, Kristine Forney

ISBN 0393978788 (0-393-97878-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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This instructor's manual has been designed to accompany the 6th edition of a music appreciation textbook, which emphasizes a genre approach rather than a composer-masterpiece approach. It introduces material on women composers, such as Clara Schumann, and the music of Africa and Asia. [via]
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter

ISBN 0465026567 (0-465-02656-7)
Softcover, Basic Books

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As stated in the Scientific American, "Every few decades an unknown author brings out a boof of such depth, clarity range, wit beauty and originality that it is recognized at once as a major literary event - this is such a work." [via]
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High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby

ISBN 1573228214 (1-57322-821-4)
Softcover, Riverhead Books

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It has been said often enough that baby boomers are a television generation, but the very funny novel High Fidelity reminds that in a way they are the record-album generation as well. This funny novel is obsessed with music; Hornby's narrator is an early-thirtysomething English guy who runs a London record store. He sells albums recorded the old-fashioned way--on vinyl--and is having a tough time making other transitions as well, specifically adulthood. The book is in one sense a love story, both sweet and interesting; most entertaining, though, are the hilarious arguments over arcane matters of pop music. [via]
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A History of Western Music
by Claude V. Palisca, Donald J. Grout

ISBN 0393979911 (0-393-97991-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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This is a chronological presentation of the development of Western music within Western culture. This edition has increased coverage of 20th-century music, and timelines covering musical events throughout history. [via]
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A History of Western Music
by Donald J. Grout

ISBN 0393093581 (0-393-09358-1)
Hardcover, W. W. Norton

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This is a chronological presentation of the development of Western music within Western culture. This edition has increased coverage of 20th-century music, and timelines covering musical events throughout history. [via]
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Last Train to Memphis Careless Love
by Peter Guralnick

ISBN 0316345237 (0-316-34523-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co

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Peter Guralnick's definitive and award-winning two-volume biography of Elvis Presley

This deluxe paperback boxed set includes Guralnick's two bestselling books about Elvis Presley, Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley and Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley.

From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of the most vivid and enduring myths of American culture. Peter Guralnick's biography is the first to go past that myth and present an Elvis beyond the legend. Based on hundreds of interviews and nearly a decade of research, it traces the evolution not just of the man but of the music and of the culture he left utterly transformed, creating a completely fresh portrait of Elvis and his world.

The first volume, Last Train to Memphis, tracks the first twenty-four years of Elvis' life, covering his childhood, the stunning first recordings at Sun Records ("That's All Right," "Mystery Train"), and the early RCA hits ("Heartbreak Hotel," "Hound Dog," "Don't Be Cruel"). These were the years of his improbable self-invention and unprecedented triumphs, when it seemed that everything that Elvis tried succeeded wildly. There was scarcely a cloud in sight through this period until, in 1958, he was drafted into the army and his mother died shortly thereafter.

Careless Love, the second volume, recounts the second half of Elvis' life in rich and previously unimagined detail, beginning with Presley's army service in Germany in 1958 and ending with his death in Memphis in 1977. Guralnick chronicles the unraveling of the dream that once shone so brightly, homing in on the complex playing-out of Elvis' relationship with his Machiavellian manager, Colonel Tom Parker. It's a breathtaking revelatory drama that for the first time places the events of a too-often mistold tale in a fresh, believable, and understandable context.

This is the quintessential American story, encompassing elements of race, class, wealth, sex, music, religion, and personal transformation. Written with grace, sensitivity, and passion, this two-volume biography is a unique contribution to our understanding of American popular culture and the nature of success, giving us true insight at last into one of the most misunderstood public figures of our times. [via]
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Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
by Peter Guralnick

ISBN 0316332259 (0-316-33225-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co

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There's no mention of sequins, drugs, or peanut butter in this understated biography of the teenaged Elvis, a serious and worthy attempt to answer the question, "Who was this guy before he was an icon, the voice of a generation, the King?" The essential clarity and honesty of Guralnick's prose clearly limns the eager, malleable boy whose immense talent changed the course of American music. [via]
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century
by Greil Marcus

ISBN 0674535812 (0-674-53581-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr

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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 Century
by Greil Marcus

ISBN 0674535804 (0-674-53580-4)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr

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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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Music, the Brain & Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination
by Robert Jourdain

ISBN 038078209X (0-380-78209-X)
Softcover, Avon Books

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What is music? How and why does it affect us? What is the nature of musical genius? Author/composer Robert Jourdain explores these and other questions, from the essential nature of sound through composition, performance, and, finally, the nature of ecstasy. His prose is eminently readable, offering a very accessible account of a difficult subject to the general reader as well as to the musical sophisticate. This is a fascinating and intriguing book, written by someone who clearly knows his subject. [via]
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The Npr Guide to Building a Classical Cd Collection
by Theodore Libbey

ISBN 156305051X (1-56305-051-X)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co

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Berlioz. Vaughan Williams. Schubert and Schumann. Mozart after the Jupiter Symphony, Bach beyond the Brandenburg Concertos, opera after The Magic Flute. In his informed and indispensible guide with over 157,000 copies in print, National Public Radio's Ted Libbey takes listeners by the hand through the classical repertory to build a music library. For the second edition, with five years of new performances to consider, five years of new releases to review, and five years of reissues to re-evaluate-the author has completely revised and updated the book.
While sticking to the essential 300 works, there are now one-third new selections and reviews, and a 50% change in discography to keep all suggested CDs up to date. The NPR Guide tp Building a Classical CD Collection will make every music lover's core collection complete. [via]
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Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
by Michael Azerrad

ISBN 0316787531 (0-316-78753-1)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co

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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 Penguin Guide To Jazz On Cd
by Richard Cook, Brian Morton

ISBN 0141014164 (0-14-101416-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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This work is a leading guide to recorded jazz, full of information and often trenchant criticism. For this edition, Richard Cook and Brian Morton have reassessed each artist's entry and updated the text to incorporate thousands of additional CDs. The book contains artist biographies, full line-ups, recording information along with details of labels and catalogue numbers, authoritative critical ratings, and full index of artists. The book should be of interest to aficionados and jazz novices alike. [via]
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz on Cd, Lp and Cassette
by Richard Cook, Brian Morton

ISBN 0140179496 (0-14-017949-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Where can you find the definitive Miles Davis collection? Which Benny Goodman recordings are the most sought after? For what label did Jack Teagarden lay down his finest work? All the answers can be found in this definitive guide to jazz recordings from Dixieland, through Bebop, to the latest young stars. Designed as a counterpart to Ivan March's established classical music guides, it features critical assessments, musical and biographical details, full line-up details, label/number details, an authoritative rating system, and a special section for anthologies and "Various Artists" collections. [via]
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz on Compact Disc
by Richard Cook, Brian Morton

ISBN 014051368X (0-14-051368-X)
Softcover, Penguin USA

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What was the line-up at John Coltrane's Village Vanguard sessions? What is John Zorn's most important contribution to contemporary jazz? When was Jelly Roll Morton recorded for the Library of Congress? Where can you find a complete set of Ella Fitzgerald's many songbook recordings? Leading critics Richard Cook and Brian Morton answer these and a myriad other questions in The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD -- the most comprehensive critical guide to jazz recordings available. Updated with revised artists' entries and thousands of additional CDs, the fourth edition includes:
-- listings for over 10,000 discs
-- musical and biographical details
-- full line-ups
-- accurate label and number details
-- authoritative critical ratings [via]
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
by Brian Morton, Richard Cook

ISBN 0141023279 (0-14-102327-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The leading guide to recorded jazz, now extensively revised
Music fans have been turning to this established reference through seven editions as a source of intelligent and insightful criticism. Fully updated to incorporate thousands of additional recordings, the eighth edition features artist biographies, detailed recording information with labels and catalog numbers, reliable and authoritative ratings, the authors' personal selection of the essential recordings for every collection, an index of artists, and more. [via]
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
by Gillian McCain, Legs McNeil

ISBN 0140266909 (0-14-026690-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Though Britain's notorious Sex Pistols shoved punk rock into the face of mainstream America, the movement was already brewing in the U.S. in the 1960s with bands like the Velvet Underground and Iggy and the Stooges. Through hundreds of interviews with forgotten bands as well as the ones that made names for themselves--including Blondie and the Ramones--Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain chronicle punk rock history through the people who really lived it. Please Kill Me is a thrash down memory lane for those hip to punk's early years and an enlightening history lesson for youngsters interested in the origins of modern "alternative" music. [via]
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
by Andre Malraux, Gillian McCain

ISBN 0802142648 (0-8021-4264-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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Though Britain's notorious Sex Pistols shoved punk rock into the face of mainstream America, the movement was already brewing in the U.S. in the 1960s with bands like the Velvet Underground and Iggy and the Stooges. Through hundreds of interviews with forgotten bands as well as the ones that made names for themselves--including Blondie and the Ramones--Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain chronicle punk rock history through the people who really lived it. Please Kill Me is a thrash down memory lane for those hip to punk's early years and an enlightening history lesson for youngsters interested in the origins of modern "alternative" music. [via]
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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
by Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus

ISBN 0679720456 (0-679-72045-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Vintage presents the paperback edition of the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs--the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s--edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rack critics, Greil Marcus. Advertising in Rolling Stone and other major publications. [via]
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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung : An Anthology
by Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus

ISBN 039453896X (0-394-53896-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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Vintage presents the paperback edition of the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs--the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s--edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rack critics, Greil Marcus. Advertising in Rolling Stone and other major publications. [via]
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The Real Frank Zappa Book
by Frank Zappa

ISBN 0671705725 (0-671-70572-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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This is the second-best way to expose yourself to the particular genius of Frank Zappa (music is the best, after all)--through his own words. In addition to being an idiosyncratic American composer of some degree of controversy, Zappa was an orator of no small ability or scope. He was known for his ability to expound at great length (and to hilarious effect) on any number of topics. The Real Frank Zappa Book faithfully captures this side of its author, composed of essays on everything from his background and upbringing, to politics, capitalism, and raising children. Zappa takes the opportunity to dispel some of the most pervasive rumors that surrounded him right up to (and even persist after) his death in 1993 (no he didn't do drugs, or sleep with all those groupies). If you're familiar with the man, you will be able to hear his distinctive enunciations (aided by the bold-facing of certain words and Zappaisms) as you read the assorted road stories, his views on making music for a living, and scenes from two--count them, two--organized hearings on obscenity in music. Of course, the chapter titles speak for themselves and include such Zappa winners as "All About Schmucks," "Marriage (As a Dada Concept)," and "America Drinks and Goes Marching." [via]
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The Real Frank Zappa Book
by Peter Occhiogrosso, Frank Zappa

ISBN 067163870X (0-671-63870-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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This is the second-best way to expose yourself to the particular genius of Frank Zappa (music is the best, after all)--through his own words. In addition to being an idiosyncratic American composer of some degree of controversy, Zappa was an orator of no small ability or scope. He was known for his ability to expound at great length (and to hilarious effect) on any number of topics. The Real Frank Zappa Book faithfully captures this side of its author, composed of essays on everything from his background and upbringing, to politics, capitalism, and raising children. Zappa takes the opportunity to dispel some of the most pervasive rumors that surrounded him right up to (and even persist after) his death in 1993 (no he didn't do drugs, or sleep with all those groupies). If you're familiar with the man, you will be able to hear his distinctive enunciations (aided by the bold-facing of certain words and Zappaisms) as you read the assorted road stories, his views on making music for a living, and scenes from two--count them, two--organized hearings on obscenity in music. Of course, the chapter titles speak for themselves and include such Zappa winners as "All About Schmucks," "Marriage (As a Dada Concept)," and "America Drinks and Goes Marching." [via]
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Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984
by Simon Reynolds

ISBN 0143036726 (0-14-303672-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous music created in the years after punk. Renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds celebrates the futurist spirit of such bands as Joy Division, Gang of Four, Talking Heads, and Devo, which resulted in endless innovations in music, lyrics, performance, and style and continued into the early eighties with the video-savvy synth-pop of groups such as Human League, Depeche Mode, and Soft Cell, whose success coincided with the rise of MTV. Full of insight and anecdotes and populated by charismatic characters, Rip It Up and Start Again re-creates the idealism, urgency, and excitement of one of the most important and challenging periods in the history of popular music.

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Rise up Singing
by Peter Blood

ISBN 0865711364 (0-86571-136-4)
Hardcover, Sing Out Corp

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Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Songbook
by Peter Blood, Annie Patterson, Kore Loy Mcwhirter, Pete Seeger

ISBN 1881322122 (1-881322-12-2)
Hardcover, Sing Out! Publications

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Words, chords and sources to 1200 songs for group singing anywhere, anytime! Includes illustrations and an introduction by Pete Seeger. Songs include: Amazing Grace + Desperado + Let It Be + My Favorite Things + The Rose + hundreds more. Spiral bound. [via]
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Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Songbook
by Pete Seeger, Annie Patterson, Kore Loy McWhirter

ISBN 1881322130 (1-881322-13-0)
Softcover, Sing Out Pubns

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Lyrics and guitar chords for nearly 1,200 songs are arranged in a compact, easy-to-use format in this comprehensive collection. Folk revival favorites; Broadway show tunes; Beatles songs; hymns, spirituals, and gospel standards; songs about peace, freedom, labor, and the environment; and chanteys are among the songs included. This revised and retypeset version of the enormously popular group singing songbook makes this essential resource easier to read and use than ever before.
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Songbook
by Nick Hornby

ISBN 1573223565 (1-57322-356-5)
Softcover, Riverhead Books

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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]
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What to Listen for in Music
by Aaron Copland, William Schuman, Alan Rich

ISBN 0451528670 (0-451-52867-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Whether you choose to listen to Mozart or to Duke Ellington, Copland's provocative suggestions for listening will bring you a deeper appreciation of the most rewarding of all art forms, as he offers a fascinating analysis of how to listen to music intelligently. Includes a selected bibliography for further reading. [via]
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El estilo clasico/ The Classic Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
by Charles Rosen

ISBN 8420685291 (84-206-8529-1)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Gdel, Escher, Bach
by D.R. Hofstadter

ISBN 8472234592 (84-7223-459-2)
Softcover, Tusquets Editor

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¿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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