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Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad Publisher Comments This is the story of post-punk indie rock in America and the bands whose do-it-yourself ethic paved the way for the grunge phenomenon of the 1990s. Without major label support, these bands depended on resourcefulness and creativity to survive.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Set Your Voice Free with CD (Audio) by Roger Love Publisher Comments For anyone who wants to turn his dreams of signing into reality, for anyone who is self-conscious about speaking or singing in public, for anyone who hates the sound of her own voice on answering machines--SET YOUR VOICE FREE offers the solution. With... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin Staff Pick A revelation for music buffs and science geeks — and all the better if you happen to be both. How do memory and music work together? What makes timbre? How do writers like Lennon and McCartney, or John Coltrane and Miles Davis, manipulate our... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Latin Tinge: The Impact of Latin American Music on the United States by John Storm Roberts Publisher Comments In this revised second edition, Roberts updates the history of Latin American influences on the American music scene over the last 20 years. 50 halftones.... (read more) List Price $34.99 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Opera for Dummies by David Pogue Publisher Comments “Pogue is a wonderful teacher… He can teach anybody.” — Gay Talese, bestselling author of Honor Thy Father “Scott Speck is a great communicator of classical music…. Concert audiences and readers alike can’t help... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music by Christofh Cox Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Practical Theory : Complete (92 Edition) by Sandy Feldstein Publisher Comments A combination text and workbook in three volumes. All areas of music theory are covered in a concise and practical manner and each level contains 28 lessons.... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Spiral
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Vintage Guide To Classical Music (92 Edition) by Jan Swafford Publisher Comments The most readable and comprehensive guide to enjoying over five hundred years of classical music -- from Gregorian chants, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Johannes Brahms, Igor Stravinsky, John Cage, and beyond. The Vintage Guide to... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner Publisher Comments Richard Wagner's vast Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle comprises four full-length operas (Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried and Gotterdammerung) and is arguably the most extraordinary achievement in the history of opera. His own libretto to the operas... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Invitation To the Opera (91 Edition) by John Louis Digaetani Publisher Comments Introduces the uninitiated to the mysteries of opera and helps more experienced buffs expand their understanding and deepen their appreciation of the art form.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Electric Sound : the Past and Promise of Electronic Music (97 Edition) by Joel Chadabe Publisher Comments With a truly global perspective, this vivid and readable narrative provides a comprehensive overview of the history of electronic music. The author draws upon his combined experience as composer, performer, researcher, entrepreneur, and teacher to... (read more) List Price $135.00 Your price: $108.50 Used - Hardcover
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Running With the Devil : Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music (93 Edition) by Robert Walser Publisher Comments A comprehensive musical, social, and cultural analysis of heavy metal music.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Beatles Revised 2ND Edition the Classic by Hunter Davies Publisher Comments In this behind-the-scenes look at the most famous musical group in history, Hunter Davies gives the complete story of the Beatles. As the only authorized biographer, Davies had full access to the Fab Four as well as their help and encouragement. He spent... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Talk (81 Edition) by Ben Sidran Publisher Comments Black Musicwhether it be jazz, blues, r&b, gospel, or soulhas always expressed, consciously or not, its African "oral" heritage, reflecting the conditions of a minority culture in the midst of a white majority. Black Talk is one of those rare... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Music and the Mind by Anthony Storr Publisher Comments Storr, the bestselling author of Solitude, explores the intimate effects of music, and the reasons for its central place in our lives. He traces the origins of music and its functional development in society as entertainment, communication, and therapy... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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What Is This Thing Called Jazz? : African American Musicians As Artists, Critics, and Activists (02 Edition) by Eric Porter Publisher Comments A study of black jazz musicians' own thinking about their music, their struggles to define it and to create a black art in a white society. This book is one of very few to examine jazz from the perspective of the self-aware and sophisticated (black... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Horns, Strings, and Harmony (92 Edition) by Arthur H. Benade Publisher Comments Engaging, accessible introduction to structure and sound-making capacities of piano, violin, trumpet, bugle, oboe, flute, saxophone, many other instruments. Also, how to build your own trumpet, flute, clarinet. Includes 76 illustrations. Bibliography.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Principles of Orchestration (22 Edition) by Nikolay Rimsky-korsakov Publisher Comments In this affordable paperback reprint of an influential work of music theory, Rimsky-Korsakov, the great classical orchestrator, provides fundamentals of tonal resonance, progression of parts, voice and orchestra, tutti effects, and much more. This major... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Electronic and Experimental Music (3RD 08 - Old Edition) by Thom Holmes Publisher Comments Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture provides a thorough treatment of the relevant history behind the marriage of technology and music that has led to the state of electronic music today. Beginning with an early history of... (read more) List Price $52.95 Your price: $26.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6 in Full Score (91 Edition) by Gustav Mahler Publisher Comments In these two works, Mahler moved beyond his song-oriented earlier works to take up the challenges of the purely instrumental symphony. The result was two of his most emotionally compelling, most often performed symphonic works. Both are reprinted here... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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