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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 ... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die by Tom Moon Staff Pick Like the kid in high school who always made mix tapes, Tom Moon has compiled an authoritative cross-section of music, from classical composers to modern electronica artists, in 1,000 Recording to Hear before You Die. Each of his selections features not... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small by John Cook Publisher Comments Merge Records defies everything you've heard about the music business. Started by two twenty-year-old musicians, Merge is a lesson in how to make and market great music on a human scale. The fact that the company is prospering in a failing industry is... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mr. Langshaw's Square Piano: The Story of the First Pianos and How They Caused a Cultural Revolution by Madeline Goold Publisher Comments A hand-written serial number inside a neglected 1807 Broadwood square piano inspired this illuminating story of an almost-forgotten musical instrument that transformed the musical and cultural perceptions of a new world. Interspersed with a whos-who of... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History by Jim Walsh Publisher Comments Formed in a Minneapolis basement in 1979, the Replacements were a notorious rock ’n’ roll circus, renowned for self-sabotage, cartoon shtick, stubborn contrarianism, stage-fright, Dionysian benders, heart-on-sleeve songwriting, and&mdash... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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Eastman Studies in Music #68: August Halm: A Critical and Creative Life in Music by Lee A. Rothfarb Publisher Comments In the early 1900s, August Halm was widely acknowledged to be one of the most insightful and influential authors of his day on a wide range of musical topics. Yet, in the eighty years since his untimely death at age 59 (in 1929), Halm-the author of six... (read more) List Price $94.25 Your price: $83.25 New - Hardcover
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Corn Flakes with John Lennon: And Other Tales from a Rock 'n' Roll Life by Robert Hilburn Publisher Comments Robert Hilburn's storied career as a rock critic has allowed him a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of some of the most iconic figures of our time. He was the only music critic to visit Folsom Prison with Johnny Cash. He met John Lennon during his... (read more) Your price: $24.99 New - Hardcover
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Classic Album Covers of the 60s by Storm Thorgerson Synopsis This newly reformatted edition of Classic Album Covers of the 60s features more than 200 of the very best--and, in some cases, entertainingly worst--covers that graced LPs throughout that groundbreaking decade. It takes readers on a lively journey from... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $15.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks Publisher Comments With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Crap Lyrics: A Celebration of the Very Worst Pop Lyrics of All Time... Ever! by Johnny Sharp Synopsis Songwriters often don't seem to bother with the basic laws of the English language. Bob Dylan is famous for Blowing in the Wind but less known for his quite original line wiggle, wiggle, like a bowl of soup; Duran Duran sang you're about as easy as a... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Wire Primers: A Guide to Modern Music by Rob (edt) Young Publisher Comments Since it was founded in 1982, The Wire magazine has covered a vast range of alternative, experimental, underground and non-mainstream music. Now some of that knowledge has been distilled into The Wire Primers: a comprehensive guide to the core recordings... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross Staff Pick Among its many other innovations, the 20th century was the first to truly have its own soundtrack. New Yorker music critic Alex Ross is nothing if not ambitious, and, as he tracks the history of 20th-century music (and the music of 20th-century history... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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1989: Bob Dylan Didn't Have This to Sing about by Joshua Clover Publisher Comments In a tour de force of lyrical theory, Joshua Clover boldly reimagines how we understand both pop music and its social context in a vibrant exploration of a year famously described as the end of history. Amid the historic overturnings of 1989, including... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Hardcover
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The British Invasion by Barry Miles Publisher Comments In 1964, North America had a second revolution--but this time we welcomed the British That year, four mop-tops known as The Beatles made their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, ushering in a new era of British music, film, fashion, and art. This... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears by Antonino D'Ambrosio Publisher Comments A Heartbeat and a Guitar tells of the collaboration of two distinct yet connected musicians — iconoclast Johnny Cash and pioneering folk artist Peter La Farge — and the album they created, Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian. It also... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day by Silke Tudor and Jack Boulware Publisher Comments An oral history of the modern punk-revival's West Coast Birthplace. Outside of New York and London, California's Bay Area claims the oldest continuous punk-rock scene in the world. Gimme Something Better brings this outrageous and influential punk... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Will You Take Me as I Am: Joni Mitchell's Blue Period by Michelle Mercer Publisher Comments Joni Mitchell is one of the most celebrated artists of the last half century, and her landmark 1971 album, Blue, is one of her most beloved and revered works. Generations of people have come of age listening to the album, inspired by the way it clarified... (read more) Your price: $24.99 New - Hardcover
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin Publisher Comments Neuroscientist and professional musician Levitin presents a fascinating exploration of the relationship between music and the mind--and the role of melodies in shaping our lives. Photos throughout.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Songbook by Nick Hornby Publisher Comments From the New York Times bestselling author of High Fidelity, About a Boy, and How to be Good. "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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives by Peter Terzian Staff Pick What do Talking Heads, ABBA, Pearl Jam, Eurythmics, Gloria Estefan, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and the soundtrack to Annie have in common? They all inspired one of the writers in Heavy Rotation. These entertaining essays from such acclaimed authors as... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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