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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
by Daniel J. Levitin  
Powells.com 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...
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
by Alex Ross
Publisher Comments The scandal over modern music has not died down. While paintings by Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock sell for a hundred million dollars or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through...
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The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of about Fifty
by Wilfrid Sheed Publisher Comments From Irving Berlin to Cy Coleman, from “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” to “Big Spender,” from Tin Pan Alley to the MGM soundstages, the Golden Age of the American song embodied all that was cool, sexy, and sophisticated in...
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Studio Stories: How the Great New York Records Were Made: From Miles to Madonna, Sinatra to the Ramones
by Dave Simons Publisher Comments This is an engaging account of some of the most memorable moments in New York's recording history, as seen through the eyes (and ears) of the many producers, engineers, songwriters, and recording artists who helped make them happen. It explores the...
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When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams
by Bob Greene Publisher Comments “Bob Greene is a virtuoso of the things that bring journalism alive.” —Tom Wolfe, author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid...
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American Pioneers: Ives to Cage and Beyond
by Alan Rich Synopsis A spirit of innovation has flourished in American music since the turn of the twentieth century, with composers anxious to throw off the shackles of the European masters and invent new musical languages. Charles lves captured this early pioneering flair,...
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Minimalists
by K. Robert Schwartz Synopsis Minimalism is arguably the most popular style of concert music that the late twentieth century has produced, appealing to the widest possible audience -- fans of rock, jazz and classical music. It is an ecstatic and vibrant movement, combining classical,...
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Play: The Nylon Book of Music
by Editors Of Nylon Magazine Synopsis Residing at the forefront of cool since its inception, NYLON magazine is the authority on what is current when it comes to beauty, fashion, and music. Readers look to NYLON to learn about the newest trends and bands, as well as to see how music and...
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Hit Me with Your Best Shot!: The Ultimate Guide to Karaoke Domination
by Michael Perry Publisher Comments When karaoke calls, get ready to steal the show. Karaoke Queen Raina Lee helps beginners and veterans conquer stage fright, pick songs to showcase vocal talent (or disguise a lack thereof), and master their moves (mic twirls, Mick Jagger kicks, etc...
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Rationalizing Culture
by Georgina Born Synopsis "Shows what can be learned from an in-depth study of a very remarkable cultural institution."--Paul Rabinow, author of "Interpretive Social Science "The finest application yet made of critical theory to contemporary music. . . . It would be hard to...
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Queering the Pitch (2ND 06 Edition)
by Brett Synopsis When the first edition of Queering the Pitch was published in early 1994, it was immediately hailed as a landmark and defining work in the new field of Gay Musicology. The first collection of its kind, its contributors covered a wide range of subjects...
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Writings on Music, 1965-2000
by Steve Reich Publisher Comments In the mid-1960s, Steve Reich radically renewed the musical landscape with a back-to-basics sound that came to be called Minimalism. These early works, characterized by a relentless pulse and static harmony, focused single-mindedly on the process of...
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The Inner Game of Music
by Barry Green Publisher Comments By the best-selling co-author of Inner Tennis, here's a book designed to help musicians overcome obstacles, help improve concentration, and reduce nervousness, allowing them to reach new levels of performing excellence and musical artistry....
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Music in the Western World: A History in Documents
by Piero Weiss Publisher Comments This classic anthology assembles over 200 source readings, bringing to life the history of music through letters, reviews, biographical sketches, memoirs, and other documents. Writings by composers, critics, and educators touch on virtually every aspect...
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Rose and Briar : Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad (05 Edition)
by Sean Wilentz Publisher Comments THE BALLAD has been part of American history since before the country had a name. In this book, Sean Wilentz and Greil Marcus have assembled an astonishing group of writers and artists--Paul Muldoon, Stanley Crouch, R. Crumb, Jon Langford of the Mekons...
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Too Fast for Love: Heavy Metal Portraits
by David Yellen Publisher Comments Rocking on tour with America's heavy metal superstars — Kiss, Poison, Iron Maiden, Slaughter, Ted Nugent, Dokken, and Cinderella — photographer David Yellen tailgated among the headbangers, metalheads, burnouts, and self-styled fanatics waiting...
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Twentieth-Century Music: A History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America (Norton Introduction to Music History)
by Robert P Morgan Synopsis Divided into three chronological sections which cover the entire century, this study explores national movements, as represented by Charles Ives and Ralph Vaughan Williams, philosophical movements as various as the Schoenberg-Webern alliance, New...
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Stardust Melodies: The Biography of Twelve of America's Most Popular Songs
by Will Friedwald Publisher Comments In Stardust Melodies, Will Friedwald takes each of these legendary songs apart and puts it together again, with a staggering wealth of detail and unprecedented understanding. Each chapter gives us an extended history of one song—the circumstances...
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The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body
by Steven Mithen Publisher Comments The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of humankind: this is where Steven Mithen began, drawing together strands from archaeology, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience--and, of course, musicology--to...
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Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and T
by Barney Hoskyns Publisher Comments In the late sixties and early seventies, Los Angeles was a hotbed of musical creativity– the home base of Joni Mitchell, the Eagles, James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, among many others. Now, drawing...
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