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Black Sabbath: Master of Reality (33 1/3 Series)
by John Darnielle  Publisher Comments John Darnielle describes Master of Reality in the voice of a fifteen-year-old boy being held in an adolescent psychiatric center in southern California in 1985. The narrator explains Black Sabbath like an emissary from an alien race describing his...
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
by Oliver Sacks 
Powells.com Staff Pick Musicophilia is a fascinating look at music and its effects on our brains. Who but Oliver Sacks could make such a compulsively readable book? Recommended by Beth, Powells.com...
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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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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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Baseball's Greatest Hit: The Story of Take Me Out to the Ball Game
by Andy Strasberg Publisher Comments The authorized tie-in book to the 100th anniversary of this beloved song. Take Me Out to the Ball Game is the third most frequently sung song in America, after Happy Birthday and The Star-Spangled Banner, and you'd be hard-pressed to find an American who...
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Bob Dylan Encyclopedia
by Michael Gray Synopsis "This is no mere catalog of facts, but a work of oceanic immersion. It has wit, opinion, style, and asks to be read, not just consulted"--"The Village Voice." Includes bios of singers, musicians, songwriters, and composers who have influenced Dylan, plus...
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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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The Well-Tempered Clavier: Books I and II, Complete
by Johann Sebasti Bach Publisher Comments < div> < div> All 48 preludes and fugues in all major and minor keys. Authoritative Bach-Gesellschaft edition. Explanation of ornaments in English, tempo indications, music corrections.< /div> < /div>...
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Hitchcock's Music
by Jack Sullivan Publisher Comments For half a century Alfred Hitchcock created films full of gripping and memorable music. Over his long career he presided over more musical styles than any director in history and ultimately changed how we think about film music. This book is the first to...
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South African Music
by Carol Muller Publisher Comments For students of world music and world cultures, this authoritative work provides an in-depth survey of the full spectrum of black and white South African music. In 1986, Paul Simon's Graceland introduced millions to the sounds of South Africa. But Simon...
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33 1/3 Greatest Hits: Volume 1
by David Barker Publisher Comments The writings in this book are extracted from volumes 1 through 20 of our 33 1/3 series — short books about individual albums. In here you'll find a wide variety of authors, albums, and approaches to writing about those albums. So sit back, put on...
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Tom Waits: Swordfishtrombones (33 1/3 Series)
by David Smay Publisher Comments The opening salvo in Tom Waits' Frank Trilogy, Swordfishtrombones marked a radical shift in the career of one of America's most original singer-songwriters. Here, David Smay investigates and celebrates the album in equal measure....
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The Band: Music From Big Pink (33 1/3 Series)
by John Niven Synopsis 33 1/3 is a series of short books about a wide variety of albums, by artists ranging from James Brown to the Beastie Boys. Launched in September 2003, the series now contains over 50 titles and is acclaimed and loved by fans, musicians and scholars alike....
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Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (33 1/3 Series)
by Kim Cooper Synopsis 33 1/3 is a series of short books about a wide variety of albums, by artists ranging from James Brown to the Beastie Boys. Launched in September 2003, the series now contains over 50 titles and is acclaimed and loved by fans, musicians and scholars alike....
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David Bowie: Low (33 1/3 Series)
by Hugo Wilcken Publisher Comments "One day I blew my nose and half my brains came out." Los Angeles, 1976. David Bowie is holed up in his Bel-Air mansion, drifting into drug-induced paranoia and confusion. Obsessed with black magic and the Holy Grail, he’s built an altar in the living...
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Throbbing Gristle: Twenty Jazz Funk Greats (33 1/3 Series)
by Drew Daniel Synopsis In 20 Jazz Funk Greats Drew Daniel creates--through both his own insights and exclusive interviews with the band--an exploded view of the album's multiple agendas: a series of close readings of each song, shot through with a sequence of thematic entries...
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Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles
by Geoff Emerick Publisher Comments Geoff Emerick became an assistant engineer at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in 1962 at age fifteen, and was present as a new band called the Beatles recorded their first songs. He later worked with the Beatles as they recorded their singles aShe Loves...
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Nick Drake: Pink Moon (33 1/3 Series)
by Amanda Petrusich Synopsis 33 1/3 is a series of short books about a wide variety of albums, by artists ranging from James Brown to the Beastie Boys. Launched in September 2003, the series now contains over 50 titles and is acclaimed and loved by fans, musicians and scholars alike....
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