Music: styles & genres

Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 [9780571337972]

New York, 2001. 9/11 plunges the US into a state of war and political volatility-and heralds the rebirth of the city's rock scene. As the old-guard mu…

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Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany [9780141986753]

The story of the phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how they revolutionised our cultural landscape'We are not artists nor musicians. We are workers.' I…

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Crossroads: In Search of the Moments that Changed Music [9781786898173]

Standing at the crossroads - the Mississippi crossroads of Robert Johnson and the devil's infamous meeting - Mark Radcliffe found himself facing his o…

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Ashes to Ashes: The Songs of David Bowie, 1976-2016 [9781912248308]

In 2015 Chris O'Leary published the first volume of his two-volume exploration, Rebel Rebel, of every song David Jones / David Bowie ever wrote, in ch…

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Bessie Smith [9780571362929]

'The most vivid evocation of Bessie Smith I have ever read' - Ian Carr, BBC Music '[Bessie Smith] showed me the air and taught me how to fill it ..…

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Lady Sings the Blues [9780241351291]

I've been told that no one sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word 'love'. Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the …

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1971 - Never a Dull Moment: Rock's Golden Year [9781784162061]

'A compelling love letter to a year of timeless music' - Q The Sixties ended a year late - on New Year's Eve 1970, when Paul McCartney initiated proce…

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I Saw Eternity the Other Night: King's College, Cambridge, and an English Singing Style [9780141988597]

'Erudite, original and surprisingly moving ... This Christmas, as at every Christmas, millions of listeners will have relished the ethereal King's cho…

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Lunch With The Wild Frontiers: A History of Britpop and Excess in 131/2 Chapters [9781911036494]

Phill Savidge is widely credited as being the main instigator of the Britpop music movement that swept the UK in the mid-1990s. Savidge was co-founder…

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Everybody Loves Our Town: A History of Grunge [9780571249879]

'Rip-roaring.' - Daily Telegraph Books of the Year 'Exhilarating.' - Sunday Times 'A flannel-shirted soap opera.' - Guardian Grunge, also known as the…

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Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession [9780571282814]

Franz Schubert's Winterreise is at the same time one of the most powerful and one of the most enigmatic masterpieces in Western culture. In his new bo…

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The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs [9780141194622]

The definitive collection of folk music - one of the great English popular art forms. One of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be…

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The Wichita Lineman: Searching in the Sun for the World's Greatest Unfinished Song [9780571353415]

The sound of 'Wichita Lineman' was the sound of ecstatic solitude, but then its hero was the quintessential loner. What a great metaphor he was: a man…

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Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop [9780571322404]

Bob Stanley's Yeah Yeah Yeah tells the chronological story of the modern pop era, from its beginnings in the fifties with the dawn of the charts, viny…

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All Gates Open: The Story of Can [9780571311521]

'A real treat for Can fans.' Spectator All Gates Open is the definitive story of the most influential and revered avant-garde band of the late twen…

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Nothin' But a Good Time: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Glam Metal [9781789651355]

From 1983 until 1991, Glam Metal was the sound of American culture. Big hair, massive amplifiers, drugs, alcohol, piles of money and life-threatening …

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Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique [9780826417411]

Derided as one-hit wonders, estranged from their original producer and record label, and in self-imposed exile in Los Angeles, the Beastie Boys were w…

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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-hop Generation [9780091912215]

Hip-hop is now a global multi-billion pound industry. It has spawned superstars all across the world. There have been tie-in clothing lines, TV statio…

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Simply Thrilled: The Preposterous Story of Postcard Records [9780091958251]

They had just a few hundred pounds, one band missing a drummer, a sock drawer for an office, more dreams than sense and not a clue between them how to…

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Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepper [9781841950648]

Art Pepper (1925 - 1982) was described as the greatest alto-saxophonist of the post-Charlie Parker generation. But Straight Life is much more than a …

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