(Paperback)
By: David Hepworth
ISBN: 9781529177251
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2023
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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By: Jackie Kay
ISBN: 9780571362929
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 18th February 2021
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Bessie Smith: singer, icon, pioneer. Scotland's National Poet Jackie Kay brings to life the tempestuous story of the greatest blues singer who ever lived.
(Paperback)
By: Paul Kildea
ISBN: 9780141980560
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback, Main)
By: Edward Dusinberre
ISBN: 9780571366545
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2022
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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An absorbing journey of exploration into the related ideas of home, displacement and retreat in the lives and music of four great composers - Bartk, Britten, Dvork and Elgar - by one of the world's leading string quartet players.
(Hardback)
By: Charles King
ISBN: 9781847928450
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Peter Guralnick
ISBN: 9781399619530
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Feel Like Going Home brings to life the legendary musicians, songs, and labels of blues and early rock 'n' roll, capturing the drama on and off stage, the wrenching lyrics and the driving rhythms that changed performance, engagement and lives in America and around the world.
(Paperback)
By: Lenny Kaye
ISBN: 9781474615099
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 11th May 2023
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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An insider's take on the evolution and enduring legacy of the music that rocked the twentieth century
(Paperback, Main)
By: Lizzy Goodman
ISBN: 9780571337972
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2017
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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An intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scene, led by a group of iconoclastic rock bands.
(Hardback)
By: Marc Aumont
ISBN: 9781529438277
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2024
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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From their first performances to the release of their bestselling Black Album and beyond, this lavishly illustrated books charts the career of Metallica, the world's most iconic heavy metal band.
(Paperback)
By: Ted Gioia
ISBN: 9781541644373
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: Basic Books
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"A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched" (Los Angeles Times) global history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions
(Paperback)
By: Robert Dimery
ISBN: 9780711259737
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2022
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
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MusicQuake presents a history of popular music focusing on the most rebellious and game-changing recordings and performances from the early twentieth century to today.
(Paperback)
By: Tom Hibbert
ISBN: 9781788708708
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 16th January 2025
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
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Idiosyncratic.
Iconoclastic.
Acerbic.
Hilarious.
The influence of Tom Hibbert's music writing across print, radio, TV and podcasts is incomparable.
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By: Leah Broad
ISBN: 9780571366118
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2024
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing musical careers of four extraordinary women from a stunning debut biographer.
(Hardback, Main)
By: Professor Stephen Walsh
ISBN: 9780571356959
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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An intensely absorbing, entertaining and readable account of the history of Romantic Music.
(Hardback)
By: Professor Andy Bennett
ISBN: 9781501333699
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"Offers a critical overview of key themes and debates in the field of popular music and youth culture studies"--
(Hardback)
By: DK
ISBN: 9780241301975
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2018
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Jennifer Lucy Allan
ISBN: 9781474615044
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 28th April 2022
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Part memoir, part travelogue, part history of the foghorn: a uniquely ambitious new kind of nature book.
(Paperback)
By: Gina Arnold
ISBN: 9781501384516
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Andrew Ford
ISBN: 9781760644086
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Black Inc.
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(Paperback)
By: Daniel Rachel
ISBN: 9781399607506
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 18th April 2024
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The definitive story of 2 Tone Records
(Paperback)
By: Tony Wellington
ISBN: 9781922979018
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Professor Bernd Herzogenrath
ISBN: 9798765109090
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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"An almanac of sound words important to artists and scholars - words that expand the way we speak (and write) about sonic experiences"--
(Paperback)
By: Andrew Mead
ISBN: 9780691601007
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In this celebration of Milton Babbitt's art, Andrew Mead explores the development of a central figure in contemporary American music. As a teacher and writer, Babbitt has influenced two generations of students, including such notable musicians as Stephen Sondheim and Donald Martino. He has helped establish the study of music theory as a serious aca
(Hardback)
By: Andrew Mead
ISBN: 9780691630786
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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