(Hardback)
By: Dr. Serouj "Midus" Aprahamian
ISBN: 9781501394317
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"The untold story of how breaking - one of the most widely practiced dance forms in the world today - began as a distinctly African American expression in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s"--
(Paperback)
By: Sarah Mahler Kraaz
ISBN: 9781501377754
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Sarah Mahler Kraaz
ISBN: 9781501377716
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Professor Andy Bennett
ISBN: 9798765101575
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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(Hardback)
By: Gina Arnold
ISBN: 9781501384509
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: James Haar
ISBN: 9780691608402
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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As a distinguished scholar of Renaissance music, James Haar has had an abiding influence on how musicology is undertaken, owing in great measure to a substantial body of articles published over the past three decades. Collected here for the first time are representative pieces from those years, covering diverse themes of continuing interest to him
(Hardback)
By: James Haar
ISBN: 9780691636870
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Peter Carpenter
ISBN: 9781800961548
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2025
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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A writer's odyssey walking the Bowie heartlands, peeling back the layers of understanding about his hero
(Paperback)
By: Questlove
ISBN: 9781399621632
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2025
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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This is a book only Questlove could have written: a perceptive and personal reflection on the first half-century of hip-hop.
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By: Tony Wellington
ISBN: 9781923192577
Publication Date: Sep 2025
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
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For better or worse, the 1980s shifted the dial on expectations about what pop and rock music should be. But the decade saw more than just mullets and shoulder pads. It was also the heyday of synth pop, the golden age of heavy metal and hip-hop, and the beginnings of acid house.
(Hardback)
By: Alice T. Friedman
ISBN: 9780691267340
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Liam Inscoe-Jones
ISBN: 9781399609630
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2025
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A book about the last ten years of music, through five artists
(Hardback)
By: Kevin Le Gendre
ISBN: 9780712355032
Publication Date: Jan 2026
Publisher: British Library Publishing
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Reflecting on the re-vitalisation and vibrancy of the current jazz scene, The Philosophy of Jazz is an ideal gift book for lovers of this genre of music. Authored by an expert on the jazz scene, Kevin Le Gendre.
(Paperback)
By: Daniel Rachel
ISBN: 9781399635738
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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(Paperback)
By: Peter Carpenter
ISBN: 9781800961555
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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A writer's odyssey walking the Bowie heartlands, peeling back the layers of understanding about his hero
(Paperback)
By: Michael Hann
ISBN: 9781472134097
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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It's the late 1970s, and across Britain aggressive, young bands are forming. Independent labels are springing up to release their music. But this isn't the story of punk. Forget punk. Punk was a flash in the pan compared to this. This is the story of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, a musical movement that really did change the world.
(Hardback)
By: Frank DeCaro
ISBN: 9780847899616
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 8th October 2024
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
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This dazzling volume shines new light on the songs, styles, and enduring pop culture impact of the 1970s musical genre that emerged from Black and Latin queer culture to take the world by storm.
(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: Questlove
ISBN: 9781399621625
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Hip-hop legend, Grammy, Oscar and BAFTA award winner Questlove dives into half a century of the genre, from its birth, growing pains and maturity to its continuing reverberation around the world
(Hardback)
By: Bill Milkowski
ISBN: 9788854421288
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: White Star
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Explore jazz's evolution from New Orleans to global acclaim, celebrating legends like Armstrong, Ellington, and Fitzgerald. Rich in history, music, and vibrant personalities shaping this enduring genre.
(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, Main)
By: Kate Molleson
ISBN: 9780571363230
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2023
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A groundbreaking music history book from BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a global scale.
(Hardback)
By: Martin Porter
ISBN: 9780500028698
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 17th June 2025
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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The inside story of Record Plant Studios--the real "Hotel California"--that reveals how the greatest music of the seventies was recorded and why the artists checked out but rarely left.
