(Paperback)
By: Tony Wellington
ISBN: 9781923192577
Readership/Audience: General
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.
(Paperback)
By: Karen Fournier
ISBN: 9798765124758
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2026
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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(Hardback)
By: Alice T. Friedman
ISBN: 9780691267340
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Kevin Le Gendre
ISBN: 9780712355032
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2026
UK Publication Date: 23rd September 2025
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: Nov 2025
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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(Hardback)
By: Daniel Rachel
ISBN: 9781399635721
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2026
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2025
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A shocking and absorbing chronological account of pop music's complicated history with fascism and the imagery surrounding it
(Hardback, Multilingual edition)
By: Francesco Spampinato
ISBN: 9783836588164
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 23rd October 2021
Publisher: Taschen GmbH
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This unique anthology of artists' record covers, from the 1950s to today includes more than 450 covers, tracing the interaction between music and the visual arts. Featured covers include Salvador Dal's skewered butterfly for Jackie Gleason and Banksy's stenciled graffiti for Blur.
(Paperback, Main - Classic Edition)
By: Val Wilmer
ISBN: 9781788160711
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2018
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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An essential masterpiece of jazz history by the renowned photographer and music historian, with a new foreword by Richard Williams.
(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.
(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.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Leah Broad
ISBN: 9780571366118
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
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.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Kate Molleson
ISBN: 9780571363230
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
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: DK
ISBN: 9780241301975
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2018
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
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(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.
(Hardback, Multilingual edition)
By: Jonathan Kirby
ISBN: 9783836576437
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
UK Publication Date: 3rd June 2020
Publisher: Taschen GmbH
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Dig into the 750 album covers that made rock history. Fact sheets, insider interviews, and lists from leading collectors take you on a musical memory tour. Covering everyone from Elvis to Bowie to The Sex Pistols, this complete volume includes bonus info on 250 records that became turning points for a band, an artist, or a genre.
(Hardback, Main)
By: Kate Molleson
ISBN: 9780571363223
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A radical answer to Alex Ross' The Rest is Noise, Sound Within Sound fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a global scale.
(Paperback)
By: Gina Arnold
ISBN: 9781501384516
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Timothy Dodge
ISBN: 9781666902174
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2026
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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
(Hardback)
By: Michaelangelo Matos
ISBN: 9780306903373
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
UK Publication Date: 31st December 2020
Publisher: Hachette Books
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The definitive account of pop music in the mid-eighties, from Prince and Madonna to the underground hiphop, indie rock, and club scenes
(Paperback)
By: Warren Zanes
ISBN: 9780593237434
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Michael Hann
ISBN: 9781472134103
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 9th February 2023
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.
(Paperback)
By: Paul Rekret
ISBN: 9781910924495
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
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