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A writer's odyssey walking the Bowie heartlands, peeling back the layers of understanding about his hero

(Paperback)

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)

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

(Paperback)

A book about the last ten years of music, through five artists

(Paperback, Main)

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.

(Paperback)

"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"--

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(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

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.

(Hardback)

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)

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)

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.

(Hardback)

A writer's odyssey walking the Bowie heartlands, peeling back the layers of understanding about his hero

(Hardback)

The definitive account of pop music in the mid-eighties, from Prince and Madonna to the underground hiphop, indie rock, and club scenes

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(Paperback)

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)

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(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

This volume spans more than 500 remarkable records and is a journey into vinyl's extraordinary history. From rare and colorful editions, bold shapes, and bootleg X-ray vinyl of the USSR to daring designs that fashioned the identities of era-defining records and artists, this collection celebrates vinyl's artistic potential as a material form.

(Hardback)

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)

LADIES FIRST reframes the history of hip-hop but, this time, women are given credit for all their trailblazing achievements that have left an undeniable impact on music.

(Hardback)

A great pianist and composer Francesco Lotoro has been involved for over thirty years in an epochal undertaking: building an archive of the music that survived the concentration camps.

(Paperback, Main)

How does music reflect the key moments in our lives How do we choose the works that inspire, delight, comfort or console

(Hardback)

A celebration of the life of trailblazing music journalist Tom Hibbert in this definitive anthology of his writing.

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"A leading music psychologist and theorist explains how Major-Minor Tonality came to assume its dominant place within music composition"--

(Hardback, Main)

The lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing careers offour extraordinary women from a stunning debut biographer.