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Examines over fifty of the greatest hip hop songs ever recorded, looking at the lyrics, the music and the artist. It examines the effect the song had on the wider picture, be that hip hop, the USA or even the world.

An insightful new resource that looks at the rise of American hip hop as a series of distinct regional events, with essays covering the growth of hip hop culture in specific cities across the nation.

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Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer played a crucial role in bringing opera back to life as a contemporary art form. This is a story, at once heroic, comic, and unnerving, of men and women making history and of their different conceptions of what history is and what it means to makes it.

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The vibrant story of how the sound of British pop music was shaped by its industrial cities

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A wholly original way of looking at Tupac Shakur that will thrill those who already love the artist and enlighten those who want to understand him

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The story of a remarkable time and place: Los Angeles from the dawn of the singer-songwriter era in the mid-Sixties to the peak of The Eagles success in the late Seventies.

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Founding member of The Lovin' Spoonful, Steve Boone works with Tony Moss on a memoir about Steve Boone's life as a member of an iconic 60's band and beyond.

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The hilarious memoir of adored film critic Mark Kermode's riotous attempts to become a popstar - 'Wonderful...terrific...hit me right between the eyes' STEPHEN FRY

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A first of its kind collection, How to Rap is an insightful and intelligent breakdown of the elements of rap for anyone wanting to learn the art form or understand the principles behind it.

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More outrageous than Julia Phillip's 'You'll Never Eat Lunch in this Town Again', more star-studded than Robert Evans's 'The Kid Stays in the Picture', this is the soul-baring memoir of the record industry's most outspoken - and self-destructive - music mogul.

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A memoir by one of the last of the genuine old school Blues and R&B legends, the Grammy-winning dynamic showman Bobby Rush

From Ray Charles to Joni Mitchell to Nirvana, rock music has been an undeniable force in both reflecting and shaping our cultural landscape. This two-volume set offers an overview of rock's pervasive role in contemporary society by profiling the lives and work of the music's most legendary artists.

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Mozart wrote Idomeneo when he was twenty-four years old. It is one of most astonishing achievements of an altogether astonishing career. This guide explains the special nature of the music in an analysis of its themes and development, and places the opera in its context as an expression of the Enlightenment.

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English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original.

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English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original.

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A definitive, in-depth exploration of mainstream singalong pop in 1970s Britain, from brickie glam to Eurovision, via novelty hits and suburban disco - the alternate history of a shapeshifting musical decade.

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A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, PITCHFORK, NPR, METRO AND HERALD SCOTLAND BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018

'The definitive grime biography' NME

'A landmark genre history' Pitchfork

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Tom Waits in his own words: a collection of three decades' worth of interviews with Tom Waits

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The definitive history of Pink Floyd, one of the world's great bands, by founder member Nick Mason

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Explores the visionary, mystical, and ecstatic traditions that influenced the music of the 1960s

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A cross between Hollywood Babylon and The Hitmen, Its One For The Money rips the lid off Pops own Pandora box and explicates just what it is that makes the world of sound go round song publishing.

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