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The elegant and unsparingly honest memoir of the romance between jazz titan Charles Mingus and Sue Graham Mingus.

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The author of the award-winning Can't Stop, Won't Stop assembles the most innovative and provocative voices in hip-hop to assess the future of the most important cultural movement of our time

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"Explores the relationship between music, memory, and ageing through a focus on "inheritance tracks," with contributions from leading scholars of popular music studies"--

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Twentieth-Century American Music for the Dance: A Bibliography provides a guide to one of the most important areas of modern music.

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This book offers new essays from interdisciplinary perspectives on U2s career-long dynamic of resisting conventional boundaries in order to erase barriers that inhibit growth, understanding, and progress.

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This book offers new essays from interdisciplinary perspectives on U2s career-long dynamic of resisting conventional boundaries in order to erase barriers that inhibit growth, understanding, and progress.

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Timothy D. Neufeld explores U2's many phases of artistic expression and cultural engagement and the band's employment of faith and activism as a foundation for success. Through close readings of their musical work and the dynamic interplay of artistic expression and social eng...

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Neufeld explores U2s phases of artistic expression, cultural engagement, and employment of faith and activism as a foundation for success. Through close readings of their musical work and the interplay of artistic and social engagement, this book outlines how U2 forever changed the very musical and political culture from which it was born.

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Introducing the reader to the wisdom of Art Blakey's - One of the greatest jazz performers and teachers of all time - teaching through his quotes and reaching into the deepest grotto of the meaning of each one of them.

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"Long before Elvis Presley entered Sam Phillips's Sun Records studio in 1954, rock 'n' roll was being performed and recorded by the likes of Big Joe Turner, Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris, the Clovers, t"

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Urban God Talk: Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality, edited by Andre Johnson, is a collection of essays that examine the religious and spiritual in hip hop. The contributors argue that the prevailing narrative that hip hop offers nothing in the way of religion and spirituality is false.

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The Vermont Reggae Festival, born in Burlington Vermont in 1986, became an historic event forever etched into the musical history of the city. Achieving the manifestation of peace, love, celebration of life, joy, fun, and excitement through the power of Reggae music. The Vermont Reggae Festival was a musical happening given as a gift to each attendee-all for the whopping ticket price of...FREE!!

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A rock'n'roll autobiography from the Godfathers of US heavy rock.

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Details the story of Guns N' Roses, a band that originated in the gutters of Sunset Strip and went on to become one of the baddest band on the planet. This book captures the birth of Guns' raw power, which - despite rape charges, drug-induced rampages and a general appetite for destruction - launched the band into the pantheon of rock gods.

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When Shane, Kian, Mark, Nicky and Bryan celebrated the beginning of 2001 in true Irish style, they had no idea of the adventures that lay ahead. Eddie Rowley, co-author of Ronan Keating's bestselling autobiography Life is A Rollercoaster, followed Westlife on their biggest ever world tour.

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A history of the uneasy relationship between jazz and rock through the lens of the music press.

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A history of the uneasy relationship between jazz and rock through the lens of the music press.

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In Who Did It First: Great Rock and Roll Cover Songs and Their Original Artists, the third volume in Bob Leszczak's exciting Who Did It First series, readers explore the hidden history of the most famous, indeed legendary, rock and roll classics. As Leszczak points out, the ...

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As lead singer and extraordinary frontman of SLADE, Noddy Holder was one of the most successful musicians of the '70s and '80s. The epitome of the Glam Rock look and lifestyle, they released anthem after anthem as they mixed pure pop madness with football chant choruses.