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How the Harmonica Can Make You More Playful

An oral history of the modern punk-revival's West Coast Birthplace, co-authored by Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor

Witness the opportunity that is youth and the journey that is age.

A little girl learns the mysterious power of self esteem in this children’s story which combines violin music, magic, Christmas, and the charm of Europe.

Since his death in 1977 Elvis Presley has become an even greater cultural icon than when he was making records and consuming deep-fried peanut-butter-and-banana sandwiches.

Queen Ida. Danny Poullard. Documentary filmmaker Les Blank. Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records.

Musical instruments are, from one perspective, a technology designed for use by humans that can be deployed in a variety of cultural contexts.

Les Claypool not only is one of the greatest bass players, he's also a novelist and filmmaker.

Gram Parons lived hard and died young, and left behind a musical legacy that has influenced generations of rock and country legends.

Grateful Dead fans are legendary for their Dead-ication to the band and its enduring legacy of freewheeling musical exploration.

These days, I get a little weirded out whenever I wander through one of those big national chain bookstores, not because I have issues with the stores t

She’s a singer, a songwriter, a pianist, a rock goddess, and a sex kitten. She’s Jenn Bradford, and her career is in disarray.

Unruly and antagonistic, the Washington State rock trio Modest Mouse would seem like on of the least likely candidates for mainstream stardom: Their often brilliant live performa

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers was one of the most enduring, popular, reliable and vital small bands in modern jazz history.

My Soul is A Witness explores the rich legacy of African American sacred music, focusing on the theological import of this music born of oppression.

This is a CD with 12 songs - 6 of the songs have lyrics written by Bozena Intrator from which 2 have been charted hits.

This is the book Frank Sinatra failed to stop, the unauthorized biography of one of the most elusive public figures of our time.

The debut recording of Sauce Piquante, the traditional Cajun-Creole band I established in 1999.   Recorded live in March 2003 at a couple of SF Bay Area venues.

An outsider's account of her transformative obsession with Louisiana's joyous music.  

Part of Continuum's 33 1/3 series of music criticism, Facing Future tells the story of Hawaiian singer and cultural icon Israel Kamakawiwo'le's seminal 1993 album.

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Anyone who cares about opera will find The Ultimate Art a thoroughly engaging book. David Littlejohn's essays are exciting, provocative, sometimes even outrageous.

Peekin' is a two-foot high little mischeif maker who tends to get himself into all sorts of trouble around the workshop--especially when it comes to "peekin" into all the presents before the

From the Introduction, by Sudeep Sen

Home Girls Make Some Noise: Hip Hop Feminist Anthology seeks to complicate understandin

"You, Me and Morrissey" is a collection of autobiographical short stories capturing snapshots of love, loss, bigotry, violence, artistic birth, and mental illness.

The inaugural volume of an exciting new annual series--Da Capo Best Music Writing.

The life of the working musician, in 114 short interviews, with superstars and journeymen, from Bruce Springsteen to your local bar band.

This is the second edition of a work originally published in 1997 (Schirmer).

At Conrad’s wedding, everything appears perfect as he embarks on a life with the woman of his dreams and a legal career

From Publishers Weekly

"Bendithion",  the essay, is a liminal tale about a reclusive, stunningly talented and almost magical tenor, the Postmaster of a little town in Wales and the strange, chaste, romantic-frien

The voices of nearly sixty R.E.M. insiders--friends, musicians, producers, and industry colleagues--comprise an unusal, unadulterated history of one rock's most innovative, integrity-driven bands.

The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film details the incredible wealth of music the Beatles recorded that they did not

Turn! Turn!

The second half of the two-volume history of 1960s folk-rock, which saw the movement branch off into folk-rock-psychedelia, singer-songwriters, country-rock, a distinctively British form of folk-rock,

Unknown Legends of Rock'n'Roll is a 422-page book with in-depth profiles of sixty of the most interesting overlooked cult rock artists of all time, in all cases including first-hand interview material

Urban Spacemen and Wayfaring Strangers: Overlooked Innovators & Eccentric Visionaries of '60s Rock is a 300-page book with in-depth profiles of nineteen fascinating cult artists of the

White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day is by far the most comprehensive book on the Velvet Undergr

As a friend and cohort of some of rock music's biggest legends - the Who, Rod Stewart and the Faces, the Rolling Stones, the Eagles, Joe Walsh and the James Gang, and many others- photographer Tom

As a friend and cohort of some of rock music's biggest legends - The Who, Rod Stewart and The Faces, The Rolling Stones, The Eagles, Joe Walsh and many others - photographer Tom Wright was given un

LAUREL CANYON tells the true story of the remarkable events tha ...