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Kerouac on Record
A Literary Soundtrack
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
He was the leading light of the Beat Generation writers and the most dynamic author of his time, but Jack Kerouac also had a lifelong passion for music, particularly the mid-century jazz of New York City, the development of which he witnessed first-hand during the 1940s with Charlie Parker, Dizzy...
Another Little Piece of My Heart
My Life of Rock and Revolution in the '60s
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
"A deeply felt and largely compelling portrait of an age that indelibly marked everyone who took part in it. Indispensable for understanding the culture of the '60s and the music that was at its heart." - starred review, Kirkus Reviews
In 1966, at the ripe age of 22, Richard Goldstein...
by Samantha Shannon
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
In the New York Times bestselling second novel in the epic Bone Season series, Paige Mahoney may have broken out of prison, but neither the government nor her prison guards are going to let her escape so easily.
It is a dark time for clairvoyants in London. Scion, the ruling government, is...
Amir Khan
A Boy From Bolton: My Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
Seventeen-year-old Amir Khan became Britain's youngest Olympic boxer since 1976 when he won silver at the 2004 Olympics in Athens. He turned professional in 2005, winning his first pro fight last summer in 109 seconds, and has remained unbeaten ever since.
His fights are now regularly shown...
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
A powerful story of exile, migration, and betrayal, from the Booker Prize–shortlisted author of Paradise.
Salim has always known that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a bookish child, a dreamer haunted by night...
by Ethan Hayden
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Words like "inspiring," "expansive," and "moving" are regularly used to describe Sigur Rós's ( ), and yet the only words heard on the record itself are a handful of meaningless nonsense syllables. The album has no title-or rather, its title is no title: just an empty...
by Mr Patrick St. Michel
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Released in 2008, J-pop trio Perfume's GAME shot to the top of Japanese music charts and turned the Hiroshima trio into a household name across the country. It was also a high point for techno-pop, the genre's biggest album since the heyday of Yellow Magic Orchestra. This collection of maximalist...
by Rose Bridges
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Cowboy Bebop is one of the most beloved anime series of all time, and if you ask its fans why, you can expect to hear about its music. Composer Yoko Kanno created an eclectic blend of jazz, rock, lullabies, folk and funk (to list just a few) for Cowboy Bebop's many moods and environments. Cowboy Bebop's...
Let's Talk About Love
Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
For his 2007 critically acclaimed 33 1/3 series title, Let's Talk About Love, Carl Wilson went on a quest to find his inner Céline Dion fan and explore how we define ourselves by what we call good and bad, what we love and what we hate.
At once among the most widely beloved and most reviled...
The Late Voice
Time, Age and Experience in Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Popular music artists, as performers in the public eye, offer a privileged site for the witnessing and analysis of ageing and its mediation. The Late Voice undertakes such an analysis by considering issues of time, memory, innocence and experience in modern Anglophone popular song and the use by singers...
Music/Video
Histories, Aesthetics, Media
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This book is a lively, comprehensive and timely reader on the music video, capitalising on cross-disciplinary research expertise, which represents a substantial academic engagement with the music video, a mediated form and practice that still remains relatively under-explored in a 21st century context....
Respect Yourself
Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a record company that becomes a monument to racial harmony in 1960's segregated south Memphis. Their success is startling, and Stax soon defines an international sound. Then, after losses both business and personal,...
Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation
A Reading of the Lyrics 1965-1967
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Many critics have interpreted Bob Dylan's lyrics, especially those composed during the middle to late 1960s, in the contexts of their relation to American folk, blues, and rock'n'roll precedents; their discographical details and concert performances; their social, political and cultural relevance;...
Music and the Road
Essays on the Interplay of Music and the Popular Culture of the American Road
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Paul Simon-these familiar figures have written road music for half a century and continue to remain highly-regarded artists. But there is so much more to say about road music. This book fills a glaring hole in scholarship about the...