Balanchine's Tchaikovsky: Interviews with George Balanchine
Simon & Schuster Inc, January 1985. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Text free of markings; An excellent copy. More
Simon & Schuster Inc, January 1985. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Text free of markings; An excellent copy. More
St. Martin's Press, November 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Copland's music is synonymous with America--exuberant, jazzy, folksy, lyrical and as big as a wide-open prairie. Punctuated with interviews of the people who know him best, here is Copland's own life story. 150 photographs. First printing. Full number line. Just a tad..... More
Oxford University Press, February 2000. Paper Back. Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) is frequently considered the most significant American female composer in this century. Joining Aaron Copland and Henry Cowell as a key member of the 1920s musical avant-garde, she went on to study with modernist theorist and future husband Charles..... More
Sasquatch Books, April 2016. Hardcover. A fascinating portrait of icon Woody Guthrie, the Pacific Northwest, and folk music--all set against the backdrop of a tumultuous moment in American history In 1941, Woody Guthrie wrote 26 songs in 30 days--including classics like "Roll On Columbia" and "Pastures of Plenty"--when he was..... More
The Lyons Press, November 2007. Hardcover. Jim McGuire's photographs have graced the covers of more than 400 albums and CDs over the past thirty years. Most of the big recording stars insist on using McGuire: Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Doc Watson, Dolly Parton, Carole King, Townes Van Zandt, John Hartford..... More
Doubleday Anchor, 1955. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with edgewear. Stains on textblock fore-edge. [390 pages plus three page list of Anchor titles.]. More
Yeti Publishing, October 2012. Oversize Softcover. Temperature's Rising is a fascinating oral history of one of American indie rock's most enduring and influential acts. Slow, deliberate, and deceptively simple, the music of Boston-based band Galaxie 500 was wonderfully at odds with the prevailing underground sounds of the mid-to-late-1980s. The primary..... More
Harpercollins, October 1996. Trade Paperback. John Lennon wrote "Skywriting by Word of Mouth," an impressive collection of writings and drawings, while Yoko was pregnant with Sean, and always planned to have it published. It was a wish that seemed to end with his assassination in 1980 and the subsequent theft..... More
Kakao Entertainment, 2021. Hardcover. Version A; Hardcover photobook w/ cd, sealed in factory shrink; Includes photocards, stickers, ID Photo & Holder. More
Time Warp, 2016. Soft Cover. Oversise softcover book; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine uncreased; Pages unmarked; An excellent copy. More
Simon & Schuster, November 2022. Hardcover. The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One--and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of..... More
Routledge, September 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Lyrics by one of Broadway's most celebrated composer/lyricistsIncludes hit songs from Hello, Dolly! and Mame to La Cage Aux FollesPackaged with an original audio CD featuring Michael Feinstein singing..... More
Basic Books, April 2017. Hardcover. A preeminent composer, music scholar, and biographer presents an engaging and accessible introduction to classical music For many of us, classical music is something serious -- something we study in school, something played by cultivated musicians at fancy gatherings. In Language of the Spirit, renowned..... More
Simon & Schuster, January 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan. "I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to..... More
Doubleday/ Anchor, 1955. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback.This Anchor edition 'is the first publication of 'An Elizabethan Song Book.' Mildly darkened spine. Non-authorial inscription in pink ink, 'For Jille, on this her Natal date, 4.V.67' on half title page. Else interiors sound and without markings. [243 pages..... More
Anchor Doubleday, 1963. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback edition in English & Italian. Dust stains and mild wear with ink smudge top textblock edge. Note in blue ink half title page. [417 pages plus nine page list of Anchor titles available.]. More
Knopf, October 2009. Oversized Hardcover. The seventh volume in Knopf's critically acclaimed Complete Lyrics series, published in Johnny Mercer's centennial year, contains the texts to more than 1,200 of his lyrics, several hundred of them published here for the first time. Johnny Mercer's early songs became staples of the big..... More
Crown, October 2022. Hardcover. The essential oral history of hip-hop, from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its reign as the most powerful force in pop culture--from the award-winning journalist behind All the Pieces Matter, the New York Times bestselling oral history of The Wire "The Come..... More
Crown, October 2022. Hardcover. The essential oral history of hip-hop, from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its reign as the most powerful force in pop culture--from the award-winning journalist behind All the Pieces Matter, the New York Times bestselling oral history of The Wire "The Come..... More
HarperOne, March 2021. Oversized Hardcover. A journey in images and words into the creative world of musician, storyteller, and cultural icon Nick Cave. One of the world's most celebrated artists, Nick Cave has enthralled and intrigued fans for more than four decades. With Stranger Than Kindness he reveals his innermost..... More
University of Texas Press, May 2019. Paper Back. In the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. At the same time, the uplifting harmonies and sunny lyrics that propelled Karen Carpenter..... More
Repeater, March 2019. Paper Back. This book is about is the many ways that the foundations of hip-hop appropriation--allusions and creative language use, as well as technology and self-reference--inform the new millennium. In Dead Precedents, Roy Christopher traces the story of how hip-hop invented the twenty-first century. Emerging alongside cyberpunk..... More
Dent, November 1977. Reprint. Paper Back. 12mo. Rubbing. Previous owner's name in ink. [271 pages]. More