Music

A Mammal’s Notebook: The Writings of Erik Satie
Atlas Press, July 2014. Hardcover. Humorous and Dadaistic writings from the original Velvet Gentleman and pioneering composerThis is the largest selection, in any language, of the writings of Erik Satie (1866-1925). Although once dismissed as an eccentric, Satie has come to be seen as a key influence on modern music..... More
The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present
Liveright, November 2021. Hardcover. PRE-ORDER. Your book will be available on November 2nd. More
Girl Groups: The Story of a Sound
Delilah Books / Putnam Publishing Group, January 1982. Oversize Softcover. More
Bob Dylan: The Illustrated Record
Outlet, October 1978. Oversize Softcover. More
Bitter End: Hanging Out at America's Nightclub
Cooper Square Press, May 2002. Hardcover. The tale of the famous Greenwich Village coffeehouse turned nightclub, The Bitter End is also the story of the club's manager and owner, Paul Colby. From the early 60s to the 90s, the Bitter End hosted a wide range of influential music and comedy..... More
John Cage: A Mycological Foray: Variations on Mushrooms (ATELIER EDITION)
Atelier Éditions, July 2020. Paper Back. Foraging for mushrooms with John Cage: writing, art, photography and ephemera from an idiosyncratic chapter in the composer's life Imagined as an extended mushroom-foraging expedition, John Cage: A Mycological Foray gathers together Cage's mushroom-themed compositions, photographs, illustrations and ephemera. Indeterminacy Stories and other writings..... More
Why Lhasa de Sela Matters (Music Matters)
University of Texas Press, November 2019. Paper Back. An artist in every sense of the word, Lhasa de Sela wowed audiences around the globe with her multilingual songs and spellbinding performances, mixing together everything from Gypsy music to Mexican rancheras, Americana and jazz, chanson française, and South American folk melodies..... More
Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975
Algonquin Books, April 2021. Hardcover. An intimate look at the early years of one of the world's most significant and influential guitarists and songwriters. In this moving and immersive memoir, Richard Thompson, international and longtime beloved music legend, recreates the spirit of the 1960s, where he found, and then lost..... More
I Die Each Time I Hear the Sound: A Memoir
Hachette Books, November 2020. Paper Back. A precise yet disorienting look at the exhilaration of music, the process of memory, and the moments when the world becomes new, by the acclaimed songwriter and author of The Book of Drugs [Mike Doughty's writing is] astonishingly vital, energized, and natural. .... More
The Spirit of Music: The Lesson Continues
Vintage, February 2021. Paper Back. Grammy Award winner Victor Wooten's inspiring parable of the importance of music and the threats that it faces in today's world. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL We may not realize it as we listen to the soundtrack of our lives through tiny earbuds, but music and all..... More
Just Kids
Ecco, November 2010. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a...... More
Essays in Musical Analysis, Volume 1& Volume 2: Symphonies (I) and Symphonies (II), Variations and Orchestral Polyphony
Oxford University Press / Humphrey Milford, 1935. First Edition. Cloth. First U.K. edition without dustjacket. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Volume Two is worn & a bit frayed along back edge of spine. Two volumes. Darkening/foxing to textblock top edges both volumes with dark grey tiny spots: two..... More
This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's 'Kid A' and the Beginning of the 21st Century
Hachette Books, September 2020. Hardcover. A Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020"In this brilliant book, Steven Hyden goes deep into why Kid A matters--it's the fascinating saga of how the music turned into the symbol of a new cultural era." -- Rolling StoneTHE MAKING AND MEANING OF RADIOHEAD'S GROUNDBREAKING..... More
The Songs of Robert Schumann
W.W. Norton, 1969. First Edition. Cloth. First American edition in price-clipped dustjacket. Dark grey cloth with gold lettering one spine. Title is framed in red rectangle. Sound binding. Clean, without internal markings. Very good+/fine overall. More
I'm Gonna Say It Now: The Writings of Phil Ochs
Backbeat, December 2020. Hardcover. Phil Ochs is known primarily as a songwriter; however, his oeuvre extends far beyond that--to short stories, poetry, criticism, journalism, and satire, all of which are included in I'm Gonna Say It Now: The Writings of Phil Ochs, which represents the majority of what Ochs wrote..... More
OXFORD AMERICAN MAGAZINE WINTER 2017, Southern Music Issue #99 (W/CD,SOUTHERN MUSIC ISSUE No. 19 SEALED).
University of Central Arkansas, January 2017. Magazine. As new sill sealed in clear never opened plastic sleeve. Never read. CD never played; with Download. Topics include Loretta Lynn, J.D. Wilkes, James Lindsey, Les McCann, much more. More
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2020. Hardcover. Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics--an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with..... More
Chronicles: Volume One (Chronicles)
Simon & Schuster, September 2005. Trade Paperback. 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 manifest..... More
Suicide's Suicide (33 1/3, 149)
Bloomsbury Academic, September 2020. Paper Back. New York City in the 1970s was an urban nightmare: destitute, dirty, and dangerous. As the country collectively turned its back on the Big Apple, two musical vigilantes rose out of the miasma. Armed only with amplified AC current, Suicide's Alan Vega and Marty..... More
Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope (33 1/3, 148)
Bloomsbury Academic, September 2020. Paper Back. The question of control for Black women is a costly one. From 1986 onwards, the trajectory of Janet Jackson's career can be summed up in her desire for control. Control for Janet was never simply just about her desire for economic and creative control..... More
Various Artists' I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (33 1/3, 147)
Bloomsbury Academic, September 2020. Paper Back. When I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen hit stores in 1991, Leonard Cohen's career had plummeted from its revered 1960s high. Cohen's record label had refused to release his 1984 album Various Positions--including the song Hallelujah--in the United States. Luckily, Velvet Underground..... More
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Murder Ballads (33 1/3, 151)
Bloomsbury Academic, November 2020. Paper Back. In a bar called The Bucket of Blood, a man shoots the bartender four times in the head. In the small town of Millhaven, a teenage girl secretly and gleefully murders her neighbors. A serial killer travels from home to home, quoting John Milton..... More
Elvis Presley's From Elvis in Memphis (33 1/3, 150)
Bloomsbury Academic, November 2020. Paper Back. I had to leave town for a little while-- with these words, Elvis Presley truly came home to rock and roll. A little over a month earlier he had staged rock's first and greatest comeback in a television program, forever known as The '68..... More
24-Carat Black's Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth (33 1/3, 152)
Bloomsbury Academic, November 2020. Paper Back. In 1973, the musical collective 24-Carat Black released an unheralded masterpiece on Stax Records-and then disappeared. Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth, a soul-funk concept album primarily written by the ex-Motown arranger Dale Warren, was too bleak, ambitious, or just outright bizarre to reach mainstream audiences. 24-Carat..... More