American Music Series – serie
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28 produkter
Quantum Criminals
Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan
Av Alex Pappademas, Joan LeMay
Inbunden, 2023
389 kr
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“ONE OF THE SHARPEST, FUNNIEST, AND BEST BOOKS EVER ABOUT ANY ROCK ARTIST”-Rolling Stone“WEIRD AND WONDROUS”-New York Times“I ADORED IT”-Michael ChabonA literary and visual exploration of the songs of Steely Dan.Steely Dan’s songs are exercises in fictional world-building. No one else in the …
Woman Walk the Line
How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives
Häftad, 2021
210 kr
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Full-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton, k.d. lang to Taylor Swift-these artists provided pivot points, truths, and doses of courage for women writers at every stage of their lives. Whether …
Real Love, No Drama
The Music of Mary J. Blige
Inbunden, 2016
295 kr
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Mary J. Blige is an icon who represents the political consciousness of hip hop and the historical promise of soul. She is an everywoman, celebrated by Oprah Winfrey and beloved by pop music fans of all ages and races. Blige has sold over fifty million albums, won numerous Grammys, and even played …
Mothership Connected
The Women of Parliament-Funkadelic
Av Seth Neblett
Inbunden, 2025
403 kr
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An oral history with the women of Parliament-Funkadelic, from forming the band to landing the mothership.Parliament-Funkadelic is perhaps the greatest funk band ever assembled. Yet at the time of the group’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, none of the women who helped create the sound …
I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive
On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton
Av Lynn Melnick
Inbunden, 2022
320 kr
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A moving and essential exploration of what it takes to find your voice as a woman, a survivor, an artist, and an icon. The first time Lynn Melnick listened to a Dolly Parton song in full, she was 14 years old, in the triage room of a Los Angeles hospital, waiting to be admitted to a drug rehab …
Seeing Sideways
A Memoir of Music and Motherhood
Inbunden, 2021
335 kr
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Doony, Ryder, Wyatt, Bodhi. The names of Kristin Hersh’s sons are the only ones included in her new memoir, Seeing Sideways. As the book unfolds and her sons’ voices rise from its pages, it becomes clear why: these names tell the story of her life.This story begins in 1990, when Hersh is the leader …
Don't Suck, Don't Die
Giving Up Vic Chesnutt
Häftad, 2016
166 kr
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“Friend, asshole, angel, mutant,” singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt “came along and made us gross and broken people seem . . . I dunno, cooler, I guess.” A quadriplegic who could play only simple chords on his guitar, Chesnutt recorded seventeen critically acclaimed albums before his death in 2009, …
Spy in the House of Loud
New York Songs and Stories
Av Chris Stamey
Inbunden, 2018
320 kr
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Popular music was in a creative upheaval in the late 1970s. As the singer-songwriter and producer Chris Stamey remembers, “the old guard had become bloated, cartoonish, and widely co-opted by a search for maximum corporate profits, and we wanted none of it.” In A Spy in the House of Loud, he takes …
Ryan Adams
Losering, a Story of Whiskeytown
Häftad, 2012
230 kr
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Before he achieved his dream of being an internationally known rock personality, Ryan Adams had a band in Raleigh, North Carolina. Whiskeytown led the wave of insurgent-country bands that came of age with No Depression magazine in the mid-1990s, and for many people it defined the era. Adams was an …
Someday All the Adults Will Die!
The Birth of Texas Punk
Av Pat Blashill
Häftad, 2025
321 kr
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A deep dive into the early days of punk in Austin, Texas, this oral history immerses readers in a diverse and influential music scene.Texas has always teemed with music and counterculture. When punk came to the state in 1978, it flourished in San Antonio, Dallas, Houston, and, especially, Austin. …
Dwight Yoakam
A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
Av Don McLeese
Häftad, 2012
230 kr
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From his formative years playing pure, hardcore honky-tonk for mid-’80s Los Angeles punk rockers through his subsequent surge to the top of the country charts, Dwight Yoakam has enjoyed a singular career. An electrifying live performer, superb writer, and virtuosic vocalist, he has successfully …
Los Lobos
Dream in Blue
Av Chris Morris
Inbunden, 2015
267 kr
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Los Lobos leaped into the national spotlight in 1987, when their cover of "La Bamba" became a No. 1 hit. But what looked like an overnight achievement to the band's new fans was actually a way station in a long musical journey that began in East Los Angeles in 1973 and is still going strong. Across …
Madonnaland
And Other Detours Into Fame and Fandom
Av Alina Simone
Häftad, 2016
194 kr
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When Alina Simone agreed to write a book about Madonna, she thought it might provide an interesting excuse to indulge her own eighties nostalgia. Wrong. What Simone discovered instead was a tidal wave of already published information about Madonna-and her own ambivalence about, maybe even jealousy …
Chrissie Hynde
A Musical Biography
Av Adam Sobsey
Inbunden, 2017
296 kr
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A musical force across four decades, a voice for the ages, and a great songwriter, Chrissie Hynde is one of America’s foremost rockers. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005, she and her band The Pretenders have released ten albums since 1980. The Pretenders’ debut LP has been …
Go Ahead in the Rain
Notes to a Tribe Called Quest
Häftad, 2019
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
194 kr
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A New York Times Best Seller2019 National Book Award Longlist, Nonfiction2019 Kirkus Book Prize Finalist, NonfictionA February IndieNext PickNamed A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by Buzzfeed, Nylon, The A. V. Club, CBC Books, and The Rumpus, and a Winter's Most Anticipated Book by Vanity Fair and …
Glitter Up the Dark
How Pop Music Broke the Binary
Av Sasha Geffen
Häftad, 2020
261 kr
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Why has music so often served as an accomplice to transcendent expressions of gender? Why did the query "is he musical?" become code, in the twentieth century, for "is he gay?" Why is music so inherently queer? For Sasha Geffen, the answers lie, in part, in music’s intrinsic quality of subliminal …
You're with Stupid
Kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music
Av Bruce Adams
Inbunden, 2022
311 kr
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2023 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, Association for Recorded Sound CollectionsAn insider’s look at how Chicago’s underground music industry transformed indie rock in the 1990s.In the 1990s, Chicago was at the center of indie rock, propelling bands like the …
Maybe We'll Make It
A Memoir
Av Margo Price
Inbunden, 2022
335 kr
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An October 2022 IndieNext pick”[An] engaging and beautifully narrated quest for personal fulfillment and musical recognition...This is a fast-paced tale in which music and love always take center stage...A truly gifted musician, Price writes about her journey with refreshing candor.”-Kirkus, …
Band People
Life and Work in Popular Music
Inbunden, 2024
354 kr
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A close look at the lives of working musicians who aren’t the center of their stage.Secret (and not-so-secret) weapons, side-of-the-stagers, rhythm and horn sections, backup singers, accompanists-these and other “band people” are the anonymous but irreplaceable character actors of popular music. …
Chuco Punk
Sonic Insurgency in El Paso
Av Tara López
Häftad, 2024
239 kr
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2025 Al Lowman Memorial Prize, Texas State Historical AssociationAn immersive study of the influential and predominantly Chicanx punk rock scene in El Paso, Texas.Punk rock is known for its daring subversion, and so is the West Texas city of El Paso. In Chuco Punk, Tara LÓpez dives into the …
John Prine
In Spite of Himself
Häftad, 2022
246 kr
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With a range that spans the lyrical, heartfelt songs “Angel from Montgomery,” “Sam Stone,” and “Paradise” to the classic country music parody “You Never Even Called Me by My Name,” John Prine is a songwriter’s songwriter. Across five decades, Prine has created critically acclaimed albums-John Prine …
T Bone Burnett
A Life in Pursuit
Av Lloyd Sachs
Häftad, 2022
253 kr
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This first critical appreciation of T Bone Burnett reveals how the proponent of Americana music and producer of artists ranging from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss to B. B. King and Elvis Costello has profoundly influenced American music and culture.T Bone Burnett is a unique, astonishingly …
Black Country Music
Listening for Revolutions
Inbunden, 2022
299 kr
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2023 Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame2024 Woody Guthrie Book Award, International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US Branch (IASPM-US)2023 Certificate of Merit, ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, Association for Recorded Sound …
Chuco Punk
Sonic Insurgency in El Paso
Av Tara López
Inbunden, 2024
1222 kr
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2025 Al Lowman Memorial Prize, Texas State Historical AssociationAn immersive study of the influential and predominantly Chicanx punk rock scene in El Paso, Texas.Punk rock is known for its daring subversion, and so is the West Texas city of El Paso. In Chuco Punk, Tara LÓpez dives into the …
You're with Stupid
Kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music
Av Bruce Adams
Häftad, 2024
245 kr
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2023 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, Association for Recorded Sound CollectionsAn insider’s look at how Chicago’s underground music industry transformed indie rock in the 1990s.In the 1990s, Chicago was at the center of indie rock, propelling bands like the …
Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
Av Niko Stratis
Inbunden, 2025
335 kr
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A memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us.When Wilco’s 2007 album Sky Blue Sky was infamously criticized as “dad rock,” Niko Stratis was a twenty-five-year-old closeted trans woman working in her dad’s glass shop in the Yukon Territory. As she sought escape from her …
Maybe We'll Make It
A Memoir
Av Margo Price
Häftad, 2025
241 kr
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An October 2022 IndieNext pick”[An] engaging and beautifully narrated quest for personal fulfillment and musical recognition...This is a fast-paced tale in which music and love always take center stage...A truly gifted musician, Price writes about her journey with refreshing candor.”-Kirkus, …
Bringing Wreck
Megan Thee Stallion, Monica Roberts, and Other Houston Hurricanes
Inbunden, 2026
311 kr
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A whirling exploration of how Megan Thee Stallion inspires Black women and femmes like the late Monica Roberts, framed by the storm-making work of both.While rap megastar Megan Thee Stallion needs no introduction, fewer will be familiar with Monica Roberts, a Houston journalist, community …
