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Hal Leonard Corporation The Blues Fake Book
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Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Labyrinth A Detective Investigates the Murders of
Book Synopsis"Flaunt" magazine declares "LAbyrinth" "absolutely impossible to put down." Acclaimed journalist Sullivan follows Russell Poole, an LAPD detective who discovered that a growing cadre of black officers were allied not only with Death Row but with the murderous Bloods street gang. of photos.
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Black Cat Nineteen SixtyEight in America Music Politics
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Black Cat Down the Highway The Life of Bob Dylan
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Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Last Chance Texaco
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Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Anatomy of 55 More Songs
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£15.05
Louisiana State University Press Walking with Legends
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£20.50
Louisiana State University Press Encyclopedia of Louisiana Musicians
Book SynopsisLouisiana's unique multicultural history has led to the development of more styles of American music than anywhere else in the country. Encyclopedia of Louisiana Musicians compiles over 1,600 native creators, performers, and recorders of the state's indigenous musical genres.
£38.66
Louisiana State University Press The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records
Book SynopsisWith Paramount Records, Black America found its voice. Through creative nonfiction, Scott Blackwood brings to life the gifted artists and record producers who used Paramount to revolutionise American music.
£28.45
Louisiana State University Press A Hound Dog Tale
Book SynopsisThe release of the song ‘Hound Dog’ in 1953 marked a turning point in American popular culture, and throughout its history, the hit ballad bridged divides of race, gender, and generational conflict. Ben Wynne’s A Hound Dog Tale discusses the stars who made this rock ‘n’ roll standard famous.Trade ReviewThis well-written book offers a glimpse into the tangled world of early rock 'n' roll and those who were part of the perfect storm that produced the song 'Hound Dog.' Ben Wynne addresses the complicated matter of cultural appropriation by white artists using African American musical forms, and he shows how the young Jewish songwriters who penned the lyrics add an intriguing factor that is typical of a hybrid American culture. A Hound Dog Tale is for fans of the music but also for anyone interested in American society at a galvanizing musical moment." - Charles Reagan Wilson, author of Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis"[This book is] very well-researched. Wynne tells us the saga of 'Hound Dog' and, in doing so, contributes to the fact that Big Mama Thornton's role in this story deservedly shines again in the public eye." - Michael Spörke, author of Big Mama Thornton: The Life and Music
£23.36
Abrams Commando
Book SynopsisRaised in Queens, where he worked as a plumber while honing his guitar chops, Johnny Ramone eventually became a founding member of The Ramones, one of the most influential rock bands of all time. This is Johnny Ramone's story and the story of The Ramones from start to finish, told in Johnny's own words and on his own terms.
£18.99
University Press of Florida A Punkhouse in the Deep South The Oral History
Book SynopsisTold in personal interviews, this is the collective story of a punk community in an unlikely town and region, a hub of radical counterculture that drew artists and musicians from throughout the conservative South and earned national renown.Trade Review“This beautifully crafted page-turner presents the outsider history of a thriving southern punkhouse where military brats, rocker chefs, queerdoe artists, revivified veterans, a newborn, and a rotating pack of dogs lived nearly cash-free in a filthy and vibrant wonderland they made imperfectly together.”- Anna Joy Springer, author of The Vicious Red Relic, Love;“A Punkhouse in the Deep South is a ray of light from a completely unexpected direction: a lucid, humble, sweet-natured account of building a small DIY utopia that would continue to flourish for more than 25 years in ostensibly hostile terrain. Its success may not be replicable, but that it happened at all is cause for wonder.”- Luc Sante, author of Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York;“The first punk oral history to illuminate a chronically undervalued context for southern misfit life: that it thrives because of its relationship to its community, not despite it.”- Nate Powell, artist of the March trilogy;“This book celebrates the punks who do the grunt work to build places where they can conspire to make a better way of life. It is an essential contribution to the history of music, counterculture, and cities.”- James Tracy, coauthor of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times.
£15.26
University Press of Florida Play All Night
Book SynopsisThe 1971 Allman Brothers Band album At Fillmore East was a musical manifesto years in the making. In Play All Night!, Bob Beatty dives deep into the motivations and musical background of band founder Duane Allman to tell the story of what made this album one of the most important live rock albums in history.
£21.56
University of Minnesota Press The Disenchanted FeslerLampert Minnesota Heritage
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£14.00
Wesleyan University Press Black Noise
Book SynopsisA comprehensive look at the lyrics, music, cultures, themes, and styles of rap music.
£16.95
Wesleyan University Press Living Space
Book SynopsisExamines John Coltrane''s late period and Miles Davis''s Lost Quintet through the prisms of digital architecture and experimental photographyLiving Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital fuses biography and style history in order to illuminate the music of two jazz icons, while drawing on the discourses of photography and digital architecture to fashion musical insights that may not be available through the traditional language of jazz analysis. The book follows the controversial trajectories of two jazz legends, emerging from the 1959 album Kind of Blue. Coltrane''s odyssey through what became known as free jazz brought stylistic (r)evolution and chaos in equal measure. Davis''s spearheading of jazz-rock fusion opened a door through which jazz''s ongoing dialogue with the popular tradition could be regenerated, engaging both high and low ideas of creativity, community, and commerce. Includes 42 illustrations.
£19.47
AMSCO Music ACDC Stiff Upper Lip
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£23.76
Vanderbilt University Press American Ballads
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£28.45
Quest Books,U.S. Working Class Mystic A Spiritual Biography of
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£11.99
Rizzoli International Publications Rankin Play Images of Music
Book SynopsisAs a cofounder of Dazed & Confused and AnOther magazines, and the photographer of countless iconic album covers, Rankin creates imagery through which many stars of the pop world have found their visual voices.Play draws exclusively on Rankin's archive of photographs of the biggest names in contemporary music--from the rock gods who shaped our musical landscape to the British Invasion of the 1990s and the American superstars who mix music and production to define what the record industry is today.Divided by theme--Heroes and Girl Gangs and Boy Bands, Cool Britannia and My Generation--Play collects almost two hundred of Rankin's favorite images of the most influential artists of the last three decades, from David Bowie and Elton John to Pharrell, the Spice Girls, Grimes, and Björk. Alongside his photos are anecdotes from Rankin and the artists themselves on the reciprocal relationship between photographer and subject--and between the starTrade Review"Play is a visual romp through popular music from the 1990s to the present day. Entertaining and edifying, it documents Rankin’s special fondness for photographing musicians, who already share bits of their soul with their music and 'always come ready to play.'"—FOREWORD REVIEWS "Known simply as Rankin, his professional working name, UK-born photographer John Rankin Waddell has cemented himself as one of the greatest and most symbolic British portrait and fashion photographers of his time. An artist that set the fundamental tone for pop culture photography and imagery in the mid- to late-90s and early 2000s, Rankin’s work has resonated and reverberated throughout the world of music. Rizzoli now presents Play, a culmination of Rankin’s expansive and emblematic oeuvre on music portraiture." — PROVOKR.COM
£31.50
Trinity College London Press Trinity College London Rock Pop 2018 Bass Grade
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£999.99
Trinity College London Press Trinity College London Rock Pop 2018 Guitar
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£16.96
Trinity College London Press Trinity College London Rock Pop 2018 Guitar
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Trinity College London Press Trinity College London Rock Pop 2018 Keyboards
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£19.95
Berklee Press Publications Learning to Listen The Jazz Journey of Gary
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£27.23
Hal Leonard Corporation Pink Floyd Faq Everything Left to Know and More
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£15.99
Wellstone Books Kiss the Sky
Book SynopsisFor his eighteenth birthday, Dusty Baker''s parents gave him a great present: Two tickets to the Monterey Pop Festival of June 1967, a three-day event featuring more than thirty bands, and use of the family station wagon for the weekend so young Dusty could drive down from Sacramento to the Monterey Bay Area. He was another young person, trying to take it all in, sleeping on the beach with his buddy, having the time of his life soaking up the vibe and every different musical style represented there. Baker''s lifelong love of music was set in motion, his wide-ranging, eclectic tastes, everything from country to hip-hop. He also caught the Jimi Hendrix Experience, who put on such a show that to this day Baker calls Hendrix the most exciting performer he''s ever seen. He went on to years of friendship with musicians from B.B. King and John Lee Hooker to Elvin Bishop. This account grabs a reader from page one and never lets up.Trade Review"At its best, the book evokes not only the pleasure of music, but the connection between that experience and the joy of sports." Charles Bethea, iNewYorker.com "(Baker's)interest in music might be instructive, after all, pulling a group of talented soloists together so that an underachieving baseball team could be, like their new manager, much more than that." Billy Witz, iThe New York Times "A mini-memoir, the book also appears through the lens of all the different flavors of music that shaped Baker's life to this day. In one layer of the narrative, Baker elaborates on his childhood and teenage years, including near-decisions to either play basketball at Santa Clara University or attend San Jose State solely because it was designated by Playboy as a party school. But his love of music, in a variety of genres, from the very beginnings of his youth, is what shaped him. As a kid, he was required by his mom to attend a Baptist church and give piano recitals, but he was forbidden to attend the local Pentecostal church because it was the first in his hometown to feature music with drums and guitar." Gary Singh, iSan Jose Metro
£9.99
Danann Media Publishing Limited Rolling Stones Rebellions Children Rock Talk
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£15.00
Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music
Book SynopsisSince its beginnings over fifty years ago, metal music has grown in popularity worldwide, not only as a musical culture but as a recognised field of study. This Companion, grounded in recent research, explores the various musical styles and cultures of metal, providing a reliable resource for students and researchers.Table of Contents1. Introduction Jan-Peter Herbst; 2. Get your double licks on route 666: the sonic evolution of heavy metal across five unholy decades Andrew L. Cope; Part I. Metal, Technology and Practice: Personal Take I. Russ Russell: 3. Mapping the origins of heaviness between 1970–1995: a historical overview of metal music production Jan-Peter Herbst and Mark Mynett; 4. Technical ecstasy: phenomenological perspectives of metal music production Niall Thomas; 5. Not from the mind but the heart: the metanarrative of being in a metal band Hale Fulya Çelikel; 6. Timbral metrics for analysis of metal production: then, now and what next? Duncan Williams; Part II. Metal and History: Personal Take II – Brian Tatler: 7. Mesopotamian metal: learning from the past through metal music? Peter Pichler; 8. Sparta and metal music's reception of ancient history Jeremy J. Swist; 9. Viking metal: obsessed with the past? Imke von Helden; Part III. Metal and Identity: Personal Take III. Yasmine Shadrack: 10. Metal Identities and Self-Talk: Internal Conversations of Belonging, Empowerment, Wellbeing and Resilience Paula Rowe; 11. Metal in Women: Music, Empowerment, Misogyny Rosemary Lucy Hill; 12. Refuse/Resist: what does it mean for metal to be transgressive in the 21st Century? Catherine Hoad; Part IV. Metal Activities: Personal Take VI. Richard Taylor: 13. Metal as leisure space and tourism industry destination Karl Spracklen; 14. Dance practices in metal Daniel Suer; 15. Battle jackets: wearing metal identity Thomas Cardwell; Part V. Modern Metal Genres: Personal Take V. Arne Jamelle: 16. On Horseback they carried thunder: the second lives of Norwegian black metal Ross Hagen; 17. Subgenre qualifiers and prescribed creativity in technical death metal Lewis F. Kennedy; 18. From 'Stereotyped Postures' to 'Credible Avant-garde Strategies': The Alchemical Transformation of Drone Metal Owen Coggins; 19. Djent and the aesthetics of post-digital metal Mark Marrington; 20. Contempt-of-core: a reception history of metalcore subgenres as abject genres Eric Smialek; Part VI. Global Metal: Personal Take IV. Malcolm Dome: 21. Metal in the Middle East Pierre Hecker; 22. Asian metal rising: metal scene formation in the world's most populous region Jeremy Wallach; 23. Distortions in the last frontier: metal music in Africa Edward Banchs; 24. What has Latin American metal music ever done for us?: a call for an ethics of affront in metal Musics Nelson Varas-Díaz and Daniel Nevárez Araújo; 25. Pioneers and provocateurs: Australian metal music, distance and disregard Samuel Vallen.
£22.99
Griffin Publishing Deal
Book SynopsisThe Grateful Dead are perhaps the most legendary American rock band of all time. For thirty years, beginning in the hippie scene of San Francisco in 1965, they were a musical institution, the original jam band that broke new ground in so many ways. From the music to their live concert sound systems and fan recordings, they were forward-thinking champions of artistic control and outlaw artists who marched to the beat of their own drums.In Deal, Bill Kreutzmann, one of their founding members and drummer for every one of their over 2,300 concerts has written an unflinching and wild account of playing in the greatest improvisational band of all time. Everything a rock music fan would expect is here, but what sets this apart is Bill''s incredible life of adventure that was at the heart of the Grateful Dead experience. This was a band that knew no limits and Bill lived life to the fullest, pushing the boundaries of drugs, drums and high times, through devastating tragedy an
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St Martin's Press Bear The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley
Book SynopsisThe creator of the dancing bear logo and designer of the Wall of Sound for the Grateful Dead, Augustus Owsley Stanley III, better known by his nickname, Bear, was one of the most iconic figures in the cultural revolution that changed both America and the world during the 1960s.Owsley''s high octane rocket fuel enabled Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters to put on the Acid Tests. It also powered much of what happened on stage at Monterey Pop. Owsley turned on Pete Townshend of The Who and Jimi Hendrix. The shipment of LSD that Owsley sent John Lennon resulted in The Beatles'' Magical Mystery Tour album and film. Convinced that the Grateful Dead were destined to become the world''s greatest rock ''n'' roll band, Owsley provided the money that kept them going during their early days. As their longtime soundman, he then faithfully recorded many of the Dead''s greatest live performances and designed the massive space age system that came to be known as the Wall of Sound.
£12.99
Flatiron Books The History of Rock Roll Volume 2
Book SynopsisFrom rock and roll historian Ed Ward comes a comprehensive, authoritative, and enthralling cultural history of one of rock''s most exciting eras.It''s February 1964 and The Beatles just landed in New York City, where the NYPD, swarms of fans, and a crowd of two hundred journalists await their first American press conference. It begins with the question on everyone''s mind: Are you going to get a haircut in America? and ends with a reporter tugging Paul McCartney''s hair in an attempt to remove his nonexistent wig. This is where The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 2 kicks off. Chronicling the years 1964 through the mid-1970s, this latest volume covers one of the most exciting eras of rock history, which saw a massive outpouring of popular and cutting-edge music.Ward weaves together an unputdownable narrative told through colorful anecdotes and shares the behind-the-scenes stories of the megastars, the trailblazers, DJs, record executives, concert promoter
£23.99
St Martin's Press Texas Flood
Book SynopsisAn instant New York Times bestseller!The definitive biography of guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan, with an epilogue by Jimmie Vaughan, and foreword and afterword by Double Trouble's Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon.Just a few years after he almost died from a severe addiction to cocaine and alcohol, a clean and sober Stevie Ray Vaughan was riding high. His last album was his most critically lauded and commercially successful. He had fulfilled a lifelong dream by collaborating with his first and greatest musical hero, his brother Jimmie. His tumultuous marriage was over and he was in a new and healthy romantic relationship. Vaughan seemed poised for a new, limitless chapter of his life and career.Instead, it all came to a shocking and sudden end on August 27, 1990, when he was killed in a helicopter crash following a dynamic performance with Eric Clapton. Just 35 years old, he left behind a powerful musical legacy and an endless stream of What Ifs.
£14.24
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Beats and Elements A Hip Hop Theatre Trilogy
Book SynopsisThis collection of three hip hop plays by Conrad Murray and his Beats & Elements collaborators Paul Cree, David Bonnick Junior and Lakeisha Lynch-Stevens, is the first publication of the critically acclaimed theatre-maker's work. The three plays use hip hop to highlight the inequalities produced by the UK's class system, and weave lyricism, musicality and dialogue to offer authentic accounts of inner-city life written by working-class Londoners. The plays are accompanied by two introductory essays: The first gives a specific social and historical context that helps readers make sense of the plays, the second positions hip hop as a contemporary literary form and offers some ways to read hip hop texts as literature. The collection also includes a foreword by leading hip hop theatre practitioner Jonzi D, interviews with the Beats & Elements company, and a glossary of words for students and international readers.Trade ReviewA show with something to say, and a stylish way of saying it. * The Stage (on High Rise Estate of Mind) *If there were thousands more like Murray who managed to ‘breakthrough’ from a working class background to the mainstream Arts, the landscape would be very different to what it is today. * Breaking the Fourth Wall *Its dramatic authenticity is pitch perfect. * Exeunt *Table of Contents- Foreword - Class and UK Hip Hop (essay) - Hip hop lyricism (essay) The Plays: - No Milk for the Foxes by Paul Cree and Conrad Murray - Weaving hip hop lyricism with comic naturalism, this play tells the story of two security guards on zero-hours contracts working the night-shift at a washing machine components factory. - DenMarked by Conrad Murray - This solo performance is an autobiographical story that weaves hip hop with Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It narrates Conrad’s account of growing up in a violent family in South London, as an abused mixed-race child in the social care system, trying to make his way in the world and seek reconciliation with his absent father. - High Rise e(S)tate of Mind by David Bonnik Junior, Paul Cree, Conrad Murray and Lakeisha Lynch-Stevens - Inspired by JG Ballard’s novel High Rise, this is the dystopian tale of a high rise tower block in London, interwoven with the performers’ personal autobiographical stories about the housing they have lived in. - Reflections (interviews with Beats & Elements) - Glossary
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Johns Hopkins University Press Music in the Shadows
Book SynopsisAs in her earlier study of film noir, Blackout: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir, Biesen draws on extensive primary research in studio archives to situate her examination within a historical, industrial, and cultural context.Trade Review[Biesen's] writing is silky and engaging and will enthrall fans of musicals and film noir... Library Journal Music in the Shadows is an interesting and provocative approach to post-genre film criticism that underscores the interconnectedness of diverse media, and provides both a challenging perspective on the musical genre and a testimonial to the ongoing legacy of noir sensibility. -- Louis J. Kern Key Reporter The book nicely balances in-depth historical research and previous film noir scholarship with fresh ideas and a writing style that is both evocative and concise. The author doesn't force the films into the model of her theory; instead the films guide the theory, a quality often lacking in film writing. Music in the Shadows ultimately succeeds on two levels, both in providing an entertaining and enlightening read, as well as an impetus to watch previously unseen films and rewatch familiar classics with a new perspective. -- Anne M. Hockens Noir City Biesen's relevant study provides new insight and proves a welcome addition to film noir studies. ChoiceTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. The Noir Musical2. Preludes to the Noir Musical3. Blues in the Night: The Noir Musical on the Brink of World War II4. Smoky Melodies: Jazz Noir Musical Drama5. Le Rouge et le Noir: From The Red Shoes to A Star Is Born6. Dark Musical Melodrama: From Young at Heart to West Side Story7. The Legacy of the Noir MusicalNotesIndex
£26.10
Hal Leonard Corporation Jethro Tull Flute Solos
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£15.19
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Dolly Parton Greatest Hits
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Hal Leonard Corporation Jimi Hendrix The Ultimate Lyric Book
Book SynopsisJIMI HENDRIX: THE ULTIMATE LYRIC BOOK
£32.00
Simon & Schuster Beatles vs. Stones
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Lets Talk About Love
Book SynopsisFor 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 and lampooned pop stars of the past few decades, Céline Dion's critics call her mawkish and overblown while millions of fans around the world adore her huge pipes and even bigger feelings. How can anyone say which side is right? This new, expanded edition goes even further, calling on thirteen prominent writers and musicians to respond to themes ranging from sentiment and kitsch to cultural capital and musical snobbery. The original text is followed by lively arguments and stories from Nick Hornby, Krist Novoselic, Ann Powers, Mary Gaitskill, James Franco, Sheila Heti and others. In a new afterword, Carl Wilson examines recent cultural changes in love and hate, including the impact of technTrade ReviewLike the whole world, I'm a fan of Carl Wilson's Celine Dion book. * Jonathan Lethem *An evergreen classic of music criticism--a love letter from a cerebral pop aesthete to the music he sincerely, almost sentimentally hates. * Rob Sheffield *Carl Wilson is a profound listener and an extraordinary writer. Along with being a tremendously important piece of criticism, Let’s Talk About Love is an agile, moving, and generous exploration of the music that accompanies us, welcome or not, on the travels we all need to make on our own. It is a beautiful, funny, unerringly concise book that invites repeated readings, new conversations, and a thoughtful engagement with the culture of our time. * John K. Samson *The book is laugh-out-loud funny, whip-smart about contemporary thought, and fascinating in its many voices, but, readers, beware—you may wind up humming that song for days afterward. -- Eloise Kinney * Booklist *[I]t’s a conversation worth having: as a dialogue between Wilson and his 13 disciples, with peers in social circles, and ultimately with oneself. Why we like what we like is always a fun topic to discuss, but it’s often more challenging and more enlightening to discuss the converse: why we don’t like what we don’t like… Any investigation into cool is incomplete without due consideration of too-cool-for. Wilson has provided a primer for that discourse. -- Kurtt Gottshalk * Brooklyn Rail *…the recently updated Let's Talk About Love—cheekily re-subtitled Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste and bundled with a host of excellent accompanying essays from the book's admirers including Krist Novoselic, Nick Hornby, Ann Powers, and James Franco—is a welcome excuse to revisit the main text in light of our current state of hyperspeed discourse. It's also a good excuse to catch up with Wilson, who continues to be an essential voice in the rock writer community while serving as Slate's music critic. -- Ryan Dombal * Pitchfork *Let’s Talk About Love…is not just a critical study of one Céline Dion album, but an engaging discussion of pop criticism itself. -- Elias Leight * LA Review of Books *In this gnostic context, Carl Wilson’s Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, first published in 2007, was a counter-intuitive masterstroke. Wilson’s gamble—that even people who hate Céline Dion would be curious to read an entire book about why they hate her, and what that hatred might mean—paid off handsomely: Let’s Talk About Love was widely and enthusiastically reviewed outside the usual music-geek circles, Wilson appeared on NPR and The Colbert Report, and last year he was hired as Slate’s chief music critic, as plum a gig as a pop critic can expect in today’s collapsing media economy. -- Ellis Avery * Public Books *Freaking brilliant. -- Will Hermes * Hippies and Hipsters *Voted a Best Music Book 2014 * The Guardian *Carl Wilson’s 2007 entry in the 33 1/3 library of pocket-sized books about classic albums is one of the most celebrated in the series. The author goes against the critical grain, not because he defends the music of this much-maligned international phenomenon. Wilson spends most of the book putting Dion into social and cultural context that in the end does not win him over to her kind of music. Wilson’s book, unlike most criticism, openly invites dialogue, even providing an email contact for readers to beat their own breasts for and against Céline Dion. -- Pat Padua * Spectrum Culture *The 33 1/3 series lets writers write (mini) book length tomes based on or inspired by an individual album. It's produced some intriguing experiments, like John Darnielle's novella inspired by Black Sabbath's Masters of Reality (a precursor to this year's debut novel, Wolf In White Van), but in 2007 Carl Wilson exploded the entire premise. He picked an album he hated - Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love - and used it to enter a discourse on what determines good and bad taste. Seven years later, "poptimism" is practically standard practice, and Wilson's tome is a massively influential text in pop criticism. This year, Bloomsbury separated it from 33 1/3 and let it stand on its own in an expanded editions with a whackload of new material. Wilson's original work seemed like it examined Celine from every possible angle, but the 13 new essays, from writers like Nick Hornby, Owen Pallett and Nirvana's Krist Novoselic, show that he may have left a few stones unturned. -- Richard Trapunski * Chart Attack *An expanded version of Wilson's 2007 book for the 33 1/3 series with additional thoughts from 13 writers including James Franco, Ann Powers, Nick Hornby and others. An incredible look at pop culture -- and Celine Dion. -- The Ten Best Books of 2014 * Papermag *Table of ContentsA NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER PART I Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste Carl Wilson 1. Let’s Talk About Hate 2. Let’s Talk About Pop (and Its Critics) 3. Let’s Talk in French 4. Let’s Talk About World Conquest 5. Let’s Talk About Schmaltz 6. Let’s Sing Really Loud 7. Let’s Talk About Taste 8. Let’s Talk About Who’s Got Bad Taste 9. Let’s Talk with Some Fans 10. Let’s Do a Punk Version of “My Heart Will Go On” (or, Let’s Talk About Our Feelings) 11. Let’s Talk About Let’s Talk About Love 12. Let’s Talk About Love PART II Essays: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Carl Wilson, “Introduction” Nick Hornby, “The Artists We Deserve” Krist Novoselic, “With the Lights On, It’s Less Useless” Ann Powers, “If the Girls Were All Transported” Mary Gaitskill, “The Most Obvious Thing” Jason King, “Compared to What?” Daphne Brooks, “Let’s Talk About Diana Ross (In Memory of Trayvon Martin)” Drew Daniel, “Deep in the Game” Sukhdev Sandhu, “Children of the Corn” James Franco, “Acting In and Out of Context” Marco Roth and the Editors of n+1, “Too Much Sociology” Jonathan Sterne, “Giving Up on Giving Up on Good Taste” Owen Pallett, “When I Come Home” Sheila Heti, “Playlist: Let’s Listen to Love” PART III Afterword Carl Wilson, “Let’s Talk Later” ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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History Press Hidden History of Music Row
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Alfred Music The Giant Book of Classic Rock Sheet Music
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Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Pink Floyd Easy Guitar with Riffs and Solos
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Hal Leonard Corporation Michael Jackson FAQ All Thats Left to Know About
Book SynopsisMICHAEL JACKSON FAQ: ALL THAT'S LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT THE KING OF POP
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Hal Leonard Corporation Easy Pop Melodies for Alto Sax 50 Favorite Hits
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Hal Leonard Corporation Johnny Cash FAQ All Thats Left to Know About the
Book SynopsisJOHNNY CASH FAQ: ALL THAT'S LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT THE MAN IN BLACK
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Hal Leonard Corporation ACDC FAQ All Thats Left to Know about the Worlds
Book SynopsisAC/DC FAQ: ALL THAT'S LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT THE WORLD'S TRUE ROCK 'N' ROLL BAND
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Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Wynton Marsalis Omnibook
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