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  • Abracadabra Performance Pieces - Violin
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    Abracadabra Performance Pieces - Violin

    A brand new book of great pieces to work alongside the bestselling Abracadabra tutorial books. Accompaniments are provided on the CD, providing great pieces for concerts throughout the year. Anyone...
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  • Abracadabra Performance Pieces - Clarinet
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    Abracadabra Performance Pieces - Clarinet

    A brand new book of great pieces to work alongside the bestselling Abracadabra tutorial books. Accompaniments are provided on the CD, providing great pieces for concerts throughout the year. Anyone...
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  • Abracadabra Performance Pieces - Flute
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    Abracadabra Performance Pieces - Flute

    A brand new book of fantastic pieces to work alongside the bestselling Abracadabra tutorial books. Accompaniments are provided on the CD, providing great pieces for concerts throughout the year...
    $24.99

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  • Abracadabra Beginning Theory
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    Abracadabra Beginning Theory

    Learn theory as if by magic! Abracadabra Beginning Theory is the ideal workbook to use alongside the best-selling instrumental series. Split into small chunks which can easily be tackled weekly,...
    $24.99

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  • Ukulele Magic
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    Ukulele Magic

    Learn to play the ukulele at home or in the classroom with these popular kids instruction books specially written for beginners! Start your musical journey on the ukulele with Ukulele Magic Tutor...
    $21.99

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  • Music and Neurodiversity
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    Music and Neurodiversity

    This book helps you to prepare neurodivergent music students to succeed, using all the tools that are available. It is packed with practical advice for teachers and parents on how to make the...
    $35.99

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  • Christmas Crackers
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    Christmas Crackers

    The popular beginner instruction books for kids with fun exercises, theory and easy songs to play. This book contains over 30 carols for the beginner pianist, featuring a range of techniques and...
    $21.99

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  • Politics as Sound
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    Politics as Sound

    Uncompromising and innovative, hardcore punk in Washington, DC, birthed a new sound and nurtured a vibrant subculture aimed at a specific segment of the citys youth. Shayna L. Maskell explores DCs...
    $54.99

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  • The Rare Record Price Guide 2024
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    The Rare Record Price Guide 2024

    Launched in 1987 and published bi annually - the Rare Record Price Guide 2024 is the SEVENTEENTH edition of the World's most comprehensive guide to prices of UK releases from 1950 to the current day...
    $81.99

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  • Taylor - Icon of our Times
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    Taylor - Icon of our Times

    This is Taylor as the ultimate icon of our times. This perfect fan book delves into her success story, her music and how empowering a role model she has become for millions of fans around the world...
    $29.99

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  • Some New Kind of Kick
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    Some New Kind of Kick

    An intimate, coming-of-age memoir by legendary guitarist Kid Congo Powers, detailing his experiences as a young, queer Mexican-American in 1970s Los Angeles through his rise in the glam rock and punk...
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  • Queer Blues
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    Queer Blues

    From the very beginning, the blues has had a close connection with the LGBTQ community. There is a long and decorated history of so-called dirty blues songs, stretching back beyond the earliest...
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  • I Just Can't Stop It
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    I Just Can't Stop It

    I Just Can't Stop It is the honest and compelling autobiography from British Music Legend, Ranking Roger. As the enigmatic frontman of the multicultural band The Beat, Ranking Roger represented the...
    $25.99

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  • Latin Rocks On
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    Latin Rocks On

    Sarah Rowley is a passionate classicist who runs the Latin Rocks On Twitter account, translating popular song lyrics into Latin, from Marvin Gaye to Madonna, Take That to Taylor Swift . Latin may...
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  • The Who
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    The Who

    Foreword by Pete Townshend. Tom Wright first met Pete Townshend at Ealing Art School in the early 60s. He became The Whos official tour photographer and manager from 1967 in the US, also managing...
    $69.99

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  • Small Hours: The Long Night of John Martyn
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    Small Hours: The Long Night of John Martyn

    Did any musician in the Seventies fly so free as John Martyn did on 'Bless The Weather', 'Solid Air, Inside Out' and 'One World'? Did any fall so far? Small Hours is an intimate, unflinching...
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  • Riders in the Sky
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    Riders in the Sky

    For almost five decades, the band known as Riders in the Sky ("America's Favorite Cowboys") has entertained and delighted audiences in Nashville and throughout the United States with their mixture of...
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  • Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan
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    Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan

    Few politicians produced the musical reaction that Ronald Reagan did. His California-branded conservatism inspired countless young people to pick up guitars and thrash out their political angst. Punk...
    $80.99

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  • Frank Zappa's America
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    Frank Zappa's America

    From his early albums with the Mothers of Invention, Frank Zappa established a reputation as a musical genius who pushed the limits of culture throughout the 1960s and 1970s, experimenting with a...
    $92.99

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  • Cosmopolitan Intimacies
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    Cosmopolitan Intimacies

    The golden age of Malay film in the 1950s and 1960s was the product of a musical and cultural cosmopolitanism in the service of a nation-making process based on ideas of Malay ethnonationalism,...
    $96.99

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  • Bliss and Dance
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    Bliss and Dance

    Bliss and Dance explores the four major ballets of composer Sir Arthur Bliss (1891-1975) who was at the centre of British musical life for over 50 years. Drawn to finding expression for drama and...
    $83.99

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  • Listening to the Music the Machines Make
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    Listening to the Music the Machines Make

    Listening to the Music the Machines Make is the revolutionary story of electronic pop from 1978 to 1983, a true golden age of British music. This definitive account explores how krautrock, disco,...
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  • Punk
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    Punk

    The last word on the movement that shook the world. Punk: The Last Word is a powerful reimagining of punk-not just as a sound or style, but as a radical, DIY philosophy rooted in defiance, truth, and...
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  • All or Nothing
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    All or Nothing

    Steve Marriott, lead singer of the Small Faces and Humble Pie, had a voice coveted by Bob Dylan, Robert Plant, Roger Daltrey and David Bowie, amongst many others. All or Nothing, Simon Spence's oral...
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  • Simply Tina
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    Simply Tina

    Foreword by Martyn Ware. Tina Turner: singer, trailblazer, icon. One of the best-known and most-beloved performers of all time, Simply Tina documents her life, career and relationship with...
    $58.99

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  • That'll Be the Day
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    That'll Be the Day

    That 'll Be The Day - The Birth of Rock & Roll takes you on a musical journey through the first decade of this extraordinary genre that has influenced popular music to the present day. The book...
    $49.99

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  • Elton John - Farewell
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    Elton John - Farewell

    During a dazzling 50 year musical career Sir Elton John has risen from playing the piano in the pubs of Pinner in North London to become a multi award winning global superstar with record sales of...
    $48.99

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  • Bruce Springsteen - Born to Dream
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    Bruce Springsteen - Born to Dream

    For over fifty years, Bruce Springsteen has been on top of the Rock 'n' Roll stage with 20 studio albums - from his debut Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. to 2020's Letter to You - his a life...
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  • I'm Into Something Good
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    I'm Into Something Good

    When 22-year-old accountant Harvey Lisberg heard the Beatles Please Please Me, he had an epiphany: he could be Manchesters answer to Brian Epstein. He had a musical ear, a knack for numbers and a...
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  • Still Too Sexy
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    Still Too Sexy

    Richard and Fred Fairbrass, better known as Right Said Fred, scored a Number 1 hit in 70 countries with 1991's 'I'm Too Sexy', selling 30 million albums, being showered with industry awards, and...
    $39.99

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  • Glam!
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    Glam!

    Drawing on interviews with stars and musicians, producers and photographers, stylists, writers and celebrity fans, Wham Bam Thank You Glam chronicles the glam era from its origins in 1970, through...
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  • Pink Floyd Live
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    Pink Floyd Live

    Pink Floyd Live Collected provides an insight into the unique live concert journey of one of the most groundbreaking and influential bands of all time. Follow the band from when they formed as...
    $52.99

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  • From Silence
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    From Silence

    A powerful and thought provoking memoir from one of the world's most successful orchestral conductors, whose life story, talent and dedication to music is an inspiration to read. A tragic car...
    $62.99

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  • Growing Out Of It
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    Growing Out Of It

    The Autobiography of multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and composer, Lee Thompson, perhaps best-known as one of the founding members of English ska band Madness.
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  • Babble On An' Ting
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    Babble On An' Ting

    Babble On is the autobiography from Alex Paterson, co-founder of legendary house group The Orb. Exploring his early life in Oxford and his decades-long career - which has involved working with...
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  • Rock'n'Roll Sweepstakes
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    Rock'n'Roll Sweepstakes

    Rock n Roll Sweepstakes is a frank and comprehensive biography of a remarkable man, amazing life and an incredible body of work. It covers Ians youth and formative rock n roll years in the Sixties,...
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  • Going Deaf For A Living
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    Going Deaf For A Living

    Going Deaf for a Living is Steve Lamacqs candid reflection of several decades spent on the frontline of the alternative music scene. As a writer at the NME and co-host of The Evening Session, Steve...
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  • Community Music at the Boundaries
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    Community Music at the Boundaries

    Music lives where people live. Historically, music study has centred on the conservatory, which privileges the study of the Western European canon and Western European practice . The Eurocentric way...
    $135.00

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  • Soul Serenade Volume 17
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    Soul Serenade Volume 17

    Although in 2000 he became the first sideman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, "King Curtis" Ousley never lived to accept his award. Tragically, he was murdered outside his New York City...
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  • For the Sake of the Song
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    For the Sake of the Song

    After he died, Townes Van Zandt found the success that he sabotaged throughout his short life despite the release of sixteen brilliant albums. Since his death, numerous albums both by and in honor of...
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  • Classic Keys
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    Classic Keys

    Classic Keys is a beautifully photographed and illustrated book focusing on the signature rock keyboard sounds of the 1950s to the early 1980s. It celebrates the Hammond B-3 organ, Rhodes and...
    $139.00

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  • Introduction To Music
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    Introduction To Music

    This 4-page comprehensive guide is packed with information on how music is constructed, composed and performed.
    $19.99

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  • Solid State
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    Solid State

    Acclaimed Beatles historian Kenneth Womack offers the most definitive account yet of the writing, recording, mixing, and reception of Abbey Road. In February 1969, the Beatles began working on what...
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