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  • Reading Autobiography Now
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    Reading Autobiography Now

    Sidonie Smith

    A user-friendly guide to reading, writing, and theorizing autobiographical texts and practices for students, scholars, and practitioners of life narrative The boom in autobiographical narratives...
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  • Faster Than A Cannonball
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    Faster Than A Cannonball

    Dylan Jones

    Decades tend to crest halfway through, and 1995 was the year of the Nineties: peak Britpop (Oasis v Blur), peak YBA (Tracey Emin's tent), peak New Lad (when Nick Hornby published High Fidelity, when...
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  • Being John Lennon
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    Being John Lennon

    Ray Connolly

    John Lennon was a rock star, a school clown, a writer, a wit, an iconoclast, a sometime peace activist and finally an eccentric millionaire. He was also a Beatle - his plain-speaking and impudent...
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  • Being Elvis
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    Being Elvis

    Ray Connolly

    What was it like to be Elvis Presley? What did it feel like when impossible fame made him its prisoner? As the world's first rock star there was no one to tell him what to expect, no one with whom he...
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  • Curepedia
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    Curepedia

    Simon Price

    A Rough Trade Book of the Year A Guardian Music Book of the Year 'Beautifully written and meticulously researched' Classic Pop'[An] all-encompassing repository of Cure wisdom' Record CollectorThe...
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  • Sing Backwards and Weep
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    Sing Backwards and Weep

    Mark Lanegan

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER"Mark Lanegan-primitive, brutal, and apocalyptic. What's not to love?" NICK CAVE"A stoned cold classic" IAN RANKIN'Mark Lanegan writes like he sings, from the pained heart...
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  • Confess
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    Confess

    Rob Halford

    Most priests take confessions. This one is giving his.'Rob Halford has written one of the most candid and surprising memoirs of the year. . . Confess is a riproaring tale, a funny, often shocking and...
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  • I Am Brian Wilson
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    I Am Brian Wilson

    Brian Wilson

    'My life has been written about over and over again, and that's mostly okay with me. Other people can talk about my life. Sometimes they'll get it right and sometimes they'll get it wrong. For me,...
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  • Utopia Avenue
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    Utopia Avenue

    David Mitchell

    'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' IndependentThe Number One Sunday Times Bestseller'Wildly entertaining'Spectator'A stand-out triumph'Sunday...
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  • Lemmy
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    Lemmy

    Mick Wall

    'Unflinching, forthright and full of wry humour as the man himself, and there's little praise greater than that' CLASSIC ROCK'Wall's vision of Lemmy as a Rock'n'Roll stalwart who made no concessions...
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  • Walking Disaster
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    Walking Disaster

    Deryck Whibley

    WALKING DISASTER is a riveting story of excess lived in the limelight, told with candour, humility and a thoughtful introspection rarely found in rock memoirs. An unlikely rock and roll success...
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  • A Few Words in Defense of Our Country
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    A Few Words in Defense of Our Country

    Robert Hilburn

    '[A] penetrating biography . . . While the book posits Newman as a writer of sociopolitical import, its emotional narrative is driven by the more personal aspects of his story: a complex family...
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  • When Giants Walked the Earth
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    When Giants Walked the Earth

    Mick Wall

    Over ten years after WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE EARTH, Mick Wall's seminal biography of the band, comes this major and extensively researched revision, which provides an unflinching look at life inside...
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  • Heartbreaker
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    Heartbreaker

    Mike Campbell

    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA fast-paced, tender-hearted rock 'n' roll memoir for the ages, Mike Campbell's Heartbreaker is part rags-to-riches story and part raucous, seat-of-the-pants adventure,...
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  • Devil in a Coma
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    Devil in a Coma

    Mark Lanegan

    FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SING BACKWARDS AND WEEP'Expressionistic and visceral . . . exhilarating and unexpectedly funny' i PAPER'Compelling' MOJO'Shades of humour illuminate the dark...
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  • Cat On The Road To Findout
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    Cat On The Road To Findout

    Yusuf

    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEREmbark on an extraordinary journey through the life, music and spiritual adventures of Yusuf/Cat Stevens, one of the iconic figures of our time. CAT ON THE ROAD TO...
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  • Uncommon People
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    Uncommon People

    Miranda Sawyer

    When Miranda Sawyer interviewed Noel Gallagher in 1995, his gag wishing Damon Albarn would die of AIDS became front-page news. This fascinating pop history, exploring the mid-90s moment when British...
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  • Words for My Comrades
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    Words for My Comrades

    Dean Van Nguyen

    Featured on NPR's Books We Love 2025'An astounding achievement' MARCUS J. MOORE'Learned [and] compassionate' THE TIMES'A must-read' IRISH TIMESBefore his murder at twenty-five, Tupac Shakur rose to...
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  • Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age
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    Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age

    Austin McCoy

    'BRILLIANT AND IN-DEPTH'' Hanif Abdurraqib, New York Times bestselling author of There's Always This Year and A Little Devil in AmericaA culturally connected celebration of the groundbreaking hip-hop...
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  • Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
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    Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)

    Sly Stone

    SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023MOJO BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023AN UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023A VARIETY MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023One of the few indisputable...
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  • Hip-Hop Is History
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    Hip-Hop Is History

    Questlove

    'Questlove radiates passion, knowledge, wit and profundity as he reflects on this ever-evolving art form' GUARDIANFor a young Black kid growing up in a musical family in 1970s Philadelphia, hip-hop...
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  • The Absence
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    The Absence

    Budgie

    A TIMES AND ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Beautifully written and brutally honest' LYDIA LUNCH'A compassionate, relatable love story' MIKI BERENYI'Lyrical, affectionate and often painfully raw' RUPERT...
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  • Dub Revolution
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    Dub Revolution

    David Katz

    The most abstract, playful and confounding of reggae subgenres, dub is a vital component of sound system culture that has wielded disproportionate influence. Emerging as an underground phenomenon in...
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  • Still in a Dream
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    Still in a Dream

    Simon Reynolds

    The definitive story of the slackers and shoegazers who reinvented rock.'To devote a book to a set of wilfully amorphous and hazy bands, many of them long-forgotten outriders, is an act of love,...
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  • Organism-Oriented Ontology
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    Organism-Oriented Ontology

    Audronė Žukauskaitė

    Discussing different aspects of the philosophy of Gilbert Simondon, Raymond Ruyer, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and including some contemporary thinkers, such as Catherine Malabou, Bernard...
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  • Bowie at the BBC
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    Bowie at the BBC

    David Bowie

    A LOUDER THAN WAR BOOK OF THE YEAR'A unique insight... An excellent companion for both the casual and obsessive Bowie fan'Louder Then WarThe life of an icon, in his own words.David Bowie had a unique...
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  • Never Understood
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    Never Understood

    William Reid

    A TELEGRAPH MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARA ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEARAN UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEARA RESIDENT MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARIn Never Understood, William Jim tell the story of The Jesus and Mary Chain -...
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  • Dolly Parton: The Stories Behind the Songs
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    Dolly Parton: The Stories Behind the Songs

    Annie Zaleski

    Discover the fascinating stories that lie behind the music.In a career spanning 75 glorious years, Dolly Parton has written some of the greatest songs in music history. Join award-winning author...
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  • Nightfly
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    Nightfly

    Peter Jones

    Donald Fagen will forever be associated with Steely Dan, the band he formed with Walter Becker and four other musicians in 1972. The smooth, radio-friendly veneer of the duo’s songs made Steely Dan...
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  • Willie Nelson on Willie Nelson
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    Willie Nelson on Willie Nelson

    Paul Maher Jr.

    Curating the most illuminating interviews with an American icon isn’t easy. Willie Nelson’s words can be found everywhere: TV, radio, movies, and on the many musical recordings he is responsible for...
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  • Room Full of Mirrors
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    Room Full of Mirrors

    Charles R. Cross

    Jimi Hendrix continues to fascinate, and sell huge quantities of albums, even 35 years after his death. Quite apart from his influence on musicians and fans, a large part of the appeal of his...
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  • Aesthetic Legacy of Eduard Hanslick
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    Aesthetic Legacy of Eduard Hanslick

    Lee Rothfarb

    This book addresses the complex conceptual, historical, and philosophical questions posed by Eduard Hanslick’s influential aesthetic treatise, On the Musically Beautiful (1854). The contributions...
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  • Renaissance Music
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    Renaissance Music

    Kenneth Kreitner

    We know what, say, a Josquin mass looks like”but what did it sound like? This is a much more complex and difficult question than it may seem. Kenneth Kreitner has assembled twenty articles, published...
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  • Learning to Be a Popular Music Producer
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    Learning to Be a Popular Music Producer

    Brendan Anthony

    Learning to Be a Popular Music Producer takes the skills and processes traditionally cultivated by students in Popular Music Production higher education courses and makes them accessible to anyone...
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  • Learning to Be a Popular Music Producer
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    Learning to Be a Popular Music Producer

    Brendan Anthony

    Learning to Be a Popular Music Producer takes the skills and processes traditionally cultivated by students in Popular Music Production higher education courses and makes them accessible to anyone...
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  • Evolution of Chinese Popular Music
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    Evolution of Chinese Popular Music

    Ya-Hui Cheng

    Ya-Hui Cheng examines the emergence of popular music genres – jazz, rock, and hip-hop – in Chinese society, covering the social underpinnings that shaped the development of popular music in China and...
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  • Popular Music in Spanish Cinema
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    Popular Music in Spanish Cinema

    Lidia López Gómez

    Popular Music in Spanish Cinema analyses the aesthetics and stylistic development of soundtracks from national productions, considering how political instability and cultural diversity in Spain...
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  • Excursions into Greek and Roman Imagery
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    Excursions into Greek and Roman Imagery

    Eva Rystedt

    This book provides an enquiry into the distinguishing traits of Greek and Roman figural imagery. A detailed analysis of a wide range of material conveys an understanding of the figural imagery of...
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  • Excursions into Greek and Roman Imagery
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    Excursions into Greek and Roman Imagery

    Eva Rystedt

    This book provides an enquiry into the distinguishing traits of Greek and Roman figural imagery. A detailed analysis of a wide range of material conveys an understanding of the figural imagery of...
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  • Neronian Grotesque
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    Neronian Grotesque

    Scott Weiss

    During the reign of Nero, Roman culture produced some of its most spectacular works of art and literature, and some of its strangest. This study explores these effects across textual and visual media...
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  • Outline Of 19th Century European Painting
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    Outline Of 19th Century European Painting

    Lorenz Eitner

    This one-volume edition contains both text and plates and includes corrections in the text and bibliography made since the books publication in 1987. There are concise monographic chapters on the...
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  • In China with Green Day
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    In China with Green Day

    Aaron Cometbus

    When a former Green Day roadie reunites with the group, the result is a moral reckoning that eviscerates the music business, both underground and mainstream. It’s also a tender travelogue about...
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