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  • Bedroom Rapper (Cadence Weapon on Hip-Hop, Resistance and Surviving the Music Industry) by Rollie Pemberton, 9780771051883
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  • Homeplace (A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-Tonk) by John Lingan, 9780544932531
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  • MusicQuake (The Most Disruptive Moments in Music) by Robert Dimery, 9780711259737
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  • Subcontinental Synthesis (Electronic Music at the National Institute of Design, India 1969-1972) by Paul Purgas, 9781913689582
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  • The Beatles White Album and The Launch of Apple - 9781637610039 by Bruce Spizer, 9781637610039
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  • The Beatles And Sgt Pepper, A Fan's Perspective by Bruce Spizer, 9781637610022
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  • The Beatles Finally Let It Be - 9781637610015 by Bruce Spizer, 9781637610015
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  • The Beatles Get Back to Abbey Road - 9781637610008 by Bruce Spizer, 9781637610008
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  • Music and the Making of Modern Science - 9780262543903 by Peter Pesic, 9780262543903
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  • Polyphonic Minds (Music of the Hemispheres) - 9780262543897 by Peter Pesic, 9780262543897
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  • Sounding Bodies (Music and the Making of Biomedical Science) by Peter Pesic, 9780262046350
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  • Declassified (A Low-Key Guide to the High-Strung World of Classical Music) by Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch, 9780593331460
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  • The Classical Music Book by DK, 9780744056334
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  • The Key to Music's Genetics (Why Music is Part of Being Human) by Christian Lehmann, Holger Flock, 9781783080281
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  • Medical Grade Music - 9781474619516 by Steve Davis, Kavus Torabi, 9781474619516
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  • In Heaven Everything Is Fine (The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre) by Josh Frank, Charlie Buckholtz, 9781593762704
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  • The Voice of Anfield (My Fifty Years with Liverpool FC) - 9781838953683 by George Sephton, 9781838953683
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  • The Inner Light (How India Influenced the Beatles) by Susan Shumsky, 9781682619773
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  • The Second Summer of Love (How Dance Music Took Over the World) - 9781789460889 by Alon Shulman, Paul Oakenfold, 9781789460889
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  • Top Eight (How MySpace Changed Music) by Michael Tedder, 9781641606585
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  • The Illustrated Catalog of Guitars (250 Amazing Models From Acoustic to Electric) by Nick Freeth, 9781510756540
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  • Looking for a New England (Action, Time, Vision: Music, Film and TV 1975 - 1986) by Simon Matthews, 9780857304117
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  • Freak Out (How a Musical Revolution Rocked the World in the Sixties) - 9781922633064 by Tony Wellington, 9781922633064
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  • The Musical Child (Using the Power of Music to Raise Children Who Are Happy, Healthy, and Whole) - 9780358699330 by Joan Koenig, 9780358699330
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  • Reacciones psicóticas y mierda de carburador (Prosas reunidas de un crítico legendario) (Spanish Edition) by Lester Bangs, 9788494938306
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  • Opera (The Definitive Illustrated Story) by Alan Riding, Leslie Dunton-Downer, 9780744056310
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  • Please Please Tell Me Now (The Duran Duran Story) - 9780306846083 by Stephen Davis, 9780306846083
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  • Victory Is Assured (Uncollected Writings of Stanley Crouch) by Stanley Crouch, Glenn Mott, Jelani Cobb, Wynton Marsalis, 9781324090908
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  • Musical Revolutions (How the Sounds of the Western World Changed) by Stuart Isacoff, 9780525658634
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  • The Who (Concert Memories from the Classic Years, 1964 to 1976) by Edoardo Genzolini, Jeremy Goodwin, 9780764364020
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  • Meet You in Atlantic City (Travels in Springsteen's New Jersey) by James Pettifer, 9781623719760
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  • 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die (And 10,001 You Must Download) by Robert Dimery, Tony Visconti, 9780789320896
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  • 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die by Robert Dimery, Michael Lydon, 9780789313713
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  • A Field Guide to Post-Punk & New Wave by Steve Wide, 9781925811766
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  • A Field Guide to Punk by Steve Wide, 9781925811759
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  • The Smiths by Nalinee Darmrong, Andy Bell, Marc Spitz, 9780847848126
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  • A Field Guide to Britpop by Steve Wide, 9781922417206
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  • A Field Guide to Grunge by Steve Wide, 9781922417190
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  • The Dears (Lost in the Plot) by Lorraine Carpenter, 9781926743134
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  • Enya (A Treatise on Unguilty Pleasures) by Chilly Gonzales, 9781988784670
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  • 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (Revised and Updated Edition) by Robert Dimery, Michael Lydon, 9780789320742
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  • The Clash (All the Albums All the Songs) by Martin Popoff, 9781629639345
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  • Record Store Day by Larry Jaffee, 9781644282557
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  • Prine on Prine (Interviews and Encounters with John Prine) by Holly Gleason, 9781641606301
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  • 101 Artists to Listen to Before You Die by Ricardo Cavolo, 9781910620007
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  • Bayou Underground (Tracing the mythical roots of American popular music) by Dave Thompson, 9781550229622
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  • Pop Music, Media and Youth Cultures (From the Beat Revolution to the Bit Generation) by Derrick de Kerckhove, Lello Savonardo, Luciano Ligabue, 9788831322256
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  • Bone Music (Soviet X-Ray Audio) by Stephen Coates, 9781913689476
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  • The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine by Bruce Spizer, 9780983295785
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  • Medical Grade Music by Steve Davis, Kavus Torabi, 9781474619493
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  • Harp Studies II (World Harp Traditions) by Sandra Joyce, Helen Lawlor, 9781846829819
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  • Can't Slow Down (How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year) - 9780306903366 by Michaelangelo Matos, 9780306903366
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  • They Just Seem a Little Weird (How KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz Remade Rock and Roll) - 9780306845222 by Doug Brod, 9780306845222
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  • Muse Sick (a music manifesto in fifty-nine notes) by Ian Brennan, John Waters, 9781629639093
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  • Swan Songs by Lee Scott, 9781913462574
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  • They're Playing Our Song (Conversations With America's Classic Songwriters) by Max Wilk, 9780979824807
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  • WBCN and the American Revolution (How a Radio Station Defined Politics, Counterculture, and Rock and Roll) by Bill Lichtenstein, 9780262046251
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  • Ugly Beauty: Jazz in the 21st Century by Philip Freeman, 9781789046328
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  • Joy Division + New Order (Decades) by John Aizlewood, 9781786751164
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  • Lightning Striking (Ten Transformative Moments in Rock and Roll) by Lenny Kaye, 9780062449207
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  • Booze & Vinyl: A Music-and-Mixed-Drinks Matching Game by André Darlington, Tenaya Darlington, 9780762475308
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  • Young Neil (The Sugar Mountain Years) by Sharry Wilson, 9781770411869
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  • Blues & Chaos (The Music Writing of Robert Palmer) by Robert Palmer, Anthony DeCurtis, 9781416599753
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  • Chasing Chopin (A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions) - 9781501188725 by Annik LaFarge, 9781501188725
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  • Chasing Chopin (A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions) by Annik LaFarge, 9781501188718
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  • Rip It Up and Start Again (Postpunk 1978-1984) by Simon Reynolds, 9780143036722
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  • The Land Where the Blues Began by Alan Lomax, 9781565847392
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  • Rock and Hard Places (Travels to Backstages, Frontlines and Assorted Sideshows) by Andrew Mueller, 9781593762681
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  • Gimme Something Better (The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day) by Jack Boulware, Silke Tudor, 9780143113805
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  • Historic Photos of New Orleans Jazz by Thomas L. Morgan, 9781684420971
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  • Post-Punk Then and Now by Gavin Butt, Mark Fisher, Sue Clayton, Kodwo Eshun, Green Gartside, 9781910924266
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  • The Holy or the Broken (Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah") - 9781982141363 by Alan Light
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  • Hip Hop America by Nelson George, 9780143035152
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  • Excavate! by Bob Stanley, Tessa Norton, 9780571358335
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  • Can't Buy Me Love (The Beatles, Britain, and America) by Jonathan Gould, 9780307353382
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  • Read the Beatles (Classic and New Writings on the Beatles, Their Legacy, and Why They Still Matter) by June Skinner Sawyers, Astrid Kirchherr, 9780143037323
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  • From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present (500 Years of Western Cultural Life) by Jacques Barzun, 9780060928834
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  • Lost Pianos of Siberia - 9780802149299 by Sophy Roberts, 9780802149299
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  • Five against One (The Pearl Jam Story) by Kim Neely, 9780140276428
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  • HarperCollins College Outline History of Western Music by Hugh M. Miller, 9780064671071
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  • 100 Great Operas And Their Stories (Act-By-Act Synopses) by Henry W. Simon, 9780385054485
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  • 50 Rappers Who Changed the World (A celebration of rap legends) by Candace McDuffie, 9781784883386
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  • Neon Screams (How Drill, Trap and Bashment Made Music New Again) by Kit Mackintosh, Simon Reynolds, 9781913462246
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  • Tearing Down the Wall of Sound (The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector) by Mick Brown, 9781400076611
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  • Believe in Magic (30 Years of Heavenly Recordings) by Robin Turner, 9781474616508
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  • Hit Factories (A Journey Through the Industrial Cities of British Pop) - 9781474607414 by Karl Whitney, 9781474607414
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  • Appetite for Self-Destruction (The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age) by Steve Knopper, 9781593762698
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  • Social Dissonance by Mattin, Ray Brassier, 9781913029814
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  • You're History (The Twelve Strangest Women in Music) by Lesley Chow, 9781913462314
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  • Wild Thing (The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix) - 9781324091073 by Philip Norman, 9781324091073
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  • Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls (Women, Music and Fame) - 9781250813879 by Lisa Robinson, 9781250813879
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  • Dvorak's Prophecy (And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music) by Joseph Horowitz, George Shirley, 9780393881240
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  • Ten Masterpieces of Music by Harvey Sachs, 9781631495182
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  • The Rap Year Book (The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed) by Shea Serrano, Ice-T, Arturo Torres, 9781419718182
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  • America's Musical Life (A History) by Richard Crawford, 9780393327267
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  • Joan Baez (The Last Leaf) by Elizabeth Thomson, 9781786750969
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  • The Rest Is Noise (Listening to the Twentieth Century) by Alex Ross, 9780312427719
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  • Perfecting Sound Forever (An Aural History of Recorded Music) by Greg Milner, 9780865479388
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  • Fender 75 Years by Dave Hunter, 9780760370155
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  • MJ: The Genius of Michael Jackson by Steve Knopper, 9781476730387
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