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  • Richard Wagner's Essays on Conducting (A New Translation with Critical Commentary) by Chris Walton, 9781648250125
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  • Russian Theoretical Thought in Music by Gordon D. McQuere, Allen Forte, Ellon D. Carpenter, Gordon D. McQuere, Nicolas Schidlovsky, Roy J. Guenther, 9781580463195
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  • Fear of Music (Why People Get Rothko but Don't Get Stockhausen) - 9781803417608 by David Stubbs
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  • La música que nos define / The Music that Defines Us (Spanish Edition) by De Sopitas, 9786073850421
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  • The Auditory Setting (Environmental Sounds in Film and Media Arts) - 9781474474399 by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, 9781474474399
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  • The Elements of Music (Melody, Rhythm & Harmony) by Jason Martineau, 9781952178016
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  • The Edinburgh Companion to T. S. Eliot and the Arts by Frances Dickey, John D. Morgenstern, 9781399544023
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  • The Master of Drums (Gene Krupa and the Music He Gave the World) by Elizabeth J. Rosenthal, 9780806543260
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  • Interactive Sound and Music (Beyond Pressing Play) by Lucy Ann Harrison, 9781032382395
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  • The Schubert song companion by John Reed, 9781901341003
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  • Taylor Swift (The Star, The Songs, The Fans) by Christa Anne Bentley, Kate Galloway, Paula Clare Harper, 9781032289878
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  • Turn My Head Into Sound (A History Of Kevin Shields And My Bloody Valentine) by Andrew Perer, 9781916829145
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  • In Too Deep (When Canadian Punks Took Over the World) by Matt Bobkin, Adam Feibel, 9781487012687
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  • Crybaby (The Artists Who Shaped Emo Rap) by Donna-Claire Chesman, 9781637588024
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  • Just around Midnight (Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination) by Jack Hamilton, 9780674416598
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  • Hammer of the Gods (The Led Zeppelin Saga) - 9780063354593 by Stephen Davis, 9780063354593
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  • Queen & A Night at the Opera (50 Years) by Gillian G. Gaar, 9780760388426
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  • Olivia on the Record (A Radical Experiment in Women's Music) by Ginny Z.Berson, 9781951874018
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  • Women in Convent Spaces and the Music Networks of Early Modern Barcelona by Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita, 9781032273631
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  • Teaching Music History with Cases (A Teacher's Guide) - 9780367672546 by Sara Haefeli, 9780367672546
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  • Spiritual Dimensions in the Music of Edmund Rubbra by Lucinda Cradduck, 9780367635381
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  • Musical Topics and Musical Performance by Julian Hellaby, 9781032110882
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  • The Malmariée in the Thirteenth-Century Motet - 9781032371214 by Dolores Pesce, 9781032371214
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  • 1963: That Was the Year That Was by Andrew Cook, 9781803996899
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  • Labelled with Love (A History of the World in Your Record Collection) by Andy Bollen, 9781803994338
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  • Bach's 'Brandenburg' Concertos by Norman Carrell, 9781032898841
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  • Time's Echo (Music, Memory, and the Second World War) by Jeremy Eichler, 9780525563440
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  • I Like People That Can't Sing (Paul Nelson Interviews Leonard Cohen & Lucinda Williams) by Kevin Avery, Suzanne Vega, 9798875000560
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  • Goth (A History) - 9780306828430 by Lol Tolhurst, 9780306828430
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  • Mood Machine (The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist) by Liz Pelly, 9781668083505
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  • Murder Ballads (Illustrated Lyrics & Lore) by Katy Horan, Sinéad Gleeson, 9781524889265
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  • Interpreting Music, Engaging Culture (An Introduction to Music Criticism) by Katherine Walker, 9781138585607
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  • The Funk Movement (Music, Culture, and Politics) by Reiland Rabaka, 9781032789033
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  • The Shortest History of Music (From Bone Flutes to Synthesizers, Hildegard of Bingen to Beyoncé-5,000 Years of Instrument and Song) by Andrew Ford, 9798893030525
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  • The Uncanny Muse (Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI) by David Hajdu, 9780393540833
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  • The Secret Public (How Music Moved Queer Culture From the Margins to the Mainstream) by Jon Savage, 9781324096108
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  • Johann Sebastian Bach (A Very Brief History) by Andrew Gant, 9780281079575
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  • Tape Matters (Ästhetik, Materialität und Klangkonzepte des Tonbandes) (German Edition) by Maximilian Haberer, 9783111452692
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  • Uncommon People by Miranda Sawyer, 9781399816892
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  • Sinéad O'Connor: The Last Interview (and Other Conversations) by MELVILLE HOUSE, Kristin Hersh, 9781685891855
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  • Down On The Corner (Adventures In Busking & Street Music) by Cary Baker, Dom Flemons, 9781916829107
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  • When We Was Fab (The Birth of the Beatles) by Judith Kristen, Eric Cash, 9781637610077
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  • The Big Book of BTS (The Deluxe Unofficial Bangtan Book) by Katy Sprinkel, 9781629377599
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  • Run the Song (Writing About Running About Listening) by Ben Ratliff, 9781644453285
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  • IMAGINE MOZART | MOZART BILDER (German Edition) by Mozartfest Würzburg, Damian Dombrowski, Andrea Gottdang, Ulrich Konrad, Carolin Goll, Dimitra Will, 9783422986411
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  • Made in Puerto Rico (Studies in Popular Music) by Hugo R. Viera-Vargas, Noraliz Ruiz-Caraballo, Errol L. Montes-Pizarro, Jaime O. Bofill-Calero, Noel Allende-Goitía, 9781032157955
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  • Opera, a History of the Impossible Genre by Jeffrey Langford, 9781032459783
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  • Holding the Note (Profiles in Popular Music) - 9780375702310 by David Remnick, 9780375702310
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  • 1973: Rock at the Crossroads by Andrew Grant Jackson, 9781250909930
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  • Woodstock University by Oliver Lovesey, 9781032335261
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  • War and Death in the Music of George Crumb (A Crisis of Collective Memory) by Abigail Shupe, 9780367762414
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  • Topics in Musical Interpretation by Sezi Seskir, David Hyun-su Kim, 9781032344621
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  • The Symphony in Australia, 1960-2020 by Rhoderick McNeill, 9780367622947
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  • The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature by Rachael Durkin, 9781032232874
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  • Opera Outside the Box (Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain) - 9781032168883 by Roberta Montemorra Marvin, 9781032168883
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  • One-Track Mind (Capitalism, Technology, and the Art of the Pop Song) by Asif Siddiqi, 9780367553739
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  • Noise as a Constructive Element in Music (Theoretical and Music-Analytical Perspectives) by Mark Delaere, 9781032308562
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  • The Mediations of Music (Critical Approaches after Adorno) - 9780367762551 by Gianmario Borio, 9780367762551
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  • Isaac Vossius's De poematum cantu et viribus rhythmi, 1673 (On the Music of Poetry and Power of Rhythm) by Peter Martens, 9781032305967
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  • England's Folk Revival and the Problem of Identity in Traditional Music - 9780367648169 by Joseph Williams, 9780367648169
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  • The Future of Songwriting by Kristin Hersh, 9781685891176
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  • DanceHall (From Slave Ship to Ghetto) by Sonjah Stanley Niaah, 9780776607368
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  • The Hacienda: Threads (Foreword by Peter Hook) by Rebecca Hook, Peter Hook, 9781802797688
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  • Radiohead: Climbing Up the Walls by Tom Sheehan, 9781802798012
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  • 50 Movie Music Moments by Vasco Hexel, 9781032249551
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  • Once Upon a Time in New York (Jimmy Walker, Franklin Roosevelt,and the Last Great Battle of the Jazz Age) by Herbert Mitgang, 9780815412632
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  • Carl Nielsen Studies (Volume 5) by Niels Krabbe, 9781409462132
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  • Kraftwerk - Die Mythenmaschine (Konzeption und Ästhetik eines popmusikalischen Gesamtkunstwerks) by Dirk Matejovski, 9783110785746
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  • Claude Debussy (A Critical Biography) - 9781648250989 by François Lesure, Marie Rolf, 9781648250989
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  • The McCartney Legacy (Volume 2: 1974 - 80) by Allan Kozinn, Adrian Sinclair, 9780063000759
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  • The Beatles A Hard Day's Night & More by Bruce Spizer, 9798986319087
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  • Bernard Shaw on Music by George Bernard Shaw, C.D. Innes, Brigitte Bogar, 9780795348945
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  • The Final Days of EMI: Selling the Pig - 9781913172428 by Eamonn Forde, 9781913172428
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  • Sabbath Bloody Sabbath: Updated by Joel McIver, 9781783055173
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  • King's Road by Max Decharne, 9781913172602
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  • Going Deaf for a Living by Steve Lamacq, 9781787601277
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  • God Only Knows (The Story of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys and the California Myth) by David Leaf, 9781913172756
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  • Electri_City: The Düsseldorf School of Electronic Music by Rudi Esch, 9781785581199
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  • A New Day Yesterday (UK Progressive Rock & The 1970s) by Mike Barnes, 9781780389202
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  • Música, sólo música / Absolutely on Music: Conversations (Spanish Edition) by Haruki Murakami, Seiji Ozawa, 9786073908962
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  • Pistols in St Paul's (Science, music, and architecture in the twentieth century) by Fiona Smyth, 9781526180209
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  • Bob Dylan (No Direction Home (Updated Edition)) by Robert Shelton, Elizabeth Thomson, 9781786751621
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  • Harry Styles (A Sign of the Times) by Annie Zaleski, 9781786751577
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  • 60 Songs That Explain the '90s - 9781538759479 by Rob Harvilla, 9781538759479
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  • Metallica (Kill 'Em All: Their Greatest Live Performances) by Marc Aumont, 9781529438277
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  • Weep, Shudder, Die (On Opera and Poetry) by Dana Gioia, 9781589881969
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  • Carl Perkins (The King of Rockabilly) by Jeff Apter, 9780806543529
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  • Psychoacoustic Foundations of Major-Minor Tonality by Richard Parncutt, 9780262547352
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  • The Endless Refrain (Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music) by David Rowell, 9781685891398
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  • Listening to the Music the Machines Make (Inventing Electronic Pop 1978-1983) by Richard Evans, 9781915841452
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  • A New Day Yesterday (UK Progressive Rock and the 1970s) by Mike Barnes, 9781915841360
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  • Pressure Drop (Reggae in the Seventies) by John Masouri, 9781913172848
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  • Last Night a DJ Saved My Life (The History of the Disc Jockey) - 9780802163905 by Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton, James Murphy, 9780802163905
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  • Why We Sing (A Celebration of Song) by Julia Hollander, 9781838953652
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  • Everything Under the Sun (The Complete Guide to Pink Floyd) by Mike Cormack, 9781803995359
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  • Don't Stop the Music (A Year of Pop History, One Day at a Time) by Justin Lewis, 9781783967162
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  • Get Yer 'Air Cut (The issue of male coiffure, pop and counterculture during the Swinging Sixties) by Alan Clayson, 9780857305909
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  • Traditional Iranian Music (Orality, Physicality and Improvisation) - 9781920850357 by Masato Tani, 9781920850357
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