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Zen and the Art of Record Collecting (An Inquiry into Vinyl)

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:52:07 +0000

Slow down, drop the needle, and rediscover the joy of listening.

In a world where music is streamed, shuffled, and skimmed, vinyl records invite us to experience sound differently. Playing a record requires intention: selecting an album, placing it on the turntable, lo..

Price: $27.00

El pensamiento musical / This Is What It Sounds Like: a Legendary Producer Turned Neuroscientist on Finding Yourself Through Music (Spanish Edition)

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 04:26:14 +0000

¿Por qué una canción te pone la piel de gallina? ¿Cómo es posible que ciertas melodías te transporten al pasado en cuestión de segundos? ¿Qué ocurre en tu cerebro cuando la música te emociona, te activa o te consuela?

El pensamiento musical es una fascinante exploración del pr..

Price: $21.95

John Zorn's File Card Works (Hypertextual Intermediality in Composition and Analysis)

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 21:30:57 +0000

This book is the first study of John Zorn’s ‘file card’ works, with special focus made on the pieces Godard (1985), Spillane (1986), Interzone (2010), and Liber Novus (2010).

Price: $64.99

Return Of The King (Elvis Presley's Great Comeback)

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 16:24:27 +0000

Return Of The King tells the story of a tumultuous period in the life of Elvis Presley. By 1967, The King Of Rock’n’Roll was all but washed-up, thanks to a string of bland movie roles and lackluster records. But within a year he had roused himself, loosened the creative shackles i..

Price: $19.95

Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy (How Music Captures Our Imagination)

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:13:51 +0000

What makes a distant oboe's wail beautiful? Why do some kinds of music lift us to ecstasy, but not others? How can music make sense to an ear and brain evolved for detecting the approaching lion or tracking the unsuspecting gazelle? Lyrically interweaving discoveries from science, psychology, musi..

Price: $17.99

Teaching Canonic Opera and Musical Theater with Intention (A Teacher's Guide)

Sat, 26 Jul 2025 16:24:38 +0000

Teaching Canonic Opera and Musical Theater with Intention: A Teacher's Guide offers instructors a toolkit with which to productively confront the canon, directly engaging in the difficult conversations this repertoire can prompt.

Price: $89.99

Who Knew? (Answers to Questions about Classical Music you Never Thought to Ask)

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 07:25:32 +0000

Did you ever leave an opera performance wondering why the singers use so much vibrato? Or a symphony, wondering who decided where on stage the orchestra members should sit, or why they tune their instruments to an oboe rather than an electronic tuner? Why is Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture played on t..

Price: $20.99

Listening Subjects (Music, Psychoanalysis, Culture)

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 06:27:23 +0000

In Listening Subjects, David Schwarz uses psychoanalytic techniques to probe the visceral experiences of music listeners. Using classical, popular, and avant-garde music as texts, Schwarz addresses intriguing questions: why do bodies develop goose bumps when listening to music and why ..

Price: $31.95

The Beatles and Vocal Expression

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:23:13 +0000

The Beatles and Vocal Expression presents a mixed-methodology for analysing paralinguistic voice qualities, which give rise to performative expressive tropes, that are retained on recordings. Such tropes convey a series of paralinguistic personae that challenge identity construction in song.

Price: $64.99

Why Jazz? (A Concise Guide)

Mon, 19 May 2025 19:55:18 +0000

What was the first jazz record? Are jazz solos really improvised? How did jazz lay the groundwork for rock and country music? In Why Jazz?, author and NPR jazz critic Kevin Whitehead provides lively, insightful answers to these and many other fascinating questions, offering an entertainin..

Price: $20.99