The Book Company: New Products - History & Criticism

HiFi Horizons (A Journey Through the New Culture of Sound)

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:43:12 +0000

Listening has become a ritual again. Around the world, a new generation of audiophiles is gathering in beautifully designed listening bars, collecting handcrafted audio equipment, and rediscovering music as a shared experience. HiFi Horizons explores this thriving global culture through extraordin..

Price: $75.00

Beethoven's Skull (Dark, Strange, and Fascinating Tales from the World of Classical Music and Beyond)

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:50:07 +0000

Beethoven’s Skull is an unusual and often humorous survey of the many strange happenings in the history of Western classical music. Proving that good music and shocking tabloid-style stories make excellent bedfellows, it presents tales of revenge, murder, curious accidents, and strange fate..

Price: $14.99

The Band (Every Album, Every Song)

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:10:40 +0000

Every album by these legends of Americana

The Band’s music is often described in terms of nostalgia, yet its character is more complex. Rather than simply revisiting established American traditions, the group engaged in a careful reinterpretation of blues, folk, country and..

Price: $22.95

Gentle Giant. Revised and Expanded (Every Album, Every Song)

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:10:32 +0000

Every album by these Britsih progressive rock legends

Gental Giant are the ultimate cult progressive band - as revered as Yes or Genesis by those that have 'found' them. They lasted only a decade and never lit up the world's charts, but progressive rock connoisseurs always ..

Price: $22.95

Ruins and Resilience (The Longevity of Experimental Film)

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:36:54 +0000

Experimental film practice from an international and transdisciplinary perspective. Karel Doing is an experimental filmmaker and researcher who has worked across the globe with fellow artists and filmmakers, creating a body of work that is difficult to pinpoint with a simple catchphrase. In Ruins..

Price: $39.95

Building a Voice (Sound, Surface, Skin)

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:36:47 +0000

On the emergence, embodiment, and mediation of voice as skin. How do we build or make a voice together? Can we imagine the voices we make in the form of a skin, a multi-sensory interface that behaves both as a boundary and as a point of connection? What does such a voice capacitate in times of cr..

Price: $39.95

Take This Hammer

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:34:48 +0000

A study of contemporary music in light of transformations to work and social life. The emergence of the popular music industry in the early twentieth century not only drove a wedge between music production and consumption, it also underscored a wider separation of labor from leisure and of the wo..

Price: $39.95

Harlem Underworld (A Dope Empire, the Rise of R&B, and the Birth of Rap)

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:44:54 +0000

An in-depth look at the last generation of Black music before the rise of hip-hop, with special attention to how the dying world influenced the new one

Harlem Underworld is a celebration of Blaxploitation film, rapping deejays, looping riffs, larger-than-life artists, g..

Price: $30.00

The Moment Before the Music Begins (A T.E.A.M. Approach to Song Study)

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:56:42 +0000

For over twenty five years Lisa Campbell Albert and Bill Lynch have been collaborating on and in Musical Theatre; working in professional productions, conducting workshops, teaching song study, and coaching both professional and aspiring Musical Theatre artists. Over the years (and the occasional ..

Price: $12.99

Activating Voices in Jazz History (Students Broadening the Narrative)

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:20:24 +0000

Activating Voices in Jazz History: Students Broadening the Narrative highlights the research of students who have been challenged to assess and interpret evidence found in historical records and engage in field interviews with a diverse representation of jazz artists.

Price: $33.99