The Book Company: New Products - Genres & Styles

The Jungles (Thelonious Monk and the Lost Cradle of Modern Jazz)

Sun, 10 May 2026 07:33:20 +0000

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Price: $31.99

Choirs, Singing, and Belonging (Voices from Around the World)

Sat, 09 May 2026 19:14:55 +0000

Choirs, Singing, and Belonging: Voices from Around the World explores the experience of singing in choirs, and the meaning of these activities in the lives of participants.

Price: $57.99

LOU REED (METAL MACHINE MYSTIC)

Sat, 09 May 2026 17:54:45 +0000

One of rock music’ s most enigmatic and confounding artists is here revealed as never before through the diffuse lens of his most extreme work: Metal Machine Music. Initially dismissed as fake avant-garde or a calculated insult, over the course of a half century it has acquired a growi..

Price: $19.95

Wild Goose and Brother Bear (Sing the Psalms: Psalm 23)

Sat, 09 May 2026 17:49:33 +0000

Join Brother Bear and Wild Goose as they journey through the Psalms– — songs of happiness, sadness, prayer, and thanksgiving that have accompanied us through the ages! In this adventure, they explore Psalm 23, a favorite of many people around the world. It says that God, o..

Price: $18.95

The Sea in Every Sound (Chasing the Influence of Surf Music in America)

Sat, 09 May 2026 17:44:04 +0000

From Dick Dale’s reverb-drenched guitar leads to the Beach Boys’ wistful odes to California, surf music is historically viewed as a novelty of the early 1960s, sandwiched between the Elvis craze and Beatlemania. Worse, today’s mainstream listeners hear surf music as the sort of..

Price: $24.99

Hollywood Eden (Electric Guitars, Fast Cars, and the Myth of the California Paradise)

Fri, 08 May 2026 22:32:25 +0000

Now in paperback — from surf music to hot-rod records to the sunny pop of the Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, the Byrds, and the Mama’s & the Papa’s, Hollywood Eden captures the fresh blossom of a young generation who came together in the epic spring of the 1960s to invent the myth of ..

Price: $18.99

God's Own Singer (A Life of Gram Parsons)

Fri, 08 May 2026 00:01:10 +0000

A new edition of the classic biography that takes us "as close to the heart and soul of Gram Parsons as any author could.” (Nigel Williamson, Uncut)

Gram Parsons sang like an angel and dressed like a country star. Sadly he was neither, at least not in his lifetime. But befo..
Price: $20.00

The STEIM Touch

Thu, 07 May 2026 16:33:52 +0000

The STEIM foundation in Amsterdam was a music studio radically dedicated to the live, physical performance of electronic sound. From 1969 to 2021, the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music supported artists in building new instruments, insisting on tangible, hands-on engagements with electro..
Price: $39.95

Theatrical Performance and Popular Music

Thu, 07 May 2026 16:27:34 +0000

This book explores the ways in which theatrical techniques are used to create shared performance environments for musicians and fans in popular music. Readers will discover how stage lighting, costuming, choreography, character adoption, and spatial design transform concerts into large-scale th..
Price: $57.99

Maria Hester Park (1760-1813) (Composer, Teacher, and Performer)

Thu, 07 May 2026 16:21:56 +0000

This book is an important contribution to the study of women in classical music, specifically focusing on the life and works of Maria Hester Park. It fills a significant gap in the literature surrounding women composers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Price: $49.95