| VISUAL BOOK INDEX | ACTIVE BACKLIST  A Brief History of New Music
Edited by Lionel Bovier. Following the success of Hans Ulrich Obrist’s A Brief History of Curating, this publication gathers the influential curator’s interviews with some of the foremost musicians and composers of the 1950s–1990s. It brings together leading avant-garde >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037641903
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 320 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/31/2014 In stock
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|  A Strange Celestial Road
By Ahmed Abdullah with Louis Reyes Rivera. Foreword by Salim Washington. Photographs by Marilyn Nance, Val Wilmer, Raymond Ross, Adger Cowans. In this memoir, Harlem-born trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah recounts decades of national and international touring with the Sun Ra Arkestra and charts the rise of the New York loft jazz scene, offering a fascinating portrait of >>more
Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781953691163
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Pbk, 6.25 x 8.25 in. / 512 pgs / 20 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/03/2023 In stock
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|  Alternative Mainstream
By Gert Keunen. Published in Valiz's Antennae series, Gert Keunen's Alternative Mainstream explores the music that lies between the "mainstream" and the "underground"—an apparently diverse intermediate zone that includes genres ranging from hip hop to rock, from folk >>more
Valiz/Antennae Series
ISBN 9789078088950
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 354 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 04/28/2015 Out of stock
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|  Arcana
Edited by John Zorn. Answering a need for critical attention towards experimental and avant-garde music, Arcana is a ground-breaking work--as far-ranging and dynamic as the current generation of musicians. Through manifestoes, scores, interviews, notes and critical papers, performer/composers address >>more
Hips Road/Tzadik
ISBN 9781887123273
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Pbk, 7 x 10 in. / 320 pgs / 70 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/02/2000 In stock
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|  Arcana IX
Edited by John Zorn. Initiated in 1997 and now in its ninth installment, John Zorn's Arcana series is a major source of new music theory and practice in the 21st century. To date, close to 300 musicians spanning three >>more
Hips Road/Tzadik
ISBN 9780978833725
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Pbk, 6.5 x 10 in. / 344 pgs / 56 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2021 In stock
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|  Arcana VIII: Musicians on Music
Edited with preface by John Zorn. Contributions by Jad Atoui, Steve Beresford, Per Bloland, et al. This special anniversary edition presents writings spanning classical music, jazz, rock, improvisation, world music, film soundtracks and more by exciting young artists, established masters and visionary mavericks, including Jad Atoui, Steve Beresford, Per Bloland, Brian >>more
Hips Road
ISBN 9780978833732
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Pbk, 6.5 x 10 in. / 280 pgs / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/26/2017 Out of stock
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|  Arcana X
Preface by John Zorn. Initiated in 1997 and now in its tenth and final installment, John Zorn's acclaimed Arcana series is a major source of new music theory and practice in the 21st century. Illuminating directly via the personal >>more
Hips Road/Tzadik
ISBN 9780978833718
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Pbk, 6.5 x 10 in. / 372 pgs / 24 color / 63 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/02/2021 In stock
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|  Artificial Music
Edited by Detlef Diederichsen, Arno Raffeiner. Text by Laura Aha, Douglas Hofstadter, George E. Lewis. From home studios to streaming platforms, artificial intelligence is defining the sound of the future. This collection of essays explores the key developments in the field of AI and music, examining the process that enables >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959055246
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 80 pgs / 40 color.
Pub Date: 12/20/2022 In stock
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|  In Assembling a Black Counter Culture, writer and musician DeForrest Brown, Jr, provides a history and critical analysis of techno and adjacent electronic music such as house and electro, showing how the genre has been >>more
Primary Information
ISBN 9781734489736
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 432 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/23/2022 In stock
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|  Autumn's Sun
Introduction by Lawrence Kumpf. Text by Loren Connors and Suzanne Langille. One of the world’s most singular guitarists, Loren Connors has wrung distinct shades of ephemeral blues from his guitar, its sound ever-shifting while remaining unmistakably his own in more than 100 records across almost four >>more
Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781733723527
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Pbk, 5 x 7.5 in. / 82 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/17/2019 Out of stock
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|  Bad Bonn Song Book
Edited by Patrick Boschung, Daniel Fontana, Stefanie Mauron, Adeline Mollard, Katharina Reidy. Text by Conrad Lambert, Chan Marshall, Benedikt Sartorius, Christophe Schenk. Seeing as notes are generally the best way of putting music on paper, this publication, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Bad Bonn music venue in Fribourg, takes the form of a song book. Then >>more
Edition Patrick Frey
ISBN 9783905929980
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Pbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 528 pgs / 264 color.
Pub Date: 03/22/2016 In stock
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|  Black Case Volume I & II
Introduction by Brent Hayes Edwards. Preface by Thulani Davis. Text by Joseph Jarman In 1977, Art Ensemble of Chicago Publishing Co. published Jarman’s Black Case , a collection of writing conceived across America and Europe between 1960 and 1975. Comprised largely of Jarman’s flowing, fiery free verse—influenced by >>more
Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781733723534
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Pbk, 6.75 x 8.25 in. / 142 pgs / 12 duotone.
Pub Date: 11/05/2019 Out of stock
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|  Black Fire! New Spirits!
Edited by Stuart Baker. At the start of the 1960s, jazz entered a unique period of revolution as African-American musicians redefined the art form in the context of the Civil Rights Movement, Afro-centric rhythm and thought and an ideology >>more
Soul Jazz Books
ISBN 9780957260016
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Hbk, 12.5 x 12.5 in. / 192 pgs / 75 color / 125 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/31/2014 In stock
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|  Blank Forms 09: Sound Signatures
Text by Takehisa Kosugi, Amelia Cuni. Interviews with Amelia Cuni by Marcus Pal, Akio Suzuki by Aki Onda, Theo Parrish by Mike Rubin. At the centerpiece of this anthology is a career-spanning 20-hour conversation conducted over four days between producer, DJ and Detroit house music legend Theo Parrish and veteran music journalist Mike Rubin. They go deep on >>more
Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781953691170
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 324 pgs / 83 color / 24 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/16/2024 Out of stock
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|  Blank Forms: Aspirations of Madness
Edited by Lawrence Kumpf with Joe Bucciero. Contributions by Masayuki Takayanagi, Louise Landes Levi, Jo-seph Jarman, Catherine Christer Hennix, Charles Stein, Henry Orlov, Maryanne Amacher, Alan Cummings, Bill Dietz, Peter Kastakis, Art Lange, Leo Svirsky, Satoru Obara, Tomoyuki Chida. Aspirations of Madness, Blank Forms’ fifth collection of archival, unpublished, or newly translated texts, takes its title from a series of interviews with Japanese free jazz pioneer Masayuki Takayangi that were published in Japanese in >>more
Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781733723541
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 242 pgs / 6 color / 14 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/17/2020 In stock
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|  Broken Music
Edited by Ursula Block, Michael Glasmeier. Preface by René Block, Ursula Block. Text by Michael Glasmeier, Theodor W. Adorno, Jean Dubuffet, Milan Knížák, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Hans Rudolf Zeller. Afterword by Christiane Seiffert. Broken Music is an essential guide and discography for recordings and audio works by visual artists, originally published in 1989 and edited by Ursula Block (founder of Gelbe Musik in Berlin) and Michael Glasmeier. Records >>more
Primary Information
ISBN 9780991558599
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Pbk, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 280 pgs / 22 color / 599 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 In stock
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|  Can You Hear Me? Music Labels by Visual Artists is the first survey on the obscure and fascinating phenomenon of record labels founded and run by visual artists. It reflects on the way these extra-artistic >>more
Onomatopee
ISBN 9789491677366
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Pbk, 4.5 x 6 in. / 160 pgs / 11 color / 114 duotone.
Pub Date: 05/20/2015 In stock
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|  The first ever book about Cuban record sleeve design, compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker, Cuba: Music and Revolution features hundreds of rarely seen vinyl records from the start of the Cuban Revolution at >>more
Soul Jazz Books
ISBN 9781916359802
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Hbk, 11.75 x 11.75 in. / 256 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 01/05/2021 In stock
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|  Dancehall
Edited by Stuart Baker. Introduction by Duro Olowu. Photography by Beth Lesser. This widely admired book, back in print with a new introduction, captures a previously unseen era of musical culture, fashion and lifestyle. With unprecedented access to the incredibly vibrant music scene during this period, Beth >>more
Soul Jazz Books
ISBN 9781916359833
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Flexi, 11.75 x 11.75 in. / 224 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 11/03/2023 In stock
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|  Die Not hat ein Ende The Swiss Art of Rock ("Need Comes To an End–The Swiss Art of Rock") is Lurker Grand's third and most recent book project in a trilogy published by Edition Patrick Frey. Here >>more
Edition Patrick Frey
ISBN 9783905929775
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Pbk, 8.75 x 12.5 in. / 498 pgs / 535 color.
Pub Date: 07/01/2015 In stock
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|  Dirty Ear Report #1
Text by Zeynep Bulut, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Ole Frahm, Anja Kanngieser, et al. Dirty Ear Report offers a new platform for sonic research, in which leading sound artists and theorists gather to discuss radio art, field recording, noise, real-time work, voice and site-specific sound. This issue includes >>more
Errant Bodies Press
ISBN 9780988937550
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Pbk, 7.25 x 9.5 in. / 80 pgs / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/25/2016 In stock
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|  Dirty Ear Report #2
Text by Ricarda Denzer, Claudia Firth, Lucia Farinati, et al. In this second installment of the Dirty Ear Report series, leading sound artists and theorists argue for sound as a new paradigm in art, particularly considering questions of noise and otherness. Ricarda Denzer, Claudia Firth, >>more
Errant Bodies Press
ISBN 9780988937567
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Pbk, 7.25 x 9.5 in. / 64 pgs / 6 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/25/2016 In stock
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|  Electronic: From Kraftwerk to the Chemical Brothers
Edited by Jean-Yves Leloup, Gemma Curtin, Maria McLintock. Introduction by Jean-Yves Leloup. Foreword by Tim Marlow. Interviews with Yuri Suzuki, Jeff Mills, James Hyman, Adrian Shaughnessy, Ian Anderson, Patrick Thévenin, Kiddy Smile. With its roots in Detroit and Chicago in the early 1980s, electronic dance music was popularized across Europe through underground rave parties and clubs. Its impact on contemporary culture is still unfolding today. Containing interviews >>more
The Design Museum
ISBN 9781872005492
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Hbk, 8.75 x 6.25 in. / 192 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 07/14/2020 In stock
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|  This is a unique collection of cover artwork of revolutionary jazz released in the USA in the 1970s, a time of great political and social importance for African-American artists. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and >>more
Soul Jazz Books
ISBN 9780957260061
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Pbk, 11.75 x 11.75 in. / 192 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 08/22/2017 Out of stock
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|  From Xenakis's UPIC to Graphic Notation Today
Edited by Peter Weibel, Ludger Brümmer, Sharon Kanach. Text by Richard Barrett, Rodolphe Bourotte, Pierre Couprie, Cyrille Delhaye, Alain Després, Julio Estrada, Rudolf Frisius, Kiyoshi Furukawa, Hugues Genevois, Kosmas Giannoutakis, Dimitris Kamarotos, Henning Lohner, Francois-Bernard Mâche, Guy Médigue, Chikashi Miyama, Lukas Nowok, Gerard Pape, Marcin Pietruszewski, Brigitte Robindoré, Julia Rommel, Julian Scordato, Takehito Shimazu, Victoria Simon, Andrei Smirnov, Ronald Squibbs, Katerina Tsioukra. Trained in mechanical engineering, Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) transformed mathematical models into architectonic musical entities.
In the late 1970s Xenakis developed a digital apparatus that rendered waveforms drawn on a tablet as musical compositions. The >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775747417
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Hbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 672 pgs / 240 color.
Pub Date: 06/16/2020 In stock
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|  Slow, deliberate and deceptively simple, the music of Boston-based band Galaxie 500 was wonderfully at odds with the prevailing underground sounds of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Formed in 1987, the band split up >>more
20-20-20
ISBN 9781737440017
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 192 pgs / 214 color.
Pub Date: 10/04/2022 In stock
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|  Grounds for Possible Music
Edited with text by Julia Eckhardt. Contributions by Antye Greie, Andrea Parkins, Aurélie Lierman, Bonnie Jones, Cathy Lane, Susanne Kirchmayr, Felicity Ford, Heimo Lattner, Jaume Ferrete Vázquez, Judith Laub, Marc Matter, Marijs Boulogne, Marion Wasserbauer, Myriam Van Imschoot, Pali Meursault, Peter Westenberg, Richard Scott, et al. How do we get to imagine the music we make? Where and how is it grounded? What is the relationship between the art and its maker, and what and who does music represent? Gender, voice, >>more
Errant Bodies Press
ISBN 9780997874426
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Pbk, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 144 pgs / 10 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/24/2018 In stock
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|  Hidden Alliances
Edited with text by Elisabeth Schimana. In the late 1990s, alarmed at the lack of research or information about female electronic musicians in the avant-garde, the Swiss composer, artist and musician Elisabeth Schimana (born 1958) began a decades-long project of searching >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775746649
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 198 pgs / 109 color.
Pub Date: 03/03/2020 In stock
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|  Last Days of the Opera
Edited by Christian Kircher, Gert Korentschnig, Denise Wendel-Poray. In his epic drama The Last Days of Mankind, written in 1922, the Viennese critic and satirist Karl Kraus ridiculed the interconnected ills of modernity that he saw as fueling the war machine: nationalism, capitalism, >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857243597
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 486 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 04/25/2023 In stock
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|  Listen to Lists
Edited by Lina Brion, Detlef Diederichsen. Text by Kristoffer Cornils, Maria Eriksson, Jasmine Guffond, et al. Today, the playlist structures how people listen, as well as how companies collect their data. This volume examines how the playlist has spawned new categories, aesthetic tendencies and behaviors. >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959054553
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 88 pgs / 17 color.
Pub Date: 12/13/2022 In stock
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|  Since 1980, Jeph Jerman (born 1959)—sound artist, field recordist, percussionist and visual artist—has released over 200 sound works, under his own name, under the moniker Hands To and with countless collaborators, improvising with natural found >>more
Errant Bodies Press
ISBN 9783982316635
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Pbk, 7.5 x 9.75 in. / 144 pgs / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/14/2023 In stock
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|  Looking at Music
Edited by Lina Brion, Detlef Diederichsen. Text by Stefanie Alisch, Peter Kirn, Mari Matsutoya, Adam Parkinson, Terre Thaemlitz, TOPLAP. In the performance of computer-generated music, a tangibly causal relationship between action and sound has been cut. Looking at Music asks: how important is live action to the future of musical performance? >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959054928
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 80 pgs / 10 color.
Pub Date: 04/26/2022 In stock
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|  Marred for Life!
Edited by Jason Fulford. Text by Greg Wooten. Marred for Life! presents over 250 record covers, lovingly and mischievously vandalized by anonymous music lovers. The LP covers were selected from the collection of Greg Wooten, a Los Angeles–based collector, musician and design purveyor. >>more
J&L Books
ISBN 9780999365526
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Hbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 160 pgs / 275 color.
Pub Date: 04/23/2019 In stock
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|  Maryanne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interviews
Edited by Bill Dietz, Amy Cimini. Text by Maryanne Amacher. Interviews by Jeffrey Bartone, Elliot Handelman, Frank J. Oteri, Keiko Prince, Barbara Golden, Amy Cimini, Bill Dietz, Kabir Carter. Maryanne Amacher (1938–2009) was a composer of large-scale fixed-duration sound installations and a highly original thinker in the areas of perception, sound spatialization and aural architecture. She is frequently cited as a pioneer of what >>more
Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781953691002
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Pbk, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 398 pgs / 14 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/02/2021 In stock
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|  Nothing and Everything
Text by Douglas Dreishpoon. Nothing and Everything examines the synergistic relationship between artists and composers living in New York City between the end of World War II and the early 1960s. It features seven artists and composers—Louise Bourgeois, John >>more
Hauser & Wirth Publishers
ISBN 9783952446171
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Pbk, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 104 pgs / 96 color / 3 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/25/2017 In stock
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|  On the Threshold of Beauty
Text by Kees Tazelaar. On the Threshold of Beauty is an exciting and detailed reconstruction of the emergence of electronic music in the Netherlands. Kees Tazelaar--composer and head of the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire in The >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462080652
US $50.00 CAN $67.50 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.25 x 9 in. / 232 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/30/2014 Out of stock
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|  Organic Music Societies
Edited by Lawrence Kumpf, Naima Karlsson, Magnus Nygren. Introduction by Lawrence Kumpf, Magnus Nygren. Text by Keith Knox, Rita Knox, Bengt af Klintberg, Iris R. Orton, Åke Holmquist, Pandit Pran Nath, John Esam, Michael Lindfield, Sidsel Paaske, George Trolin, Alan Halkyard, Moki Cherry, Don Cherry, Ben Young, Christer Bothén, Bengt Berger, Fumi Okiji. Interviews by Keith Knox & Rita Knox with Don Cherry, Terry Riley, Steve Roney. Don Cherry and Moki Karlsson met in Sweden in the late ’60s. They married and began to perform together, dubbing their mix of communal art, social and environmental activism, children’s education and pan-ethnic expression “Organic >>more
Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781733723589
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 496 pgs / 30 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/01/2021 Out of stock
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|  "There are moments of excruciating beauty, there are heartrending stories, all reminding us that if we lose our humanity, we are nothing.”
— Yo-Yo Ma
In Terezín, a Nazi camp where 33,000 people died, imprisoned musicians >>more
Steidl
ISBN 9783958299597
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Clth, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 328 pgs / 264 color / 22 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/11/2022 In stock
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|  Poësy Matters & Other Matters
Edited with introduction by Lawrence Kumpf. Text by Catherine Christer Hennix. Commentary by Henry Flynt. This two-volume set, Poesy Matters and Other Matters, presents selected texts by the Swedish polymath Catherine Christer Hennix. Volume one, Poesy Matters, is divided into two sections: poetry and drama, with each section also containing >>more
Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781733723503
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Pbk, 2 vols, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 759 pgs / 10 color / 111 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/05/2019 Out of stock
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|  Radio Art Zone
Edited by Sarah Washington. Text by Jasmina Al-Qaisi, Knut Aufermann, Ed Baxter, Frauke Berg, Élodie Brochier, Irina Gheorghe, Lucinda Guy, Elaine W. Ho, Konsthall323, Catherine Kontz, Caroline Kraabel, Felix Kubin, Marold Langer-Philippsen, Liquid Penguin Ensemble, Heidi Neilson, Buttress O’Kneel, Tomáš Procházka, et al. This anthology explores the themes, concepts and techniques of artist-made radio across more than 20 years. Interspersed with micro-essays on radio form, practice and poetics, and illustrated throughout with unique translucent images, this book provides >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775755153
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Hbk, 6 x 8.75 in. / 216 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 02/20/2024 In stock
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|  Reggae Soundsystem: Original Reggae Album Cover Art
Edited by Stuart Backer, Steve Barrow. Introduction by Steve Barrow. From its early Mento (Jamaican Calypso) beginnings through to the invention of Ska, Rocksteady, Roots, Dub and Dancehall, Jamaican music is one of the richest and innovative veins in popular music. This deluxe publication, featuring >>more
Soul Jazz Books
ISBN 9780955481789
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Hbk, 13.25 x 13.25 in. / 239 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2012 Out of stock
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|  Slowed and Throwed: Records of the City through Mutated Lenses
Edited by Patricia Restrepo. Text by Big Bubb, Dr. Regina N. Bradley, E.S.G., Ciarán Finlayson, Maco L. Faniel, Julie Grob, Devin Kenny, Patricia Restrepo, Rocky Rockett, Lance Scott Walker, Will-Lean. This book documents a two-part exhibition on the legacy of the late Houston legend DJ Screw (1971-2000), best known as the creator of the now-famous “chopped and screwed” DJ technique, the leader of Houston's Screwed >>more
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
ISBN 9781951208028
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Pbk, 7.5 x 10.5 in. / 112 pgs / 86 color.
Pub Date: 11/23/2021 Out of stock
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|  Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance
Edited with text by Jens Hoffmann. Foreword by Elysia Borowy-Reeder. Text by Marsha Music, Joel Peterson, Robin K. Williams. Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance is inspired by the vital history of music in Detroit and the legacy of the 1967 Detroit Rebellion. It connects Detroit’s musical and political histories with a wide range of >>more
Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit
ISBN 9780979199172
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Flexi, 9 x 12 in. / 140 pgs / 40 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/22/2018 In stock
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|  In Sounding Things Out, Dutch composer and sound artist Esther Venrooy (born 1974) seeks to enlarge and diversify the narrative on sound art by highlighting important pioneers in the field and drawing from her own >>more
Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148277
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Pbk, 4.5 x 6 in. / 144 pgs / 25 duotone.
Pub Date: 05/25/2021 In stock
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|  Originally published in 1974, Stockhausen Serves Imperialism is a collection of essays by the English avant-garde composer Cornelius Cardew that provides a Marxist and class critique of two of the more revered composers of the >>more
Primary Information
ISBN 9781732098695
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.75 in. / 126 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/24/2020 In stock
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|  Techno
Text by Michel Gaillot. Interviews with Michel Maffesoli, Jean-Luc Nancy. Techno is one of the more spectacular and mediatized aspects of contemporary culture. But is it more than mere entertainment, more than just an escape from a world that no ideology can claim to finalize? >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782906571761
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Paperback, 6.5 x 8.25 in. / 128 pgs / 25 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/02/1998 In stock
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|  Examining techno music and its cultural life through the lens of current social issues, the essays in this publication argue that techno can serve as a platform for socio-critical discourse as well as an ecstatic >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775751667
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Pbk, 4.25 x 6 in. / 212 pgs / 8 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2022 Out of stock
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|  Techno Worlds
Text by DeForrest Brown Jr., Annie Goh, Mandy Harris Williams, Jörg Heiser, Ra Hlasane, Justin Hoffmann, Martin Pesch, Rosa Reitsamer, Camilo Rocha, Mathilde Weh, Alexander Weheliye. As a global phenomenon, techno has left its mark not only on music history, but also on art, philosophy and pop culture at large. Techno Worlds looks at the variety of styles and subgenres within >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775751285
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 300 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 10/18/2022 Out of stock
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|  Ten Cities
Edited with text by Johannes Hossfeld Etyang, Joyce Nyairo, Florian Sievers. Text by Rui Miguel Abreu, Vitor Belanciano, Tony Benjamin, Danilo Capasso, Vincenzo Cavallo, Iain Chambers, Kateryna Dysa, Maha ElNabawi, Michelle Henning, Rehan Hyder, Rangoato Hlasane, Ângela Mingas, Ali Abdel Mohsen, Marissa J. Moorman, Billi Odidi, Sean O’Toole, Tobias Rapp, Mudi Yahaya, Vitalij Bard Bardezkij. The image of the DJ dragging his record case through international “non-places” and deejaying in clubs around the globe is a contemporary cliché. But these club scenes have rich, geographically differentiated local histories and cultures. >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783944669793
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Pbk, 10.75 x 15.75 in. / 560 pgs / 100 color / 250 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/23/2021 In stock
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|  The Cowboy's Dreams of Home
Edited by Lawrence Kumpf, Joe Bucciero. Text by Angel Bat Dawid, Charles Curtis, René Daumal, Thulani Davis, Anthony Elms, Ciarán Finlayson, Jessica Hagedorn, Judith Hamann, Sarah Hennies, Alan Licht, Tashi Wada. This iteration privileges new texts produced for the publication. These include an interview with the idiosyncratic Texan singer-songwriter and visual artist Terry Allen, conducted by curator Anthony Elms; a conversation between writers—and longtime friends—Thulani Davis >>more
Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781733723596
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 242 pgs / 6 color / 14 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/07/2021 In stock
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|  The Cricket
Edited by A.B. Spellman, Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka. Preface by A.B. Spellman. Introduction by David Grundy. Edited by poets and writers Amiri Baraka, A.B. Spellman and Larry Neal between 1968 and 1969, and published by Baraka’s New Jersey–based JIHAD productions around the time of the Newark Riots, this experimental music magazine >>more
Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781953691101
US $35.00 CAN $49.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 184 pgs / 2 duotone / 9 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/13/2022 In stock
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|  Accompanying a groundbreaking exhibition originating at the Baltimore Museum of Art, this book captures the extraordinary influence of hip hop, which has driven innovations in music, visual and performing arts, fashion, and technology and grown >>more
Gregory R. Miller & Co./Baltimore Museum of Art/Saint Louis Art Museum
ISBN 9781941366547
US $55.00 CAN $79.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.25 x 11.75 in. / 308 pgs / 244 color.
Pub Date: 06/27/2023 In stock
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|  The Disco Files 1973–78
By Vince Aletti. Interview with Fran Lebowitz. In 1973, Vince Aletti became the first person to write about the emerging disco scene. His engagement with disco nightlife continued throughout the decade as he wrote his weekly column for Record World magazine, which >>more
D.A.P.
ISBN 9781942884309
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 474 pgs / 400 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/27/2018 In stock
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|  Charting a pathway of historical analysis and speculative association outward from The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP, The Magic Circle is a meditation on the form of the concept album as a >>more
Onomatopee
ISBN 9789491677434
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Pbk, 4.5 x 6 in. / 233 pgs / 6 color / 26 b&w / 2 duotone.
Pub Date: 05/20/2015 In stock
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|  The Music Library
Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Foreword by Jerry Dammers. Text by Jonny Trunk. The first edition of The Music Library, published in 2005 and now out of print, brought together the designs of more than 325 record sleeves and relevant information about these rare and elusive albums. Quickly >>more
FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780993191138
US $55.00 CAN $72.50 TRADE
Hbk, 10 x 10 in. / 248 pgs / 635 color.
Pub Date: 04/26/2016 In stock
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|  The World of Music Video
Text by Daniel Bauer, Ralf Beil, Jeanette Dittmar, Sonja Eismann, Dominique Haensell, Rinko Heidrich, et al. Music videos are signs of our time, and a nucleus of the global entertainment industry. Bringing together 90 music videos from more than 30 countries, this volume charts the history of the medium, examining its >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775751902
US $75.00 CAN $99.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 448 pgs / 530 color.
Pub Date: 05/17/2022 In stock
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|  The World's Worst
Edited by Christopher M. Reeves, Aaron Walker. Foreword by Gavin Bryars. Text by Christopher M. Reeves. In 1970, galvanized in part by the musical experiments of avant-garde composers Gavin Bryars, John Cage and Cornelius Cardew, students at Portsmouth College of Art in England formed their own symphony orchestra. Christened the Portsmouth >>more
Soberscove Press
ISBN 9781940190235
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 232 pgs / 30 color / 80 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/26/2020 In stock
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|  What are the connections between sounds and abstract images? What were the first audiovisual instruments? How did music influence Kandinsky’s work? What are the most significant audiovisual installations? What relationship is there between VJs and >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857222233
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Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 176 pgs / 120 color / 38 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/22/2018 In stock
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|  Voices: Defining Moments in Music and Theater
Edited with interviews by Christine Cerletti, Thomas Voigt. Foreword by James Jolly. Text by Jürgen Kesting. In this volume, 70 performing artists share memories of those encounters with classical music and theater that forever altered their lives. These memories often served as a catalyst for their professional development or as a >>more
Verlag für moderne Kunst
ISBN 9783903439450
US $65.00 CAN $91.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.25 x 11 in. / 336 pgs / 400 color / 70 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/21/2023 In stock
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|  This is the official 50th-anniversary celebration of Woodstock, by the festival's co-creator and co-founder, Michael Lang. A large illustrated edition, it includes hundreds of photographs and documents accompanied by Lang's fascinating memories and insights into >>more
Reel Art Press
ISBN 9781909526624
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Hbk, 10 x 12 in. / 288 pgs / 150 color / 150 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/25/2019 Out of stock
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| VISUAL BOOK INDEX | OUT OF PRINT  African Feedback
By Alessandro Bosetti. When Alessandro Bosetti draped himself in sound equipment and set out for West Africa, it wasn't to record native music, but to play experimental and avant-garde composers to locals, and record their responses. This musical >>more
Errant Bodies Press
ISBN 9780977259458
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 64 pgs / 12 b&w/ audio CD.
Pub Date: 11/01/2007 Not available
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|  Art & Vinyl
Edited by Jeffrey Fraenkel, Antoine de Beaupré. Art & Vinyl is an exhilarating new look into the history of the vinyl record as a medium for modern and contemporary visual art. This beautifully designed and printed publication is the first book to >>more
Fraenkel Gallery/Editions Antoine de Beaupré
ISBN 9782912794291
US $75.00 CAN $99.00 TRADE
Hbk, 12.5 x 12.5 in. / 450 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 04/24/2018 Not available
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|  Blow Your Head: A Diplo Zine
Introduction by Diplo. Photographs by Shane McCauley. A series of video documentaries and print accounts of global music scenes, Blow Your Head is the creation of Diplo, the DJ, producer and creator of the hit “Harlem Shake,” in collaboration with photographer Shane >>more
PictureBox
ISBN 9781939799005
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 96 pgs / 90 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2013 Not available
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|  Blow Your Head: A Diplo Zine
Introduction by Diplo. Photographs by Shane McCauley. The DJ and producer Diplo--aka Thomas Wesley Pentz--and photographer Shane McCauley are launching Blow Your Head, a series of photographic accounts of global music scenes, all of which filter into Diplo’s creative base, the hugely >>more
PictureBox
ISBN 9780985159528
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 96 pgs / 92 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2012 Not available
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|  Damn Son Where Did You Find This?
By Tobias Hansson, Michael Thorsby. Damn Son Where Did You Find This? is the first book ever to focus on the cover art of the modern US hip hop CD mixtape. From the bootleg recordings of Kool Herc in the >>more
Koenig Books
ISBN 9783863359775
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 FLAT40
Hbk, 8 x 11 in. / 148 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 02/28/2017 Not available
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|  Dancehall
By Beth Lesser. Edited by Stuart Baker. With unprecedented access to the incredibly exciting music scene during this period, Beth Lesser’s photographs and text are a unique way into a previously hidden culture. Dancehall is at the center of Jamaican musical and cultural >>more
Soul Jazz Books
ISBN 9780957260085
US $34.95 CAN $45.95 TRADE
Pbk, 11.75 x 11.75 in. / 216 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 10/24/2017 Not available
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|  Dangerous Curves
Photographs by Carl Tremblay. Contributions by Lenny Kaye. Text by Darcy Kuronen. "The guitar and the dog, in order not to be separated from man, have submitted themselves with resignation to the worst alterations of size and appearance." --Andres Segovia >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878464784
US $45.00 CAN $55.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 10 x 10 in. / 224 pgs / 180 color
Pub Date: 09/02/2000 Not available
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|  Disco
Edited by Disco Patrick & Patrick Vogt. This large-format deluxe hardback book features the amazing artwork of thousands of disco record cover designs from the 1970s up to the mid-1980s. Together, the record cover designs gathered here create a unique visual history >>more
Soul Jazz Books
ISBN 9780957260023
US $19.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE
Hbk, 12 x 12 in. / 360 pgs / 600 color.
Pub Date: 11/30/2014 Not available
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|  Enjoy the Experience
Edited by Johan Kugelberg, Michael P. Daley, Paul Major. Text by Gregg Turkington, Will Louviere, Geoffrey Weiss, Evan LeVine, Rich Haupt, Douglas Mcgowan, Brandan Kearney, Mike Ascherman, Jack Streitman, Gabriel Mckee, Will Cameron, Eothen Alapatt. Enjoy the Experience is the largest collection of American private-press vinyl ever amassed and presented, featuring more than 1,000 cover reproductions from 1958–1992. The musicians here range from awkward teen pop combos to pizza-parlor organists; >>more
Sinecure Books
ISBN 9781938265044
US $65.00 CAN $75.00 FLAT40
Hbk, 8.75 x 11 in. / 512 pgs / 1,241 color / 29 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/30/2013 Not available
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|  Houston Rap
Edited by Johan Kugelberg. Foreword by Bun B. Text by Lance Scott Walker. The Houston, Texas, neighborhoods of Fifth Ward, Third Ward and South Park have grown to be hallowed ground for modern rap culture, populated with celebrities, entrepreneurs, support networks and a micro-economy of their own. Photographer >>more
Sinecure Books
ISBN 9781938265051
US $49.95 CAN $60.00 FLAT40
Hbk, 8.5 x 11.25 in. / 272 pgs / 209 color / 63 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2013 Not available
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|  Houston Rap Tapes
By Lance Scott Walker. Edited by Johan Kugelberg, Michael P. Daley. Foreword by Willie D. Photographs by Peter Beste. Houston Rap Tapes is the companion to Houston Rap, Peter Beste’s intimate photo book on this important hip hop culture. Houston Rap Tapes complements Beste’s photography with a series of oral histories conducted by writer >>more
Sinecure Books
ISBN 9781938265082
US $25.00 CAN $30.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 288 pgs / 288 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2014 Not available
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|  I Listen to the Wind that Obliterates My Traces
Edited by Steve Roden. Music is as self-reflexive as any of the arts, even if its generally greater power to transport sometimes deceives us into thinking otherwise. Dust-to-Digital's marvelously titled I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces >>more
Dust-to-Digital
ISBN 9780981734248
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Clth, 8.5 x 6.5 in. / 184 pgs / 150 duotone / 2 Audio CDs.
Pub Date: 07/31/2011 Not available
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|  Maryanne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interviews
Edited by Bill Dietz & Amy Cimini. Text by Maryanne Amacher. Interviews by Jeffrey Bartone, Elliot Handelman, Frank J. Oteri, Keiko Prince, Barbara Golden, Amy Cimini, Bill Dietz, Kabir Carter. Maryanne Amacher (1938-2009) was a composer of large-scale fixed-duration sound installations and a highly original thinker in the areas of perception, sound spatialization and aural architecture. She is frequently cited as a pioneer of what >>more
Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781733723572
US $40.00 CAN $56.00 TRADE
Hbk, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 398 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/05/2021 Not available
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|  Modulations
Edited by Peter Shapiro. Contributions by Iara Lee, David Toop. Text by Kodwo Eshun, Michael Berk, Tony Marcus, Kurt Reighley, Simon Reynolds, Michael Rubin, Chris Sharp, Rob Young. >>more
D.A.P./Caipirinha
ISBN 9781891024061
US $29.95 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 8 x 8 in. / 264 pgs / 50 color / 100 b&w
Pub Date: 09/02/2000 Not available
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|  Never a Pal Like Mother
Foreword by Rosanne Cash. Text by Sarah Bryan. Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, separation from loved ones was an accepted fact of life, for several generations of Americans. Westward migration had cleaved many families along generational lines, as young people >>more
Dust-to-Digital
ISBN 9780981734231
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Clth, 5.75 x 8.5 in. / 96 pgs / 68 duotone / 2 Audio CDs.
Pub Date: 07/31/2011 Not available
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|  One Reason To Live: Conversations About Music with Julius Nil
Edited by Seth Kim Cohen. Conversations with Esther Leslie, Eric Roth, Seth Kim-Cohen, Andrew McGettigan, Julius Nil, David Toop, Scanner, Brandon LaBelle, Ken Vandermark, Kaffe Matthews, Steven Connor, John Parish, Ben Watson, et al. If it all came down to one piece of music, what would you choose? How would you justify your choice? On live radio? These are the questions Julius Nil asked every other Sunday for a >>more
Errant Bodies Press
ISBN 9780965557092
US $17.00 CAN $24.00 TRADE
Paperback, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 125 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 04/01/2006 Not available
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|  Punk 45
Edited by Jon Savage, Stuart Baker. Foreword by Jon Savage. Punk 45 is a revelatory guide to hundreds and hundreds of original seven-inch record cover sleeve designs--visual artifacts found at the heart of the most radical and anarchistic musical movement of the twentieth century. Spurred >>more
Soul Jazz Books
ISBN 9780957260009
US $39.95 CAN $53.95 TRADE
Flexi, 8.75 x 10.75 in. / 400 pgs / 800 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2013 Not available
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|  Reggae Soundsystem 45: The Label Art of Reggae Singles
The 45-rpm seven-inch single is at the heart of reggae music, the main vehicle by which reggae music has been communicated to the public by the deejays in the dancehalls of Kingston, and to its >>more
Soul Jazz Books
ISBN 9780955481796
US $49.95 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Flexi, 8 x 10 in. / 480 pgs / 1000 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2012 Not available
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|  Sounds of Two Eyes Opening
Edited by Johan Kugelberg, Introduction by Ryan Richardson. Spot landed in Hermosa Beach, CA in the mid-1970s. A serious musician, he helped build Media Art Recording Studio and stumbled into photojournalism via Easy Reader, the local news weekly. Hermosa proved to be a >>more
Sinecure Books
ISBN 9781938265105
US $50.00 CAN $60.00 FLAT40
Hbk, 8.25 x 10.75 in. / 276 pgs / 13 color / 263 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2014 Not available
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|  Studio One Records
As iconic as Motown was to soul, or Blue Note for jazz, the legendary Jamaican reggae label Studio One was the creation of one of music's greatest impresarios, Clement “Sir Coxsone” Dodd. Throughout the 1950s, >>more
Soul Jazz Books
ISBN 9780955481772
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Hbk, 12.25 x 12.25 in. / 216 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 11/30/2011 Not available
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|  Surface Tension
Edited by Brandon LaBelle, Ken Ehrlich and Stephen Vitiello. Essays by Kathy Battista, Jennifer Gabrys, Lucy Lippard, Laurie Palmer, Lucy Soutter, Sara Roberts, Jane Rendell, Simon Leung, Michael Weinstock, Juli Carson, Alphonso Lingis and Giles Lane. From Gordon Matta-Clark to Lawrence Weiner, Bruce Nauman to Alison Knowles, the question of site locates itself in issues of public space, at the intersection of the imagined and the real, at the juncture of >>more
Errant Bodies Press
ISBN 9780965557047
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Paperback, 8 x 10.5 in. / 300 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 08/02/2003 Not available
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|  The Disco Files 1973-78
In 1973 Vince Aletti became the first person to write about the emerging Disco scene, and went on to write a famous weekly column in Record World magazine, which incorporated top ten playlists from DJs >>more
DJhistory.com
ISBN 9780956189608
US $35.00 CAN $40.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 474 pgs / 400 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/31/2009 Not available
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|  Touchable Sound
Edited by Brian Roettinger, Mike Treff, Diego Hadis. Introduction by Henry Owings. In an era that advocates streamlined product and music at the click of a mouse, Touchable Sound celebrates those independent-spirited bands and musicians who make their own records, relishing the opportunity to produce labor-intensive one-off >>more
Soundscreen Design
ISBN 9780984302826
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Pbk, 9.5 x 6.5 in. / 412 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 09/30/2010 Not available
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|  Wired Up!
Edited by Jerry Blount, Tommy Chung. Preface by Robin Wills. Interview by Phil King, Jeremy Thompson, Mary Blount. Wired Up! is the first book to fully document the underground European glam rock scene of the early 1970s, cataloging hundreds of the best and most sought after junkshop glam, proto-punk and bubblegum 45 sleeves >>more
Wired Up Media
ISBN 9780615488769
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Hbk, 8.75 x 8.75 in. / 384 pgs / 344 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2013 Not available
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|  Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language
Edited by Christof Migone, Brandon LaBelle. >>more
Errant Bodies Press
ISBN 9780965557030
US $20.00 CAN $27.95 TRADE
Paperback, 7 x 7 in. / 168 pgs / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/02/2001 Not available
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