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  • The History of the NME

    by Pat Long ...
    'The NME mattered to all those generations who grew up with music at the centre of their universe.The NME never had a truer chronicler than Pat Long.' Tony ParsonsSince it was founded in 1952, the New Musical Express has played a central part in the British love affair with pop music.Snotty, confrontational, enthusiastic, sarcastic: the NME landing on the doormat every Wednesday was the high ... Read more

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  • Cognition Switch #8

    Series Book 8 - Cognition Switch
    Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New IdeasIssue #8: August 2019Featuring Ideas by:Sujata Gupta, Lyra McKee, Henry Nicholls, Carrie Arnold, Vanessa Potter, Will Storr, Simon Usborne, Gaia Vince, Pat Long, and Catherine Carver ... Read more

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    Around the Way Girls 3

    Narrated by Honey Jones ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - The Around the Way Girls Series

    Unabridged

    11 hours 17 min

    There’s a saying that if you come from my part of town, you’re from “around the way.” Around the Way Girls 3 is a look at the life of some street-smart women who think they know it all but are about to get the lesson of their lives.Sugar and Candy Cane are twenty-four-year-old identical twins from around the way. These ladies aren’t as sweet as their names imply, and people quickly come to know ... Read more

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    Faber Forty-Fives: 1967–1970

    by Rob Young ...
    Series Book 2 - Faber Forty-Fives
    Faber Forty-Fives is a series of six short ebooks that between them tell the story of British pop music from the birth of psychedelia in the late sixties, through electric folk, glam, seventies rock and punk, to the eclecticism of post-punk in the late seventies and early eighties. Each book is drawn from a larger work on Faber's acclaimed music list.Rob Young's Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's ... Read more

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  • Claude Ranger

    Canadian Jazz Legend

    by Mark Miller ...
    Even before Claude Ranger disappeared in late 2000, his fate unknown, he had attained legendary status among Canada’s jazz musicians as an extraordinary drummer who repeatedly challenged the status quo on bandstands in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.   Willful, uncompromising and charismatic, cigarette invariably tucked into the left corner of his mouth, Ranger cut a compelling figure alongside ... Read more

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  • 10 Pieces of Music You Should Listen to at Least Once in Your Life

    by Jacopo Caneva ...
    Welcome to this ramble through music: background notes unfold, little by little, amazingly and touchingly. Our guide is the young Jacopo Caneva, who puts forward a personal selection of musical extracts for a first listening experience, analysing them with the passion and competence of a teenager who loves and practises music. This is where authors meet, with different styles and historical ... Read more

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  • J Dilla's Donuts

    Series series 33 1/3
    From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James “J Dilla” Yancey crafted a set of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed their artform. The songs on Donuts are not hip hop music as “hip hop music” is typically defined; they careen and crash into each other, in one moment noisy and abrasive, gorgeous and heartbreaking the ... Read more

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    Series series 33 1/3
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    by Alex Ogg ...
    An introduction to the history of British hip-hop as it finally escapes its reputation as the poor cousin of the American variant with a succession of hugely successful releases by the new stars of 'grime'. Alex Ogg, a notable author in this field having previously written The Hip Hop Years (and been a consultant on the accompanying BAFTA nominated documentary strand), The Men Behind Def Jam and ... Read more

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  • Stories Done

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    by Mikal Gilmore ...
    The 1960s and 1970s represent a rare moment in our cultural history -- music was exploring unprecedented territories, literature was undergoing a radical reinvention, politics polarized the nation, and youth culture was at the zenith of its influence. There has never been, nor is there likely to be, another generation that matches the contributions of the artists of that time period.In this ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Liszt

    Edited by Kenneth Hamilton ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    This Companion provides an up-to-date view of the music of Franz Liszt, its contemporary context and performance practice, written by some of the leading specialists in the field of nineteenth-century music studies. Although a core of Liszt's piano music has always maintained a firm hold on the repertoire, his output was so vast, influential and multi-faceted that scholarship too has taken some ... Read more

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