AMY WINEHOUSE BY BLAKE WOOD
When 22-year-old American photographer Blake Wood moved to London in 2007, a mutual friend introduced him to Amy Winehouse. After winning five Grammy...
Opera, Jazz, Rock, Pop
JAM 1982
Written by Buckler, Rick
This richly illustrated oral history account of The Jam's rollercoaster final year, led principally by the voice of Jam drummer Rick Buckler, contains a number of previously unseen images and takes in everything from the recording and release of final studio album The Gift and the rigours of the road to the announcement of the split, the final tours, The Tube, and more.
ABBA - THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC
They say the winner takes it all, and when it came to fame, fortune and writing their name into the annals of pop music, ABBA certainly did. But just how did four young Scandinavian singers join forces to become the biggest- selling pop band in history?
BARBRA STREISAND: THE MUSIC, THE ALBUMS, THE SINGLES
Written by Howe, Matt
On February 25, 1963, Columbia Records released The Barbra Streisand Album. The first song was "Cry Me a River," and with that a star was born.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - BORN TO DREAM: 50 YEARS OF THE BOSS
Written by James, Alison
For over fifty years, Bruce Springsteen has been on top of the Rock 'n' Roll stage with 20 studio albums - from his debut Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. to 2020's Letter to You - his a life dedicated to music-making and committed social commentary song-writing. This book examines every part of his musical career, discussing his influences and how his background shaped h
STRANGE CELESTIAL ROAD: MY TIME IN THE SUN RA ARKESTRA
Written by Abdullah, Ahmed
A thrilling account of life with Sun Ra's Arkestra and New York's avant-garde jazz scenes of the 1970s-90s
RISE AND FALL OF PARAMOUNT RECORDS: A GREAT MIGRATION STORY, 1917-1932
Written by Blackwood, Scott
Founded in 1917, Paramount Records incongruously was one of several homegrown record labels of a Wisconsin chair-making company. The company pinned no outsized hopes on Paramount. Its founders knew nothing of the music business, and they had arrived at the scheme of producing records only to drive sales of the expensive phonograph cabinets they had recently begun manufacturing.
WILLIAMSBURG AVANT-GARDE: EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC AND SOUND ON THE BROOKLYN WATERFRONT
Written by Bradley, Cisco
In The Williamsburg Avant-Garde Cisco Bradley chronicles the rise and fall of the underground music and art scene in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn between the late 1980s and the early 2010s. Drawing on interviews, archival collections, musical recordings, videos, photos, and other ephemera, Bradley explores the scene's social, cultural, and economic dynamics.
DANCING DOWN THE BARRICADES: SAMMY DAVIS JR. AND THE LONG CIVIL RIGHTS ERA (FIRST EDITION, A CULTURAL HISTORY)
Written by Jacobson, Matthew Frye
A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr. Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business--from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TV--Dancing Down the Barricades examines the workings of race in American culture.
ON MINIMALISM: DOCUMENTING A MUSICAL MOVEMENT
A revisionist history of minimalism's transformative rise, through the voices of the musicians who created it. When composers like Philip Glass and Steve Reich began creating hypnotically repetitive music in the 1960s, it upended the world of American composition. But minimalism was more than a classical phenomenon--minimalism changed everything.
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