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 Reba McEntire: Country Music's Queen (The Unauthorized Biography)Best Price: $49.95 This unauthorized biography contains nothing that isn't mentioned in Reba My Story and... |  Sugar RayBest Price: $5.29 This books really (disappoints)! One of the things that bothered me the most, was the overkill... |  Lowell Mason: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music)Best Price: $65.32 This comprehensive reference is a study of Lowell Mason, the pioneer music educator and... |  Beyoncé Knowles: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)Best Price: $33.75 Although Beyoncé Knowles is not yet 30, the sensual superstar has already succeeded on many... |  Kanye West: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)Best Price: $35.00 Kanye West is a star. His music has jumped from sensation to staple in the rap industry, while... |
 Tales from Q School: Inside Golf's Fifth Major |  Bit of a Blur: The AutobiographyBest Price: $112.08 Very nicely written book by the bassist of Blur, who was probably one of the less interesting... |  Summer of Love: The Making of Sgt. PepperThis fascinating, thorough, and accurate book about the making of the Sgt. Pepper album is the... |  Schubert: a Critical Biography |  Bit of a Blur: The AutobiographyBest Price: $5.94 As an American Blur fan, I am pretty unfamiliar with the 4 personalities within Blur. Since they... |
| Reba McEntire: Country Music's Queen (The Unauthorized Biography) Best Price: $49.95 This unauthorized biography contains nothing that isn't mentioned in Reba My Story and... | Sugar Ray Best Price: $5.29 This books really (disappoints)! One of the things that bothered me the most, was the overkill... | Lowell Mason: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music) Best Price: $65.32 This comprehensive reference is a study of Lowell Mason, the pioneer music educator and... | Beyoncé Knowles: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies) Best Price: $33.75 Although Beyoncé Knowles is not yet 30, the sensual superstar has already succeeded on many... | Kanye West: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies) Best Price: $35.00 Kanye West is a star. His music has jumped from sensation to staple in the rap industry, while... |
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 Handel and His Singers: The Creation of the Royal Academy Operas, 1720-1728 (Oxford Monographs on Music)Best Price: $119.86 From the early eighteenth-century until the present day, opera seria as practiced by Handel and... |  The Life and Ballets of Lev Ivanov: Choreographer of The Nutcracker and Swan LakeBest Price: $169.19 Lev Ivanov has been, for the last century, a known name but an unknown figure. As fruit of... |  Frederick Delius and Peter Warlock: A Friendship RevealedBest Price: $199.00 The Eton schoolboy, Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock), was not yet 17 when he first met his... |  Alan Rawsthorne: Portrait of a ComposerBest Price: $107.94 Alan Rawsthorne is one of the leading British composers of the twentieth century. His music... |  Glenn Gould: The Performer in the Work: A Study in Performance PracticeBest Price: $62.05 Kevin Bazzana has written a monograph on the work of Glenn Gould that manages to combine deep... |
 Labour Legislation and Public Policy: A Contemporary History (Clarendon Law Series)In this path-breaking work, the authors seek to offer students a fresh way of looking at modern... |  Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy (Co-Published With Faber and Faber)Theodor W. Adorno goes beyond conventional thematic analysis to gain a more complete... |  Mahler: A Musical PhysiognomyBest Price: $14.75 The subject of this classic of musical analysis is the complicated phenomenon of Mahler's... |  The Verdi-Boito CorrespondenceBest Price: $19.99 This superbly-annotated collection of more than 300 letters between Verdi and his librettist... |  Emma- Baby Talking Pb (Spice Girls Pocket Books) |
 The Music of Igor Stravinsky (Composers of the Twentieth Century) |  Stravinsky Inside OutBest Price: $12.85 We seem to be at an unfortunate stage of music history writing. The approach of many books,... |  Nietzsche and Wagner: A Lesson in SubjugationBest Price: $8.87 Once in a lifetime a book comes along ... that is so arm-wavingly silly that it's almost... |  Emanuel FeuermannBest Price: $46.00 The meteoric career of the Austrian cellist Emanuel Feuermann ended with his sudden and tragic... |  Richard Wagner: The Last of the TitansBest Price: $39.99 If you are genuinely interested in reading what you hope is a good, informative biography of... |
 Wagner and the Art of the TheatreBest Price: $42.09 The production of Wagner?s operas is fiercely debated. In this groundbreaking stage history... |  Stravinsky's Ballets (Yale Music Masterworks)Best Price: $22.95 Igor Stravinsky, a towering composer of the twentieth century, was closely linked to dance. His... |  Cosima Wagner: The Lady of BayreuthBest Price: $17.41 In this meticulously researched book, Oliver Hilmes paints a fascinating and revealing picture... |  Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker (The Roots of jazz) |  Treat It Gentle: An Autobiography (A Da Capo paperback)Best Price: $12.06 New Orleans born clarinet and sax player Sidney Bechet was one of the all time great jazz... |
 Opera: A History in DocumentsBest Price: $157.82 Richly textured, extravagantly colorful, and filled with larger-than-life characters, the... |  Grove Composers: The Bach Family (Grove Music Composer Biography)One in a series of composer biographies derived from the second edition of The New Grove... |  "To Everything There is a Season": Pete Seeger and the Power of Song (New Narratives in American History)Best Price: $8.07 There is no questioning that Pete Seeger is an icon in the music world. He is a folk legend but... |  Voice Lessons: French Mï¿1/2lodie in the Belle Epoque (New Cultural History of Music)Best Price: $23.79 Language, education, science, and song come together in surprising ways in Katherine... |  The Songs of HollywoodBest Price: $10.95 I studied movie musicals in college so had a "been there, read that" attitude going... |
 The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band JazzBest Price: $13.86 If Benny Goodman was the "King of Swing," then Fletcher Henderson was the power behind... |  For the Love of MusicBest Price: $8.50 For the Love of Music presents 23 of the best interviews from Music magazine, ranging in... |  Glenn Gould: Selected LettersBest Price: $85.00 Since Glenn Gould's death in 1982, the pianist's extraordinary talent has won a new... |  Mozart's Operas: A Critical Study (Clarendon Paperbacks)Best Price: $30.00 Originally published in 1913 when most of Mozart's operas were still almost completely... |  Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic YouthBest Price: $2.00 There is one specific review so far that is very, very wrong. It could be that this person did... |
 Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big Way, A BiographyBest Price: $6.43 This is a good book, well written and with excellent content. As an enthusiast of the Swing Era... |  The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete SeegerBest Price: $2.96 This short biography describes Pete Seeger's evolution as a person and musician. It begins... |  Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and AmericaBest Price: $17.86 "There they were in America, all getting house-trained for adulthood with their... |  Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: A Rock 'n' Roller's Life and 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf AddictBest Price: $5.95 Half of this book is golf tips and golf philosophy from Alice. The other half is his... |  Mile Marker Zero: The Moveable Feast of Key WestBest Price: $14.88 True tales of writers and pirates, painters and potheads, guitar pickers and drug merchants in... |
 HomecomingBest Price: $14.99 I have just completed the reading of "Homecoming" by Bill Gaither. My heart... |  Garth Brooks: Platinum CowboyBest Price: $0.61 This is a good book if you don't know much about Garth. I have the Garth Scrapbook and that... |  Elvis: The Final YearsBest Price: $110.94 Even after his death, Elvis, the King, lives on in his music and in the memories of millions of... |  The JuddsBest Price: $3.00 Millard's book is informative, yet still missing that "edge" I am hoping... |  All Saints (Official Biography) (All Saints) |
 Danny Boy: A Life of Daniel O'Donnell |  Popstars - the Making of a BandBest Price: $10.97 From 25,000 hopefuls, prestigious judges from the TV and music business selected five... |  Charles Ives Reconsidered (Music in American Life)Best Price: $26.01 I can think of no composer who has been damaged by musicologists in the past few years as much... |  The Music of Bill Monroe (Music in American Life)Best Price: $11.45 I just got my long awaited copy of the new Neil Rosenberg/Charles Wolfe book "The Music of... |  The Late Great Johnny Ace and Transition from R&B to Rock 'n' Roll (Music in American Life)Best Price: $18.43 Like the author, I am a big Johnny Ace fan and share a deep passion for 1950s rhythm 'n'... |
 Louis Prima (Music in American Life)Best Price: $20.39 Louis Prima may well have been one of the most underrated entertainers of the 20th century, and... |  The Verdi Baritone: Studies in the Development of Dramatic CharacterBest Price: $17.37 One of the most significant developments in 19th-century Italian opera was the genesis of the... |  The Words and Music of Bob Marley (The Praeger Singer-Songwriter Collection)Best Price: $41.00 Reggae singer Bob Marley died before he was 40, but his music lives on - and his album Exodus... |  The Making of Pink Floyd the WallBest Price: $33.79 Pink Floyd's The Wall is one of the most iconic and imaginative albums in the history of... |  Bad Seed: The Biography of Nick CaveBest Price: $10.78 I didn't realize that this was written in 1995, before I knew of his existence. In fact, it... |
 A Multitude of Sins: Golden Brown, The Stranglers and Strange Little Girls: The AutobiographyBest Price: $169.12 As a long time Stranglers fan, I was overjoyed when I found this book - and I was not... |  U2 by U2Best Price: $89.99 "I always thought the job was to be as great as you could be." -- Bono. This is the... |  Memories, Dreams and ReflectionsBest Price: $899.99 This riveting sequel to 1994's Faithfull is less formal and detailed, a series of... |  Frank SinatraBest Price: $2.29 Including exclusive interviews with Sinatra's most notable collaborators, full-color... |  Billie Holiday Companion: Seven Decades of Commentary (Companion Series)Best Price: $5.75 I bought this book some time back and have dipped into it regularly for research purposes. A... |
 The Velvet Underground Companion: Four Decades of Commentary (The Schirmer Companion Series , No 8)Best Price: $10.22 contains some of the most important reviews and articles aboout the Velvet Underground since... |  Straight, No Chaser: The Life and Genius of Thelonious MonkBest Price: $27.95 Leslie Gourse and her team have done a book of merit, an investigation of true achievements,... |  The Madonna Companion: Two Decades of CommentaryWhile this books is easily worth the cover price to any Madonna fan or pop culture theorist, as... |  A Century Of JazzBest Price: $0.99 The medium is the message! Start with the heft of the volume. And there you have a sense of... |  John Coltrane: John ColtraneBest Price: $6.86 This is not a biography, despite the publisher's claim. It is a chronological look at... |
 The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem 1961-1972Best Price: $8.69 Ned Rorem is celebrated as one of America's greatest living composers. His diary of his... |  Hank Williams: Snapshots From The Lost HighwayBest Price: $186.42 This is an adequate pictorial biography composed by Colin Escott And Kira Florita of Hiram... |  Jazz in the Bittersweet BluesBest Price: $7.96 The thrill of sitting in a club or concert hall hearing jazz being made is familiar to most... |  No Direction Home: The Life And Music Of Bob DylanBest Price: $208.12 Written by the critic widely-credited with launching Dylan's career, Shelton had unusual... |  The Lennon CompanionBest Price: $3.94 John Lennon lives on. Forty years after the Beatles invaded America in 1964, and more than... |
 Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc PomusBest Price: $3.26 He was short and stubby. He'd had polio at 9; he couldn't walk without braces and... |  Passion Is a Fashion: The Real Story of the ClashBest Price: $10.52 This review applies to the 2004 hardcover edition. I knew a reasonable amount about The Clash... |  The Beastie Boys Companion: Two Decades of CommentaryBest Price: $0.54 This book is pretty cool. Its pretty much just a collection of articles about the boys and... |  Mozart Speaks: Views on Music, Musicians, and the WorldBest Price: $49.00 Mozart once wrote of a desire to write a book about music. Sadly, he did not have a chance to do... |  Handel: The Orchestral Music (Monuments of Western Music)Best Price: $75.00 This study addresses the powerful influence of Handel's orchestral designs on the... |
 Trouble Man: The Life and Death of Marvin GayeBest Price: $46.84 Quick, what's *the* go-to narrative frame when writing about Marvin Gaye? Right, his... |  Bob Marley: Songs of FreedomBest Price: $118.78 Like so many other deceased musicians, there are way too many "insider" books... |  Here, There and EverywhereBest Price: $105.30 Fantastic fly-on-the-wall view of The Beatles in the recording studio. Emerick gives details... |  Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country QueenBest Price: $0.01 From the New York Times bestselling biographer-the first book-length portrait of music legend... |  Pops: A Life of Louis ArmstrongBest Price: $3.91 Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program ( What's this? ) In... |
 Handel and the Pastoral Tradition |  American Musicians: Fifty-six Portraits in JazzBest Price: $45.00 This is Whitney Balliett's long-awaited "big book." In it are all the jazz... | |||
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