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  • I Wonder U

    How Prince Went beyond Race and Back

    by Adilifu Nama ...
    Featured in the 2020 Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal ShowIn 1993, Prince infamously changed his name to a unique, unpronounceable symbol. Yet this was only one of a long string of self-reinventions orchestrated by Prince as he refused to be typecast by the music industry’s limiting definitions of masculinity and femininity, of straightness and queerness, of authenticity ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

  • History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs

    by Greil Marcus ...
    The legendary critic and author of Mystery Train “ingeniously retells the tale of rock and roll” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).Unlike previous versions of rock ’n’ roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs and dramatizes how each embodies rock ’n’ ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hexatonic Soul Scale: An Alternative to the Blues Scale for the Novice Jazz Improvisor

    After years of experience of being a jazz musician, the author reveals a scale that the novice jazz musician can use to create soulful solos. And more...Note: This book has been updated as of February 7, 2024. ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Story of Northern Soul

    by David Nowell ...
    What began as an underground 60s Mod scene in unlicensed, no-frills clubs in the North West of England became a youth craze that has long surpassed all others. The Northern Soul scene has confounded its critics by surviving and growing into an adult dance phenomenon whose followers share a passion for the music of Black America unrivalled anywhere else in the world. The Story of Northern Soul ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • Harlem 69

    The Future of Soul

    Series Book 3 - The Soul Trilogy
    In 1969, among Harlem's Rabelaisian cast of characters are bandleader King Curtis, soul singers Aretha Franklin and Donny Hathaway, and drug peddler Jimmy 'Goldfinger' Terrell. In February a raid on tenements across New York leads to the arrest of 21 Black Panther party members and one of the most controversial trials of the era. In the summer Harlem plays host to Black Woodstock and concerts ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Life of James Brown

    by Geoff Brown ...
    This is the definitive biography of this extraordinary and controversial superstar, written by Geoff Brown, a former editor of Black Music magazine. For three decades James Brown dominated the changing face of post-war popular black music. Others were as inspirational in the short term, and several of his successors have been bigger pop stars, but none matched Brown's independent authority, ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Funkiest Man Alive

    Rufus Thomas and Memphis Soul

    Series series American Made Music Series
    Rufus Thomas may not be a household name, but he is widely regarded as the patriarch of Memphis R&B, and his music influenced three generations. His first singles in the early 1950s were recorded as blues transitioned into R&B, and he was arguably one of the founding fathers of early rock ’n’ roll. In the early 1960s, his songs “The Dog” and “Walking the Dog” made a huge impact on the emerging ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

  • Why Solange Matters

    Series series Music Matters
    Growing up in the shadow of her superstar sister, Solange Knowles became a pivotal musician in her own right. Defying an industry that attempted to bend her to its rigid image of a Black woman, Solange continually experimented with her sound and embarked on a metamorphosis in her art that continues to this day.In Why Solange Matters, Stephanie Phillips chronicles the creative journey of an artist ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD

  • The R & B, Soul and Funk Trunk

    Pop Gallery eBooks, #8

    by Marc Platt ...
    Series Book 8 - Pop Gallery eBooks
    “The R & B, Soul and Funk Trunk” (Includes Video Notebook Links at the End of the Manuscript)This eBook traces as far back as Fats Domino and that version of R & B all the way until Disco started to infiltrate the international psyche. James Brown, Aretha, Michael Jackson, they are all there in the eBook.It is “We The Music-Buying People” who care because of the memories and quality this music ... Read more

    $6.69 AUD

  • Carolina Beach Music from the '60s to the '80s

    The New Wave

    by Rick Simmons ...
    This follow-up to Carolina Beach Music: The Classic Years looks at performers including the Drifters, the Spinners, Tower of Power, Wild Cherry, and more.Carolina Beach Music from the ’60s to the ’80s: The New Wave covers more of those classic beach music tunes as well as the increasingly self-aware songs that marked the beginning of a new wave of beach music in the late 1970s and early 1980s.This ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Motown: The Golden Years

    More than 100 rare photographs

    by Bill Dahl ...
    This is the book for lovers of Motown!Author and Motown historian Bill Dahl has expertly compiled this comprehensive guide to the musical combination of pop and gospel, known as Motown.This new compilation features an A-to-Z listing and biography of nearly every Motown group since its beginning in 1959. Also included are never-before-published photos from former Motown promotions guru Weldon A. ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs vol 2: From the Million Dollar Quartet to the Fab Four

    A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs, #2

    by Andrew Hickey ...
    Series Book 2 - A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
    In this series of books, based on the hit podcast A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs, Andrew Hickey analyses the history of rock and roll music, from its origins in swing, Western swing, boogie woogie, and gospel, through to the 1990s, grunge, and Britpop. Looking at five hundred representative songs, he tells the story of the musicians who made those records, the society that produced them, and ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Country Soul

    Making Music and Making Race in the American South

    In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of country and soul. Yet the music emerged from the same songwriters, musicians, and producers in the recording studios of Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, and Muscle Shoals, Alabama--what Charles L. Hughes calls the "country-soul triangle." In legendary ... Read more

    $20.99 AUD

  • Detroit 67

    The Year That Changed Soul

    Series Book 1 - The Soul Trilogy
    FULLY REVISED AND EDITED PAPERBACK EDITIONShortlisted for Penderyn Music PrizeDetroit 67 is the story of Motor City in the year that changed everything. Twelve chapters take you on a turbulent year-long journey through the drama and chaos that ripped through the city in 1967 and tore it apart in personal, political and interracial disputes. It is the story of Motown, the break-up of The Supremes ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Feenin

    R&B Music and the Materiality of BlackFem Voices and Technology

    In Feenin, Alexander Ghedi Weheliye traces R&B music’s continuing centrality in Black life since the late 1970s. Focusing on various musical production and reproduction technologies such as auto-tune and the materiality of the BlackFem singing voice, Weheliye counteracts the widespread popular and scholarly narratives of the genre’s decline and death. He shows how R&B remains a thriving venue for ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD

  • Jazz greats to groove

    Joey DeFrancesco, driving force on the Hammond organ, dies at 51.

    by Anny Blake ...
    As early as the age of 17, when his eye-catching debut was issued on Columbia Records, few jazz musicians in any era have ever dominated the musical vocabulary and a well-known representation of an instrument, as DeFrancesco did with the organ.At the keyboard, he displayed unmatched technical mastery as his right hand reeled off notes in long ribbons. He also made the most of the aural ... Read more

    $7.72 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Soul Train

    The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation

    Celebrate the culture of cool with this compact, paperback edition of the heartfelt tribute to Soul Train, a worldwide phenomenon of dance, music, and fashion.From Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson of the award-winning hip-hop group the Roots, comes this vibrant book commemorating the legacy of Soul Train—the cultural phenomenon that launched the careers of artists such as Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder, the ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD

  • Soul in Seoul

    African American Popular Music and K-pop

    K-pop (Korean popular music) reigns as one of the most popular music genres in the world today, a phenomenon that appeals to listeners of all ages and nationalities. In Soul in Seoul: African American Popular Music and K-pop, Crystal S. Anderson examines the most important and often overlooked aspect of K-pop: the music itself. She demonstrates how contemporary K-pop references and incorporates ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

  • Ocarina 12/10 Songbook - 25 Evergreens from all over the world

    + Sounds online

    Songbook with 25 Evergreens from all over the world, notated for the Ocarina with 10 or 12 holes.The tones of the melodies were prepared with fingerings for the Ocarina, the rhythm of the tones is given by the lyrics and/or the classical notation.The sounds of the songs (melody with backing band and backing band alone - "Playalong") are available online in a sound player with adjustab... ... Read more

    $11.82 AUD

  • I've Been Out There

    On the Road with Legends of Rock 'n' Roll

    by Grady Gaines ...
    Series series John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music, sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University
    In the 1950s, as the leader of the Upsetters, the original backing band for rock pioneer Little Richard, Grady Gaines first exposed the music world to his unique brand of “honkin’,” bombastic, attitude-drenched saxophone playing.In the years that followed, the Upsetters became the backing band for Sam Cooke and crisscrossed the country as the go-to-band for revue-style tours featuring James Brown, ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • Music, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

    A Teacher's Guide

    Series series Modern Musicology and the College Classroom
    Music, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: A Teacher’s Guide serves as a guide to the professor tasked with teaching music to undergraduates, with a focus on gender. Although the notion of feminist approaches in musicology was once greeted with scorn, the last 40 years have seen a seismic shift across music studies, to the point that classes on women and music are now commonplace in most undergraduate ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD

  • Backstage & Beyond Vol. 1

    by Jim Sullivan ...
    Jim Sullivan spent 26 years writing for the Boston Globe and two decades more writing for national publications. He has interviewed and reviewed countless musicians, many of them multiple times. Access to such A-list stars is hard to come by in the first place, but Sullivan got to know many of them well enough to engage on a far more intimate level than journalists usually can or do.The first ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shreveport Sounds in Black and White

    To borrow words from Stan “The Record Man” Lewis, Shreveport, Louisiana, is one of this nation's most important “regional-sound cities.” Its musical distinctiveness has been shaped by individuals and ensembles, record label and radio station owners, announcers and disc jockeys, club owners and sound engineers, music journalists and musicians. The area's output cannot be described by a single genre ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

  • Roll With It

    Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans

    Series series Refiguring American Music
    Roll With It is a firsthand account of the precarious lives of musicians in the Rebirth, Soul Rebels, and Hot 8 brass bands of New Orleans. These young men are celebrated as cultural icons for upholding the proud traditions of the jazz funeral and the second line parade, yet they remain subject to the perils of poverty, racial marginalization, and urban violence that characterize life for many ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD