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Art Sex Music by Cosey Fanni Tutti
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Category: Music | Series: Faber Greatest Hits Ser.
A SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH, ROUGH TRADE, PITCHFORK AND UNCUT MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR. SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE. A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century. Musician and arti ...Show more
Coltrane - The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff
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Category: Music | Series: Faber Greatest Hits Ser.
A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century. No other jazz musician has proved so inspirational and so fascinating as Coltrane. Ben Ratliff, jazz critic for the New York Times, has written the fi ...Show more
Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Faber Greatest Hits Ser.
In Girl in a Band, Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of women, tells her story. She writes frankly about her route from girl to woman and pioneering icon within the music and art scene of New York City in the 1980s and 90s as well as marriage, motherhood, and ind ...Show more
In the Country of Country - A Journey to the Roots of American Music by Nicholas Dawidoff
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Category: Music | Series: Faber Greatest Hits Ser.
In a series of indelible portraits of country music stars, Dawidoff reveals, among others, Jimmie Rodgers, the “father of Country”; Johnny Cash, the “Man in Black”; and Patsy Cline, a lonely figure striding out bravely in a man’s world. In the Country of Country is a passionate and expansive account of ...Show more
Lowside of the Road - A Life of Tom Waits by Barney Hoskyns
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Faber Greatest Hits Ser.
Spanning Tom Waits' extraordinary 40-year career, from Closing Time to Orphans, Lowside of the Road is Barney Hoskyns' unique take on one of rock's great enigmas. Like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, Waits is a chameleonic survivor who's achieved long-term success while retaining cult credibility and outsider ...Show more
Re-Make/Re-Model - The Art School Roots of Roxy Music by Michael Bracewell
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Category: Music | Series: Faber Greatest Hits Ser.
A new edition as part of the Faber Social Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century. Re-make/Re-model tells the extraordinary and largely unknown story of the individuals and circumstances that would lead over a period of almost ...Show more
Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds
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Category: Music | Series: Faber Greatest Hits Ser.
'A fantastic tribute to an amazingly creative musical period . . . An instant pop classic, worthy of a place on your shelves beside the handful of music books that really matter.' John McTernan, Scotland on Sunday. Punk revitalized rock in the mid-seventies, but the movement soon degenerated into self-p ...Show more
Syd Barrett - A Very Irregular Head by Rob Chapman
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Category: Music | Series: Faber Greatest Hits Ser.
Syd Barrett was the lead guitarist, vocalist, and principle songwriter in the original line up of Pink Floyd. During his brief time with the band (1966-68) he was the driving force behind the unit. After he left the band he made just two further solo albums which were both released in 1970, before withd ...Show more
Turn the Beat Around - The Secret History of Disco by Peter Shapiro
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Category: Music | Series: Faber Greatest Hits Ser.
A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century. Disco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe lights, tight trousers, ...Show more
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