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Autobiography - Rock
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Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses
I Wouldn't Say It If It Wasn't True: A Memoir of Life, Music, and the Dream Syndicate
Now You're One of Us: The Incredible Story of Redd Kross
Something to Believe in
Shake Some Action: My Life in Music (and Other Stuff)
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere.
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: My Life in the Music Business
Happy Forever: My Musical Adventures with the Turtles, Frank Zappa, T. Rex, Flo & Eddie, and More
Dark Luminosity: Memoirs of a Geezer, the Expanded Edition
My Effin' Life
Sideman: In Pursuit of the Next Gig
Girl in a Band: A Memoir
I Quit Everything: How One Woman's Addiction to Quitting Helped Her Confront Bad Habits and Embrace Midlife
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
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Biography - Rock
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Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell
Roadies: The Secret History of Australian Rock'n'roll
Paul Kelly: The Man, the Music and the Life In-Between
Rave on: The Biography of Buddy Holly
The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana
Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements
All the Leaves Are Brown: How the Mamas & the Papas Came Together and Broke Apart
What's Big and Purple and Lives in the Ocean?: The Moby Grape Story
This Could Go On Forever: On The Road With Tav Falco & Panther Burns
What Makes the Monkey Dance: The Life and Music of Chuck Prophet and Green on Red
Cruel to Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick Lowe
Vinyl Junkies: Adventures in Record Collecting (First and First)
Bear Suit Follies: The Songs, Stories and Letters of Antonia
Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury
Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll
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History
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Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock's Wildest Festival
Roadies: The Secret History of Australian Rock'n'roll
Soulsville U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records
Following the Drums: African American Fife and Drum Music in Tennessee
The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana
We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco and the End of the Analog Age
'70s Teen Pop
All the Leaves Are Brown: How the Mamas & the Papas Came Together and Broke Apart
Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century
I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women at Factory Records
I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution
Old Records Never Die: One Man's Quest for His Vinyl and His Past
Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the Usa, 1975-1983
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Compilations
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The Lockdown Interviews: Interviews with music's biggest stars
Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from "The Baffler"
The Singers Talk: The Greatest Singers of Our Time Discuss the One Thing They're Never Asked About: Their Voices
From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars
Popular Music Matters: Essays in Honour of Simon Frith
Decoding Despacito: An Oral History of Latin Music
But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the '60s Girl Groups
Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop
Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
Brick Through the Window: An Oral History of Milwaukee Music of the 70's & 80;s
I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (Anniversary)
Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk
More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking and Legacy of L.A. Punk
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Rock Journalism
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Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell
Something to Believe in
Shake Some Action: My Life in Music (and Other Stuff)
The Lockdown Interviews: Interviews with music's biggest stars
Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from "The Baffler"
The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana
Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters
Paper Cuts
Old Records Never Die: One Man's Quest for His Vinyl and His Past
Trips: Rock Life in the Sixties--Augmented Edition
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (Anniversary)
Stranded
Bubblegum Music Is the Naked Truth: The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop, from the Banana Splits to Britney Spears
It Came from Memphis: Updated and Revised
Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition (Revised)
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Autobiography - Country
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Maybe We'll Make It: A Memoir
Broken Horses: A Memoir
Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust: My Friendship with Patsy Cline
It's a Long Story: My Life
Waylon: An Autobiography
Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
I Lived to Tell It All
My House of Memories: An Autobiography
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Experimental Music
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Flutter Echo
Ocean of Sound: Ambient Sound and Radical Listening in the Age of Communication
Inflamed Invisible: Collected Writings on Art and Sound, 1976-2018
Keith Rowe: The Room Extended
Irrational Music
Solo Gig: Essential Curiosities in Musical Free Improvisation
A Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation
Genesis of a Music: An Account of a Creative Work, Its Roots, and Its Fulfillments, Second Edition (Enlarged)
American Minimal Music: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass
Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass (Revised)
Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice in Music (Revised)
Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice
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Jazz
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From the Minds of Jazz Musicians, Volume II: Conversations with the Creative and Inspired
From the Minds of Jazz Musicians: Conversations with the Creative and Inspired
Steve Lacy: Conversations
Never Givin' Up: The Life and Music of Al Jarreau
Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life in Music
Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band
William Claxton. Jazzlife
Miles (Reissue)
Miles Davis: The Definitive Biography
Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus
Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music
The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1,001 Best Albums
Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepper (Updtd Da Capo PR)
Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait of Hampton Hawes
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Blues, Soul, R&B
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Soulsville U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records
Funkiest Man Alive: Rufus Thomas and Memphis Soul
Following the Drums: African American Fife and Drum Music in Tennessee
Never Givin' Up: The Life and Music of Al Jarreau
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
Mister Satan's Apprentice: A Blues Memoir
The Country Blues (Revised)
Going Up the Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s
Mississippi Hill Country Blues 1967
Red Hot and Blue: Fifty Years of Writing about Music, Memphis, and Motherf**kers
Michael Bloomfield: The Rise and Fall of an American Guitar Hero
Chicago Blues: The City and the Music
The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold
Luther: The Life and Longing of Luther Vandross
The Influential Legends of Soul Music: The Lives of Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, and Stevie Wonder
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Folk, Roots
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Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting
Following the Drums: African American Fife and Drum Music in Tennessee
All the Leaves Are Brown: How the Mamas & the Papas Came Together and Broke Apart
Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World
Beautiful Scars: Steeltown Secrets, Mohawk Skywalkers and the Road Home
Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975
Stampfel on Weber and the Complete Boston Broadsides 1964-1967
The Mayor of Macdougal Street: A Memoir
Odetta: A Life in Music and Protest
And a Voice to Sing with: A Memoir
Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark
To Live's to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt
Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist
Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues and Rock 'n' Roll
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