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The Rest Is Noise The Rest Is Noise Alex Ross
Dreaming the Beatles Dreaming the Beatles Rob Sheffield
God Save the Queens God Save the Queens Kathy Iandoli
Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls Lisa Robinson
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Dreaming the Beatles Dreaming the Beatles Rob Sheffield
Beatles '66 Beatles '66 Steve Turner
Grunge Seattle Grunge Seattle Justin Henderson
The Rest Is Noise The Rest Is Noise Alex Ross
Music by the Hearth Music by the Hearth Foster White
Trends in African Popular Music Trends in African Popular Music Ikenna Emmanuel Onwuegbuna
Rhythm in the Rain Rhythm in the Rain Lynn Darroch
Will You Take Me As I Am Will You Take Me As I Am Michelle Mercer
Leningrad: Siege and Symphony Leningrad: Siege and Symphony Brian Moynahan
She Begat This She Begat This Joan Morgan
Muscle Shoals Sound Studio Muscle Shoals Sound Studio Carla Jean Whitley
Carolina Bluegrass Carolina Bluegrass Gail Wilson-Giarratano PhD
Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls Lisa Robinson
Fifty Sides of the Beach Boys Fifty Sides of the Beach Boys Mark Dillon
Elvis Has Left the Building Elvis Has Left the Building Dylan Jones
Any Night of the Week Any Night of the Week Jonny Dovercourt
Smash! Smash! Ian Winwood
Fare Thee Well Fare Thee Well Joel Selvin
Then Sings My Soul Then Sings My Soul Robert J. Morgan
A New and Concise History of Rock and R&B through the Early 1990s A New and Concise History of Rock and R&B through the Early 1990s Eric Charry
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Singing Ideas Singing Ideas Tríona Ní Shíocháin
Listen to This If You Love Great Music Listen to This If You Love Great Music Robin Murray
Shattering Biopolitics Shattering Biopolitics Naomi Waltham-Smith
Bluegrass, Newgrass, Old-Time, and Americana Music Bluegrass, Newgrass, Old-Time, and Americana Music Craig Harris
Please Please Tell Me Now Please Please Tell Me Now Stephen Davis
Fallopian Rhapsody Fallopian Rhapsody The Lunachicks
Russia's Theatrical Past Russia's Theatrical Past Claudia R. Jensen
Sing for Freedom Sing for Freedom Candie Carawan
Listen Listen Peter Szendy
Atomic Tunes Atomic Tunes Tim Smolko
Testimony Testimony Solomon Volkov
Beatlemania Beatlemania André Millard
The Music and Mythocracy of Col. Bruce Hampton The Music and Mythocracy of Col. Bruce Hampton Jerry Grillo
Grunge Seattle Grunge Seattle Justin Henderson
Jews in Music Jews in Music Artur Holde
All things must pass. The lives and deaths of rock All things must pass. The lives and deaths of rock Christophe Pirenne
Rock Stars on the Record Rock Stars on the Record Eric Spitznagel
A Case for Charpentier A Case for Charpentier Carla E. Williams
Can't Slow Down Can't Slow Down Michaelangelo Matos
They Just Seem a Little Weird They Just Seem a Little Weird Doug Brod