[Art by Al Margen]
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#RESIST
The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco, 1965–1975 by Mat Callahan
Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran by Nahid Siamdoust
Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913 by Daniel Wolff
"Do You Have a Band?": Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City by Daniel Kane
In Search of Soul: Hip-Hop, Literature, and Religion by Alejandro Nava
Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z ed. by Jonathan Lethem & Kevin Dettmar
Soul Survivor: A Biography of Al Green by Jimmy McDonough
Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music by Ann Powers
Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan by Elaine M. Hayes
Bop Apocalypse: Jazz, Race, the Beats, and Drugs by Martin Torgoff
Finding Bix: The Life and Afterlife of a Jazz Legend by Brendan Wolfe
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson
When the World Stopped to Listen: Van Cliburn's Cold War Triumph, and Its Aftermath by Stuart Isacoff
White Tears by Hari Kunzru
Late Arcade by Nathaniel Mackey
Black Mad Wheel by Josh Malerman
Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine by Joe Hagan
Music after the Fall: Modern Composition and Culture Since 1989 by Tim Rutherford-Johnson
Toscanini: Musician of Conscience by Harvey Sachs
Punk Avenue: Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982 by Phil Marcade
O Sing Unto the Lord: A History of English Church Music by Andrew Gant
Folk Song in England by Steve Roud
The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock by David Weigel
by Cyn Collins
Dig If You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince by Ben Greenman
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#SUB-
Dancehall: The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture (reprint) by Beth Lesser w/ Stuart Baker
Ghostnotes: Music of the Unplayed by Brian Cross, Greg Tate & Dave Tompkins
The Tide Was Always High: The Music of Latin America in Los Angeles ed. by Josh Kun
The Raver Stories Project ed. by Michael Tullberg
Lou Reed: A Life by Anthony DeCurtis
David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones
Everything Is Combustible: Television, CBGB's and Five Decades of Rock and Roll: The Memoirs of an Alchemical Guitarist by Robert Lloyd
Mozart's Starling by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Personal Stereo by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them ed. by Rhian Jones & Eli Davies
Hit So Hard: A Memoir by Patty Schemel
Art Sex Music by Cosey Fanni Tutti
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#LIT
Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination by Brent Hayes Edwards#LIT
"Do You Have a Band?": Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City by Daniel Kane
In Search of Soul: Hip-Hop, Literature, and Religion by Alejandro Nava
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#ESSAY
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays by Hanif Abdurraqib#ESSAY
Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z ed. by Jonathan Lethem & Kevin Dettmar
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#SOUL
In the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett by Tony Fletcher#SOUL
Soul Survivor: A Biography of Al Green by Jimmy McDonough
Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music by Ann Powers
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#JASS
The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums by Will Friedwald#JASS
Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan by Elaine M. Hayes
Bop Apocalypse: Jazz, Race, the Beats, and Drugs by Martin Torgoff
Finding Bix: The Life and Afterlife of a Jazz Legend by Brendan Wolfe
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#Π ΠΎΡΡΠΈΡ
Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina#Π ΠΎΡΡΠΈΡ
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson
When the World Stopped to Listen: Van Cliburn's Cold War Triumph, and Its Aftermath by Stuart Isacoff
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#FICTION
Shadowbahn by Steve Erickson#FICTION
White Tears by Hari Kunzru
Late Arcade by Nathaniel Mackey
Black Mad Wheel by Josh Malerman
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#RS@50
When Genres Collide: Down Beat, Rolling Stone, and the Struggle between Jazz and Rock by Matt Brennan#RS@50
Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine by Joe Hagan
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#CLASSICAL
Maestros and Their Music: The Art and Alchemy of Conducting by John Mauceri#CLASSICAL
Music after the Fall: Modern Composition and Culture Since 1989 by Tim Rutherford-Johnson
Toscanini: Musician of Conscience by Harvey Sachs
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#NYC
Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 by Lizzy Goodman#NYC
Punk Avenue: Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982 by Phil Marcade
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#UK
Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World by Billy Bragg#UK
O Sing Unto the Lord: A History of English Church Music by Andrew Gant
Folk Song in England by Steve Roud
The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock by David Weigel
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#MINNESOTAH
Complicated Fun: The Birth of Minneapolis Punk and Indie Rock, 1974-1984-An Oral History#MINNESOTAH
by Cyn Collins
Dig If You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince by Ben Greenman
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#SUB-
Ghostnotes: Music of the Unplayed by Brian Cross, Greg Tate & Dave Tompkins
The Tide Was Always High: The Music of Latin America in Los Angeles ed. by Josh Kun
The Raver Stories Project ed. by Michael Tullberg
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#HIS
Finding Joseph I: An Oral History of H.R. from Bad Brains by Howie Abrams & James LathosLou Reed: A Life by Anthony DeCurtis
David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones
Everything Is Combustible: Television, CBGB's and Five Decades of Rock and Roll: The Memoirs of an Alchemical Guitarist by Robert Lloyd
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#LISTENING
The Force of Listening by Lucia Farinati & Claudia Frith#LISTENING
Mozart's Starling by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Personal Stereo by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
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#HERS
Every Night Is Saturday Night: A Country Girl’s Journey to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame by Wanda Jackson w/ Scott Boma#HERS
Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them ed. by Rhian Jones & Eli Davies
Hit So Hard: A Memoir by Patty Schemel
Art Sex Music by Cosey Fanni Tutti
