Blondie's Parallel Lines mixed punk, disco and radio-friendly FM rock with nostalgic influences from 1960s pop and girl group hits. This 1978 ...
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WINNER OF A 2016 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD The American Slave Coast tells the horrific, far-reaching story of how the slavery ...
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A REFINERY29 BEST BOOK OF 2016 ON THE J.P. MORGAN #NEXTLIST2017 Careers are not linear, predictable ladders any longer; they ...
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Like Fela Kuti and Bob Marley, singer, composer, and bandleader Thomas Mapfumo and his music came to represent his native ...
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What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography by Alan Light (Crown/Archetype, 2016)  Inspired by the critically acclaimed Netflix documentary What Happened, ...
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The Cannabis Manifesto by Steve DeAngelo (North Atlantic Books 2015) With medical marijuana now being recognized as a major healthcare issue, ...
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Unique portraits of legendary characters along South America’s mountain spine, from Charles Darwin to the present day, told by a ...
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Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties by Elijah Wald (Dey Street/ HarperCollins, July 2015) ...
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The Lost Treasures of R&B: A D Hunter Mystery by Nelson George (Akashic Books 2015) With gentrifying Brooklyn as the backdrop, ...
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Another Little Piece of My Heart by Richard Goldstein (Bloomsbury 2015) In 1966, at the age of twenty-two, Richard Goldstein ...
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Going into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man by Robert Christgau (Dey Street/HarperCollins 2015) One of ...
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Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth by John Szwed (Viking 2015) Published in celebration of Holiday’s centenary, the first ...
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Let's Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain (Atria Books 2015) 2014 marks the 30th anniversary of the ...
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I Only Read It for the Cartoons : The New Yorker's Most Brilliantly Twisted Artists by Richard Gehr (New Harvest 2014) ...
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The Hippest Trip in America: Soul Train and the Evolution of Culture and Style by Nelson George (Morrow 2014) Soul ...
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 Gil Scott Heron: Pieces Of A Man by Marcus Baram (St. Martin's Press 2014) THE MESSENGER is the first biography of ...
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Naked And Marooned: One Man. One Island by Ed Stafford (Plume 2014) After his stint as the first person to ...
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 A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton From Box Tops to Big Star to Backdoor Man ...
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Pranksters: Making Mischief In The Modern World by Kembrew McLeod From Benjamin Franklin's newspaper hoax that faked the death of his ...
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 Kicking and Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock & Roll by Ann and Nancy Wilson with Charles Cross The story ...
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