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Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey – $245

From the first time a record was played over the airwaves in 1906, to a modern club economy that totals $3 billion annually in New York City alone, the DJ has been at the center of popular music....

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This Will End in Tears: The Miserabilist Guide to Music – $275

  Sad music moves us like nothing else, and despite its gloomy nature it also has the curious power to make us happy. In This Will End in Tears: The Miserabilist Guide to Music, author Adam Brent...

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Marvel Comics: The Untold Story – $395

An unvarnished, unauthorized, behind-the-scenes account of one of the most dominant pop cultural forces in contemporary America. Operating out of a tiny office on Madison Avenue in the early 1960s, a...

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Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop – $375

  Despite having created one of the most important musical cultures of the last fifty years, hip-hop composers who use digital sampling are rarely taken seriously as artists. But hip-hop deejays and...

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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I – $450

Occasionally a book is published that reveals a subculture you never dreamt existed. More rarely, that book goes on to become a phenomenon of its own. The 2004 publication of the Russian Criminal...

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Black Music – $325

  “Jones has learned—and this has been very rare in jazz criticism—to write about music as an artist.”—Nat Hentoffks Black Music is a book about the brilliant young jazz musicians of the early 1960s:...

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Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle – $275

We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating...

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Richard Prince – $475

  Richard Prince For 30 years now, the American artist Richard Prince has been considered one of the most forward-thinking and innovative artists in the world. In 1977, his deceptively simple act of...

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