The World Of Rock by John Gabree, An explosive statement on the biggest cultural phenomenon to ever hit the world; they're all here - the youth who reshaped the ballads of country & western music, traditional folk lyrics, pulsating tempos of rhythm and blues, sweet soul, and rock and roll, to tell it like it is about sex, war, civil rights and black protest; covers the Beatles, the Supremes, Little Richard, the Monkees, Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones, the Byrds, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beach Boys, the Doors, the Lovin' Spoonful, Ray Charles, the Who, the Mamas and Papas,  and many others (Fawcett Publications, 1968) No ISBN. Used small mass market paperback book, 176 pages, covers soiled, pages are very good.
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The Year's Work In Music 1947-48 edited by Alan Frank, The first issue of an annual publication of articles by writers who are acknowledged authorities in their chosen field; the first half is work on special aspects of British Music, while the surveys in the second half give an account of the chief musical events of the year; includes a list of recordings and an extensive bibliography (published for The British Council by Longmans, Green and Co., London, first printing, 1948) Used softcover book, 79 pages, light wear & soiling to covers, light foxing on 1st and last few pages and a few other pages, corners knocked, else good.
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The Year's Work In Music 1948-49 edited by Alan Frank, The second issue of an annual publication of articles by writers who are acknowledged authorities in their chosen field; the first half comprises of essays on some special aspects of British musical life while the second half surveys the year's musical activity; includes a list of recordings and an extensive bibliography (published for The British Council by Longmans, Green and Co., London, first printing, 1949) Used softcover book, 80 pages, light edge wear & soiling to covers, light foxing on 1st and last few pages, corners knocked, else good.
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Those Fabulous Philadelphians: The Life and Times of a Great Orchestra -by- Herbert Kupferberg. The Philadelphia Orchestra was founded in 1900, led briefly by two German conductors and then for 56 years by Leobold Stokowski and Eugene Ormandy (W H Allen, London, First British Edition, 1970) ISBN 0491003943. Used hardcover book in price-clipped d/j, 259 pages. D/j is worn on edges with small chips in corners and top of spine. Book itself is very good.
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True Blue, Stories And Songs of Australia by John Williamson, The Aussie Balladeer's greatest songs come alive as he tells the stories of the people and places that inspired them (Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1996) ISBN 0207190712 /0-207-19071-2. Used softcover book, 208 pages. Corners bumped, else very good.
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Twentieth-Century Music: An Introduction by Eric Salzman general editor H Wiley Hitchcock (Printice Hall History of Music Series, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1967) No ISBN. Used softcover book, 196 pages, covers and page edges are lightly soiled, corners curled, light foxing on edges of pages, else good.
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Victorian Illustrated Music Sheets -by- Catherine Hall. 25 illustrated Victorian music covers produced in colour (Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1981) ISBN 011290355X. Used sotcover stapled booklet, 32 pages. Written inscription on title page. Corners bumped. Lower corner creased. Stamp "withdrawn" inside front cover but no other evidence of being ex-library. Else very good.
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Viva la Libertà! (Viva la Liberta!) Politics In Opera by Anthony Arblaster. The author uncovers the political dimensions of a vast range of works, from 'The Marriage of Figaro' to 'Nixon in China'; beginning with an investigation of opera in revolutionary France, Arblaster goes on to analyse Mozart's enigmatic politics, and to explore the work of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and Verdi  in the contect of the 'Risorgimento'; further chapters examine Wagner;s early radicalism and notorious aniti-semitism, nationalism in Russian, Czech and English opera, and the weaknesses of Puccini and Strauss;  he also discusses the place of women in opera, and concludes with a fascinating survey of the treatment of everyday life in opera and musicals from Dallapiccola to Sondheim (Verso, London, reprint, 2000) ISBN 0860916189. Softcover book, 340 pages, NEW.
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