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Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall
This big biography of Cohen will appeal to a wide variety of readers, especially the philosophically minded.
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Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories
An insightful explication of how some blues songs were hidden and censored, with a revelatory oral history.
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A Light in the Darkness: The Music and Life of Joaquín Rodrigo
This exhaustive, annotated treatment about Rodrigo’s work is best for musicologists, although cultural historians will find it helpful.
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Playing the Percentages: How Film Distribution Made the Hollywood Studio System
A contribution to the lesser-known field of media distribution, this joins Joel Frykholm’s George Kleine and America Cinema and Michael Quinn’s dissertation “Early Feature Distribution,” which Long praises. Economic historians and attorneys interested in contracts and court rulings might be the most natural audience for this dissertation-styled book.
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Tuned In: Memoirs of a Piano Man
This vicarious adventure and engaging memoir teaches that learning a marketable trade, in this case piano tuning, can be a useful underpinning for seeking goals that seem out of reach. Includes insightful anecdotes about music stars.
Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’
Multilayered and eminently revisitable (like the play and the film), Gefter’s wonderful book helps readers reevaluate vis-à-vis values prevalent half a century later.
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Music and the Idea of a World
A distinctive exploration of the many meanings of music. Best for music theorists and those with a background in philosophy.
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Casablanca’s Conscience
Whalen gives readers with an opportunity to revisit a multilayered film and arms them with insights from varied philosophical perspectives. Pair it with a more traditional history, like The Making of “Casablanca” by Aljean Harmetz.
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God Gave Rock and Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music
This breezy yet fact-filled romp through the Christian side of American popular culture from 1897 to the present will be eye-opening for many secular readers.
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