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Bob Dylan: Retrospectrum
Bob Dylan: Retrospectrum
Edited by Shai Baitel. Text by Richard Prince.

Spanning six decades, Retrospectrum showcases the development and range of Bob Dylan’s (born 1941) visual art in an array of mediums. His diverse creations include works made in oil, acrylic, watercolor, ink, pastel, charcoal and >>more

SKIRA
ISBN 9788857249025
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Hbk, 10.25 x 13.75 in. / 224 pgs / 176 color.
Pub Date: 04/25/2023 In stock


Kim Gordon: Keller
Kim Gordon: Keller

This volume is an intimate consideration of musician Kim Gordon’s brother’s life and art featuring personal photographs and pages from his journals. Following Keller Gordon’s death in 2023, his sister collected mementos—relics from a shared >>more

Karma Books, New York
ISBN 9781961883079
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Pbk, 7.5 x 9.75 in. / 128 pgs / 111 color.
Pub Date: 09/03/2024 In stock


Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures
Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures
Edited by John Reynolds, Tiny Robinson. Text by Jack Kerouac, Glenn O’Brien, Mason Roberson, Pete Seeger, Tom Waits, et al. Poems by Tyehimba Jess.

This is a new edition of Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures, the rich visual biography of legendary Louisiana blues musician Lead Belly, originally published by Steidl in 2007. Here is a treasure trove of >>more

Steidl
ISBN 9783958297036
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Hbk, 9 x 11.75 in. / 256 pgs / 56 color / 110 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/24/2025 Awaiting stock


Lee Scratch Perry: Black Ark
Lee Scratch Perry: Black Ark
Text by Ishion Hutchinson, David Katz, Kodwo Eshun, John Corbett.

A 600-page tribute to one of the most famous locales in music history, Black Ark is a detailed inventory of photographs and writings from the Black Ark Studios in Kingston, Jamaica, where producer Lee “Scratch” >>more

Edition Patrick Frey
ISBN 9783907236666
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Pbk, 8.25 x 11 in. / 600 pgs / 400 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/04/2025 Awaiting stock


                                                                                                                                                        

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A Mammal’s Notebook: The Writings of Erik Satie
A Mammal’s Notebook: The Writings of Erik Satie
Edited and with introduction by Ornella Volta. Translation by Antony Melville. This is the largest selection, in any language, of the writings of Erik Satie (1866-1925). Although once dismissed as an eccentric, Satie has come to be seen as a key influence on modern music, and >>more

Atlas Press
ISBN 9781900565660
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / 153 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/31/2014 In stock


Arcana II: Musicians on Music
Arcana II: Musicians on Music
Edited by John Zorn. Texts by Yamataka Eye, J. G. Thirlwell, Butch Morris, Evan Parker, Marina Rosenfeld, Ned Rothenberg, Sylvie Courvoisier, Steve Coleman, Dave Douglas, Annie Gosfield, Jim O'Rourke, Milford Graves, Zeena Parkins, Bill Laswell and Uri Caine, et. al. In his preface to the first Arcana: Musicians on Music (2000), avant-garde composer and saxophone player John Zorn wrote: "This book exists to correct an unfortunate injustice, the incredible lack of insightful critical writing about >>more

Hips Road/Tzadik
ISBN 9780978833763
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Paperback, 6.5 x 10 in. / 300 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/01/2007 In stock


Arcana III: Musicians on Music
Arcana III: Musicians on Music
Edited by John Zorn. Arcana III is the third groundbreaking collection of critical writings on avant-garde and experimental music put together by editor (and experimental music legend) John Zorn. In this volume, 30 distinguished composer/performers illuminate and speculate upon >>more

Hips Road/Tzadik
ISBN 9780978833770
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Pbk, 6.5 x 10 in. / 256 pgs / 35 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/01/2008 In stock


Arcana IV: Musicians on Music
Arcana IV: Musicians on Music
Edited by John Zorn. Now in its fourth installment, with a fifth in preparation, John Zorn's acclaimed Arcana series provides insight into the work and methodologies of some of the most creative musical minds of our time. Rather than >>more

Hips Road/Tzadik
ISBN 9780978833787
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Pbk 6.5 x 10 in. / 408 pgs / 85 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 In stock


Arcana V: Musicians on Music, Magic & Mysticism
Arcana V: Musicians on Music, Magic & Mysticism
Edited by John Zorn. For centuries musicians have tapped into mysticism, magic and alchemy, embracing ritual, spell, incantation and prayer, and experimenting with esoteric approaches to harmony, pitch and vibration. In recent decades, avant-garde musicians have rediscovered these overlaps, >>more

Hips Road/Tzadik
ISBN 9780978833794
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Pbk, 6.5 x 10 in. / 464 pgs / 62 color / 52 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/31/2010 Out of stock


Arcana VI: Musicians on Music
Arcana VI: Musicians on Music
Edited and with preface by John Zorn. A major resource for new music theory and practice in the twenty-first century, the acclaimed Arcana series looks at the inner workings of the artistic process through manifestoes, scores, interviews, notes and critical papers written >>more

Hips Road/Tzadik
ISBN 9780978833756
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Pbk, 6.5 x 10 in. / 316 pgs / 73 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2012 In stock


Arcana VII: Musicians on Music
Arcana VII: Musicians on Music
John Zorn's acclaimed Arcana series, now in its seventh installment, is a major source on new music theory and practice in the twenty-first century. The most varied collection to date, Arcana VII includes personal essays >>more

Hips Road/Tzadik
ISBN 9780978833749
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Pbk, 6.5 x 10 in. / 348 pgs / 156 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2014 In stock


Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti: Selected Lyrics
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti: Selected Lyrics
By Ariel Pink. Edited by Anthony Atlas. Selected Lyrics is the debut print publication of acclaimed Los Angeles songwriter Ariel Pink (born 1978), as the first survey of lyrics by his band, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti. It provides lyrics for Pink's most >>more

Nieves
ISBN 9783905999525
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 52 pgs / 52 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2014 Out of stock


Autumn's Sun
Autumn's Sun
Introduction by Lawrence Kumpf. Text by Loren Connors and Suzanne Langille.

One of the world’s most singular guitarists, Loren Connors has wrung distinct shades of ephemeral blues from his guitar, its sound ever-shifting while remaining unmistakably his own in more than 100 records across almost four >>more

Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781733723527
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Pbk, 5 x 7.5 in. / 82 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/17/2019 Out of stock


Beethoven Moves
Beethoven Moves
Edited by Andreas Kugler, Jasper Sharp. Text by Stefan Weppelmann, Andreas Zimmermann Herausgeber, Aleida Assmann, Jan Assmann, Werner Busch, Edmund de Waal, Olga Flor, Clemens Gadenstätter, Philipp Hauss, Vea Kaiser, Akira Kasai, Satoko Kawano, Larissa Kirillina, Birgit Lodes, Thomas Macho, Nicolas Mahler, Sheila Melvin, Jindong Cai, Jürgen Müller, Hiroshi Naito, Julia Ronge, Christopher Rothko, Norio Suda, Manfred Trojahn, Beat Wyss, Yanming Zhou, Susana Zapke, Barbara Zeman, Robert Haselbacher.

The colossal appeal of Ludwig van Beethoven’s romantic music and larger-than-life personality is explored in this publication, which gathers art both contemporaneous with the composer and more recent works influenced by or responding to him. >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775747493
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Hbk, 8.75 x 11.75 in. / 224 pgs / 220 color.
Pub Date: 05/19/2020 Out of stock


Birgit Nilsson: 100
Birgit Nilsson: 100
Edited by Rutbert Reisch. Text by Gabriel Bacquier, Peter Blaha, Rupert Christiansen, Jens Malte Fischer, Mirella Freni, Richard Gaddes, Elvio Giudici, Clemens Hellsberg, Marilyn Horne, Speight Jenkins, Stefan Johansson, Brian Large, James Levine, Christa Ludwig, J. F. Mastroianni, Martha Mödl, John Mordler, Riccardo Muti, Otto Schenk, Valerie Solti, Nina Stemme, Paul Thomason, Sir John Tooley, Barry Tucker, Astrid Varnay, Edgar Vincent, Eva Wagner-Pasquier, Zachary Woolfe.

Though arguably the last of the “true” Wagnerians, Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson (1918–2005) was by no means limited to Wagner in her repertoire. Her roles as Isolde, Brünnhilde, Salome, Elektra, Dyer’s Wife and Turandot were >>more

Verlag für moderne Kunst
ISBN 9783903153929
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Boxed hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 712 pgs / 560 color.
Pub Date: 05/22/2018 In stock


Björk
Björk
Text by Klaus Biesenbach, Alex Ross, Nicola Dibben, Timothy Morton, Sjón.

Björk is a contemporary icon whose contributions to music, video, film, fashion and art have influenced a generation worldwide. Designed by top graphic design agency M/M as a slipcased world of wonders, this publication—which accompanies >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870709609
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Slip, Pbk, 5 vols, 9.5 x 12 in. / 192 pgs / 224 color.
Pub Date: 03/24/2015 In stock


Black Case Volume I & II
Black Case Volume I & II
Introduction by Brent Hayes Edwards. Preface by Thulani Davis. Text by Joseph Jarman

In 1977, Art Ensemble of Chicago Publishing Co. published Jarman’s Black Case , a collection of writing conceived across America and Europe between 1960 and 1975. Comprised largely of Jarman’s flowing, fiery free verse—influenced by >>more

Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781733723534
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Pbk, 6.75 x 8.25 in. / 142 pgs / 12 duotone.
Pub Date: 11/05/2019 Out of stock


Blank Forms: Aspirations of Madness
Blank Forms: Aspirations of Madness
Edited by Lawrence Kumpf with Joe Bucciero. Contributions by Masayuki Takayanagi, Louise Landes Levi, Jo-seph Jarman, Catherine Christer Hennix, Charles Stein, Henry Orlov, Maryanne Amacher, Alan Cummings, Bill Dietz, Peter Kastakis, Art Lange, Leo Svirsky, Satoru Obara, Tomoyuki Chida.

Aspirations of Madness, Blank Forms’ fifth collection of archival, unpublished, or newly translated texts, takes its title from a series of interviews with Japanese free jazz pioneer Masayuki Takayangi that were published in Japanese in >>more

Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781733723541
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 242 pgs / 6 color / 14 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/17/2020 In stock


Boris Blank, Dieter Meier: Oh Yeah—Yello 40
Boris Blank, Dieter Meier: Oh Yeah—Yello 40
Text by Boris Blank, Dieter Meier, Hanspeter Kuenzler.

Forty years ago, armed with tape, scissors and a hefty dose of wit, Zurich band Yello—aka Boris Blank, Dieter Meier and, initially, Carlos Perón—set out to write their very own chapter of music history. In >>more

Edition Patrick Frey
ISBN 9783907236352
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Hbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 452 pgs / 580 color / 130 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/29/2022 In stock


Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band 1975: Photographs by Barbara Pyle
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band 1975: Photographs by Barbara Pyle
Photographs by Barbara Pyle. Contributions by Eric Meola, Peter Doggett, Dave Brolan. Barbara Pyle’s intimate behind the scenes photographs from 1975 and the recording, rehearsing and touring of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's Born to Run have been eagerly awaited for 40 years and are >>more

Reel Art Press
ISBN 9781909526341
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Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 228 pgs / 20 color / 160 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/06/2015 Out of stock


Christopher Knowles: In a Word
Christopher Knowles: In a Word
Text by Hilton Als, Anthony Elms, Lauren DiGiulio, Christopher Knowles.

The artistic career of Christopher Knowles (born 1959) began at the age of 13, when his writings and recordings came to the notice of avant-garde theater director Robert Wilson. Still a teenager, Knowles went on >>more

Gregory R. Miller & Co.
ISBN 9781941366158
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Hbk, 8 x 10.75 in. / 144 pgs / 96 color.
Pub Date: 03/27/2018 In stock


Common Tones
Common Tones
By Alan Licht. Introduction by Jay Sanders.

For the past 30 years, Alan Licht has been a performer, programmer and chronicler of New York’s art and music scenes. His dry wit, deep erudition and unique perspective—informed by decades of experience as a >>more

Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781953691019
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Pbk, 4.75 x 7 in. / 592 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/17/2021 In stock


Eric Baudelaire: The Music of Ramón Raquello & His Orchestra and Other Stories
Eric Baudelaire: The Music of Ramón Raquello & His Orchestra and Other Stories

This artist’s book brings together research, material fragments, chronologies, images and texts that have informed the Paris-based artist Eric Baudelaire's (born 1973) work process. Baudelaire engages histories of images, cinema, radical militancy and violence by >>more

Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art/TABAKALERA
ISBN 9789491435508
US $20.00 CAN $27.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 192 pgs / 140 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/21/2017 In stock


Gainsbourg: The Biography
Gainsbourg: The Biography
By Gilles Verlant. Translated by Paul Knobloch. When Serge Gainsbourg died in 1991, France went into mourning: François Mitterand himself proclaimed him “our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire.” Gainsbourg redefined French pop, from his beginnings as cynical chansonnier and mambo-influenced jazz artist to the >>more

TamTam Books
ISBN 9780966234671
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Pbk, 8.5 x 5.5 in. / 400 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/31/2012 In stock


Give My Regards to Eighth Street
Give My Regards to Eighth Street
By Morton Feldman.

Morton Feldman (1926–87) is among the most influential American composers of the 20th century, a man whose music is known for its extreme quiet and delicate beauty (while Feldman himself was famously large and loud). >>more

Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972316
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 256 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/02/2004 In stock


In The Words of Sparks...Selected Lyrics
In The Words of Sparks...Selected Lyrics
Edited by Ron Mael, Russell Mael. Introduction by Morrissey. Sparks--the long-running duo of Ron and Russell Mael--are among the most respected songwriters of their generation, their songs ranking alongside those of Ray Davies (The Kinks having been a formative influence), George Gershwin, Cole Porter >>more

TamTam Books
ISBN 9780985272401
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Hbk, 4.25 x 6.75 in. / 200 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/31/2013 Out of stock


I’ve Seen the Wall: Louis Armstrong on Tour in the GDR 1965
I’ve Seen the Wall: Louis Armstrong on Tour in the GDR 1965
Edited with text by Paola Malavassi. Text by Tina Campt, Jason Moran. Interviews by Jewel Brown, Peter Brötzmann.

In 1965, still at the height of the Cold War, legendary African American jazz musician Louis Armstrong became the first US musician to go on tour in the GDR. Taking this historic event as a >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775755993
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Pbk, 8.75 x 11.75 in. / 208 pgs / 50 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/13/2024 In stock


Jason Moran
Jason Moran
Edited with text by Adrienne Edwards. Foreword by Olga Viso. Text by Philip Bither, Okwui Enwezor, Danielle Jackson, Alicia Hall Moran, George E. Lewis, Glenn Ligon.

This is the first in-depth publication to investigate the practice of pianist, composer and visual artist Jason Moran, whose work bridges the fields of visual arts and performing arts. As a “torchbearer for jazz,” Moran >>more

Walker Art Center
ISBN 9781935963172
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 272 pgs / 75 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/23/2018 In stock


John Cage: 4'33''– Sounds Like Silence
John Cage: 4'33''– Sounds Like Silence
Edited with text by Dieter Daniels, Inke Arns. Text by Brandon LaBelle, David Toop, Dörte Schmidt, Julia H. Schröder, Jan Theben. Contributions by Hans-Friedrich Bormann, William Letterman, Kyle Gann, Branden W. Joseph, et al.

John Cage's (1912–92) 4'33" premiered on August 29, 1952, distilling the composer's philosophical explorations of silence into four minutes, thirty-three seconds of performed, charged silence. Elegantly, provocatively, the piece asked: what does silence sound like?

Cage's >>more

Spector Books
ISBN 9783940064417
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Pbk, 9.5 x 13 in. / 288 pgs / 229 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/26/2018 In stock


Johnny Cash at Folsom and San Quentin
Johnny Cash at Folsom and San Quentin
Introduction by Marty Stuart. Text by Scott B. Bomar.

Carefully curated with full access to the Jim Marshall Archive, this powerful oversize volume offers the definitive view of Johnny Cash's prison concerts at Folsom in 1968 and San Quentin in 1969. Jim Marshall was >>more

Reel Art Press/BMG Books
ISBN 9781909526563
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Hbk, 9.75 x 13.25 in. / 144 pgs / 30 color / 120 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/24/2018 In stock


Jonas Kaufmann
Jonas Kaufmann
Preface by Nikolaus Bachler. Text by Christine Cerletti, Thomas Voigt.

World-famous tenor Jonas Kaufmann (born 1969) has performed all the great roles in the opera canon. On the occasion of his 50th birthday, this volume offers photographs from his most famous roles, plus images from >>more

Verlag für moderne Kunst
ISBN 9783903269750
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Hbk, 8.75 x 11 in. / 320 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 12/17/2019 In stock


La Nilsson: My Life in Opera
La Nilsson: My Life in Opera
By Birgit Nilsson. Preface by Georg Solti. Afterword by Peggy Tuller.

First published to wide acclaim in Sweden (1995) and Germany (1997), the autobiography of opera legend Birgit Nilsson (1918–2005) is finally available in an English translation (itself first published by Northeastern University Press in 2007). >>more

Verlag für moderne Kunst
ISBN 9783903228252
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Hbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 352 pgs / 56 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/22/2018 In stock


Led Zeppelin Vinyl
Led Zeppelin Vinyl
By Ross Halfin.

Led Zeppelin released only eight studio albums and no singles over the course of their 12-year career, but to date there are more than 1,000 singles and 2,000 LPs in the market.
This definitive volume illustrates >>more

Reel Art Press
ISBN 9781909526808
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Hbk, 12 x 12 in. / 180 pgs / 800 color.
Pub Date: 08/10/2021 In stock


Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin is the first and only official illustrated book ever to be produced in full collaboration with the members of the band. Celebrating 50 years since their formation, this definitive 400-page >>more

Reel Art Press
ISBN 9781909526501
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Clth, 9.75 x 12 in. / 400 pgs / 150 color / 160 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/09/2018 In stock


Lou Reed: Metal Machine Trio
Lou Reed: Metal Machine Trio
Text by Christopher Scoates, Ulrich Krieger, Thurston Moore, Raj Patel. This volume documents the installation at the Cranbrook Art Museum of Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Trio, a live ambisonic 3-D sound installation inspired by Reed’s controversial 1975 album Metal Machine Music. Reed worked with acoustic >>more

Cranbrook Art Museum
ISBN 9780989186476
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Hbk, 9.25 x 12.25 in. / 132 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 08/23/2016 Out of stock


Louis Michel Eilshemius: Six Musical Moods
Louis Michel Eilshemius: Six Musical Moods
Edited with text by Stefan Banz. Text by Sven Daigger, Louis Michel Eilshemius, Roberto Ohrt.

Louis Michel Eilshemius: Six Musical Moods delves into the musical oeuvre of Eilshemius (1864–1941). In addition to photographs, paintings, drawings, scores and texts, this publication includes a CD of seven of his compositions recorded by >>more

Verlag für moderne Kunst
ISBN 9783903228924
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Hbk, 6.75 x 8.75 in. / 176 pgs / 72 color / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 In stock


Maryanne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interviews
Maryanne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interviews
Edited by Bill Dietz, Amy Cimini. Text by Maryanne Amacher. Interviews by Jeffrey Bartone, Elliot Handelman, Frank J. Oteri, Keiko Prince, Barbara Golden, Amy Cimini, Bill Dietz, Kabir Carter.

Maryanne Amacher (1938–2009) was a composer of large-scale fixed-duration sound installations and a highly original thinker in the areas of perception, sound spatialization and aural architecture. She is frequently cited as a pioneer of what >>more

Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781953691002
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Pbk, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 398 pgs / 14 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/02/2021 In stock


Meredith Monk: Calling
Meredith Monk: Calling
Edited by Anna Schneider. Text by Andrea Lissoni, Rick Moody, Timothy Morton, Teresa Retzer, Beatrix Ruf, Anna Schneider, Adam Shatz, Louise Steinman, et al.

Composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker and choreographer, Meredith Monk has united music, theater and dance to forge a new creative idiom exploring the human voice as instrument that has proved enormously influential for musicians and >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775754811
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Pbk, 7.25 x 9.75 in. / 400 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 11/19/2024 In stock


Metallica: The Black Album in Black & White
Metallica: The Black Album in Black & White
Introductions by Ross Halfin, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, Jason Newsted, Robert Trujillo.

Following its release in August 1991, Metallica’s landmark self-titled album—better known by fans as the Black Album—debuted at number one in ten countries and spent four consecutive weeks at the top of the Billboard 200. >>more

Reel Art Press
ISBN 9781909526761
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Hbk, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 224 pgs / 171 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/19/2021 In stock


Michael Stipe: Volume 1
Michael Stipe: Volume 1

Volume 1 is the first in a series of publications presenting different aspects of Michael Stipe’s multifaceted artistic practice.

Volume 1 includes a focused presentation of 35 images, bringing together 37 years of Stipe’s practice >>more

Damiani
ISBN 9788862085915
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Hbk, 9 x 13 in. / 72 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 05/22/2018 Out of stock


Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal
Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal
Introduction by Mark Christman. Text by Jake Nussbaum, Melvin Gibbs, John Corbett, Carlo Ventura, Milford Graves, Blake Bradford.

Milford Graves (born 1941) has been a revelatory force in music since the mid-1960s, liberating the drummer from the role of “timekeeper” to instrumental improviser and giving rise to the free-jazz movement, with groundbreaking performances >>more

Inventory Press/Ars Nova Workshop
ISBN 9781941753378
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Pbk, 7.5 x 10 in. / 176 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 01/24/2023 Out of stock


My Ramones: Photographs by Danny Fields
My Ramones: Photographs by Danny Fields
Text by Danny Fields, Michael Stipe, Seymour Stein, David Johansen.

Danny Fields first saw the Ramones play at CBGBs in New York in 1974, and instantly offered to manage them, also setting them up with a record deal. Originally published in a rare limited edition, >>more

Reel Art Press
ISBN 9781909526556
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Hbk, 8 x 10.5 in. / 176 pgs / 24 color / 202 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/27/2018 Out of stock


Nik Bärtsch: Listening
Nik Bärtsch: Listening
By Nik Bärtsch, Andrea Pfisterer-Bärtsch.

Over the past 20 years, Swiss musician and composer Nik Bärtsch (born 1971) has performed around the world and released a number of albums with ECM Records. During this time, Bärtsch also developed a number >>more

Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037786703
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Pbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 352 pgs / 92 color / 102 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2021 In stock


Organic Music Societies
Organic Music Societies
Edited by Lawrence Kumpf, Naima Karlsson, Magnus Nygren. Introduction by Lawrence Kumpf, Magnus Nygren. Text by Keith Knox, Rita Knox, Bengt af Klintberg, Iris R. Orton, Åke Holmquist, Pandit Pran Nath, John Esam, Michael Lindfield, Sidsel Paaske, George Trolin, Alan Halkyard, Moki Cherry, Don Cherry, Ben Young, Christer Bothén, Bengt Berger, Fumi Okiji. Interviews by Keith Knox & Rita Knox with Don Cherry, Terry Riley, Steve Roney.

Don Cherry and Moki Karlsson met in Sweden in the late ’60s. They married and began to perform together, dubbing their mix of communal art, social and environmental activism, children’s education and pan-ethnic expression “Organic >>more

Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781733723589
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 496 pgs / 30 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/01/2021 Out of stock


Partners: A Biography of Jerry Hunt
Partners: A Biography of Jerry Hunt
By Stephen Housewright.

Jerry Hunt (1943–93) was among the most eccentric figures in the word of new music. A frenetic orator, occultist and engineering consultant, his works from the 1970s through the early ’90s made use of readymade >>more

Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781953691040
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Pbk, 5.25 x 7.75 in. / 320 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/08/2022 Out of stock


Poësy Matters & Other Matters
Poësy Matters & Other Matters
Edited with introduction by Lawrence Kumpf. Text by Catherine Christer Hennix. Commentary by Henry Flynt.

This two-volume set, Poesy Matters and Other Matters, presents selected texts by the Swedish polymath Catherine Christer Hennix. Volume one, Poesy Matters, is divided into two sections: poetry and drama, with each section also containing >>more

Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781733723503
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Pbk, 2 vols, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 759 pgs / 10 color / 111 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/05/2019 Out of stock


Poësy Matters & Other Matters
Poësy Matters & Other Matters
Edited with introduction by Lawrence Kumpf. Text by Catherine Christer Hennix. Commentary by Henry Flynt.

This two-volume set, Poesy Matters and Other Matters, presents selected texts by the Swedish polymath Catherine Christer Hennix. Volume one, Poesy Matters, is divided into two sections: poetry and drama, with each section also containing >>more

Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781733723503
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Pbk, 2 vols, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 759 pgs / 10 color / 111 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/05/2019 Out of stock


The "Odessey": The Zombies in Words and Images
The "Odessey": The Zombies in Words and Images
By The Zombies. Foreword by Tom Petty. Text by Scott B. Bomar, Cindy da Silva. Contributions by Brian Wilson, Carlos Santana, Paul Weller.

I remember first hearing 'She’s Not There' on the radio in my bedroom. So ethereal. So spooky ... the DJ said it was The Zombies from England. 'Of course,' I thought. 'That is exactly what >>more

Reel Art Press/BMG Books
ISBN 9781909526440
US $39.95 CAN $53.95 TRADE
Hbk, 10 x 10 in. / 152 pgs / 62 color / 43 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/30/2017 Out of stock


The Beatles in Comic Strips
The Beatles in Comic Strips
By Enzo Gentile, Fabio Schiavo.

A collection of some two hundred cartoon strips dedicated to the Beatles, many of which are extremely rare and now inaccessible. Forty years after their break up, the Beatles remain the biggest phenomenon of music >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857208114
US $39.95 CAN $50.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.5 x 11.5 in. / 240 pgs / 222 color.
Pub Date: 08/21/2012 In stock


The Cricket
The Cricket
Edited by A.B. Spellman, Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka. Preface by A.B. Spellman. Introduction by David Grundy.

Edited by poets and writers Amiri Baraka, A.B. Spellman and Larry Neal between 1968 and 1969, and published by Baraka’s New Jersey–based JIHAD productions around the time of the Newark Riots, this experimental music magazine >>more

Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781953691101
US $35.00 CAN $49.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 184 pgs / 2 duotone / 9 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/13/2022 In stock


The Threepenny Opera: Making Of
The Threepenny Opera: Making Of
Text by Marion Brasch, Juri Sternburg. Photographs by Jörg Brüggemann.

This book is published for a new production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s musical drama The Threepenny Opera directed by Barrie Kosky and conducted by Adam Benzwi at the Berliner Ensemble, where the piece >>more

Spector Books
ISBN 9783959054669
US $35.00 CAN $47.00 FLAT40
Hbk, 8 x 11.25 in. / 192 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 04/26/2022 In stock


Transmissions from the Pleroma
Transmissions from the Pleroma
Edited by Lawrence Kumpf, Tyler Maxin. Text by Karen Finley, Shelley Hirsch, George E. Lewis, Gordon Monahan, Kris Paulsen, David Rosenbloom.

Jerry Hunt (1943–93) is sometimes described as a shamanic figure with the look of a “Central Texas meat inspector.” One of the most compelling composers in the word of late 20th-century new music, he made >>more

Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781953691057
US $20.00 CAN $27.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 250 pgs / 25 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/24/2022 In stock


Transmissions from the Pleroma
Transmissions from the Pleroma
Edited by Lawrence Kumpf, Tyler Maxin. Text by Karen Finley, Shelley Hirsch, George E. Lewis, Gordon Monahan, Kris Paulsen, David Rosenbloom.

Jerry Hunt (1943–93) is sometimes described as a shamanic figure with the look of a “Central Texas meat inspector.” One of the most compelling composers in the word of late 20th-century new music, he made >>more

Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781953691057
US $20.00 CAN $27.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 250 pgs / 25 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/24/2022 In stock


Try Saying You’re Alive!: Kazuki Tomokawa in His Own Words
Try Saying You’re Alive!: Kazuki Tomokawa in His Own Words
By Kazuki Tomokawa. Translated with introduction by Daniel Joseph. Introduction by Damon Krukowski.

Tokyo in the 1970s was a magnet for young musicians, poets and painters. Among them was Kazuki Tomokawa, a prolific singer-songwriter from Japan’s northern provinces, whose guttural vocals and incisive lyrics earned him the unofficial >>more

Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781953691033
US $20.00 CAN $27.00 TRADE
Pbk, 5.5 x 7.75 in. / 256 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/08/2022 In stock


Try Saying You’re Alive!: Kazuki Tomokawa in His Own Words
Try Saying You’re Alive!: Kazuki Tomokawa in His Own Words
By Kazuki Tomokawa. Translated with introduction by Daniel Joseph. Introduction by Damon Krukowski.

Tokyo in the 1970s was a magnet for young musicians, poets and painters. Among them was Kazuki Tomokawa, a prolific singer-songwriter from Japan’s northern provinces, whose guttural vocals and incisive lyrics earned him the unofficial >>more

Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781953691033
US $20.00 CAN $27.00 TRADE
Pbk, 5.5 x 7.75 in. / 256 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/08/2022 In stock



                           

VISUAL BOOK INDEX | OUT OF PRINT

Destroy All Monsters Magazine 1976-1979
Destroy All Monsters Magazine 1976-1979
Text by Cary Loren, Mike Kelley, Niagara, Jim Shaw. Formed in 1973, the Detroit band Destroy All Monsters was a wild and reckless synthesis of psychedelia, proto-punk, heavy metal, noise and performance art. The collective hailed from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and consisted of Cary >>more

Primary Information
ISBN 9780978869786
US $30.00 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 278 pgs / 40 color / 185 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/30/2011 Not available


Fabio Paleari: I Won't Give Up
Fabio Paleari: I Won't Give Up
Text by Robert Montgomery. Any follower of the international tabloids is well-acquainted with rocker Pete Doherty, the former Libertines frontman who is now quite famous for his on-again, off-again love affairs with supermodel Kate Moss and crack cocaine. After >>more

Damiani
ISBN 9788862080194
US $40.00 CAN $50.00 TRADE
Paperback, 9.5 x 11 in. / 272 pgs / 160 color / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Not available


Feed-Back: The Velvet Undergound: Legend, Truth
Feed-Back: The Velvet Undergound: Legend, Truth
Edited by Ignacio Julià. "Only five thousand people ever bought a Velvet Underground album," Brian Eno once said, "but every single one of them started a band." Of course, well in excess of that oddly low number of copies >>more

Ignacio Julià
ISBN 9788461268252
US $39.95 CAN $50.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8 x 7 in. / 280 pgs / 3 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2011 Not available


Jon Thor Birgisson & Alex Somers: Riceboy Sleeps
Jon Thor Birgisson & Alex Somers: Riceboy Sleeps
This powerful and enigmatic small volume has been hotly anticipated by Sigur Ros fans for some time. A reprint of the first artist's book from frontman Jon "Jónsi" Thor Birgisson and his boyfriend Alex Somers, >>more

Moss Stories
ISBN 9781933045801
US $19.95 CAN $25.00 TRADE
Hardback, 4.5 x 6 in. / 52 pgs. / illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Not available


Kim Gordon: Chronicles Vol.1
Kim Gordon: Chronicles Vol.1
Artwork by Kim Gordon. This artist's book is best summed up in Kim Gordon's own words: “Basically what the book consists of is a loopy text of me having a conversation with someone named Julia about Dylan's book Chronicles, >>more

Nieves
ISBN 9783905714012
US $20.00 CAN $25.00 TRADE
Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 32 pgs / 32 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Not available


Moby: Destroyed
Moby: Destroyed
Like no other music of its era, Moby's oceanic, bluesy electronica has summed up the millennial turn's rootless melancholia, in massive worldwide hits like "Porcelain," "Natural Blues" and "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?" >>more

Damiani
ISBN 9788862081559
US $39.95 CAN $50.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11.5 x 9 in. / 120 pgs / 77 color / Audio CD.
Pub Date: 05/31/2011 Not available


Odd Future: Golf Wang
Odd Future: Golf Wang
Edited by Nick Weidenfeld, Michael Schmelling. The Los Angeles collective of hip hop skater kids known as Odd Future--or in full, Odd Future Golf Wang Kill Them All--has galvanized hip hop superstars, sneaker freaks, hipsters and cognoscenti alike with its dark, >>more

PictureBox
ISBN 9780983719915
US $29.95 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 200 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2011 Not available


Philip Glass & Steve Reich: Images 4 Music
Philip Glass & Steve Reich: Images 4 Music
Artwork by Glass. Philip, Steve Reich. The urge towards the optic is arguably being felt increasingly in all media; music is no exception, as Images 4 Music demonstrates. Whether the results are spontaneous, derivative, algorithmic, abstract, poetic or simply arbitrary, visual >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775715966
US $28.00 CAN $32.50 TRADE
Boxed, 5 x 5.75 in. / 16 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 07/15/2005 Not available


Sigur Rós: Med sud í eyrum vid spilum endalaust
Sigur Rós: Med sud í eyrum vid spilum endalaust
Edited by Sarah Hopper. Gorgeously ethereal, minimalistic and adored worldwide, the magical soundworld of the Icelandic band Sigur Rós has enraptured a worldwide audience with its quiet beauty. Med sud í eyrum vid spilum endalaust is a deluxe clothbound >>more

Sigur Ros
ISBN 9781935202059
US $60.00 CAN $70.00 TRADE
Clth, 12 x 9.5 in. / 200 pgs / 153 color / DVD (NTSC & PAL).
Pub Date: 01/31/2010 Not available


Sonic Youth: Sensational Fix
Sonic Youth: Sensational Fix
Edited by Roland Groenenboom. Text by Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Vikki Alexander, Jutta Koether, Mike Kelley, John Miller, Richard Hell, et al. The iconic postpunk band Sonic Youth is famed for blurring musical genres, veering from thundering rock to dismantled experimentalism, and expanding the possibilities of the electric guitar. "What we're doing is always inventing itself. I >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865605399
US $85.00 CAN $100.00 TRADE
Hbk, 7.25 x 7.25 in. / 720 pgs / 700 color / two 7 in. vinyl records.
Pub Date: 04/30/2010 Not available


Sun Ra & Ayé Aton: Space, Interiors and Exteriors 1972
Sun Ra & Ayé Aton: Space, Interiors and Exteriors 1972
Edited by John Corbett. Foreword by Glenn Ligon. In 1972, the legendary musician, composer and mystic Sun Ra (1914–1993) was hard at work scripting and acting in the now classic documentary on his life and work, Space is the Place, as well as >>more

PictureBox
ISBN 9780984589210
US $27.50 CAN $32.50 TRADE
Pbk, 9 x 8.5 in. / 96 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2013 Not available


The Kills: Dream & Drive
The Kills: Dream & Drive
Foreword by Alison Mosshart. After four critically acclaimed albums and nine years on the road, The Kills members Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince announce Dream and Drive, a portrait of the band’s career by their lifelong friend and collaborator >>more

Domino Recording Co. Ltd.
ISBN 9780957114203
US $60.00 CAN $70.00 TRADE
Clth, 8.5 x 9.75 in. / 182 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 09/30/2012 Not available


The Verve: Photographs by Chris Floyd
The Verve: Photographs by Chris Floyd
Edited by Dave Brolan. Foreword by Michael Holden. Introduction by Chris Floyd.

It has been 20 years since the colossal global success of The Verve’s era-defining Urban Hymns, and it remains one of the biggest-selling British albums of all time. Photographer Chris Floyd was embedded with the >>more

Reel Art Press
ISBN 9781909526532
US $39.95 CAN $53.95 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 10.75 in. / 144 pgs / 100 color / 45 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/24/2017 Not available


The Wilco Book
The Wilco Book
This is a book about Wilco and the pictorial, literary and musical world it conjures up on record and in performance. Created in collaboration with Jeff Tweedy, Wilco and Tony Margherita, this primarily visual book >>more

PictureBox
ISBN 9780971367036
US $29.95 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 8 x 10 in. / 160 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 11/02/2004 Not available