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Gay Guerrilla: Julius Eastman and His Music
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartComposer-performer Julius Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable in the many worlds he inhabited: black, white, gay, straight, classical music, disco, academia, and [...]
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Greil Marcus – Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (Anniversary)
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartGreil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a […]
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Theodore Roszak – Flicker
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFrom the golden age of art movies and underground cinema to X-rated porn, splatter films, and midnight movies, this breathtaking thriller is a tour de force of cinematic fact and […]
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Eileen Ormsby – The Darkest Web: Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives . . . the Inside Story of the Internet’s Evil Twin
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDark… A kingpin willing to murder to protect his dark web drug empire. A corrupt government official determined to avoid exposure. The death of a dark web drugs czar in […]
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Construction Site for Possible Worlds
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartPerspectives from philosophy, aesthetics, and art on how to envisage the construction site of possible worlds. Given the highly coercive and heavily surveilled dynamics of the present moment, [...]
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Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis is the first cultural history of the world’s most common sexual practice: masturbation. At a time when almost any victimless practice has its public advocates and almost every sexual […]
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The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Wicked Queen is not a biography of one of the most infamous queens in history. Rather, Chantal Thomas presents the history of the verbal and visual representations of Marie-Antoinette, […]
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Joanna Russ – How To Suppress Women’s Writing
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAre women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle–and not so [...]
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist.In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to [...]
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Mr Manchester and the Factory Girl: The Story of Tony and Lindsay Wilson
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTony Wilson, who passed away in 2007, was a journalist, broadcaster, and music-industry veteran. Known as Mr. Manchester, Wilson ran the infamous Factory Records and was a key figure in […]
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Claudio Lomnitz – Death And The Idea Of Mexico
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDeath and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of […]
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Carol J. Clover – Men, Women & Chainsaws
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDo the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. Carol Clover argues, however, that these […]
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David Toop – Ocean Of Sound: Ambient Sound & Radical Listening In The Age Of Communication
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Great book that does a great job of breaking down the various was of listening and hearing sounds and how in turn those sounds […]
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As Serious As Your Life: Black Music & The Free Jazz Revolution 1957-1977
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “A very good book about the scope of free jazz. The author being a music journalist has first hand accounts of viewing and interviewing […]
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Brix Smith Start – The Rise, The Fall & The Rise
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Rise, The Fall, and The Rise is the extraordinary story, in her own words, of Brix Smith Start. Although, best known for her work in The Fall, Brix’s story […]
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On Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures: (And Other Secret-Flix of Cinemaroc)
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartReviled, rioted over and banned as pornographic even as it was recognized by many as an unprecedented visionary masterpiece, Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures is one of the most important and [...]
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Arcana: Musicians On Music (Arcana #1)
$35.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAnswering a need for critical attention towards experimental and avant-garde music, Arcana is a ground-breaking work–as far-ranging and dynamic as the current generation of musicians. [...]
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Apocalypse Culture (revised)
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartApocalypse Culture is compulsory reading for all those concerned with the crisis of our times. An extraordinary collection unlike anything I have ever encountered. These are the terminal [...]
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John Cage – Diary: How To Improve The World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)
$24.00 | Book, Print Add to cartNow available in an expanded paperback edition, Diary registers Cage’s assessment of the times in which he lived as well as his often uncanny portents about the world we live […]
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Morton Feldman – Give My Regards To Eighth Street
$9.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMorton Feldman wrote as he composed music, carefully placing one element after another, producing some of the avant-garde’s most lucid considerations of what it means to make music Morton [...]
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Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995-2020
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “One of my favorite books I read last year, features an unreal interview with Milford Graves to close it out as well. Highest Rec […]
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Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts After Cage
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTony Conrad is exemplary of the 1960s artist who remains inassimilable to canonic histories. Creator of the “structural” film, The Flicker, collaborator on Jack Smith’s Flaming [...]
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Cosey Fanni Tutti – Art Sex Music
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMusician and artist Cosey Fanni Tutti has continually challenged boundaries and conventions for four decades. As a founding member of the hugely influential avant-garde band Throbbing Gristle, as [...]
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Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAcid Dreams is the complete social history of LSD and the counterculture it helped to define in the sixties. Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain’s exhaustively researched and astonishing [...]
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Marcus O’Dair – Different Every Time
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartRobert Wyatt started out as the drummer and singer for Soft Machine, who shared a residency at Middle Earth with Pink Floyd and toured America with the Jimi Hendrix Experience. […]