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  • Ramones ‎– Ramones Mania
    Ramones ‎– Ramones Mania
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    “Ramones Mania is a relentless collection of 30 tracks from the Ramones’ first ten albums, ranging from the classic Ramones to the less-than-classic Halfway to Sanity. Although not [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • V/A – We Were Living In Cincinnati (Vol 2)
    V/A – We Were Living In Cincinnati (Vol 2)
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    WE WERE LIVING IN CINCINNATI Vol. 2 covers a vast swath of biodiverse underground noise from all corners of the brain. Compiled by Peter Aaron as with the first volume […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Adverts – Cast Of Thousands
    The Adverts – Cast Of Thousands
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    Originally released to a fan base and music press that were unprepared for the band to move on from the punk fury of “Crossing The Red Sea”, The Adverts “Cast […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Patrick Brantlinger – Bread & Circuses
    Patrick Brantlinger – Bread & Circuses
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    Lively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Michel Foucault – Religion And Culture
    Michel Foucault – Religion And Culture
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    Postmodern theorist Michel Foucault is best known for his work on power/ knowledge, and on the regulation of sexuality in modern society. Yet throughout his life, Foucault was continually [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Julia Kristeva – Tales Of Love
    Julia Kristeva – Tales Of Love
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    Julia Kristeva pursues her exploration of the core emotions of the human psyche through a series of philosophical and literary texts. She focuses on the role of narcissism and idealization […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • David J. Getsy – Queer Behavior
    David J. Getsy – Queer Behavior
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    Scott Burton (1939–89) created performance art and sculpture that drew on queer experience and the sexual cultures that flourished in New York City in the 1970s. David J. Getsy argues […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Frederic W. Goudy – The Alphabet
    Frederic W. Goudy – The Alphabet
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    Traces the developments of the alphabet and lettering from ancient times, and presents a variety of lettering styles which have evolved Dorset Press, 1989 Hardcover Edition. Light general wear.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Fluxus And The Essential Questions Of Life
    Fluxus And The Essential Questions Of Life
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    Fluxus—from the Latin, meaning “to flow”—was a radical, international network of artists, composers, and designers in the 1960s and 1970s noted for blurring the boundaries between what we term [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Animism In Art And Performance
    Animism In Art And Performance
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    This book explores Māori indigenous and non-indigenous scholarship corresponding with the term ‘animism’. In addressing visual, media and performance art, it explores the dualisms of people and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Giovanni Lista – Theatre Futuriste Italien Vol I & II (as-is, TEXT IN FRENCH)
    Giovanni Lista – Theatre Futuriste Italien Vol I & II (as-i…
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    An anthology of Futurist theater works, wonderfully illustrated. La Cite, 1976 Softcover Edition. Noticeable discoloration to wraps of both volumes and edges of pages. Substantial glue breaks at [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Thomas Hine – Populuxe
    Thomas Hine – Populuxe
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    “The decade from 1954 to 1964 was one of America’s great shopping sprees: never before were so many people able to acquire so many things, and never before was there […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Luigi Russolo – L’Arte Dei Rumori (TEXT IN ITALIAN)
    Luigi Russolo – L’Arte Dei Rumori (TEXT IN ITALIAN)
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    Luigi Russolo’s seminal manifesto/essay on the art of noise. Carucci Reprint of 1916 Softcover Edition. Writing on front wrap. Noticeable foxing/discoloration to both wraps and pages. TEXT [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Daryl Easlea – Everybody Dance: Chic and the Politics of Disco
    Daryl Easlea – Everybody Dance: Chic and the Politics of Disco
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    Few narratives in pop encompass Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Madonna, Duran Duran, Diana Ross, Johnny Mathis and Led Zeppelin. This story is one of them. Chic, led by […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The Electric Muse Revisited
    The Electric Muse Revisited
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    Folk music has been evolving and adapting for centuries, but in the 1960s and 70s came an extraordinary period of change and innovation. Rock musicians borrowed from traditional songs, while […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity
    The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity
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    From jazz trumpeters drawing on the noises of warfare in Beirut to female heavy metallers in Alexandria, the Arab culture offers a wealth of exciting, challenging, and diverse musics. The […]

    GENRE: International, Non-Fiction
  • Catherine Zimmer – Surveillance Cinema
    Catherine Zimmer – Surveillance Cinema
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    In Paris, a static video camera keeps watch on a bourgeois home. In Portland, a webcam documents the torture and murder of kidnap victims. And in clandestine intelligence offices around […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Perpetrator Cinema: Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary
    Perpetrator Cinema: Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary
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    Perpetrator Cinema explores a new trend in the cinematic depiction of genocide that has emerged in Cambodian documentary in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. While past films [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Orson Welles’s Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind
    Orson Welles’s Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the W…
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    In the summer of 1970, legendary but self-destructive director Orson Welles returned to Hollywood from years of self-imposed exile in Europe and decided it was time to make a comeback […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nicholas Ray: An American Journey
    Nicholas Ray: An American Journey
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    Perhaps best known for Rebel without a Cause, American filmmaker Nicholas Ray directed dozens of movies in the film noir genre, including In a Lonely Place, Johnny Guitar, and They […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Neither God nor Master: Robert Bresson and Radical Politics
    Neither God nor Master: Robert Bresson and Radical Politics
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    The French auteur Robert Bresson, director of such classics as Diary of a Country Priest (1951), The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962), The Devil, Probably (1977), and L’Argent (1983), […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Viktor Shklovsky – Literature and Cinematography
    Viktor Shklovsky – Literature and Cinematography
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    In this short, brilliant book, Viktor Shklovsky enunciates the function of the arts: what they are and, just as importantly, what they are not. In the course of defining what […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Douglas Kahn  – Energies in the Arts
    Douglas Kahn – Energies in the Arts
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    This book investigates energies—in the plural, the energies embedded and embodied in everything under the sun— as they are expressed in the arts. With contributions from scholars and critics from [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism
    Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolita…
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    Roots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the négritude movement in the 1930s. Taking Senegal and Cuba as its primary research areas, this work uses […]

    GENRE: International, Non-Fiction
  • Black Soundscapes White Stages :The Meaning of Francophone Sound in the Black Atlantic
    Black Soundscapes White Stages :The Meaning of Francophone Sound in th…
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    Black Soundscapes White Stages explores the role of sound in understanding the African Diaspora on both sides of the Atlantic, from the City of Light to the islands of the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party
    Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther…
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    The first book to comprehensively examine how the Black Panther Party has directly shaped the practices and ideas that have animated grassroots activism in the decades since its decline, Black [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Concerning Violence: Fanon, Film, and Liberation in Africa, Selected Takes 1965-1987
    Concerning Violence: Fanon, Film, and Liberation in Africa, Selected T…
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    An unblinking portrait of the anticolonial struggles of the 1960s, Concerning Violence combines more than one hundred and fifty arresting color and black-and-white photographs from Göran Hugo [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Robin Brown – Blood Ivory: The Massacre of the African Elephant
    Robin Brown – Blood Ivory: The Massacre of the African Elephant
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    It is more than a thousand years since the exploitation of the elephant began. However, it is only in the last hundred years, with the coming of the ‘Great White […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century down the Royal Road
    The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century down the Royal Road
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    Rethinking the importance of Sigmund Freud’s landmark book The Interpretation of Dreams a century after its publication in 1900, this work brings together psychoanalysts, philosophers, cultural [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Whole World in an Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression – 1955-1972
    Whole World in an Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression – 1955-1972
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    How the radical music of the 1960s was birthed amid unprecedented upheaval and systemic repression. Decades since the radical music of the 1960s first hit the airwaves, the anthems of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Noel Lobley – Sound Fragments: From Field Recording to African Electronic Stories
    Noel Lobley – Sound Fragments: From Field Recording to African E…
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    This book is an ethnographic study of sound archives and the processes of creative decolonization that form alternative modes of archiving and curating in the 21st century. It explores the […]

    GENRE: International, Non-Fiction
  • Graeme Thomson – I Shot a Man in Reno: A History of Death by Murder, Suicide, Fire, Flood, Drugs, Disease and General Misadventure, as Related in Popular Song
    Graeme Thomson – I Shot a Man in Reno: A History of Death by Mur…
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    What do the gangsta rap devotee, the grizzled blues fanatic, the bearded folk fan, the goth and the indie kid have in common? Ask and they will all say the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Blue Moment: Miles Davis’s,and the Remaking of Modern Music
    The Blue Moment: Miles Davis’s,and the Remaking of Modern Music
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    “It is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions.” Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue is […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Geoffrey Pimm – The Violent Abuse of Women in 17th and 18th Century Britain
    Geoffrey Pimm – The Violent Abuse of Women in 17th and 18th Cent…
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    The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are the gateway between the medieval world and the modern, centuries when the western societies moved from an age governed principally by religion and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Henri Cole – Orphic Paris
    Henri Cole – Orphic Paris
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    Henri Cole’s Orphic Paris combines autobiography, diary, essay, and poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an award-winning American poet, [...]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy
    The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Ca…
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    Since the days of the Roman Empire dictators have written books. But in the twentieth-century despots enjoyed unprecedented print runs to (literally) captive audiences. The titans of the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume I, 1957-1969
    In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume I, 1957…
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    For fifty years Samuel Delany has cultivated a special relationship with language in works of fiction, criticism, and memoir that have garnered critical praise and legions of fans. The present [...]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830–1930
    Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States …
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    In this highly original and critically informed book, Renata R. Mautner Wasserman looks at how, during the first decades following political independence, writers in the United States and Brazil [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Bokutotsusô: Studies on the Calligraphy of the Zen Master Musô Soseki
    Bokutotsusô: Studies on the Calligraphy of the Zen Master Musô Soseki
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    Musô Soseki (1275-1351), one of the most important Zen patriarchs of the early fourteenth century in Japan, devoted his life to spreading Buddhist wisdom in his writings. As a member […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene
    Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene
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    While the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari became an international film classic, its director, Robert Wiene, was disparaged and even forgotten. Wiene’s oeuvre, however, exhibits a surprising [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Simon Kuper – Spies, Lies, and Exile: The Extraordinary Story of Russian Double Agent George Blake
    Simon Kuper – Spies, Lies, and Exile: The Extraordinary Story of…
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    Few Cold War spy stories approach the sheer daring and treachery of George Blake’s. After fighting in the Dutch resistance during World War II, Blake joined the British spy agency […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Edmund Levin –  A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel
    Edmund Levin – A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspirac…
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    On March 20, 1911, thirteen-year-old Andrei Yushchinsky was found stabbed to death in a cave on the outskirts of Kiev. Four months later, Russian police arrested Mendel Beilis, a [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Roberto Bolano’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe
    Roberto Bolano’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe
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    Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Fartherest Place: The Music Of John Luther Adams
    Fartherest Place: The Music Of John Luther Adams
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    The artistic heir of sonic artists such as John Cage and James Tenney, John Luther Adams is one of the most significant and highly regarded contemporary American composers. The Farthest […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • E.Graham Howe – She And Me (as-is)
    E.Graham Howe – She And Me (as-is)
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    “For those interested in the sociological, psychological and religious problems of today, this new book by Dr. Graham Howe is of the greatest importance. Dealing with many subjects and, in [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • SS-20 – Daddy’s Drunk On Christmas
    SS-20 – Daddy’s Drunk On Christmas
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    Label: No Pretense Records Format: Vinyl, 7″, 33 ⅓ RPM, EP Country: US Released: 1987 VG+/VG+ W/ Insert

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Misfits ‎– Spook City U.S.A (1989 boot)
    Misfits ‎– Spook City U.S.A (1989 boot)
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    Label: Plan 69 – CCC 001 (Bootleg) Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Limited Edition, Unofficial Release Released: 1989 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Misfits ‎– Revenge Will Be Ours! (1995 Boot)
    Misfits ‎– Revenge Will Be Ours! (1995 Boot)
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    Label: Not On Label (Misfits) – MUNK 06 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Unofficial Release, White Label Country: US Released: 1995 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Misfits – Evilive (2000 boot)
    Misfits – Evilive (2000 boot)
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    Label: Not On Label – PL1019 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Unofficial Release Released: 2000   VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Slickee Boys – This Party Sucks
    The Slickee Boys – This Party Sucks
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    Label: New Rose Records – NEW 112 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single, 45 RPM Country: France Released: 1988 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore