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Deforrest Brown – Assembling A Black Counter-Culture
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn Assembling a Black Counter Culture, writer and musician DeForrest Brown, Jr, provides a history and critical analysis of techno and adjacent electronic music such as house and electro, showing [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction, Techno / House / Electronic -
Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn his short 37 years, John Whiteside “Jack” Parsons embodied at least several different roles in one tormented but glorious life. By day, Parsons’ unorthodox genius created a [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWith mass poisonings, global warming and other tidings of contemporary civilization threatening the planet, shouldn’t we begin to reconsider our unthinking attachment to it? Feral House’s new [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn its open improvisations, lapidary lyrics, errant melodies, and relentless pursuit of spontaneity, the British experimental band Henry Cow pushed rock music to its limits. Its rotating [...]
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Non-Fiction -
Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAltered State–now updated—is the definitive text on ecstasy culture, using a cast of characters to track the origins of the scene through psychedelic subcults, underground gay discos, [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction, Techno / House / Electronic -
Claude Cahun: Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals)
$34.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFirst published in 1930 by anti-fascist, avant-garde publisher Éditions du Carrefour in Paris as Aveux non Avenus, Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals) is Claude Cahun’s wildly radical answer to [...]
GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction -
Fruit LoOops – Everything Is Clear To Me Now
$12.00 | CD, CD, New Arrivals Add to cartTorn Light Records recording artists Fruit Looops lastest EP released via Orange Milk Records. Mental & fried 4 track CD of their stripped down vocal/synth/drum line up of art punk/electronic [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Punk / Hardcore, Techno / House / Electronic -
V/A – We Were Living In Cincinnati (Vol 2)
$25.00 | LP, New Arrivals, Vinyl Add to cartWE 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 […]
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The Adverts – Cast Of Thousands
$31.00 | LP, New Arrivals, Vinyl Add to cartOriginally 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 […]
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Daryl Easlea – Everybody Dance: Chic and the Politics of Disco
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFew 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
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFolk 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
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom 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
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 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 […]
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Perpetrator Cinema: Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartPerpetrator 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 [...]
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Orson Welles’s Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the W…
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 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 […]
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Nicholas Ray: An American Journey
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartPerhaps 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 […]
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Neither God nor Master: Robert Bresson and Radical Politics
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe 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), […]
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Viktor Shklovsky – Literature and Cinematography
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 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 […]
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Douglas Kahn – Energies in the Arts
$15.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis 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 Cosmopolita…
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartRoots 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 th…
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartBlack 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 […]
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Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther…
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe 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 [...]
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Concerning Violence: Fanon, Film, and Liberation in Africa, Selected T…
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn 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
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIt 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
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartRethinking 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
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartHow 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 E…
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis 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 Mur…
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartWhat 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
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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 Cent…
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe 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
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartHenri 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 Ca…
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartSince 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…
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFor 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 …
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 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