Music as a lens on everything else — scenes, movements, and the cultural moments that grew up around the sound.
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Music Culture & Society Books
- Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead's American Adventure - Paperback
- The Grateful Dead: The History Of A Folk Story (1908) - Paperback
- Here Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening - Hardcover
- Buena Vista in the Club: Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana - Paperback
- Bad Boy for Life: The Rise and Fall of Sean Combs - Hardcover
- Scotty and Elvis: Aboard the Mystery Train - Paperback
- Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement - Paperback
- I Am Hip-Hop: Conversations on the Music and Culture - Hardcover
- Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop - Paperback
- Beats Not Beatings: The Rise of Hip Hop Criminology - Paperback
- Hip Hop's Li'l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South - Paperback
- Original Gangstas: Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and the Birth of West Coast Rap - Paperback
- The Beatles in Japan - Paperback
- The Beatles: Image and the Media - Paperback
- Beatles vs. Stones - Paperback
- Dear Beatle People: The Story of The Beatles North American Fan Club - Paperback
- Dear Beatle People: The Story of The Beatles North American Fan Club - Hardcover
- The Beatles and Philosophy: Nothing You Can Think That Can't Be Thunk - Paperback
- Artificial Paradise: The Dark Side of the Beatles' Utopian Dream - Hardcover
- Reading the Boss: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Works of Bruce Springsteen - Paperback
- Bruce Springsteen and Philosophy: Darkness on the Edge of Truth - Paperback
- Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic - Paperback
- The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson: His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife - Paperback
- Elvis Presley: A Bio-Bibliography - Hardcover
- Gone Dollywood: Dolly Parton's Mountain Dream - Hardcover
- The Story of the B-52s: Neon Side of Town - Paperback
- Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-And-Roll's Legendary Neighborhood - Paperback
- Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé - Paperback
- Mystery Train, 50th Anniversary Edition: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music - Paperback
- Hip Hop Can Save America!: Inspiration For The Nation From A Culture of Innovation - Paperback
- Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation - Paperback
- Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class - Paperback
- Black Sabbath and Philosophy - Paperback
- Subculture in the 21st Century: An Introduction to Subculture Studies - Paperback
- Subculture: The Meaning of Style - Paperback
- Somebody Scream!: Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power - Paperback
- Hip Hop Movement: From R&B and the Civil Rights Movement to Rap and the Hip Hop Generation - Paperback
- Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality - Paperback
- Touch of Grey, or How the Grateful Dead Became Pop Stars - Paperback
- Touch of Grey, or How the Grateful Dead Became Pop Stars - Hardcover
- The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story - Paperback
- Woodstock: An Encyclopedia of the Music and Art Fair - Hardcover
- Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge a Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution - Paperback
- Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear - Paperback
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Paperback
- Owsley and Me: My LSD Family - Paperback
- Psychedelic Justice: Toward a Diverse and Equitable Psychedelic Culture - Paperback
- Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson - Paperback
- All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words: Unpublished, Unvarnished, and Told by the Beatles and Their Inner Circle - Hardcover
- Punk Paradox: A Memoir - Paperback