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Nick Drake's Pink Moon

By: Amanda Petrusich

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This book explores how a tiny acoustic record (Pink Moon) has puttered and purred its way into a new millennium. Amanda Petrusich interviews producer Joe Boyd, string arranger Robert Kirby, and eventhe marketingteam behind the VW commercial.

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A&C Black

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0826427901

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It Still Moves

Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music

By: Amanda Petrusich

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Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music

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Where lies the boundary between meaning and sentiment? Between memory and nostalgia? America and Americana? What is and what was? Does it move?" —Donovon Hohn, A Romance of Rust Part travelogue, part cultural criticism, part music appreciation, It Still Moves does for today's avant folk scene what Greil Marcus did for Dylan and The Basement Tapes. Amanda Petrusich outlines the sounds of the new, weird America—honoring the rich tradition of gospel, bluegrass, country, folk, and rock that feeds it, while simultaneously exploring the American character as personified in all of these genres historically. Through interviews, road stories, geographical and sociological interpretations, and detailed music criticism, Petrusich traces the rise of Americana music from its gospel origins through its new and compelling incarnations (as evidenced in bands and artists from Elvis to Iron and Wine, the Carter Family to Animal Collective, Johnny Cash to Will Oldham) and explores how the genre is adapting to the twenty-first century. Ultimately the book is an examination of all things American: guitars, cars, kids, motion, passion, enterprise, and change, in a fervent attempt to reconcile the American past with the American present, using only dusty records and highway maps as guides.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429957557

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9781429957557

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The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records

By: Amanda Petrusich

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The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records

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The untold story of a quirky and important subculture: the world of 78rpm records and the insular community that celebrates them.

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Simon and Schuster

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145166706X

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9781451667066

It Still Moves

Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music

By: Amanda Petrusich

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Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music

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Nick Drake's Pink Moon

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Nick Drake's Pink Moon

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Pink Moon explores how Nick Drake's third and final album has puttered and purred its way into a new millennium. Features interviews with producer Joe Boyd, string arranger Robert Kirby, and even the marketing team behind the VW Cabrio commercial that launched the album to platinum status more than thirty years after its release.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441190414

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The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records

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The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records

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A celebration of 78 rpm record subculture reveals the growing value of rare records and the determined efforts of their collectors and archivists, exploring the music of blues artists who have been lost to the modern world.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451667051

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9781451667059

The Age of Magical Overthinking

Notes on Modern Irrationality

By: Amanda Montell

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The Age of Magical Overthinking

Notes on Modern Irrationality

By: Amanda Montell

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking. Utilizing the linguistic insights of her “witty and brilliant” (Blyth Roberson, author of America the Beautiful?) first book Wordslut and the sociological explorations of her breakout hit Cultish, Amanda Montell now turns her erudite eye to the inner workings of the human mind and its biases in her most personal and electrifying work yet. “Magical thinking” can be broadly defined as the belief that one’s internal thoughts can affect unrelated events in the external world: think of the conviction that one can manifest their way out of poverty, stave off cancer with positive vibes, thwart the apocalypse by learning to can their own peaches, or transform an unhealthy relationship to a glorious one with loyalty alone. In all its forms, magical thinking works in service of restoring agency amid chaos, but in The Age of Magical Overthinking, Montell argues that in the modern information age, our brain’s coping mechanisms have been overloaded, and our irrationality turned up to an eleven. In a series of razor sharp, deeply funny chapters, Montell delves into a cornucopia of the cognitive biases that run rampant in our brains, from how the “halo effect” cultivates worship (and hatred) of larger-than-life celebrities, to how the “sunk cost fallacy” can keep us in detrimental relationships long after we’ve realized they’re not serving us. As she illuminates these concepts with her signature brilliance and wit, Montell’s prevailing message is one of hope, empathy, and ultimately forgiveness for our anxiety-addled human selves. If you have all but lost faith in our ability to reason, Montell aims to make some sense of the senseless. To crack open a window in our minds, and let a warm breeze in. To help quiet the cacophony for a while, or even hear a melody in it.

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1668007991

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Indigenous Audibilities

Music, Heritage, and Collections in the Americas

By: Amanda Minks

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Indigenous Audibilities

Music, Heritage, and Collections in the Americas

By: Amanda Minks

In the middle decades of the twentieth century, transnational networks sparked a range of cultural projects focused on collecting Indigenous music and folklore in the Americas. Indigenous Audibilities follows the social relations that created these collections in four interconnected case studies linking the U.S., Mexico, Nicaragua, and Chile. Indigenous collections were embedded in political projects that negotiated issues of cultural diplomacy, national canons, and heritage. The case studies recuperate the traces of marginalized voices in archives, paying special attention to female researchers and Indigenous collaborators. Despite the dominant agendas of national and international institutions, the diverse actors and the multi-directional influences often created unexpected outcomes. The book brings together theories of collection, voice, media, writing, and recording to challenge the transparency of archives as a historical source. Indigenous Audibilities presents a social-historical method of listening, reading, and thinking beyond the referentiality of archived texts, and in the process uncovers neglected genealogies of cultural music research in the Americas"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197532489

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9780197532485

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Nick Drake's Pink Moon

Nick Drake's Pink Moon

It Still Moves

It Still Moves

Do Not Sell At Any Price

Do Not Sell At Any Price

It Still Moves

It Still Moves

Nick Drake's Pink Moon

Nick Drake's Pink Moon

Do Not Sell At Any Price

Do Not Sell At Any Price

The Age of Magical Overthinking

The Age of Magical Overthinking

Indigenous Audibilities

Indigenous Audibilities

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