Product Description: The history of rock music in Milwaukee began at an age when some musicians played in a segregated part of the city. At the same time, a young singer named Buddy Holly kicked off a tour that ended with a plane crash in Iowa 11 days later...read more

Product Description: The most informed reference book on nineteenth-century music currently available, this comprehensive overview of music in the nineteenth century draws on the most recent scholarship in the field. Essays investigate the intellectual and socio-political history of the time, and examine topics such as nations and nationalism, the emergent concept of an avant garde, and musical styles and languages at the turn of the century...read more

In this unique celebration of the power of sound, former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart shares thirty years of collected quotes and wisdom he has compiled about music's power to transform. Reprint. 30,000 first printing. Tour.