Book Sale: Music
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2023 annual meeting of the College Art Association. Books on sale, info on University of Minnesota Press, and more.
40% OFF BOOKS
All books below are 40% off using code MNCAA23. Code expires April 1, 2023.
BROWSE BOOKS:
ART HISTORY // ARCHITECTURE // VISUAL CULTURE // DESIGN
THEORY // PHILOSOPHY // ENVIRONMENT // MEDIA AND FILM
DRAMA AND PERFORMANCE // MUSIC // PHOTOGRAPHY
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The Mandorla Letters
for the hopeful
Nicole Mitchell Gantt
2022 Fall
- Afrofuturist memoir on jazz, collaboration, and the search for collective well-being
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My Life in the Purple Kingdom
BrownMark
2022 Spring
- From the young Black teenager who built a bass guitar in woodshop to the musician building a solo career with Motown Records—Prince’s bassist BrownMark on growing up in Minneapolis, joining Prince and The Revolution, and his life in the purple kingdom
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Cosmic Trip
Rock Concerts at the Minneapolis Labor Temple 1969-1970
Christian A. Peterson
2021 Fall
- A trip through Minneapolis rock concert history framed through psychedelic poster art
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Blackness in Morocco
Gnawa Identity through Music and Visual Culture
Cynthia J. Becker
2020 Fall
- A groundbreaking study of Blackness in Morocco through the lens of visual representation
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Sounds from the Other Side
Afro–South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music
Elliott H. Powell
2020 Fall
- A sixty-year history of Afro–South Asian musical collaborations
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Bring That Beat Back
How Sampling Built Hip-Hop
Nate Patrin
2020 Spring
- How sampling remade hip-hop over forty years, from pioneering superstar Grandmaster Flash through crate-digging preservationist and innovator Madlib
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Philosophy of New Music
Theodor W. Adorno
Robert Hullot-Kentor, Editor
2019 Fall
- An indispensable key to Adorno’s influential oeuvre—now in paperback
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The Sound of Things to Come
An Audible History of the Science Fiction Film
Trace Reddell
2018 Fall
- A groundbreaking approach to sound in sci-fi films offers new ways of construing both sonic innovation and science fiction cinema
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Four Metaphors of Modernism
From Der Sturm to the Société Anonyme
Jenny Anger
2018 Spring
- Exploring the significance of metaphor in modern art