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Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls Lisa Robinson
The Rest Is Noise The Rest Is Noise Alex Ross
God Save the Queens God Save the Queens Kathy Iandoli
Dreaming the Beatles Dreaming the Beatles Rob Sheffield
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Dreaming the Beatles Dreaming the Beatles Rob Sheffield
Beatles '66 Beatles '66 Steve Turner
The Rest Is Noise The Rest Is Noise Alex Ross
Grunge Seattle Grunge Seattle Justin Henderson
The Replacements The Replacements Jim Walsh
The Art of the Band T-shirt The Art of the Band T-shirt Amber Easby
Will You Take Me As I Am Will You Take Me As I Am Michelle Mercer
All These Things That I've Done All These Things That I've Done Matt Pinfield
Music by the Hearth Music by the Hearth Foster White
Trends in African Popular Music Trends in African Popular Music Ikenna Emmanuel Onwuegbuna
Rhythm in the Rain Rhythm in the Rain Lynn Darroch
Goodnight, L.A. Goodnight, L.A. Kent Hartman
She Begat This She Begat This Joan Morgan
They Just Seem a Little Weird They Just Seem a Little Weird Doug Brod
Deadheads Deadheads Linda Kelly
Classical Music 101 Classical Music 101 Fred Plotkin
Disgraceland Disgraceland Jake Brennan
Miles to Go Miles to Go Chris Murphy
Tori Amos Tori Amos Jake Brown
Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls Lisa Robinson
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Promise That You Will Sing About Me Promise That You Will Sing About Me Miles Marshall Lewis
Promise That You Will Sing About Me Promise That You Will Sing About Me Miles Marshall Lewis
This Was Toscanini This Was Toscanini Samuel Antek
Singing Ideas Singing Ideas Tríona Ní Shíocháin
Listen to This If You Love Great Music Listen to This If You Love Great Music Robin Murray
Shattering Biopolitics Shattering Biopolitics Naomi Waltham-Smith
Bluegrass, Newgrass, Old-Time, and Americana Music Bluegrass, Newgrass, Old-Time, and Americana Music Craig Harris
Please Please Tell Me Now Please Please Tell Me Now Stephen Davis
Fallopian Rhapsody Fallopian Rhapsody The Lunachicks
Russia's Theatrical Past Russia's Theatrical Past Claudia R. Jensen
Sing for Freedom Sing for Freedom Candie Carawan
Listen Listen Peter Szendy
Atomic Tunes Atomic Tunes Tim Smolko
Testimony Testimony Solomon Volkov
Beatlemania Beatlemania André Millard
The Music and Mythocracy of Col. Bruce Hampton The Music and Mythocracy of Col. Bruce Hampton Jerry Grillo
Grunge Seattle Grunge Seattle Justin Henderson
Jews in Music Jews in Music Artur Holde
All things must pass. The lives and deaths of rock All things must pass. The lives and deaths of rock Christophe Pirenne
Rock Stars on the Record Rock Stars on the Record Eric Spitznagel