Music Books




Music at Housmans

The relationship between music and radical ideas may go back to before we were truly able to record it. Housmans are pleased to be able to offer a broad spectrum of books documenting some of the genres and individuals that have represented this relationship.
The books below are only a sample of those we have in stock, to experience Housmans full range of Music Books drop by and browse!
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Britten's Children John Bridcut (Faber & Faber, 2006) £9.99
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Stand and Deliver Political Activism, Leadership, and Hip Hop Culture Yvonne Bynoe (Soft Skull Press, 2004) £9.99
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When We Were Good The Folk Revival Robert Cantwell (Harvard University Press, 1996) £9.85
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Beautiful Losers Leonard Cohen (Vintage Books, 1993) £8.99
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America Over the Water Shirley Collins (Saf Publishing, 2007) £9.99
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Extended Play The Elastic Book of Music edited by Gary Couzens with an introduction by Jean Jacques Burnel (Elastic Press, 2007) £6.99
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Do You 'Mr Jones?' Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors edited by Neil Corcoran (Pimlico Press, 2003) £9.50
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Room Full of Mirrors a Biography of Jimi Hendrix Charles R. Cross (Sceptre Publishing, 2005) £8.99
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I Was Elvis Presleys Bastard Love-Child Andrew Darlington (Headpress Publishing, 2001) £13.99
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Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros Vision of a Homeland Anthony Davie (Effective Publishing, 2004) £14.99
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Keep it Together! Cosmic Boogie with the Deviants and the Pink Fairies Rich Deakin with an introduction by Mick Farren (Headpress Publishing) £13.99
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Bob Dylan The Cambridge Companion edited by Kevin J. H. Dettmar (Cambridge University Press, 2009) £14.99
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Bob Dylan Chronicles - Volume 1 (Pocket Books, 2005) £7.99
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Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric The Lost Manuscript text by Bob Dylan photographs by Barry Feinstein (Simon & Schuster, 2008) £14.99
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Lyrics 1962-2001 Bob Dylan (Simon & Schuster) £16.95
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Tarantula Bob Dylan (Harper Perennial) £7.99
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Political Art of Bob Dylan edited by David Boucher and Gary Browning (Imprint Academic, 2009) £12.71
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The Case of Joe Hill Philip S. Foner (International Publishers, 2000) £6.99
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Paul Robeson Speaks edited and introduced by Philip S. Foner (Faber & Faber, 1991) £16.99
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Rimbaud and Jim Morrison The Rebel as Poet Wallace Fowlie (Duke University Press, 1994) £9.99
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The Nightingale's Code A Poetic Study of Bob Dylan John Gibbens with photographs by Keith Baugh (Touched Press, 2001) £8.00
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Hand Me My Travellin' Shoes In Search of Blind Willie McTell Michael Gray (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007) £25.00
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The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia Michael Gray (Continuum Books, 2008) £16.99
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Million Dollar Bash Bob Dylan, The Band and the Basement Tapes Sid Griffin (Jaw Bone Press, 2007) £14.95
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Bound for Glory Woodie Guthrie (Penguin Modern Classics, 2004) £9.99
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In Search of the Blues Black Voices, White Visions Marybeth Hamilton (Jonathan Cape Publishing, 2007) £8.99
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Class Act The Cultural and Political Life of Ewan MacColl Ben Harker (Pluto Press, 2007) £15.99
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Revolution in the Air The Songs of Bob Dylan Vol. 1 1957-73 Clinton Heylin (Constable Books, 2009) £20.00
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Bob Dylan Highway '61 Revisited Colin Irwin (Flame Tree Publishing, 2008) £12.99
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Moby ~ Replay His Life and Times Martin James (Independent Music Press, 2001) £9.99
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Last Shop Standing Whatever Happened to Record Shops? Graham Jones (Proper Music Publishing, 2009) £12.95
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Peoples Funny Boy The Genius of 'Lee Scratch Perry' David Katz with photographs by Keith Baugh (Omnibus Press, 2006) £10.95
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1968 The Year that Rocked the World Mark Kurlansky (Vintage Publications, 2005) £9.99
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Greetings From Bury Park Race, Religion & Rock and Roll Sarfraz Manzoor (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007) £12.99
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Lipstick Traces A Secret History of the Twentieth Century Griel Marcus (Faber & Faber) £12.99
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Bob Dylan The Never Ending Star Lee Marshall (Polity Press, 2007) £14.99
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A Book of British Ballads edited by Roy Palmer (Llanerch Publications, 1998) £12.00
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Well Tuned Women Growing Strong through Voicework edited by Frankie Armstrong & Jenny Pearson (Womens Press, 2001) £12.99
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Bring the Noise 20 Years of Writing about Rock and Hip Hop Simon Reynolds (Faber & Faber, 2007) £16.99
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Energy Flash A Journey Through Rave and Dance Culture Simon Reynolds (Picador Books, 2008) £8.99
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Forever Young by Bob Dylan illustrated by Paul Rogers (Simon & Schuster, 2008) £12.99
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Mayor of MacDougal Street A Memoir Dave Van Ronk with Elijah Wald (De Capo Press, 2006) £7.64
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The Rest is Noise Listening to the Twentieth Century Alex Ross (Harper Perennial, 2009) £14.99
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A Freewheelin' Time Suze Rotola (Aurum Press, 2008) £16.99
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Direct Cinema Observational Documentary and the Politics of the Sixties Dave Saunders (Wallflower Press, 2007) £14.44
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Englands Dreaming Sex Pistols and Punk Rock Jon Savage (Faber & Faber, 1991) £12.99
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Forward Groove Jazz and the Real World from Louis Armstrong to Gilad Atzmon Chris Searle (Northway Publications, 2008) £12.74
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Guitar Army John Sinclair (includes CD) (Headpress Publishing) £15.99
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Headpress 28 The Gospel according to Unpopular Culture John Sinclair signed copies available, please check for availability (Headpress Publishing) £10.99
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Josh White Society Blues Elijah Wald (Routledge Publications, 2002) £15.99
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The Life and Times of Little Richard the Authorised Biography Charles White (Omnibus Press, 2003) £9.95
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Bob Dylan Performing Artist 1960-1973 The Early Years Paul Williams (Omnibus Press, 1994) £12.99
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Bob Dylan Performing Artist 1974-1986 The Middle Years Paul Williams (Omnibus Press, 1994) £9.95
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Bob Dylan Performing Artist 1986-1990 Mind Out of Time Paul Williams (Omnibus Press, 2004) £19.95
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