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Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continent by Bruno Nettl (1965)

Books, World Music Books

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Derrick Carter / George Alexander feat. Big John Whitfield Squaredancing (DC Nu-Vox Dub) / Promise Land

Better known to most of one half of Boston duo ‘Soul Clap’, Eli "Bamboozle" Goldstein presents the first 7” vinyl release in his brand new ‘House...

House Music, Classic House

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7"£8.99
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Changing Jamaica Adam Kuper

Original secondhand hardback first edition (laminated dust jacket, ex library w/stamps)

Books, Caribbean Books

Original Book (400g)£12.00
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The Vice Lords Warriors of the Streets

Rare USA small secondhand book in good condition - cultural anthropology case studies about the legendary street gang. This is 1978 edition with different...

Black America/Black Power Books

Original Book (200g)£25.00
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The Wire+ The Wire Tapper

The Wire magazine, with features on the great minds of the music industry, reviews on SOTU favourites and more! Also includes a free wire tapper cd!

Magazines, Music

Magazine (300g)£4.95
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The Buzzcuts Dead or Alive (Extended Mix)

Previously only released on CD, the extended mix of a cult party classic - a key staple in a DJ Harvey set! Very limited copies in circulation- don't sleep...

New Disco and re-edits, Disco

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12"£10.99
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Gerald McCauley Wondering

"Wondering" that came as a result was brought to life by the singer and industry insider Gerald McCauley, who turned his soul inside out for the performance....

Funk/Soul

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7"£6.99
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The Rolling Stones HonkThe Very Best Of

Disc One 1. “Start Me Up”2. “Brown Sugar”3. “Rocks Off”4. “Miss You”5. “Tumbling Dice”6. “Just Your Fool”7. “Wild Horses”8....

Indie Rock / Pop

3×CD£14.99
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3×LP£34.99
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Highlife Saturday Night Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana

WICKED BOOK! USA IMPORT PAPERBACK 60% OFF!!!! Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights in Ghana-when musicians took to the stage...

African , Books

Book (800g)£20.99 £7.99
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Leeway Lee Morgan Discography

Excellent discography on man like Lee Morgan, every record session! "Roger Wernboe has done Jazz scholars, fans, and collectors a great favor. Thanks...

Jazz, Books

Book (200g)£25.00
Out of print RARE paperback book. NEW, SEALED OPENED ONCE
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Contemporary Music: An Introduction by Francis Routh (1968)

Neat secondhand small hardback book w/dustjacket. Varese, Schoenberg, Copland

Books

Original Book (300g)£10.00
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Stevie Wonder By John Swenson

Great pics and bio! Secondhand paperback in great condition

Funk/Soul, Books

Original Book (500g)£10.00
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Soul of a Nation (BOOK)Art in the Age of Black Power

BACK IN STOCK!!!!In the period of radical change that was 1963-1983, young Black artists at the beginning of their careers in the USA confronted key questions...

Jazz, Black America/Black Power Books, Art Books

Book (1.4kg)£30.00
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African Musics in Context. Institutions, Culture, Identity by Thomas Solomon

African Musics in Context discusses the place of performing arts in Ugandan society, archiving music and music sources, performing archival music, performing...

African , Books

Book (550g)£20.00
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Covers Retracing Reggae Record Sleeves in London

Superb deluxe hardback book. "Covers: Retracing Reggae Record Sleeves in London" is a project by photographer Alex Bartsch documenting reggae album covers...

Books, Reggae

Book (850g)£25.00
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Blood Posse (1994)by Phillip Baker

Yardie stylee! 'This book follows the life of Danny, a young Jamaican growing up in Brooklyn in the 1970s. At the age of 18, in the middle of a sectarian...

Books, Reggae

Original Book (300g)£8.00
Secondhand out of print paperback in good condition (some creasing to cover)
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Music in Africa by Adana Dzemila

Africa is such a large and diverse continent. Outside Africa, there is often only talk about Africa as one country: For example Tunisia and Tanzania could...

African , Books

Book (200g)£7.99
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Pieces Of A Man Gil Scott-Heron - By Marcus Baram

OVER 50% OFF ORIGINAL PRICE!!! LOVELY USA IMPORT HARDBACK BOOK! CHEAPER THAN AMAZON!!! Best known for his 1970 polemic "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,"...

Jazz, Funk and Soul, Black America/Black Power Books, Compilations

Book (600g)£19.99 £8.99
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Lion Songs Thomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made Zimbabwe

NEARLY 70% OFF ORIGINAL PRICE! LOVELY USA IMPORT HARDBACK BOOK! CHEAPER THAN AMAZON!! Like Fela Kuti and Bob Marley, singer, composer, and bandleader...

Books, African

Book (750g)£29.99 £7.99
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Mars by 1980 - The Story of Electronic Music By David Stubbs

New KILLER 100% essential MASSIVE 450+ pages book about the history of electronic music. 'Mars by 1980' is written by the very groovy David Stubbs, author...

Electronic , Books

Book (700g)£20.00
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The Philly Sound BOOK Philadelphia Soul Music and its R&B Rootsby Dave Moore (UK) and Jason Thornton (US)

B ABSOLUTELY MIND-BLOWING & STUNNING 700-page hardback book! FREE UK SHIPPING!!!!! Everything you ever wanted to know about the music of Philadelphia....

Funk/Soul, Books

Book (2.6 kg)£58.00
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An African treasury: Articles, essays, stories, poems by Black Africans (1961)by Langston Hughes

Out of print secondhand USA paperback (yellow pages etc)100% Guarantee on this and all Original Books at Sounds Of The Universe - 'if you're not happy...

Books

Original Book (200g)£15.00
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Greatest Highlife Hits (1987)Various

African

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Original LP£18.00
Vinyl condition: VG+Sleeve condition: GOriginal Nigerian vinyl, has side spine wear

High-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine Utrasonic cleaned+
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Len Deighton Winter - A Berlin Family 1899-1945Limited edition uncorrected proof number 906 / 1000

Limited edition uncorrected proof number 906 / 1000.Yellowing cover. One crease. Box 1

Literary fiction - Rare 1st edition & uncorrected proofs

Original Book (350g)£40.00
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Life And Death On The New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983 By Tim Lawrence

Here we go .. massive NYC dancefloor 500+ page book by the excellent Tim Lawrence - who wrote Love Saves The Day and also has written for Soul Jazz...

New York Scene Books

Book (900g)£22.99
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Masterpieces of Music Before 1750 by Carl Parrish and John F. Ohl (1973)

Secondhand paperback book

Books

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Large format secondhand book/pamphlet

Books

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Sandeeno / Johnny Clarke Zion Train / Dance

Double header from Dub Conductor Music on this new 10" featuring Sandeeno and the legendary Johnny Clarke on one vocal a piece plus dubs.

Reggae, Roots

Sandeeno – Zion Train
Sandeeno / Johnny Clarke – Dub
Johnny Clarke – Dance
Sandeeno / Johnny Clarke – Dub

1. Sandeeno – Zion Train
2. Dub
3. Johnny Clarke – Dance
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10"£8.49
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Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession by Greil Marcus (1992)

Secondhand paperback

Rock, Books

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Reflections on Wagner's Ring by John Culshaw (1976)

Neat secondhand hardback book w/ dustjacket

Classical, Books

Original Book (400g)£12.00
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All American Music: Composition in the Late Twentieth Century by John Rockwell (1983)

Secondhand hardback book w/dustjacket, plastic covered. Features chapters on Cage, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Robert Ashley, Phillip Glass, Keith Jarrett,...

Books, Classical

Original Book (600g)£12.00
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Soviet Composers and the Development of Soviet Music by Stanley Dale Krebs (1970)

1st edition hardback w/dustjacket minor tears signature inside

Classical, Books

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Drums and Percussion Instruments (How the World Makes Music)by Anita Ganeri (2012)

S/hand large format book

Books, African

Original Book (200g)£7.00
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John Taverner: His Life and Music by Colin Hand (1978)

Secondhand paperback

Books, Classical

Original Book (250g)£12.00
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Edward Elgar: His life and music by Diana McVeagh (1955)

Secondhand Hardback book ex-libary

Books, Classical

Original Book (600g)£12.00
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History of Russian Music : Volume 1, From Its Origins to Dargomyzhsky by Dr Gerald R. Seaman (1967)

S/hand hardback book ex-library

Books, Classical

Original Book (650g)£10.00
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Music from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance by F. W. Sternfeld (1973)

Secondhand hardback book w/ a badly damaged dustjacket

Books

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America's Music : From the Pilgrims to the Present by Gilbert Chase (1967)

"From the puritans to the present" (in 1967). S/hand hardback book, some wear

Books, Classical

Original Book (1.1kg)£15.00
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The Purcell Companion by Michael Burden (1995)

Secondhand paperback book

Books, Classical

Original Book (700g)£9.00
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Backing into the Limelight: The Story of the Mike Sammes Singers by Mike Sammes (1994)

Easy now!Secondhand hardback book w/dustjacket

Books

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Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music by Rob Young (2010)

"A stunning achievement" Aimon Reynolds. Large format secondhand paperback book

Books, Folk, Rock

Original Book (900g)£8.00
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A Future for English Music and other Lectures by Sir Edward Elgar (1968)

Secondhand hardback book

Classical, Books

Original Book (600g)£10.00
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Man and His Music: The story of musical experience in the West, Romanticism and the Twentieth Century Pt.4 by Wilfrid Mellers (1973)

Secondhand paperback

Books, Classical

Original Book (400g)£10.00
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Best of Jazz: Basin Street to Harlem - Jazz Masters and Masterpieces, 1917-30 by Humphrey Lyttelton (1978)

Secondhand 1st edition hardback book w/dustjacket. From Basin Street to Mornington Crescent ... no sorry, to Harlem.

Jazz, Books

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If I Can Dream: Elvis's Own Story by Larry Geller And Joel Spector (1989)

A long-time confidante of Elvis Presley reveals intimate details of the legendary performer's dreams and disillusionments, showing his disintegration due...

Rock, Books

Original Book (700g)£10.00
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Black Music in Britain: Essays on the Afro-Asian Contribution to Popular Music (Popular Music in Britain)by Paul Oliver (1990)

Secondhand paperback - "essays on the Afro-Asian contribution to popular music"

Books, Black Britain

Original Book (400g)£10.00
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Stravinsky (The Master Musicians Series)by Francis Routh (1975)

Compact hardback book, no dustjacket

Classical, Books

Original Book (350g)£10.00
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All Across the Telegraph: A Bob Dylan Handbook by Michael Gray and John Bauldie

Secondhand out-of-print hardback book w/dustjacket.

Folk, Books, Rock

Original Book (700g)£10.00
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Strange Days: My Life With and Without Jim Morrison by Patricia Kennealy-Morrison (1998)

An intimate and honest tale of the truth behind the Jim Morrison myth written by Jim Morrison’s lover and the only woman with whom he went through any...

Rock, Books