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    Vinyl Age Max Brzezinski

    Vinyl Age is the definitive record collecting guidebook for the digital era. Written by expert Max Brzezinski and his highly experienced colleagues at Carolina Soul, Vinyl Age combines an engaging narrative, incisive analysis, and a modern design to reveal the joys and explain the complexities of the contemporary vinyl scene.

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    Independent as F***Underground Hip-Hop 1995-2005
    Independent As F**: Underground Hip-hop from 1995-2005 explores how a generation of rap artists rebelled against the major record labels and made music...
      • Book (500g) 978-1-913231-87-3£14.99
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      Flip the Script: How Women Came to Rule Hip Hop
      FLIP THE SCRIPT showcases some of the best rappers currently making music in the UK. It has taken a significant amount of time for women to get recognition...
        Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit: Art, Feminism, and Digital Technology
        In Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit, Judith K. Brodsky makes a ground-breaking intellectual leap by connecting feminist art theory with the rise...
          Look & See: Collected Ephemera and Printed Material
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            The Velvet Underground, New York 1965–66 PHOTOZINEPhotographs by Adam Ritchie
            Awesome small and beautiful new photo-zine of rare pix of the Velvet Underground in New York 1965-66. In the zone! Look there's Andy (hi Andy!), Lou,...
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              When I Dare to Be Powerful
              Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of female...
                Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
                Mary Seacole left her native Jamaica to travel through the Caribbean, The Bahamas, Central America and to England. Keen to offer her services to English...
                  Reggae Disco 45 BOOKReggae Disco 45 BOOK
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                    Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey
                    When someone says, 'You have to know your history...' this is it. A pop culture classic for over two decades, now fully refreshed and updated as part of...
                      Synthesizer Evolution: From Analogue to Digital and Back
                      From acid-house to prog-rock, there is no form of modern popular music that hasn't been propelled forwards by the synthesizer. As a result they have long...
                        There And Black Again
                        By Don Letts and Mal Peachey Don Letts – filmmaker, musician, DJ, broadcaster, social commentator, husband and father – has always defied conformity....
                          Sensuous KnowledgeA Black Feminist Approach for Everyone
                          In Sensuous Knowledge, Minna Salami draws on Africa-centric, feminist-first and artistic traditions to help us rediscover inclusive and invigorating ways...
                            A Little Feminist History of Art
                            Emerging in the late 1960s as women artists struggled to de-gender their work to compete in a male-dominated arena, the feminist art movement has played...
                              An Almanac of Extreme GirlhoodAlien Daughters Walk Into the Sun
                              Compiled as a field guide, travelogue, essay collection, and weather report, Alien Daughters Walk into the Sun traces Jackie Wang's trajectory from hard...
                                Women In Revolt!Art and Activism in the UK 1970-90
                                A timely exploration of the work and lived experiences of a postwar generation of women artists that have largely been omitted from art historical narratives,...
                                  Subcontinental SynthesisElectronic Music at the National Institute of Design, India 1969-1972
                                  The history of India's first electronic music studio founded in 1969 at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad by David Tudor.Subcontinental Synthesis...
                                    The Great Psychic OutdoorsEssays on Low Fidelity: Lo-Fi Music and Escaping Capitalism
                                    Homemade records, tape-hiss worship and a taste for a very peculiar kind of psychedelia have carved themselves a weird niche in the contemporary musical...
                                      Invisible Man
                                      Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Published...
                                        One Hundred Years of Solitude
                                        Gabriel García Márquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendía family and of Macondo, the town they built. Though little...
                                          Radio Phonics LaboratoryTelecommunications, Speech Synthesis & The Birth of Electronic Music
                                          The Radio Phonics Laboratory delves into the intersection of technology and creativity that shaped the sonic landscape of the 20th century. This fascinating...
                                            A Messy History of Women in Printing and TypographyThe Natural Enemies of Books
                                            'Natural Enemies of Books' is a response to the groundbreaking 1937 publication 'Bookmaking on the Distaff Side', which brought together contributions...
                                              The Women Who Changed Architecture
                                              A visual and global chronicle of the triumphs, challenges, and impact of over 100 women in architecture, from early practitioners to contemporary leaders. Marion...
                                                Things Fall Apart
                                                Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire in the harmattan. But when he accidentally...
                                                  August Blue
                                                  At the height of her career, concert pianist Elsa M. Anderson - former child prodigy, now in her thirties - walks off the stage in Vienna, mid-performance....
                                                    The Haunted TrailClassic Tales Of The Rambling Wild
                                                    A remarkable blood-soaked stranger upends the lives of two Lake District ramblers; a lonely tavern offers its guests something much more disturbing than...
                                                      Discovering the Folklore of Plants
                                                      To primitive man the whisper and movement of leaves and the silent unfolding of flowers were proofs of life and power, and their regeneration was a promise...
                                                        A NovelGirls Against God
                                                        Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her past, her practice...
                                                          Wayward Lives, Beautiful ExperimentsIntimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queen Radicals
                                                          At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The first generations born after emancipation, their struggle...
                                                            Satanic FeminismLucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture
                                                            According to the Bible, Eve was the first to heed Satan's advice to eat the forbidden fruit and thus responsible for all of humanity's subsequent miseries....
                                                              Remembered for a WhileNick Drake
                                                              The authorised companion to the music of Nick Drake, compiled, composed and edited by Cally Callomon and Gabrielle Drake, with contributions from Nick's...
                                                                Terminal Boredom
                                                                On a planet where men are contained in ghettoised isolation, women enjoy the fruits of a queer matriarchal utopia -- until a boy escapes and a young woman's...
                                                                  The Conspiracy of Art: Manifestos, Interviews, Essays
                                                                  Cutting-edge theorist Jean Baudrillard on the complicitous dance of art, politics, economics, and media; includes "War Porn," on Abu Ghraib as a new genre...
                                                                    The Power Of Words
                                                                    The philosopher and activist Simone Weil was one of the most courageous thinkers of the twentieth century. Here she writes, with honesty and moral clarity,...
                                                                      Things I Don't Want To Know
                                                                      Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life....
                                                                        Weird WalkWanderings and Wonderings through the British Ritual Year
                                                                        The first book by iconic zine creators and cultural phenomenon Weird Walk. This is a superbly designed guide to Britain's strange and ancient places, to...

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