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      Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina

      David Hajdu

      A 4-way biography of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, her sister Mimi and Richard Farina and how these beatniks made folk the new rock.

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      The Uncanny Muse

      David Hajdu

      An acclaimed critic, journalist and songwriter-musician tells the story of art's relation to machines, from the Baroque period to the age of AI

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      Love for Sale: Pop Music in America

      David Hajdu

      A personal, idiosyncratic history of pop music from the revered music critic.

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      Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn

      David Hajdu

      A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award

      Billy Strayhorn (1915-67) was one of the greatest composers in the history of American music, the creator of a body of…

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      The Ten-Cent Plague: Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America, The

      David Hajdu

      In the years between the end of World War II and the mid-1950s, American popular culture was first created in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. But no…

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      Musicians on Music: Classical

      David Hajdu

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      Adrianne Geffel: A Fiction

      David Hajdu (Columbia University)

      A poignant and hilarious oral history of a (fictitious) musical phenomenon.

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      Adrianne Geffel: A Fiction

      David Hajdu (Columbia University)

      This never-before-told story of the life and work of a (fictitious) musical phenomenon is a revealing?and at times hilarious?satire of the music business, fame, and the cult of personality (Clea…

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      Discovering Great Singers of Classic Pop

      Roy Hemming,David Hajdu

      The sounds, styles, and lives of outstanding singers from the 1920s to the present are written about with loving expertise by two writers who can make singers and their songs…

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      A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge

      David Hajdu,John Carey

      A Revolution in Three Acts explores how three vaudeville stars defied the standards of their time to change how their audiences thought about what it meant to be American, to…

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      A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge

      David Hajdu,John Carey

      A Revolution in Three Acts explores how three vaudeville stars defied the standards of their time to change how their audiences thought about what it meant to be American, to…

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