Music & Art, January 2017 | Best Sellers

by LJ Reviews
Jan 05, 2017 | Filed in Reviews+
March 2016 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO
March 2016 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO
  1. Hamilton: The Revolution Miranda, Lin-Manuel Grand Central Publishing 2016. ISBN 9781455539741. $45
  2. The Banjo: America's African Instrument Dubois, Laurent Belknap: Harvard University Press 2016. ISBN 9780674047846. $29.95
  3. The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows Are Built Viertel, Jack Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2016. ISBN 9780374256920. $28
  4. Born To Run Springsteen, Bruce Simon & Schuster 2016. ISBN 9781501141515. $32.50
  5. Grand Illusions: American Art and the First World War Lubin, David M. Oxford University Press 2016. ISBN 9780190218614. $39.95
  6. Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways To Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty Ratliff, Ben Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2016. ISBN 9780374277901. $26
  7. The Camera Does The Rest: How Polaroid Changed Photography Buse, Peter University of Chicago Press 2016. ISBN 9780226176383. $30
  8. The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art Smee, Sebastian Random House 2016. ISBN 9780812994803. $28
  9. Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music Beer, Anna R. Oneworld Publications 2016. ISBN 9781780748566. $22.99
  10. Music in the Age of Anxiety: American Music in the Fifties Wierzbicki, James Eugene University of Illinois Press 2016. ISBN 9780252040078. $95
  11. Kill ’Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul McBride, James Spiegel & Grau 2016. ISBN 9780812993509. $28
  12. The Early American Daguerreotype: Cross-Currents in Art and Technology Gillespie, Sarah Kate MIT Press 2016. ISBN 9780262034104. $31.95
  13. Pieter Bruegel’s Historical Imagination Porras, Stephanie Penn State University Press 2016. ISBN 9780271070896. $79.95
  14. Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power Cahan, Susan Duke University Press 2016. ISBN 9780822358978. $34.95
  15. Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer Lubow, Arthur Ecco: HarperCollins 2016. ISBN 9780062234322. $35
  16. Basic Elements of Music: A Primer for Musicians, Music Teachers, and Students Pagliaro, Michael J. Rowman & Littlefield 2016. ISBN 9781442257788. $85
  17. Painted Book in Renaissance Italy: 1450–1600 Alexander, Jonathan J.G. Yale University Press 2016. ISBN 9780300203981. $75
  18. Where Are the Women Architects? Stratigakos, Despina Princeton University Press 2016. ISBN 9780691170138. $19.95
  19. The Face of Britain: A History of the Nation Through Its Portraits Schama, Simon Oxford University Press 2016. ISBN 9780190621872. $39.95
  20. What Is Paleolithic Art? Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity Clottes, Jean University of Chicago Press 2016. ISBN 9780226266633. $18
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