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Product Description: A long-overdue paean to the predominant musical form of the 70s and a thoughtful exploration of the culture that spawned itDisco may be the most universally derided musical form to come about in the past forty years. Yet, like its pop cultural peers punk and hip hop, it was born of a period of profound social and economic upheaval...read more
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9780571211944 | Faber & Faber, June 1, 2005, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Provides a study of the most important musical form of the 1970s that assesses the history of disco music and the cultural, social, and economic milieu of the era that spawned it.

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9780865479524 | Faber & Faber, October 15, 2006, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A long-overdue paean to the predominant musical form of the 70s and a thoughtful exploration of the culture that spawned itDisco may be the most universally derided musical form to come about in the past forty years.

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Product Description: The Rough Guide to Soul and R&B is the definitive guide to the genre’s greatest singers, musicians, songwriters and record labels, encapsulating the entire history of soul music from gospel and doo-wop, through funk and disco, to hip-hop and R&B...read more
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9781843532644 | 1 edition (Rough Guides, September 1, 2006), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: The Rough Guide to Soul and R&B is the definitive guide to the genre’s greatest singers, musicians, songwriters and record labels, encapsulating the entire history of soul music from gospel and doo-wop, through funk and disco, to hip-hop and R&B.

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Product Description: Completely updated and radically expanded, the new Rough guide to Hip-Hop is the definitive guide to every aspect of the music, tracing its story from its origins in the 1970s as New York’s urban folk music all the way to hip-hop’s current dominance as the world’s best-selling genre...read more
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9781843532637 | 2 rev exp edition (Rough Guides, May 10, 2005), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Completely updated and radically expanded, the new Rough guide to Hip-Hop is the definitive guide to every aspect of the music, tracing its story from its origins in the 1970s as New York’s urban folk music all the way to hip-hop’s current dominance as the world’s best-selling genre.
9781858286372 | Rough Guides, April 1, 2001, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: This work aims to be the definitive guide to the MCs, DJs, producers, labels, graffiti taggers, poppers, lockers and body-rockers involved in the hip-hop scene.

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Product Description: "The Rough Guide Website Directory" is a companion to the "Rough Guide to the Internet" aiming to save you hours of online frustration. Reviewing a couple thousand of the world's most useful (and strangest) sites, it'll help you to: find anything fast; shop the world; trace your ancestry; discover new music; invest your income; publish your photo album; meet your perfect match; source a recipe; fix your computer; follow the football; look up free encyclopedias; diagnose your ailment; know your films; book an adventure; tune in to foreign radio; and more...read more
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9781843531029 | 3rd edition (Rough Guides, April 1, 2004), cover price $20.01 | About this edition: "The Rough Guide Website Directory" is a companion to the "Rough Guide to the Internet" aiming to save you hours of online frustration.

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9781858288550 | Rough Guides, May 1, 2002, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: This guide includes information on how to find anything, anywhere (the easy way), how to send e-mail, how to browse sports, news and travel information, how to download the latest software (for free), create you own Web page, plus a critical directory of more than 600 Web sites.

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Product Description: This guide informs readers how to build a representative collection of soul music. It traces the music's path, with a brief stop-over in Ethiopia, from its birth in pentecostal churches in cotton country, to a proliferation of styles. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781858285627 | Rough Guides, November 1, 2000, cover price $5.00 | About this edition: This guide informs readers how to build a representative collection of soul music.

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Product Description: Edited by Peter Shapiro. Contributions by Iara Lee, David Toop. Text by Kodwo Eshun, Michael Berk, Tony Marcus, Kurt Reighley, Simon Reynolds, Michael Rubin, Chris Sharp, Rob Young.
By Iara Lee and Peter Shapiro (editor)
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9781891024061 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, November 1, 2000, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Edited by Peter Shapiro.

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Product Description: Rough Guides introduces a new series of mini-format references to the rhythms that define our time. Drum 'n' Bass covers the breakbeat and its circulation through the world in genres such as jungle, Hardcore Techno, Trip-Hop, and Big Beat...read more
By Alexix Maryon (photographer) and Peter Shapiro
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9781858284330 | Rough Guides, August 1, 1999, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Rough Guides introduces a new series of mini-format references to the rhythms that define our time.

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