Resonance: Cultural Practice and Performative Analysis of Contemporary (Art) Music
Bilingual Edition English/German This inspiring book, with texts in German and English, reflects on the aesthetic, cultural and performative dimensions of contemporary (art) music. It opens up and challenges new perspectives in musicological and arti…
Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism
How architects and designers helped define America’s ecological movement in the 1960s―featuring Ant Farm, Buckminster Fuller, John C. Lilly and many more
During the 1960s, as Western notions of endless progress and growth gave way to concerns over in…
Black Fire! New Spirits!: Images of a Revolution: Radical Jazz in the USA 1960-75
At the start of the 1960s, jazz entered a unique period of revolution as African-American musicians redefined the art form in the context of the Civil Rights Movement, Afro-centric rhythm and thought and an ideology of black economic empowerment.
Joh…
Yo! The Early Days of Hip Hop 1982–84: Photography by Sophie Bramly
The birth of hip hop in New York: rare images of the bands, the MCs and DJs, the artists and the fans, from Afrika Bambaataa and Run-DMC to Keith Haring and the Rock Steady Crew.
This book features more than 150 rarely seen images documenting the ris…
Electronic: From Kraftwerk to the Chemical Brothers
At more than 120 bpm, electronic music sets the tempo on dancefloors around the globe. Accompanying the exhibition Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers, this book offers an insight into the visual culture of electronic music, and how t…
Soundings: A Contemporary Score
Soundings: A Contemporary Score investigates the ways in which some of the most innovative contemporary artists are working with sound today. These artists approach sound from a variety of disciplines--visual arts, architecture, performance, computer…
The Farm at Black Mountain College
A record of the rise and fall of the BMC farm that foregrounds the voices of a new cast of characters Black Mountain College (BMC) was a wellspring of 20th-century creative unorthodoxy. From its founding in 1933 and over its celebrated 23-year histor…
We Owe You Nothing, Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews Expanded Edition
Revised and expanded edition of the punk classic (more than 15,000 copies sold), with six new interviews.
“Not just for fans of punk rock―Punk Planet is a fine source of articles about politics, current events, and do-it-yourself culture.” ―Utne Read…
Black Music
The long-awaited reissue of the sequel to Amiri Baraka’s seminal work, Blues People, and latest selection in the AkashiClassics Renegade Reprint Series. This collection of essays by Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones includes a new introduction by the author a…
Materialistic Aesthetics And Memory Illusions
An analysis of Mike Kelley's work as a position in materialist philosophy, which appears as the feature that is most at stake in his artistic practice, focusing on the pieces he produced around the issue of memory––his leitmotiv from 1995 onward. Mik…
Fusion! – From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother
The role of jazz as a catalyst in rock, pop, funk, new wave, hip-hop, and techno. From music writer Alex Coles, Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother traces the origins and legacy of blended musical genres by focusing on twelve dynamic collabora…
Yoko Ono. Brucia questo libro dopo averlo letto
Italian Language Edition Yoko Ono è una delle instancabili innovatrici dell’arte contemporanea. Negli anni cinquanta scrisse le “istruzioni”, ovvero delle “partiture per l’arte” interpretabili più e più volte dal pubblico che diventava protagonista a…
Black Music. I maestri del Jazz
Italian Language Edition Il blues e il jazz sono stati l’esperienza fondamentale attraverso la quale si è forgiata l’identità degli ex schiavi negli Stati Uniti: l’esperienza con cui il popolo afroamericano ha espresso il massimo di autonomia cultura…
Sonic Faction: Audio Essay as Medium and Method
Explorations of the audio essay as medium and method. With contributors including Justin Barton, Angus Carlyle, Kodwo Eshun, Steve Goodman, Robin Mackay, Paul Nataraj, and Iain Sinclair, Sonic Faction presents extended lines of thought prompted by tw…
La musica, importante quanto la tua stessa vita. La rivoluzione del Free jazz e della Black music
Italian Language Edition Finalmente in lingua italiana il classico sul free jazz degli anni Sessanta e Settanta della grandissima fotografa e storica del jazz Val Wilmer. Questo però non è un libro fotografico, ma la narrazione dell’avventura della g…
Journey To A Destination Unknown
2025 stock This is the story of a life's journey to a destination, not only unknown, but wildly unexpected – filled with excitement, achievement and love, but also pain and struggle. Barbara Thompson, the daughter of an eminent lawyer, was born with …
Bright Lights and Cats with No Mouths
The re-release of the much-sought-after art book by Coil's John Balance—the first ever extensive overview of his drawings, paintings and sketches—in a reformatted and largely redesigned edition. The artworks featured in the book are both finished ela…
In Steel Grey Armour
BIlingual Edition English/French Timeless Edition is thrilled to present ‘In Steel Grey Armour’ consisting of the complete reproduction of an infamous and mysterious collage book created by Genesis P-Orridge in 1979 and entrusted to his friend Yves A…
The Last Slogan
Personal correspondence between Genesis P-Orridge and Jean-Pierre Turmel over a fifteen-year period. This book pays tribute to one of counter-culture's single most iconic figures of the past fifty odd years, someone who has over the course of he/r ca…
Albion'S Eco-Eerie
In 'Albion's Eco-eerie: TV and Movies of the Haunted Generations' Phil Smith takes us through a selection of weird films and TV shows and uncovers a wholly unexpected ecological and political message. Unlike most approaches to folk horror or hauntolo…