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Walk This Way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song that Changed American Music Forever

Geoff Edgers · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Washington Post staff writer Geoff Edgers takes a deep dive into the story behind "Walk This Way," Aerosmith and Run-DMC's legendary, groundbreaking mashup that forever changed music. The early 1980s were an exciting time for music. Hair metal bands were selling out stadiums,...
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Appetite for Definition: An A-Z Guide to Rock Genres

Ian King · Harper Perennial
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback

Part reference book, part history, and part road map to the connectivity of popular music, this book is a must for all rock 'n' roll fans as it brings together a compilation of over two hundred genres of rock music - an entertaining, enlightening, knotty family tree of America's...
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African Americans in Culpeper, Orange, Madison and Rappahannock Counties

Terry L Miller · Arcadia Publishing
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

The fourth president of the United States, James Madison, and his wife, Dolley, stamped their influence throughout Culpeper, Orange, Madison, and Rappahannock Counties with their plantation, Montpelier, and the enslaved men and women who supported them. One of those enslaved men, Paul Jennings,...
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Dior and His Decorators: Victor Grandpierre, Georges Geffroy, and the New Look

Maureen Footer · Vendome Press
Pages: 195
Format: Hardcover

Dior and His Decorators is the first work on the two interior designers most closely associated with Christian Dior. Like the unabashedly luxurious fashions of Dior's New Look, which debuted in 1947, the interior designs of Victor Grandpierre and Georges Geffroy infused a war-weary...
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