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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
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4.19 avg rating — 36,686 ratings
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Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
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4.27 avg rating — 4,424 ratings
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I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution
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3.89 avg rating — 4,858 ratings
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Ska: An Oral History
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3.97 avg rating — 60 ratings
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The Winding Stream: An Oral History of the Carter and Cash Family
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4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
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4.14 avg rating — 49,151 ratings
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Singing Out: An Oral History of America's Folk Music Revivals
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3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Me
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4.32 avg rating — 71,936 ratings
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We Got the Neutron Bomb : The Untold Story of L.A. Punk
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3.97 avg rating — 2,746 ratings
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Punk Rock: An Oral History
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4.01 avg rating — 648 ratings
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Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies
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3.92 avg rating — 556 ratings
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Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s
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3.97 avg rating — 1,328 ratings
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Rebel Yell
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop
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3.78 avg rating — 1,773 ratings
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So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 524 ratings
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This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead
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4.39 avg rating — 479 ratings
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For the Record 4: Sly & the Family Stone
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3.75 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s
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4.22 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Big Book of Hair Metal: The Illustrated Oral History of Heavy Metal's Debauched Decade
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4.14 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Sun Records: An Oral History
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3.66 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The History of Hip Hop
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3.43 avg rating — 30 ratings
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AI Performance: The Art of Live Automation: The ultimate 'how to' guide in creating stunning, technical and revolutionary live shows for any contemporary musical performer
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Wham! George & Me
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4.05 avg rating — 6,801 ratings
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Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
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4.17 avg rating — 10,122 ratings
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Decoding "Despacito": An Oral History of Latin Music
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3.79 avg rating — 149 ratings
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A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton, from Box Tops to Big Star to Backdoor Man
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3.87 avg rating — 826 ratings
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Talking Jazz: An Oral History
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4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Really Saying Something: Sara & Keren – Our Bananarama Story
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3.75 avg rating — 592 ratings
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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3.95 avg rating — 74,209 ratings
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The Jazz of the Southwest: An Oral History of Western Swing
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Who I Am
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3.91 avg rating — 5,084 ratings
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Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
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4.14 avg rating — 12,823 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Music
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3.89 avg rating — 67,719 ratings
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Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles
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4.04 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Running Up That Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush
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4.15 avg rating — 374 ratings
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The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History
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3.82 avg rating — 1,623 ratings
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Ticket to the World: My 80s Story
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3.76 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Straight from the Heart
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3.70 avg rating — 63 ratings
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From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World
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3.91 avg rating — 1,729 ratings
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Started Out Just Drinking Beer: The Mental As Anything Story
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4.27 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock's Wildest Festival
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4.01 avg rating — 819 ratings
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We Owe You Nothing, Punk Planet : The Collected Interviews
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3.97 avg rating — 1,298 ratings
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My My!: ABBA Through the Ages
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3.66 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Uptight: The Velvet Underground Story
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3.86 avg rating — 606 ratings
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Faber Faber The Book of ABBA Melancholy Undercover.
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3.57 avg rating — 714 ratings
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Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal
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3.92 avg rating — 1,463 ratings
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Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 923 ratings
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Conversations in Jazz: The Ralph J. Gleason Interviews
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4.07 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Yes Yes Y'all: The Experience Music Project Oral History Of Hip-hop's First Decade
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4.22 avg rating — 230 ratings
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Jazz and Blues Musicians of South Carolina: Interviews with Jabbo, Dizzy, Drink, and Others
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Tape-Recorded Interview: A Manual for Fieldworkers in Folklore and Oral History
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3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings
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I Found My Friends: The Oral History of Nirvana
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3.66 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Think of the Self Speaking: Selected Interviews
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4.53 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Woodstock: The Oral History
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4.16 avg rating — 75 ratings
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The Ethnographic Interview
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4.07 avg rating — 195 ratings
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Solid Foundation: An Oral History of Reggae
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4.05 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Talking Feet: Solo Southern Dance: Buck, Flatfoot, and Tap
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Beatles: An Oral History
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3.89 avg rating — 70 ratings
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One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band
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4.26 avg rating — 1,340 ratings
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"We're Going to See the Beatles!": An Oral History of Beatlemania as Told by the Fans Who Were There
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4.11 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Reckoning: Conversations With the Grateful Dead
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3.93 avg rating — 81 ratings
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A Wonderful Guy: Conversations with the Great Men of Musical Theater
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4.49 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews
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4.44 avg rating — 270 ratings
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Talking Guitar: Conversations with Musicians Who Shaped Twentieth-Century American Music
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4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Roots Rock Reggae: The Oral History of Reggae Music from Ska to Dancehall
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3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues
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4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings
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All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists
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3.80 avg rating — 1,649 ratings
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No Slam Dancing, No Stage Diving, No Spikes: An Oral History of the Legendary City Gardens
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4.19 avg rating — 224 ratings
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Music Talks: Conversations with Musicians
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4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Women of Motown: An Oral History
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3.82 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Masters of the 5-String Banjo
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4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Oral Visual History
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4.30 avg rating — 635 ratings
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Confidence, or the Appearance of Confidence: The Best of the Believer Music Interviews
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3.82 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Lynyrd Skynyrd: An Oral History
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4.06 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Angels in the Mirror: Voodoo Music of Haiti
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4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Off The Record: Songwriters on Songwriting
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3.89 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Songwriters On Songwriting
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4.32 avg rating — 773 ratings
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Capricorn Rising: Conversations in Southern Rock
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4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Fresh at Twenty: The Oral History of Mint Records
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3.77 avg rating — 30 ratings
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From Macon to Jacksonville: More Conversations in Southern Rock
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Led Zeppelin: The Oral History of the World's Greatest Rock Band
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3.92 avg rating — 324 ratings
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The Big Beat: Conversations With Rock's Great Drummers
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Pressed for All Time: Producing the Great Jazz Albums from Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday to Miles Davis and Diana Krall
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3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Black Sabbath: An Oral History
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3.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Voice of the Blues: Classic Interviews from Living Blues Magazine
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3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Elwood's Blues: Interviews with the Blues Legends & Stars
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4.21 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Off the Record: An Oral History of Popular Music. Ed. by Mitchell Fink.
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3.74 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop
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4.22 avg rating — 707 ratings
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The Rolling Stones: An Oral History
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3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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A Punkhouse in the Deep South: The Oral History of 309
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4.23 avg rating — 96 ratings
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For the Record: George Clinton And P-Funk; An Oral History
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4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History Of Punk In Toronto And Beyond 1977-1981
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4.14 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Shredders!: The Oral History Of Speed Guitar
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3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings
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