Can't find my way home : America in the great stoned age, 1945-2000 / Martin Torgoff. by Torgoff, Martin

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The Rolling Stones : Under Review, 1967-1969 / MVD Entertainment Group.

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Front cover : great book jacket and cover design / Alan Powers. by Powers, Alan, 1944-

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Psychedelic popular music : a history through musical topic theory / William Echard. by Echard, William, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Delineating psychedelia: topic theory and popular music cultures -- Developments through 1966 -- The later 1960s -- The 1970s -- The 1980s and on -- Epilogue: conclusions and prospects -- Appendix A: the sample and discography -- Appendix B: the San Francisco poster sample -- Appendix C: some notes on the transcriptions.…”
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Working class heroes : rock music and British society in the 1960s and 1970s / David Simonelli. by Simonelli, David

Table of Contents: “…Society, culture and music in Britain before 1963 -- The Beatles -- London -- Mods -- Marketing a lifestyle -- Psychedelia -- Folk rock -- The counterculture -- Progressive rock -- Heavy metal and hard rock -- Glamrock -- The business of rock music -- Punk.…”
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Movie magick : the occult in film / David Huckvale. by Huckvale, David

Table of Contents: “…Theological Horror; Nine. Theosophy; Ten. Psychedelia; Eleven. Conspiracy; Twelve. Faust; Thirteen. …”
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What goes on : the Beatles, their music, and their time / Walter Everett and Tim Riley. by Everett, Walter, 1954-, Riley, Tim, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Revolt into sound: Race, class, generation divide, and gender dominate pre-Beatles rock 'n' roll -- The quarry men (1940-1960) -- The Pete Best era (1961-1962) -- Runaway train: British Beatlemania (1963) -- Instant combustion: World embrace (1964) -- Repeat with a twist (1965) -- From the stage to the studio (1966) -- Celebrity psychedelia (1967) -- Listening through a glass onion (1968) -- They may be parted (1969-1970).…”

World fashion tour. Volume 9, Episode 24 / [produced by Videofashion].

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New ornamental type : decorative lettering in the digital age / Steven Heller & Gail Anderson. by Heller, Steven

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! : the story of pop music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé / Bob Stanley. by Stanley, Bob, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Chicago and Detroit: house and techno ; Smiley culture: Acid House and Manchester ; 1991: bassline changed my life ; All eyez on me: hip hop ; This is how you disappear: Bristol, shoegazing and a new psychedelia ; As a defense, I'm neutered and spayed: grunge ; Ever decreasing circles: Blur, Suede, and Britpop ; A vision of love: R&B.…”

The dream on the rock : visions of prehistory / Fulvio Gosso and Peter Webster. by Gosso, Fulvio, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Rock Art and PsychologyFoundation Myths -- The Crisis of the Cultural Paradigm -- 4 Origins of Psychedelia (Peter Webster) -- The Most Human Universal -- What Makyth a Man? …”
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Art Chantry speaks : a heretic's history of 20th century graphic design / Art Chantry ; edited by Monica René Rochester. by Chantry, Art, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Powers Showed Us What Science Fiction Looks LIke -- Harry Chester, King of Monster Type -- Herb Lubalin: If You Can't Design in B & W, You Can't Design -- Ivan Chermayeff and BJ -- Robert Massin: Thinking Outside the Condom Box -- Peter Max and the Cult of Fake Psychedelia -- Cal Schenel CleansYou! Cleans & Thrills You! …”
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Typology : type design from the Victorian era to the digital age / Steven Heller and Louise Fili. by Heller, Steven

Table of Contents: “…Pre-modern: Victorian: England ; United States ; France ; Germany -- Arts and Crafts: England ; United States ; Germany -- Art Nouveau: Germany ; France ; The Netherlands ; Austria -- Blackletter -- Early modern: Expressionism ; Sachplakat ; Dada -- Avant-garde modern: Futurism: Italy -- Constructivism: Russia -- The New Typography: Germany ; Eastern Europe -- De Stijl: The Netherlands -- The New Typography: England -- Commercial modern: France ; United States ; Germany ; Spain ; Italy ; The Netherlands ; Eastern Europe -- Late modern: Switzerland ; Germany ; France ; The Netherlands ; United States, 1940s ; United States, 1950s, 1960s -- United States, 1970s -- Eclectic modern: England ; Europe ; United States ; Psychedelia ; United States -- Postmodern: Switzerland ; Russia ; England -- United States vernacular -- United States new wave -- United States Deconstruction -- United States: Emigre -- United States: new classicism -- United States: Grunge -- Experimental -- Later modern.…”

Cambrian ocean world : ancient sea life of North America / John Foster. by Foster, John Russell

Table of Contents: “…Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; 1 Natural Mystic: An Introduction to the Cambrian; 2 Into the Heart: Cambrian Geology; 3 A Long Strange Trip: The First 4000 Million Years of Earth History; 4 Welcome to the Boomtown: The Early Cambrian Seas; 5 On Top of the World: The Middle Cambrian Begins; 6 Magical Mystery Tour: The Biological Psychedelia of the Burgess Shale; 7 Glory Days: The Later Middle Cambrian; 8 Taking Off: The Late Cambrian; 9 Home by the Sea: A Closer Look; 10 On and On: Legacy of the Explosion; GLOSSARY; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P.…”
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Berlioz (Documentary) / EuroArts Music International GmbH.

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Modern American lives : individuals and issues in American history since 1945 / Blaine T. Browne, Robert C. Cottrell. by Browne, Blaine T. (Blaine Terry)

Table of Contents: “…Wallace: practitioner of the politics of rage -- Jimi Hendrix: troubadour of psychedelia -- Bernadine Dohrn: reformer, radical revolutionary -- Gloria Steinem: feminist icon -- Phyllis Schafly: counterrevolutionary on the right -- Jerry Falwell: standard-bearer of the Christian right -- Bill Gates: prophet of techno times -- Tiger Woods: golf's great black hope -- Clarence Thomas: black conservative in judicial robes -- Paul Wolfowitz: Democratic imperialist -- Noam Chomsky: radical gadfly.…”
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The story of graphic design : from the invention of writing to the birth of digital design / Patrick Cramsie. by Cramsie, Patrick

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : graphic design & style -- Design and sign : the origin of the alphabet, c.34,000-1,100 BC -- A classical education : Ancient Greece & Rome, c. 2000BC-c.AD350 -- Spreading the word : illuminated manuscripts, c.350-c.1500 -- The black art : the birth of painting & early German printing, c.1455-c.1530 -- Back to the future : Renaissance Italy & France, c.1460-c.1600 -- Popular publishing : Dutch Renaissance & popular prints, c.1530-c.1700 -- Purity in print : Rococo, transitional & modern, c.1700-c.1820 -- The tools of trade : display types & Victorian design, c.1800-c.1880 -- Manufacturing the Middle Ages : Neo-Gothic & the arts and crafts, c.1840-c.1910 -- The style of the street : Art Nouveau, c.1880-c.1914 -- The simple art of war : Sachplakat & First World War graphics, c.1880-c.1920 -- The isms of art : Futurism, Dada, De Stijl & Constructivism, c. 1900-c.1930 -- Form and function : Bauhaus & the new typography, c.1919-c.1933 -- The weight of tradition : traditional typography, c.1910-c.1947 -- Good design is good business : commercial Modernism, c.1920-c.1960 -- Systems and signs : Swiss typography, c.1945-c.1972 -- Handmade and homespun : illustrated Modernism & Psychedelia, c.1950-c.1970 -- Tearing it up : punk, c.1975-c.1985 -- Less is a bore : New Wave & Postmodernism, c.1970-c.1990 -- Printing with pixels : digital Expressionism & postscript, the digital future, c.1984-.…”

Psychic TV : Black Joy / MVD Entertainment Group.

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Music is power : popular songs, social justice and the will to change / Brad Schreiber. by Schreiber, Brad

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Robert Plant : Robert Plant's Blue Note / MVD Entertainment Group.

Table of Contents: “…50 Year Career (2:50) -- Plant's Musical Influences (4:40) -- Lure of Blues (2:50) -- King of the Delta Blues (2:45) -- Blues Exposure (3:33) -- Transforming British Pop Music (3:50) -- Meeting Their Idols (3:36) -- Key Contributors (4:56) -- A Folk Template (4:16) -- Psychedelia (3:39) -- Progressive Sounds (5:18) -- Heavy Rock Emergence (4:45) -- A Leap from Blues Rock (3:49) -- Rocking the Hall (4:09) -- Taking Blues to a New Level (4:08) -- Anglo-American and Eastern Rock (3:21) -- Music on a Different Scale (3:10) -- Plant on His Own (4:00) -- "Pictures at Eleven" (2:14) -- Arabic Diva (4:40) -- "The Principle of Moments" (3:18) -- American Tour (2:33) -- 1980's Albums (3:53) -- "Now and Zen" (5:20) -- Solo Statement (3:24) -- "Fate of Nations" (5:59) -- Robert Plant and Jimmy Page Unledded (5:46) -- Arabic Rock (5:17) -- North African Adventure (1:50) -- Blending African and Arabic Culture (3:35) -- A Musical Sorbet (1:37) -- "Dreamland" (2:11) -- Second Edition of the Festival Au Desert (4:20) -- Blues-Based Music? …”
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