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  Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a...

  Sequoia Maner

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  Breaking the global record for streams in a single day, nearly 10 million people around the world tuned in to hear Kendrick Lamar’s sophomore album in the hours after its release. To Pimp a Butterfly was widely hailed as an instant classic, garnering laudatory album reviews, many awards, and even a canonized place in Harvard’s W. E. B. Du Bois archive. Why did this strangely compelling record stimulate the emotions and imaginations of listeners?This book takes a deep dive into the sounds, images, and lyrics of To Pimp a Butterfly to suggest that Kendrick appeals to the psyche of a nation in crisis and embraces the development of a radical political conscience. Kendrick breathes fresh life into the Black musical protest tradition and cultivates a platform for loving resistance. Combining funk, jazz, and spoken word, To Pimp a Butterfly’s expansive sonic and lyrical geography brings a high level of innovation to rap music. More importantly, Kendrick’s introspective and philosophical songs compel us to believe in a future where, perhaps, we gon’ be alright.

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  Always the Music - How a...

  Thomas W. Morris

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  Always The Music is the fascinating story of Morris’ personal metamorphosis through the highest levels of the world of classical music, his learning and insights into how storied musical institutions function, great artists create, and audiences engage. Over the course of 34 years running the Boston Symphony and The Cleveland Orchestra, he had the growing realization that American orchestras had become ingrown on themselves, with rigid structures and cultures that conspired to perpetuate those structures rather than the music experiences they were built to create. Stepping back from orchestras and looking to experiment with his evolving insights, he became artistic director of the Ojai Music Festival. Its size, its setting, its unique structure and a long history with many of the world’s most innovative and influential musicians and composers provided an opportunity for Morris to reimagine musical experiences by challenging all aspects of making music and producing concerts. The first part of the book recounts Morris’s journey through close collaborations with key individuals and projects, while the final chapters synthesizes his career lessons into an unequivocal but thoughtful prescription for the future of the American orchestra. Mostly, though, this is the entertaining story of one man’s lifelong love affair with great music and the people who make it.

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  It Doesn't Suck: Showgirls

  Adam Nayman

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  A new edition of the first book in the acclaimed Pop Classics series The Worst. Movie. Ever. is a masterpiece. Seriously. Enough time has passed since Showgirls flopped spectacularly that it’s time for a good hard look back at the sequined spectacle. A salvage operation on a very public, very expensive train wreck, It Doesn’t Suck argues that Showgirls is much smarter and deeper than it is given credit for. In an accessible and entertaining voice, the book encourages a shift in critical perspective on Paul Verhoeven’s Showgirls, analyzing the film, its reception, and rehabilitation. This in-depth study of a much-reviled movie is a must-read for lovers and haters of the 1995 Razzie winner for Worst Picture. This expanded edition includes an exclusive interview between the author and Showgirls director Paul Verhoeven, as well as a new preface.

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  True Lies - The Art of Reality...

  Calum Marsh

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  “Tracing the history of reality television from the late 1990s, reporter and critic Marsh’s fascinating, informative, and balanced book takes readers behind the scenes of numerous reality series, including The Amazing Race, Survivor, Big Brother, and Kitchen Nightmares . . . Among the many books on the subject, this is one of the most comprehensive and thoughtful.” — Booklist
  		 
  When Survivor premiered on CBS in the early summer of 2000, it seemed like a cut-and-dry novelty: interesting, and immensely popular, but almost certainly doomed to be short-lived.
  		 
  It’s not just that Survivor is still, 25 years later, on the air, pulling in huge ratings across its now 50 seasons. Reality television has transitioned from a widely derided flash in the pan to a fully legitimized medium enjoyed by millions of households across a huge variety of formats. From the observational drama of Keeping Up with the Kardashians to competitive cooking shows like Top Chef and Hell’s Kitchen, it’s clear that reality isn’t going anywhere — it’s even made the leap to streaming, with shows like Love Is Blind proving that reality is here to stay.
  		 
  True Lies: The Art of Reality Television, from New York Times reporter Calum Marsh, is about the history, the present, and the future of reality television — what it means, how it happened, and where it’s taking us. Featuring revealing long-form interviews with the stars, producers, and hosts of some of the most popular reality shows, including Jeff Probst and Gordon Ramsay, as well as deep writing on reality TV’s psychological and sociological dimensions, this book takes a hard look at a much-maligned genre from its origins in scientific experimentation to its decades-long evolution into what it is today. From the game show cheating scandals of the 1960s to the phenomena of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and Survivor, from network hits like The Amazing Race and Big Brother to modern streaming classics like Chef’s Table and Last One Laughing, True Lies is a comprehensive study of the format that leaves no stone unturned.

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  The Lighthouse Cat - A Tale of...

  Wren Maplehart

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  The Lighthouse Cat: A Tale of Light, Courage, and the Sea 
   In a quiet lighthouse perched on a storm-tossed cliff, where the waves crash and the winds whisper forgotten stories, lives a small but fearless feline named Nixie. Guardian of the lantern and silent watcher of the tides, Nixie isn’t just any cat—she holds a secret as old as the sea itself. 
  When a fierce tempest threatens to swallow a nearby village and the lighthouse keeper goes missing, it’s up to Nixie to brave the storm. Guided by instinct, memory, and the flickering flame of the beacon above, she embarks on a heart-pounding journey across treacherous rocks, haunted shores, and crashing waves. 
  Blending the charm of classic animal tales with the lyrical beauty of maritime folklore, The Lighthouse Cat is a timeless story of courage in the face of darkness, the enduring power of light, and the mysterious bond between the sea and those who call it home. 
  Perfect for readers young and old, this is a tale that will warm hearts, stir imaginations, and remind us all that even the smallest among us can shine the brightest light.

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  The Rolling Stones Quiz Book -...

  Mart Matthews

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  Not many books on the Rolling Stones make mention of Charles Dickens, Portsmouth Football Club, Piers Morgan, Fairy Liquid, Henry Ford, the Salvation Army, the Carry On films, the Queen, the American Civil War or West Side Story, but this one does!
  Try these for size:
  1. Which track from the Between the Buttons LP begins and ends with a Beatles song?
  2. Which was the first Rolling Stones song to contain seven colours in its title?3. On what floor of his building did the singer live in Get Off of My Cloud?
  4. Sympathy for the Devil and Honky Tonk Women between them reference four cities. What are they?

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