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|author=Gareth Murphy
|title=Cowboys and Indies: The Epic History of the Record Industry
|rating=5
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=It’s not difficult to find a history of popular or recorded music, written around the musical names who made it happen. ''Cowboys and Indies'' takes a different approach. While there is plenty in these pages about several of the most important stars, there is just as much again if not sometimes more about the movers and shakers, the inventors, managers, impresarios, and record label founders without whom there would not have been a record industry.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781254524</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=As an award-winning composer of choral music, film and TV scores and stage musicals, Howard Goodall is well qualified to write and present on the subject. Covering something which has flourished for over 40,000 years in every shape and form imaginable is no easy task, but in this book, written and published to accompany a recent six-part documentary series on BBC2, he has distilled the lot into a very enlightening chronological narrative in just over 300 pages.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587173</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Armchair Nation: An intimate history of Britain in front of the TV
|author=Joe Moran
|rating=4.5
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=All of us have a love-hate affair with television, or ‘the idiot lantern’. Hardly anybody who has ever owned a set, or been part of a family which has had one, can envisage life without it. It has been a source of endless entertainment and escape from the drudge of everyday life, while at some time it has irritated most of us beyond measure. Love it or loathe it, it has always been part of the fabric of our existence. While to a certain extent it has been superseded by online services which have supplemented if not overtaken or usurped part of its role, its iconic status is unlikely to disappear for the foreseeable future.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683912</amazonuk>
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