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Travelling - On the Path of Joni Mitchell

An IndependentBest Non-Fiction Book for 2024 Celebrated music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of the legendary Joni Mitchell

Nsync 30th Anniversary Celebration - We Want You Back!

NSYNC 30th Anniversary Celebration is the definitive illustrated tribute to one of the most prolific and iconic groups in pop music today.

Over the Rainbow - Tales from an Unexpected Year

100% Unofficial Taylor Swift Annual 2025

It's me, hi ... your essential unofficial guide to Taylor Swift!

How to Make Music in an Epidemic - Popular Music Making During the AIDS Crisis, 1981-1996

Matthew Jones provides the first full-length perspective on Western musical responses to the AIDS epidemic and explores how English-langu...

Springsteen - Album by Album

The definitive illustrated book on "The Boss"--now in an updated edition to celebrate his 75th birthday! Renowned for his passionate song...

The EU Song Book

The EU's motto ""United in Diversity"" manifests itself in this song book, which presents in a total of 164 songs a wide collection of ge...

Hip-Hop Is History

This is a book only Questlove could have written: a perceptive and personal reflection on the first half-century of hip-hop.

How Sondheim Can Change Your Life

Orpheus in the Underworld - Essays on Music and Its Mediation

Delves into Theodor W. Adorno's lesser-known musical career and successful music criticism. Theodor W. Adorno is recognized as one of the...

The Silver Snarling Trumpet

Discovered at last, the legendary lost manuscript of Grateful Dead co-founder and primary lyricist Robert Hunter

It's My Party - Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong

¿This extraordinary book is a fascinating account of legendary Hong Kong musical duo Tat Ming Pair, but it¿s so much more than that too: ...

I Was There - Dispatches from a Life in Rock and Roll

A raucous, funny and deeply insightful memoir from the godfather of modern music PR in Britain

Hold to a Dream - A Newgrass Odyssey

For over forty years, John Cowan has been both a participant in and chronicler of country and bluegrass music history. Whether as the lea...

Searching for Dexys Midnight Runners

it was everything. Nige Tassell, author of the Penderyn Prize-shortlisted Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids? employs his skills of detect...

Music with Stanley Cavell in Mind

"Music with Stanley Cavell in Mind provides a first-of-its-kind intervention by leading philosophers and scholars of music into an intell...

Schubert's Piano

"Revealing the connections that link Schubert's distinctive sound world to performance practice, social history, aesthetics, organology, ...

The Most Interesting Man in the World

The Godfather of New York City hardcore and founding member of Agnostic Front invites you into his lower east side pad to regale you with...

Whitesnake 1981

This unique book is based around the unpublished photos of Whitesnake in 1981 by Andy Phillips. These photos were taken on stage, off sta...

Drumz Of The South - The Dubstep Years 2004-2007

The Secret Public - How LGBTQ Performers Shaped Popular Culture (1955-1979)

A monumental history of the LGBTQ influence on popular culture, from the award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage

Ron Edwards and the Fight for Australian Tradition

Ron Edwards (1930--2008) had a passion for recording and safeguarding for future generations Australia's unique folk heritage. In 1950, a...

Off the Ground - Paul McCartney in the 1990s

A sympathetic but clear-eyed exploration of Paul McCartney's work in the 1990s, arguably his most important since the rise of the Beatles...

Bangtan Remixed - A Critical Bts Reader

Bangtan Remixed delves into the cultural impact of celebrated K-Pop boy band BTS, exploring their history, aesthetics, fan culture, and c...

The Essential...Taylor Swift

Since signing her first recording contract at just sixteen, Taylor Swift has gone from a well-regarded country singer to a global pop phe...

Autonomy - Portrait of a Buzzcock

From bass player to lead guitarist, singer and last remaining founding member, Steve Diggle has been the driving force keeping Buzzcocks ...

Now You're One of Us - The Incredible Story of Redd Kross

Now You're One of Us is the definitive statement about Redd Kross, an in-depth and riveting tale told in the voices of the talented and t...

The Genesis and Early History of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II - Volume II: Aspects of Afterlife

Despite the well-known fact that some pieces of Bach's WTC II existed in early forms, there has been no thorough discussion to date as to...

The Oxford Handbook of Asian Philosophies in Music Education

This volume focuses on the collective wisdom of Asian philosophies and their implications for music education. All twenty chapters are wr...

The Pastoral in Charles Griffes's Music - Aesthetic of Ambivalence

At the turn of the century, visionary composer Charles Tomlinson Griffes synthesized highly diverse elements from other musical tradition...

All Crews - Journeys Through Jungle/Drum & Bass Culture

All Crews is a comprehensive exploration of jungle/drum & bass. The book offers a detailed and immersive journey into the history, cultur...

The Marqués, the Divas, and the Castrati - Gaspar de Haro Y Guzmán and Opera in the Early Modern Spanish Orbit

In this book, author Louise K. Stein analyzes early modern opera as appreciated and produced by Gaspar de Haro y Guzmán (1629-87), Marqué...

The Mariachi Voice

The Mariachi Voice is a practical resource for all educational program directors, voice professors, historians, singers, and students of ...

Encore - My journey back to centre stage

An inspirational and moving memoir from Britain's bestselling classical artist - this is Russell Watson, the man behind the voice.

The Sacramentality of Music

This book explores how music is sacramental: able to serve as a means of divine revelation and transformative grace by way of a sacrament...

The Gift of Song - Performing Exchange in Western Arnhem Land

The Gift of Song: Performing Exchange in Western Arnhem Land draws on first-person ethnographic fieldwork, to examine how Bininj/Arrarrkp...

Hazzan Mordecai Gustav Heiser - An Artist, His Art, and the Cantor Tradition in America

"When Gilya Gerda Schmidt met him in 1986, Cantor Heiser had spent forty-six of his eighty-one years as a US citizen. He had assumed the ...

What a Fool Believes - A Memoir

"A sweeping and evocative memoir from the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Grammy Award-winning, platinum selling singer-songwriter Michael McD...

Brothers

In this intimate and open account - nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you've ever read - Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of ...

Mind Games

The definitive exploration--told in revelatory detail--of the writing, recording, and release of John Lennon's celebrated and magical fou...

1984: The Year Pop Went Queer

In 1984, pop came out of the closet - even if not all of the artists felt that they could - and, in the process, charted the course of th...

Everything Under the Sun - The Complete Guide to Pink Floyd

The definitive guide to the band offering song-by-song analysis, full chronology and gig guide, full bootleg guide, and exclusive intervi...

Interrogating Popular Music and the City

Interrogating Popular Music and the City examines the ways in which urban environments and music cultures intersect in various locales ar...

Embodied Expression in Popular Music - A Theory of Musical Gesture and Agency

This book explores the intimate connection between body and instrument in popular music, explaining chords, melodies, riffs, and grooves ...

The Oxford Handbook of Community Singing

The Oxford Handbook of Community Singing embraces an open-ended interpretation of socio-musical practices that can be described with the ...

Chinese Émigré Composers and Divergent Modernisms - Chen Yi and Zhou Long

This Element examines the factors that drove the stylistic heterogeneity of Chen Yi and Zhou Long after the Cultural Revolution. Known as...

501 Essential Albums of the '90s - The Music Fan's Definitive Guide

501 Essential Albums of ’90s is the ultimate curated list detailing dozens of the decade’s most influential releases across all genres, f...

Infinite Dreams - The Life of Alan Vega

A raw but engaging exploration of a man whose artwork, music, and philosophy inspired thousands

Disco - Music, Movies, and Mania Under the Mirror Ball

This dazzling volume shines new light on the songs, styles, and enduring pop culture impact of the 1970s musical genre that emerged from ...

I Can't Remember If I Cried - Rock Widows on Life, Love, and Legacy

I CAN'T REMEMBER IF I CRIED: ROCK WIDOWS ON LIFE, LOVE, AND LEGACY

Hit Me with Music - Roots Rock Reggae

In his new book, Jaffe reveals the world of the Wailers during their early years as an international act from 1973 to 1975, a socially an...

Music and Dance as Everyday South Asia

This book offers an inclusive lens through which to study the music and dance of South Asia, its diasporas, and the people who produce an...

Walking Disaster

So You Want to Sing Rock - A Guide for Performers

Matthew Edwards provides a comprehensive guide for singing rock 'n' roll, covering history, voice science, vocal health, audio technology...

Original Pirate Material - The Streets and Hip-Hop Transatlantic Exchange

With his debut album Original Pirate Material (2002) (OPM) Mike Skinner, who recorded under the name The Streets, combined the world of U...

Mariachi in the Twenty-First Century

This Element contributes to the interdisciplinary study of mariachi, especially in the United States, by focusing on two areas that have ...

Pressure Drop - Reggae in the Seventies

A comprehensive account of reggae during its golden era, from the late sixties through the global breakthrough of Bob Marley in the seven...

The Chronicles of Doom - Unraveling Rap's Masked Iconoclast

"The definitive biography of MF DOOM, charting the reclusive and revered hip-hop artist's life, career, and eventual immortality"--

Taylor Swift: The Story of Her Eras

Taylor Swift''s defining breakout hit, ''Love Story'', was written in twenty minutes on her bedroom floor and now is used for fan proposa...

Mozart, Genius, and the Possibilities of Art

Demonstrates that the concept of genius is as vitally needed as ever and can illuminate the workings of Mozart's creative imagination.