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Mind Games

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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.

How to Run an Indie Label

How To Run an Indie Label tells you everything you need to know about how to be a creative force. Music is like no other business. It's a...

Songbird - An Intimate Biography of Christine McVie

Christine McVie - born Christine Perfect - was the quintessentially English rock star, as both the backbone and the beating heart of Flee...

Dowland

"Dowland celebrates the story of one of the most important, most studied, and most performed composers to emerge from early modern Englan...

Music of Life

for SATB and piano Music of Life is a vibrant setting of a poem by George Parsons Lathrop that describes how music underpins all earthly ...

Dub - The Sound of Surprise - History - Interviews - Sound Systems - Engineers & Studios - Discography

DUB, The Sound of Surprise ist die weltweit erste Biografie des jamaikanischen Dubs in englischer Sprache. Das Buch mit über 200 Abbildun...

Chuco Punk - Sonic Insurgency in El Paso

An immersive study of the influential and predominantly Chicanx punk rock scene in El Paso, Texas.

Aesthetic Amalgams and Political Pursuits - Intertextuality in Music Videos

This open access book illustrates how intertextuality in music videos can be used to create new aesthetic patterns and develop a politica...

Insurgent Soundscapes of Dancehall Music - Black Politics and the Global 1990

This book evaluates modern Caribbean politics through the soundscapes of Reggae and Dancehall. Born to Reggae in the 1970s, Dancehall is ...

Acoustics of Empire - Sound, Media, and Power in the Long Nineteenth Century

How have sound and empire shaped one another historically? Acoustics of Empire recovers a sonic history that is bound up with imperial po...

Dolly Parton All the Songs - The Story Behind Every Track

A VISUAL FEAST: This book features over 500 color and black-and-white photos of Dolly's career, some never-before-seen.

Silencing the Drum - Religious Racism and Afro-Brazilian Sacred Music

Silencing the Drum explores the role of sacred music in Afro-Brazilian religious traditions and provides detailed accounts of religious i...

The Artistry and Legacy of Queen

Over a career spanning six decades, Queen have become one of the most successful music artists in the history of the recorded music indus...

Schubert's Piano

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

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 Lost Music of the Holocaust - Bringing the music of the camps to the ears of the world at last

Scores sewn into coat linings, instruments hidden in suitcases, sheet music stashed among dirty laundry, concertos written on discarded f...

A Quick Ting On: Grime

Journalist and rapper Franklyn Addo charts an intelligent, literary exploration of the history and socio-cultural significance of Grime m...

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: ...

Cello - A Journey Through Silence to Sound

Cello is a group biography that weaves together four narratives of cellists who suffered various forms of persecution, injury, and misfor...

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

Holding the Note - Writing On Music

The greatest popular songs, whether it's Aretha Franklin singing ?Respect' or Bob Dylan performing ?Blind Willie McTell', have a way of e...

The Carols of Cthulhu - Horrifying Holiday Hymns from the Lore of H. P. Lovecraft

Whether you're home for the holly-daze or wandering a hellish landscape of never-ending agony, you need a good tune to pass the time. The...

Taylor Swift - The Stories Behind the Songs - Every single track, explored and explained

The full story behind every single song Taylor Swift has ever released. Covering ten albums, more than 200 songs, hidden gems, cover vers...

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...

Hip-Hop Is History

When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn't expected to become the cultural force it is today. But for a young Black kid growing u...

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...

Teaching Bob Dylan - Multitudes

"Teaching Bob Dylan offers educators adaptable strategies for designing or updating courses (or units within courses) on the life, music,...

The Times Lives Behind the Music

Step into the tumultuous world of music stardom with this collection of obituaries from The Times. From the rock'n'roll pioneers of the 1...

Religious Sounds Beyond the Global North - Senses, Media and Power

What makes sounds "religious"? How are communities shaped by the things they hear, play, or listen to? This book foregrounds connections ...

Walking Disaster

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...

Over the Rainbow - Tales from an Unexpected Year

Don't Stop the Music - A Year of Pop History, One Day at a Time

Notable events, surprising nuggets and entertaining coincidences from music history - the perfect companion for any fan of popular music

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...

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

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...

Drumz Of The South - The Dubstep Years 2004-2007

Queen: I Want It All - The Ultimate Collection of Memorabilia

With Forewords by Brian May & Roger Taylor. 50 years+ of Queen memorabilia brought together in a magnificent, fully illustrated coffee ta...

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 Silver Snarling Trumpet

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

Nights at the Red Steinway - Adventures in Jazz Piano, from the Wall Street Journal and Elsewhere

NIGHTS AT THE RED STEINWAY: NOTES ON JAZZ PIANO, FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AND ELSEWHERE

I Don't Want to Go Home - The Oral History of the Stone Pony

"A captivating oral history of the iconic music venue the Stone Pony and of the rise, fall, and rebirth of Asbury Park, New Jersey-featur...

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...

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...

Were You There When They Crucified My Lord

One of the best loved of the American spirituals is here interpreted by an artist whose birthright is an authentic understanding of the s...

In One Ear

'A wonderful book.' ELTON JOHNAs one-third of seminal band Cocteau Twins, Simon Raymonde helped to create some of the most beautiful and ...

Pressure Drop - Reggae in the Seventies

Pressure Drop chronicles reggae's most tumultuous and influential decade. Beginning in 1970 and unfolding both in Britain and Jamaica, re...