Overview :Beethoven's Skull is an unusual and often humorous survey of the many strange happenings in the history of Western classical music. Proving ... Read More
Overview :In Then Sings My Soul, Book 2, Robert Morgan again delves beyond the songwriter's inspiration and explains the real-life events, the tribula... Read More
Overview :Handel, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Dvorak, Stravinsky, Messiaen . . . Men of genius as different as their music - but all... Read More
Overview :NPR Best Book of 2017Winner of the 2017 Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism"This is the best book about the Beatles ever wr... Read More
Overview :"A thoughtful, entertaining history of obsessed music collectors and their quest for rare early 78 rpm records" (Los Angeles Times), Do Not ... Read More
Overview :The #1 text and digital media package, What's That Sound? helps students understand rock first and foremost as music, emphasizing concepts a... Read More
Overview :Writer and music historian Marc Myers brings to life five decades of music in Anatomy of a Song, based on the popular ongoing Wall Street Jo... Read More
Overview :The behind-the-scenes story of the controversial 1960s made-for-tv rock band. The Monkees represent a vital problem for rock and pop: is it... Read More
Overview :Race, history, culture, and entertainment collide in this bracing and personal examination of black performance and the complicated, ongoing... Read More
Overview :Over a decade's worth of classic albums that defied categorization. An appearance on Nirvana's classic 'MTV Unplugged' performance. A hit vi... Read More
Overview :Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismA New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the YearTime magazine Top Te... Read More
Overview :Many albums could be cited to support the claim that great suffering yields great art. Elliott Smith's XO should not be one of them. Smith's... Read More
Overview :Following in the footsteps of music history/biography texts such as the infamous Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk and Sex... Read More
Overview :Green Day’s third studio album Dookie was released in February 1994, and has since sold over 15 million copies worldwide, including 10 milli... Read More
Overview :Frank Zappa was an unremitting musical innovator and experimenter, always looking for ways to exploit the latest advances in technology. His... Read More
Overview :One of the music world's pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan "went electric" at the Newport Folk Festiva... Read More
Overview :A half-century of previously unpublished interviews with legendary musicians, in a brand-new book from America's foremost oral historian ""I... Read More