Music reviews & criticism books

The author of The Holy or the Broken and former editor-in-chief of Vibe reexamines Fleetwood Mac’s iconic album...  Read More >>

The story of The Cure: a tall tale of a truly unique British band.  Read More >>

Cassette Culture: Homemade Music and the Creative Spirit in the Pre-Internet Age takes a social history/analytical...  Read More >>

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the flute was the most commonly played wind instrument by...  Read More >>

For anyone who loves The Cars, this is the definitive account of the frontman that made the band a soaring MTV phenomenon...  Read More >>

This is the most wide-ranging and provocative look at punk rock as a social change movement over the past forty-five...  Read More >>

""This is a convincing call to action."" Publishers Weekly From stars like Britney Spears and Mariah Carey to classic...  Read More >>

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On the power of ideas and music, pouring in to teenage life. The lived experience of punk and new wave and the need...  Read More >>

A study of the life, times and work of the French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. New paperback edition, revised,...  Read More >>

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Die Single-Charts in Deutschland gibt es seit 1954. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt kommt die Juke-Box aus den USA nach Westdeutschland....  Read More >>

A new theory of personhood makes the case that a ""person"" has always been an aesthetic category, not just a legal,...  Read More >>

A new theory of personhood makes the case that a ""person"" has always been an aesthetic category, not just a legal,...  Read More >>

The first book to examine the classic Italian opera house in a global context. In Opera and the Built Environment,...  Read More >>

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Not JUST About The Fall: 50 adventures in a post-punk paradise by Paddy Shennan Sunday Times best-selling author...  Read More >>

Meditates on Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah Part Two—engaging in deep study of its individual tracks, while also painting...  Read More >>

Featuring interviews with John Oswald, Negativland, and others and drawing on a wealth of research on copyright...  Read More >>

Through text and comics, this book searches through ambient music’s recent history to unearth how the genre has...  Read More >>

Explores the two opposing groups that found themselves as strange bedfellows upon the release of Sufjan Stevens’...  Read More >>

Examines one of the best-known Latin American rock bands and albums in the English-speaking world, and argues the...  Read More >>

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