Music reviews & criticism books

We’ve had the time of our lives as Swifties, and now that story full of joy, clowning, and singing our hearts out...  Read More >>

Soiled Amplitudes is a lively exploration of present-day music composition, traditional and graphical music notation,...  Read More >>

Shake It Up, Baby!tells the story of how The Beatles rose to fame in 1963, through exclusive eye-witness accounts...  Read More >>

Shake It Up, Baby!tells the story of how The Beatles rose to fame in 1963, through exclusive eye-witness accounts...  Read More >>

In 1976, Paul McCartney and Wings were no longer fighting to survive. The critics had softened. The charts were...  Read More >>

London Town Era (1977-1978) was not a comeback. It was not a collapse. It was something far more subtle - and far...  Read More >>

Northern Soul is one of Britain's most distinctive cultural movements. Born in the Mod clubs of the 1960s and forged...  Read More >>

Que reste-t-il après le dernier accord ? Lorsque le son s'éteint, que la scène se tait et que le silence prend...  Read More >>

This book is an independent nonfiction work that examines the life and career of Rodney Crowell through publicly...  Read More >>

The Beatles had ended, the world was watching, and Paul McCartney faced the greatest challenge of his life. Fame,...  Read More >>

Band on the Run: A Survival Document - Persistence Made Audible Band on the Run is often remembered as Paul McCartney's...  Read More >>

Venus and Mars is often remembered as the album that followed Band on the Run. This book argues it is something...  Read More >>

Living Life as a LeppardWhat can a group of working-class kids from a British steel town teach you about thriving...  Read More >>

The last album released by Harrison in the Seventies, the eponymous George Harrison is a record whose importance...  Read More >>

A comprehensive historical and cultural study of music, exploring its evolution, social role, and development, with...  Read More >>

Following the success of I Robot, in 1978 The Alan Parsons Project reached a new artistic peak with Pyramid-an album...  Read More >>

Febbraio 1976. L'Italia è attraversata da paure, desideri di cambiamento, nuove libertà e vecchie certezze che scricchiolano....  Read More >>

Rock & Roll is more than a genre. It is a cultural belief system. The Church of Rock & Roll Bible is a definitive...  Read More >>

The Church of Rock & Roll Bible is a definitive history of the music that reshaped identity, rebellion, and popular...  Read More >>

The 27 Club: A Conspiracy Without a Villain is an unflinching examination of why musical genius so often collapses...  Read More >>

Job is a book of questions, arguments, and raw human sound. Its poetry rises and falls with anguish, protest, and...  Read More >>

Neil Young, also known as The Godfather Of Grunge, acquires this title by releasing...a mellow, mostly acoustic...  Read More >>

The ""27 Club"" has haunted music history for decades. Jimi Hendrix. Janis Joplin. Jim Morrison. Kurt Cobain. Amy...  Read More >>

Set against the backdrop of the Liverpool music scene of the 1980s and beyond, this is a story about the search...  Read More >>

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