Music reviews & criticism books

Pour comprendre le succès de la K-pop, il faut d'abord en définir clairement l'identité, puis distinguer deux étapes:...  Read More >>

Since 1858 when the first piece of baseball music was published and performed, music has been a constant companion...  Read More >>

In The Work of Music, Celia Applegate examines the cultural history of Austro-German music through the lens of labor...  Read More >>

An Aesthetic Analysis of Scriabin's Complete Works According to the Husserlian Phenomenological Philosophical Method,...  Read More >>

""The story of Music Inn is the story of the mainstreaming of jazz within the frames of post-World War II American...  Read More >>

In 1995, Prince released The Gold Experience-a record born from rebellion, defined by transformation, and remembered...  Read More >>

Behind every carol lies a story worth telling. From candlelit cathedrals to country barns and Hollywood studios,...  Read More >>

""Wide-ranging discussion of culture, consciousness, and music from an experimental music and sound composer""--...  Read More >>

A SEARING INVESTIGATION INTO HOW SPOTIFY HAS DRASTICALLY CHANGED MUSIC FOREVER  Read More >>

Step into the dazzling world of Diamonds and Pearls - the album that redefined Prince and introduced the power of...  Read More >>

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Financial Times: Best Books of 2025 “We made what seemed like an impossible...  Read More >>

Vaporwave is music as Internet meme, an ironic and difficult to classify microgenre born online at the turn of the...  Read More >>

Here is an in-depth exploration of Robert Forster's debut solo album, Danger in the Past (1990). Dublin, Ireland....  Read More >>

Step into the shadows of one of the darkest, most powerful albums of the 1990s. Let Love In (1994) was the record...  Read More >>

Here is an in-depth exploration of Robert Forster's debut solo album, Danger in the Past (1990). Dublin, Ireland....  Read More >>

Before ""Rumours,"" before the stadium tours, before Fleetwood Mac became a global phenomenon, there was one album...  Read More >>

Black and Blue is one of the Rolling Stones' most misunderstood albums - dismissed at its release in 1976, yet now...  Read More >>

Fear of Music (1979) is one of Talking Heads' strangest, most innovative, and most enduring works-a paranoid masterpiece...  Read More >>

This book delves into why the music of the Beach Boys matters so much to so many people. In the book, you'll find...  Read More >>

Kay Dickinson outlines how ABBA’s mega-hit song “Fernando” could express support with anti-capitalist and Third...  Read More >>

Is Handel's Messiah anti-Judaistic? The question has been coursing through the academic world for some time now....  Read More >>

What is a cantata? How and why did Bach compose his cantatas? What did cantatas mean to Bach and what do they mean...  Read More >>

Step inside one of rock's most haunting hidden masterpieces. When The Zombies recorded Odessey and Oracle at Abbey...  Read More >>

Kay Dickinson outlines how ABBA’s mega-hit song “Fernando” could express support with anti-capitalist and Third...  Read More >>

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