Music reviews & criticism books

The 1971 Allman Brothers Band album At Fillmore East was a musical manifesto years in the making. In Play All Night!,...  Read More >>

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Vergessene Stimmen"" ist die erste umfassende Publikation uber judische Kantoren und Opernsanger. Zu diesem Thema...  Read More >>

A fascinating history of the piano explored through 100 pieces chosen by one of the UK’s most renowned concert pianists...  Read More >>

'Engaging With Everyday Sounds' is a rich and inspiring exploration of the role of sounds in everyday life, including...  Read More >>

'Engaging With Everyday Sounds' is a rich and inspiring exploration of the role of sounds in everyday life, including...  Read More >>

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In 'prose that glides and shimmies and pivots on risky metaphors, low puns and highbrow reference points' (Brian...  Read More >>

"""acts as a final word on the great band's press coverage...the attention to detail is fantastic...encyclopedia...  Read More >>

The essential oral history of hip-hop, from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its reign as the most...  Read More >>

In Los Angeles, from the early 1960s through the late 1980s, young musicians and singers formed tight-knit musical...  Read More >>

A unique 'A to Z' biography from music journalist and Queen biographer Mark Blake that will shed new light on the...  Read More >>

""Generous, expansive, alarming, fantastical, perverse, humane, beautiful and ugly, provisional and incomplete:...  Read More >>

A stunning collection of essays using music as a vantage point through which to examine and interrogate the world...  Read More >>

Ein Band über das Nicht-Müssen der Muße ganz im Sinne der Musen.  Read More >>

Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., is an award-winning musicologist, music historian, composer, and pianist, whose prescient...  Read More >>

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""Sounding Bodies presents the ancient Greek connections between music and medicine, their reception leading to...  Read More >>

This is a book of concert reviews composed in real time on Sophia Marshall's iPhone on the nights of the shows,...  Read More >>

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2023 National Indie Excellence Award Winner - Juror's Choice Award 2023 Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY)...  Read More >>

Mick and Keith learned fast. Initially Rhythm 'n' Blues purists who believed that only ageing black Americans could...  Read More >>

An absorbing journey of exploration into the related ideas of home, displacement and retreat in the lives and music...  Read More >>

This new book is about the recordings Springsteen made with the E Street Band and the accompanying tours. In discussing...  Read More >>