Music books

Every time Selena’s favourite pop star drops an album, momentous shifts happen in her life. And with new record...  Read More >>

Points of Disruption in the Music Education Curriculum, Volume 1: Systemic Changes brings together applied suggestions,...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans is a comprehensive overview of major topics,...  Read More >>

Karen McAulay shows that the nature of the music, the song and fiddle tune books’ contents, the paratext around...  Read More >>

Performer and researcher Peter O’Hagan studies the musical style of Pierre Boulez during his final creative period,...  Read More >>

This book addresses the complex conceptual, historical, and philosophical questions posed by Eduard Hanslick’s influential...  Read More >>

Cultivating Sikh Identity and Culture explores the development of modern Sikh identities through the ‘cultivation...  Read More >>

This book presents an examination of the applied music studio as part of higher education. Applied music studios...  Read More >>

This book explores crafts and performing arts of South Asia through a focus on labour and livelihood and will contribute...  Read More >>

'Harmonies In Health' is a series of tools that show you how to use music listening to improve or maintain your...  Read More >>

DISCO! Music, Image, Dance takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring disco's untold stories--sonic, visual,...  Read More >>

A study of The Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night (1964) by journalist and broadcaster Samira Ahmed, in the BFI Film...  Read More >>

A study of Italian composer Ennio Morricone's creative engagement with the western film genre, surveying his original...  Read More >>

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Music in World Literature: From Tolstoy to Manga examines the relationship between music and literary works within...  Read More >>

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An internationally acclaimed Grammy and Tony Award–winning conductor, John DeMain has been a fixture of Madison,...  Read More >>

Of all the loud, rebellious rock groups forged in the white heat of America's Motor City, MC5 were the most uncompromising....  Read More >>

Black Sabbath The Dio years looks at the three different Dio eras with every album and track put under the microscope,...  Read More >>

They're still rocking the world today, a dozen albums in, touring the world and never resting on their laurels....  Read More >>

Presents the history of a radical movement in Seventies Britain. With its own clothes, hair, artwork, fanzines and...  Read More >>

Bringing together nineteen essays from leading specialists in poetics and American music, this collection offers...  Read More >>

As Love’s most revered album is titled Forever Changes, it’s little wonder that their superior back catalogue encompasses...  Read More >>

For a few short years in the 1970s, the unique music of Focus entertained the world.  Stephen Lambe's book guides...  Read More >>

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