Music books

This book examine Phish’s music and culture by exploring “phan” identity, complexities of famous jams, concerts...  Read More >>

Highlights the mobility and migration of celebrity violinists in the twentieth century, reflecting on the mechanisms...  Read More >>

The dialogue between composers and performers, using the score as a point of departure and reference, as well as...  Read More >>

A series of conversations with researchers and practitioners that explores the critical dynamics of silence within...  Read More >>

Reappraises the Schumanns' artistic and cultural contexts and traces their critical reception from the nineteenth...  Read More >>

An essential guide to the most influential band of all time.  Read More >>

Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983) is remembered because she was a member of Les Six, a group of French composers...  Read More >>

Boogie Woogie & More Original Piano Solos in Boogie, Jazz and Blues  Read More >>

This fifth volume looks at how the UK fared in the 2000s. There is in-depth coverage of those contests staged in...  Read More >>

From the beating of the drum in African villages to the resonant hymns of the Black church, sound has always been...  Read More >>

This book studies the ways in which three fields of creative activity inspired by the medieval musical performance,...  Read More >>

A lyrical and philosophical memoir exploring music, memory, and meaning. Pianist Mark Sutton invites readers on...  Read More >>

Tony Banks: Man of Spells - The Magician of Genesis is the first ever English language biography of one of rock...  Read More >>

No Mother, No Future examines how theatre portrays pregnancy loss as challenging dominant narratives linking motherhood...  Read More >>

Music is a complex creative process involving many individuals, from performers to improvisers to composers to listeners...  Read More >>

Shostakovich's lurid opera of sex, violence, and murder, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, is famous for being banned by...  Read More >>

The handbook presents a cross-section of current scholarly research on the spectral music movement and its legacy,...  Read More >>

For die-hard fans and curious newcomers alike, this is the definitive account of how Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy...  Read More >>

As an African American woman in the first half of the twentieth century, Price's contribution to art music was highly...  Read More >>

This is a comprehensive exploration of historic local customs still enacted on a, usually yearly, basis, throughout...  Read More >>

A remarkably open-hearted, clear-eyed memoir of the '90s alternative era by the bassist of Hole and The Smashing...  Read More >>

A critical assessment by leading scholars on the relationship between music and the life’s work of Stanley Cavell....  Read More >>

Establishes geosonics as a new, interdisciplinary approach to looking at media across human instruments, bodies...  Read More >>

Explores the phenomena of Paul McCartney's career and his legacy in popular music and culture.  Read More >>

Gallagher's Guitars provides an intimate look at the instruments of one of the most electrifying guitarists and...  Read More >>