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Nirvana - The True Story

This is a true insider's commentary on one of rock's most influential bands, with a Foreword by Benjamin Myers (The Offing, Gallows Pole)...

Under the Ivy - The Life and Music of Kate Bush

The critically acclaimed definitive biography of Kate Bush, revised and updated for 2024, with a new foreword by Sinéad Gleeson. Detailin...

My Recollections

Conversations with Tom Petty

Tom Petty was one of the greatest songwriters in rock n roll history, as well as a standard bearer for integrity in the music business. T...

Travelling - On the Path of Joni Mitchell

An IndependentBest Non-Fiction Book for 2024 Celebrated music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of the legendary Joni Mitchell

Fusion! - From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother

The role of blended musical genres and styles across jazz, rock, pop, funk, new wave, hip-hop, techno, and grime. Defined as the coming t...

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life - The History of the Disc Jockey

The first comprehensive history of the disc jockey

Small Faces and The Faces On Track - Every Album, Every Song

Small Faces. Big Sound. There were but four Small Faces. First, they were the sharp little mod four piece of the 'All Or Nothing' Decca y...

Dip My Brain in Joy

'Some called him the seventh Python, but I prefer to think of him as the first Neil Innes.' - Michael Palin 'The Rutles sort of liberated...

The Silver Snarling Trumpet

Discovered at last, the legendary lost manuscript of Grateful Dead co-founder and primary lyricist Robert Hunter, written in the early 19...

Never - The Autobiography

The official autobiography from singer, songwriter and musician Rick Astley.

Crowded House On Track - Every Album, Every Song

When Crowded House arrived with their debut album and hit single 'Don't Dream It's Over' in 1986, the seed of a unique musical journey wa...

In Defense of Ska: The Ultimate & Expanded Edition - The Ska Now More Than Ever Edition

 The era of ska shame is officially over, and ska fans no longer need to hide in the basement, skanking alone.  The creator of the popu...

Sparks 1969 to 1979 On Track - Every Album, Every Song

This long-overdue book charts the career of Sparks from 1969 - 1979. Every album and every song is examined, including some which are sti...

Steven Wilson On Track - Every Album, Every Song

Steven Wilson has been described by The Telegraph as 'probably the most successful British musician most people have never heard of'. His...

Yes in the 1990s

Yes are widely recognised as pioneers of progressive rock through their defining work in the 1970s, including classic records such as Fra...

Chinese Émigré Composers and Divergent Modernisms - Chen Yi and Zhou Long

This Element examines the factors that drove the stylistic heterogeneity of Chen Yi and Zhou Long after the Cultural Revolution. Known as...

Chuco Punk - Sonic Insurgency in El Paso

An immersive study of the influential and predominantly Chicanx punk rock scene in El Paso, Texas.

Original Pirate Material - The Streets and Hip-Hop Transatlantic Exchange

With his debut album Original Pirate Material (2002) (OPM) Mike Skinner, who recorded under the name The Streets, combined the world of U...

Mariachi in the Twenty-First Century

This Element contributes to the interdisciplinary study of mariachi, especially in the United States, by focusing on two areas that have ...

Experiencing Mahler - A Listener's Companion

Arved Ashby takes readers into the seeming chaos of Mahler's work to investigate the elements which make each piece an experiential adven...

My Musical Life

You're with Stupid - Kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music

An insider’s look at how Chicago’s underground music industry transformed indie rock in the 1990s.

Blondie - Every Album, Every Song

Blondie were one of the most iconic bands of the 1970s with their hits continuing into the 1980s and 1990s. Consisting originally of Debb...

Post-Punk and Philosophy

Post-Punk andPhilosophyis a collection of twenty chapters by philosophers who are also post-punk fans,discussing many different aspects o...

I Want to Take You Higher - The Life and Times of Sly and the Family Stone

I WANT TO TAKE YOU HIGHER: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE, REVISED AND uPDATED

"We're an Example of Trajectories and Victories" - Hip Hop, Education and Literacies of Reexistence

In this seminal study of hip-hop literacies, Black identity formation and artivism in Brazil, Dr. Ana Lúcia Silva Souza presents the dive...

My Life - Volume 2

Night Train to Nashville - Music City Rhythm & Blues Revisited

Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues Revisited is the companion book to the twentieth anniversary reprise of a special exh...

Through the Crack in the Wall - The Secret History of Josef K

'Everything was just so intense. There was an alienation and awkwardness about Josef K, but that was actually very true to life for me. L...

Ink - The Indelible J. Mayo Williams

"The product of a hardscrabble childhood, J. Mayo "Ink" Williams parlayed an Ivy League education into unlikely twin careers as a foundat...

Shall We Play That One Together? - The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian McPartland, with a New Preface

The life of the unparalleled purveyor of the Great American Songbook, Marian McPartland, is celebrated in this engrossing biography From ...

I Wouldn't Say It If It Wasn't True - A Memoir of Life, Music, and the Dream Syndicate

Summer 1984. I've got the back lounge of this tour bus all to myself, partly because I'm the lead singer but more likely because it means...

The Beatles 1963 - A Year in the Life

At the start of 1963, The Beatles were a successful local Liverpool band with one hit single; twelve months, two albums and the arrival o...

A Popular History of the Art of Music; From the Earliest Times Until the Present

Theology in the Mode of Monk: Misterioso, Volume 3 - An Aesthetics of Barth and Cone on Revelation and Freedom

This captivating study engages two of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century: Karl Barth, the Swiss Protestant theolog...

Theology in the Mode of Monk: Round Midnight, Volume 2 - An Aesthetics of Barth and Cone on Revelation and Freedom

This captivating study engages two of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century: Karl Barth, the Swiss Protestant theolog...

Aussie Rock Anthems - Top 40

Tells the stories of Australia's best known pop and rock songs.

I Am No Guide-Pearl Jam - Song by Song

Pearl Jam: Song by Song offers a deep dive into the meaning and themes in Pearl Jam's music, exploring their evolution through the differ...

Running at the edge of their world - The Suspect Device fanzine story

'Running at the edge of their world: The Suspect Device fanzine story' by Tony and Gaz Suspect is the behind-the-scenes story of one of t...

Music and Victorian Liberalism - Composing the Liberal Subject

Presents a new perspective on the aesthetic aspects of liberalism through examinations of music and ideas about music, including listenin...

Capital Bluegrass

Documenting the history and development of bluegrass in and around the nation's capital since it emerged in the 1950s, Capital Bluegrass:...

Kill Your Masters - Run the Jewels and the World That Made Them

"In Kill Your Masters Dutch music journalist Jaap van der Doelen tells the story of two rappers in the twilight of their careers who sudd...

Speaking Words of Wisdom - The Beatles and Religion

A collection of essays by scholars of religion, music, philosophy, and culture exploring the Beatles' relationship to religion.

Wichita Blues - Music in the African American Community

"In conversations on regional blues, the traditions of the Mississippi Delta, the Carolina Piedmont, Chicago, Houston, Memphis, New Orlea...

High Times and Misdemeanors - My Fifty Years in the Music Business

Fifty years in the music business includes years of concert promotions with artists like Paul McCartney. The story begins in Kansas City....

Beethoven's Symphonies Arranged for the Chamber - Sociability, Reception, and Canon Formation

Classical symphonies are often considered as works for full orchestra, demanding fidelity to the composers' orchestral scores in performa...

U2 - Song by Song

U2 formed in 1976 when the drummer posted a note to the school bulletin board. Over forty years later, the band is still producing music ...

On the Records - Notes from the Vinyl Revival

Far from being yesterday's fading, forgotten format, vinyl records have survived and flourished as the music medium of choice for not onl...

Gimme All Your Lovin' - The Blues, Boogie, and Beard of ZZ Top's Billy F. Gibbons

Gimme All Your Lovin¿: The Blues, Boogie, and Beard of ZZ Top's Billy F. Gibbons GIMME ALL YOUR LOVIN': THE BLUES, BOOGIE, AND BEARD OF Z...

On the Principles and Practice of Conducting

A practical manual for building musical understanding and physical skills, intended for conductors at all stages of development.

MC5 - An Oral Biography of Rock's Most Revolutionary Band

Thomas Ades Studies

This benchmark collection of essays contain authoritative accounts of Thomas Adès's major compositions from a variety of analytical, crit...

Music and Liturgy in Medieval Britain and Ireland

The book is for scholars and students from across the humanities who wish to understand the varieties of liturgical culture in medieval B...

Devotional Refrains in Medieval Latin Song

Aimed at musicologists, medievalists, religious studies scholars and general readers interested in early music, this book reveals the imp...

Early Jazz - A Concise Introduction, from Its Beginnings Through 1929

A concise history of early jazz, from its major innovators to its unrecognized heroes.

Benjamin Britten in Context

Benjamin Britten, pianist, conductor, educator, composer of a wide range of music from large-scale operas and choral works to string quar...

Trip Magazeen - The Complete Collection 1992-1994

Exported out of cities like Chicago and Detroit in the late 80’s, House and Techno music washed back up on US shores in the early 90’s, r...

The Cambridge Stravinsky Encyclopedia

Details the life, works, writings and aesthetic relationships of Igor Stravinsky, whose music epitomises the stylistic crisis of twentiet...

Liturgical Music for the Revised Common Lectionary, Year C

A new edition of the comprehensive resource linking hymns and anthems to lectionary readings. The final volume in a three-volume series o...