History & Criticism Books


The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band Best Price: $7.85 this is a great read...you can really get a feel of how close to the edge that some rock bands...	A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano Best Price: $14.31 Like several of the other reviewers, I was skeptical that there was a need for another book...	The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century Best Price: $18.50 I became aware of this book from various sources, and it addressed a long-standing desire to...	True Norwegian Black Metal Best Price: $37.80 When this came in the mail I was initially mainly impressed with how big it is. It's a...	Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time Best Price: $5.49 It was 1988 and I was too young to know better. I picked up my girl from her pantyhose job at...



A History of Western Music Best Price: $63.00 Most recent edition. Does not go along with NAWM 3rd edition. It must be referring to a more...	No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York 1976-1980 Best Price: $15.31 1970's New York, a time of polemic filth and fury with displaced art kids crashing head first...	Reign in Blood (33 1/3) Best Price: $5.99 This book should be required reading for any metal fan. The interviews are consistently...	Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith Best Price: $7.98 First, I'd like to state that my favorite books are autobiographies about musicians. That being...	When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams Best Price: $14.19 Since I grew up in Southern California I thought I knew where surf City was...at the beaches I...



Norton Anthology of Western Music: Volume 1: Ancient to Baroque Best Price: $44.52 These anthologies are mostly used in music history courses to my knowledge and so I don't...	Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America Best Price: $16.89 The sentence structure is great and the narrative seamlessly flows. However, he is a music...	A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music Best Price: $21.93 George E Lewis has written a very readable account of this organisation and its history. Its a...	Heart: In the Studio Best Price: $12.59 I am a huge Heart fan and I found the book a little boring and full of errors. There are some...	Grand Obsession: A Piano Odyssey Best Price: $15.89 I really enjoyed Grand Obsession. Perri Knize's story about her search for the perfect sounding...

Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation Best Price: $8.84 From Jamaica to Public Enemy all the way to The Source and beyond, this book is just chock-full...	Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture Best Price: $17.50 This book is excellent. It comes with a a CD of some really excellent mashup too. I've really...	Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (An Evergreen book) Best Price: $7.98 Pretty good book, but unfortunately not really the complete history of punk rock. It...	Complete Preludes, Nocturnes and Waltzes: 26 Preludes, 21 Nocturnes, 19 Waltzes for Piano (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics) Best Price: $11.01 not that i/ll ba able to play many of the pieces here. i have always liked the schirmer...	Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles Best Price: $4.95 This is a great book and the best of a half-dozen or so books that I have read on The Beatles. ...

The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History Best Price: $13.56 If you're as big a fan of this late, lamented band as I, then you know that you have to read...	Contents Under Pressure: 30 Years of Rush at Home and Away Best Price: $12.24 I enjoyed reading this book and was glad to learn what I did from it, but I felt like it could...	Elliott Smith Best Price: $16.42 At first I was hesitant to purchase this book because I thought it consisted of nothing but...	Fargo Rock City : A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota Best Price: $6.81 Personally, Chuck is my top 3 favorite writer. I think he hit me hard with his styles and...	Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music, Fifth Edition, Volume 1: Ancient to Baroque (6 CDs) Best Price: $76.80 The CDs in this set are not packaged in standard jewelboxes nor even in cheap sleeves, but are...

Modernism: The Lure of Heresy Best Price: $20.11 Peter Gay has written a sweeping survey of Modernism that is lucid, highly readable, amply...	Joy Division: Piece by Piece Best Price: $12.44 A cerebral, spectacular look inside the Manchester scene from one of the best writers in rock...	Let's Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies Best Price: $15.33 I think I would be less jaded if I bought this book used. It was not worth the full price. ...	Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth Best Price: $13.00 While a new book was needed on Sonic Youth, it does not improve much on the previous 2 boks I...	The Reggae Scrapbook Best Price: $26.90 Jamaica is simultaneously an old country (a crucible of colonialism and slavery for 400 years)...

The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia Best Price: $22.49 Douglas Smith has written a fascinating book. The Pearl tells the tale of Nicholas Sheremetev,...	Rock Star Babylon: Outrageous Rumors, Legends, and Raucous True Tales of Rock and Roll Icons Best Price: $7.50 Rockers Behaving Badly From Ozzy Osbourne to Chuck Berry, Courtney Love to Keith Moon, Rock...	Baseball's Greatest Hit: The Story of Take Me Out to the Ball Game Best Price: $15.00 The book was sent in a very timely fashion and was in very good condition. I am sure my husband...	The Music of Joni Mitchell Best Price: $19.76 Joni Mitchell is one of the foremost singer-songwriters of the late twentieth century. Yet...	Norton Anthology of Western Music: Volume 2: Classic to Twentieth Century Best Price: $42.50 I got the book in good time. I ended up having to mail it back just because I dropped the...

The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty Best Price: $7.40 I have to agree with many of the other reviewers that refer to the author's "cute" and...	Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll's Legendary Neighborhood Best Price: $7.46 Excellent, if slightly rambling history of the LA music scene as it unfolded in the mid 60s and...	Black Sabbath's Master of Reality: 33 1/3 Best Price: $5.99 I feel like I should start out by saying that I am an intensely dedicated fan of Darnielle's...	Genesis: Chapter and Verse Best Price: $18.13 Genesis - Chapter/Verse is an engrossing story of the band, as told by each of its members with...	Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties Best Price: $10.37 While there have been countless books about the Beatles & their music, and there'll be...

The Mysticism of Sound and Music (Shambhala Dragon Editions) Best Price: $10.50 I must admit I had heard of Hazrat Inayat Khan a long time ago and been a little sceptical of...	Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (33 1/3) (33 1/3) Best Price: $5.99 A great essay, detailing who was there at the creation of indie-music's greatest album, and who...	Gorillaz: Rise of the Ogre Best Price: $6.98 I love Gorillaz, especially the first cd. It was fresh, original and it was marked with a...	The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body Best Price: $10.36 I have long suspected that music must be connected to language and that the evolution of...	Rock Star Babylon: Outrageous Rumors, Legends, and Raucous True Tales of Rock and Roll Icons Best Price: $7.50 Rockers Behaving Badly From Ozzy Osbourne to Chuck Berry, Courtney Love to Keith Moon, Rock...

Rock Star Babylon: Outrageous Rumors, Legends, and Raucous True Tales of Rock and Roll Icons Best Price: $7.50 Rockers Behaving Badly From Ozzy Osbourne to Chuck Berry, Courtney Love to Keith Moon, Rock...	Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death, and Country Music Best Price: $11.50 Like the author, I was a yankee (New Jersey in my case, NH in his) who grew up in a poor white...	Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga Best Price: $13.97 Like the masses, this book offers a decent overview of Van Halen especially those who are not...	Joel Whitburn's Billboard Top Pop Singles 1955-2006: 11th Edition (Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles (Cumulative)) Best Price: $50.37 Since I also purchased Joel Whitburn's Top Country Songs (1944 to 2005),I was able to compare...	Van Halen: A Visual History: 1978 - 1984 Best Price: $18.01 The reviews of this book do not do justice to this book. The pictures alone are spectacular....

Opera for Dummies (Book and Audio CD) Best Price: $7.24 As you see in many of the other reviews, this is a great guide that will introduce you to opera...	Bowie in Berlin: A New Career in a New Town Best Price: $12.70 At the time of publication of Bowie's Berlin production, I was involved with music myself and...	Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers Best Price: $4.49 As one reads this book he must be alert to know the truth. Mr. Kavanaugh writes from a very...	CREEM: America's Only Rock 'N' Roll Magazine Best Price: $12.47 I don't know the whole story but there's all sorts of BS about who controls Creem these days....	The Gift of Music: Great Composers and Their Influence Best Price: $8.99 I bought this book to help inform other women about composers for our church. It is basic...

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