The bible of the music industry Now in its tenth edition, "This Business of Music" has been revised and completely updated to reflect the latest chang......
The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument, the first book from the I Am Hip Hop imprint set for launch in Spring 2009, is the philosophical masterwo......
"The Listening Book " is about rediscovering the power of listening as an instrument of self-discovery and personal transformation. By exploring our c......
Music is nothing but a sequence of fleeting vibrations that arise and subside. Why can something so insubstantial thrill us, pacify us, or even make u......
A huge gathering of the finest American and British song lyrics from 1910 to 1975. Robert Kimball, editor of the complete lyrics of Cole Porter, Ira G......
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The seventh volume in Knopf’s critically acclaimed Complete Lyrics series, published in Johnny Mercer’s centennial year, contains the texts to more th......
Antonio Stradivari (1644—1737) was a perfectionist whose single-minded pursuit of excellence changed the world of music. In the course of his long car......
In this beautiful book, Pulitzer Prize--winning musician and composer Wynton Marsalis draws upon lessons he's learned from a lifetime in jazz-lessons ......
From every “beautiful mornin’” to “some enchanted evening,” the songs of Oscar Hammerstein II are part of our daily lives, his words part of our natio......
Like Moses delivering forth the Ten Commandments, Henry Owings is bringing music fans The Rock Bible an insider's guide to living the rock 'n' roll dr......
In "A Fine Romance, "David Lehman looks at the formation of the American songbook--the timeless numbers that became jazz standards, iconic love songs,......
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Jazz is thriving in the twenty-first century, and The New Face of Jazz is an intimate, illustrated guide to the artists, venues, and festivals of toda......
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The intimate story of one of the great American bands of our time, creators of the controversial masterpiece "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" When alt-country h......
In this compulsively readable, fascinating, and provocative guide to classical music, Norman Lebrecht, one of the world's most widely read cultural co......
Music defines us. To return the favor, we’ll stick up with zealous passion for the performers and bands that we love . . . and heap aspersions and rid......
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When George Klein was an eighth grader at Humes High, he couldn’t have known how important the new kid with the guitar—the boy named Elvis—would later......
