Music

Books about music history, music genres and musicians.

The Ensemble
Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now
Tulsa
Riven (Riven, #1)
Give Me Some Truth
Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock
My One Regret
Lennon Reborn (Preload, #4)
Unfaded (Faded Duet, #2)
Sin and Tonic (Sinners, #6)
Down Beat (Dark Tide, #1)
When the Beat Drops
Face the Music (Replay #1)
Working for the Man, Playing in the Band: My Years with James Brown
Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past

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  • Burning Down the Haus by Tim Mohr
    Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
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    Release date: Sep 11, 2018
    SAY IT, SPEAK IT, SHOUT IT OUT LOUD!
    It began with a handful of East Berlin teens who heard the Sex Pistols on a British military radio broadcast to tr
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    Availability: 50 copies available, 660 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Jun 02 - Jun 21, 2018

    Countries available: US

  • The Clash by Martin Popoff
    The Clash: All the Albums, All the Songs
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    Release date: May 15, 2018
    Formed in London in 1976 by Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, and Paul Simonon at the outset of that city’s punk rock boom, The Clash went on to outlast their ...more
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    Availability: 2 copies available, 679 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: May 19 - Jun 16, 2018

    Countries available: US

  • Guitar Chords for Beginners by Gareth  Evans
    Guitar Chords for Beginners: A Beginners Guitar Chord Book with Open Chords and More
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    Release date: Feb 01, 2014
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    Availability: 100 copies available, 141 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Jun 08 - Jun 15, 2018

    Countries available: US

  • Goody Two Shoes (Invertary, #2)
    Every Note Played
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    Rock Her
     
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    Inglath Cooper
    Sonata for a Scoundrel (Music of the Heart, #1)
    The Music Shop
    I Have Lost My Way
    Look the Part
    Roomies
    When It's Real
    The Idea of You
    Space Opera
    The Ensemble
    Solo
    An Imperfect Heart
    The Penderwicks at Last (The Penderwicks, #5)
    High Fidelity by Nick HornbyBurning Down Rome by Melodie RamonePast Deadline by John ZelaznyNo One Here Gets Out Alive by Danny SugermanNick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn
    Best Music Books
    258 books — 133 voters

    Bel Canto by Ann PatchettAmadeus by Peter ShafferDoctor Faustus by Thomas MannCloud Atlas by David MitchellThe Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
    Classical Music themes in Literature
    125 books — 94 voters

    Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
    This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
    Just Kids
    Life
    The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
    Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
    Chronicles, Volume One
    How Music Works
    Love Is a Mix Tape
    Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
    No One Here Gets Out Alive
    Girl in a Band
    If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
    Rip it Up and Start Again
    The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

    Esi Edugyan
    Esi Edugyan Half Blood Blues
    Her Favorite Books About Jazz: Feel the rhythm in these swinging picks from the author of Half-Blood Blues, a historical novel set in 1940s Berlin and occupied Paris.
    More Good Minds Suggest…
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “ One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. ”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

    Langston Hughes
    “ Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. ”
    ― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

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