Music Related Books

The chicks Book List 2

chicks suggests...

The Jazz Singers - The Ultimate Guide
Jazz Singing (by Will Friedwald)
A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers
The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Popular Standards
Jazz Singers - A Biographical Dictionary
The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter
Jazz - The Rough Guide
The Big Bands
Swing (by Scott Yanow)
Images of Music

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Permanent Waves suggests...

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music
Arts & Humanities Through the Eras: Renaissance Europe (1300-1600)
The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to World Music

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getright99 suggests...

The Rock Snob's Dictionary
Scar Tissue
It's So Easy

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finnbow suggests...

Delta Blues
History Of Jazz

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BlindBoyGrnt suggests...

This Is Your Brain On Music
Richard Thompson: Strange Affair

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Life

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fips152 suggests...

Gustav Mahler (by Bruno Walter)
A History of Western Music (by Donald Jay Grout)
An Introduction to Music (by Martin Bernstein and Martin Picker)

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fips152 said:
The book by Grout, often referred to simply as "Grout," is the best single volume I know of for any serious student of Western music. It has a good glossary; a detailed bibliography; a chronology that spans (in my 1973 edition) 800 B.C. to 1972 A.D., covering musical events, political events, and representative works; and a good index. It covers the music of Middle Ages and the Renaissance in more detail than the Bernstein & Picker book, which might be good or bad depending on your interests.

Note: many public libraries will have a copy of "Grout."

The second book, by Bernstein and Picker, is more fun and entertaining. It has a good index, and a separate index of musical examples. If you don't care for Renaissance and earlier music, its shorter coverage of music before 1600 is an advantage.

It has good, concise chapters on musical instruments, rhythm and melody, polyphony and harmony, and form. It also has separate chapters on the composers J.S. Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Weber, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner, Brahms, Debussy, Stravinsky, Bartok, Schoenberg, and (one chapter) Berg and Webern.

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Amcrebelfan suggests...

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

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Work in progress...

Go to the first post and you'll get an idea of what I am trying to do here. I am about half way done, then we'll be up to date. From that point it will be easy. I will keep watch and update the lists regularily.

Aside from that I hope that everybody will keep reading and contributing to this thread. Let's shoot the shit!
 
I haven't seen anyone mention Levon Helm: This Wheel's On Fire... is there an unspoken taboo i don't know? That i might have just broken! He did come down on Robbie pretty hard.
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ArtK. suggests...

Bill Parker's "The International Guide to Building a Classical Music Library

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saunadog suggests...

Detroit Rock City: an Uncensored History of Rock 'N' Roll in America's Loudest City

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qdrone suggests...

Walk This Way

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satch suggests...

Things the Grandchildren Should Know
Soul Music (by Terry Pratchett)

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KrisM suggests...

Songs Of Freedom
The Illustrated Story Of Jazz
A Love Supreme: The Creation Of John Coltrane's Classic Album
Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf
Can't Be Satisfied: The Life And Times Of Muddy Waters
Chasin The Trane
Wilco: Learning How To Die
The Hendrix Experience (by Mitch Mitchell)
Images Of Jazz / Images Of Blues (by Lee Tanner)


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The bobsvinyl Book List

bobsvinyl suggests...

Eight Miles High
Shout! The Beatles In Their Generation
Stomping The Blues
Good Rockin Tonight: Sun Records & The Birth Of R'N'R
The Sound Of Light: A History Of Gospel & Christian Music
The Encyclopedia Of Heavy Metal
Rockabilly: A Forty Year Journey
The Great Rock Discography
Reproduction Of Sound - Edgar Villchur
The Story Of The Blues (by Paul Oliver)
Rockin In Time: A Social History Of R'N'R
Chicago Blues: The City And The Music
The American Night: The Writings Of Jim Morrison


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Member Suggestions 3

ra7c7er suggests...

Revolution On Canvas 1 & 2

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bashman suggests...

Who I Am
How Music Works (also suggested by ScramMan2)

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Amcrebelfan suggests...

The Pop, Rock and Soul Reader: Histories And Debates
Tunes: A Comic Book History Of R'N'R
The Real Frank Zappa Book

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Hoffius suggests...

West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz In California 1945-1960
Psychotic Reactions And Carburetor Dung

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Mystic suggests...

Incredibly Strange Music Vol. 1 & 2 (by Research)
Stories of the Great Operas and Their Composers

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KenInDC suggests...

Rocks Off
Exile On Main St.
The One: The Life And Music Of James Brown
Popism- The Warhol Sixties

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poppachubby suggests...

Your Playlist Can Change Your Life - Galina Mindlin
The Universal Sense - Seth S. Horowitz
Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks
I'd Rather Be The Devil - Stephen Calt
Feel Like Goin Home - Peter Guralnick
Blues People - Leroi Jones
Bass Culture - Lloyd Bradley
Slash
The Dirt: Motley Crue
Buck Clayton's Jazz World
Treat It Gentle: Sidney Bechet

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Alladin suggests...

Apocalypse Jukebox
Rip It Up And Start Again
Phonogram Vol 1 & 2

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billw suggests...

This Wheel's On Fire

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KevinCorr suggests...

Beneath The Underdog
Really The Blues
Dr John: Under A Hoodoo Moon

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The story of the label Musikproduktionen Schwarzwald (MPS)

(with Oscar Peterson, George Duke, Jean-Luc Ponty and many many other famous artists)

...have I overseen John Cage in this thread? His book "Silence"?
 
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A quick correction, poppa. That image for Songs Of Freedom is for the 4 CD set, not the book I was talking about. I can search for the image, or take a pic if need be.

Off topic, but the CD set pictured is highly recommended too.
 
A quick correction, poppa. That image for Songs Of Freedom is for the 4 CD set, not the book I was talking about. I can search for the image, or take a pic if need be.

Off topic, but the CD set pictured is highly recommended too.

Yes do that and I will insert it, thx.
 
On my Christmas wish list.

"The first serious and most valuable study of American popular music....Provocative, informative, opinionated, and never dull."--Down Beat

"An invaluable and pioneering book....[Wilder] examines with wit and grace some eight hundred of the three hundred thousand American songs published in the first half of the century....A fair, positive, erudite celebration of American songwriting."--Whitney Balliett, The New Yorker

"An entrancing volume that will bring special pleasure to everyone with a comprehensive record library."--Music Journal



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Poppa- Here are 6 more I found while rearranging my books.
 

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I'm really looking forward to this one. "Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop" by Bob Stanley,

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For fifty years, pop music was created and consumed like this: you heard a record on the radio, or read about it in a music paper; you bought it on Saturday; you lent it to, or taped it for, a friend; and they reciprocated with another record. It was a secret network. It was how you made friends, how you met girls, and how you soundtracked your world.

Bob Stanley's Yeah Yeah Yeah tells the chronological story of the modern pop era, from its beginnings in the fifties with the dawn of the charts, vinyl, and the music press, to pop's digital switchover in the year 2000, from Rock Around the Clock to Crazy In Love. There was constant change, constant development, a constant craving for newness. It was more than just music - it could be your whole life.

Yeah Yeah Yeah covers the birth of rock, soul, punk, disco, hip hop, indie, house and techno. It also includes the rise and fall of the home stereo, Top Of The Pops, Smash Hits, and "this week's highest new entry". Yeah Yeah Yeah is the first book to look back at the entire era: what we gained, what we lost, and the foundations we laid for future generations.

There have been many books on pop but none have attempted to bring the whole story to life, from Billy Fury and Roxy Music to TLC and Britney via Led Zeppelin and Donna Summer. Audacious and addictive, Yeah Yeah Yeah is essential reading for all music lovers. It will remind you why you fell in love with pop music in the first place.
 
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