Jazz is one of modern music’s oldest and most popular scenes and Gary Giddins is one of its biggest fans. In Visions of Jazz, Gary attempts to explore the history and evolution of jazz in America and the wider-world and…
The Internet has completely revolutionized our lives and it’s also changed the way that we consume music forever. How Music Got Free explores the way that digital music piracy has transformed the way that we listen to music and its…
How does music affect the human brain? It’s a huge question and that’s the real objective of Musicophilia, to explore the impact of sound on our “musical species”. Whether you love a good tune or you’re interested in human psychology,…
Have you ever wondered what effect music has on your brain? Daniel J Levitin did. And given that the former rocker is now a neuroscientist, he was very well positioned to answer that question too. The result was This Is…
John Cage is one of the most experimental composers on the planet and it’s quite possible that American avant-garde wouldn’t exist without him. Thankfully, he brings his considerable talents together in Silence: Lectures and Writings. This is one of the…
Classical music and the 20th century is not a topic that you hear on most people’s lips. And that’s a real shame. Why? Because some of the greatest works of classical music came to being in the 19XXs. Alex Ross’s…
Bob Dylan is the only lyricist in history to have won the Nobel Prize for literature, so as you might expect, his autobiography is impeccably well-written. A life as rich as his, however, is going to take more than one…
The music business can make dreams come true and it can destroy someone in a heartbeat. While the limelight is dazzline, behind the scenes there are darker stories to be told and that’s the business of Hit Men: Power Brokers…
If you love rock’n’roll, you’re going to love Mystery Train. There’s nothing quite as American, in the eyes of the world, as Rock’N’Roll. Why We Love Mystery Train Greil Marcus, in 1975, wondered how the relationship between this contemporary art…
This awesome book won the American Book Award so it’s got street cred. Hip-hop is one of the most complex and vibrant music scenes. It’s come a long way since its birth in the 1960s and undergone a process of…
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