Music History & Criticism

THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON: The Making of the Pink Floyd Masterpiece

By Harris

Mozart

By Richard Baker

Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop

By Marc Myers

Queens Reigns Supreme: Fat Cat, 50 Cent, and the Rise of the Hip Hop Hustler

By Ethan Brown

Bittersweet: The Clifford T. Ward Story

By David Cartwright

"Busted": On Tour - the Official Book

By Peter Robinson

The Peel Sessions: A story of teenage dreams and one man's love of new music

By Ken Garner

YEAR OF WONDER: Classical Music for Every Day

By Clemency Burton-Hill

Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long, Strange Trip

By Joel Selvin, Pamela Turley

Message to Our Folks: The Art Ensemble of Chicago

By Paul Steinbeck

Never Enough: The Story of The "Cure"

By Jeff Apter

The Complete Guide to the Music of Jimi Hendrix

By John Robertson

Japrocksampler

By Julian Cope

Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews

By Simon Reynolds

Wire's Pink Flag

By Wilson Neate

The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico

By Joe Harvard

Slayer's Reign in Blood

By D.X. Ferris

The Art of the Band T-shirt

By Amber Easby, Henry Oliver

Tony Bacon: Six Decades Of Fender Telecaster - The Story Of The World's First Solidbody Electric Guitar

By Tony Bacon

The Cambridge Companion to the Saxophone

By Richard Ingham (Leeds College of Music)

How Music Got Free: The Inventor, the Music Man, and the Thief

By Stephen Witt

Guitarists Picture Chords

By Happy Traum

Uproot

By Jace Clayton

"Radiohead": Karma Police

By James Doheny

Music in the United States: A Historical Introduction

By H.Wiley Hitchcock

Schoenberg

By Charles Rosen

Vivaldi

By Michael Talbot

Schoenberg and His School: Contemporary Stage of the Language of Music

By Rene Leibowitz, D. Newlin

Operetta: A Theatrical History

By Richard Traubner

Music and the Spiritual: Composers and Politics in the 20th Century

By Antony Copley