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Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids?: An Indie Odyssey

By Nige Tassell

Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era

By Ken Emerson

The Concept of Music

By Robin Maconie (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia, USA)

A Booze & Vinyl Christmas: Merry Music-and-Drink Pairings to Celebrate the Season

By Andre Darlington, Jason Varney

Classic Ephemera: A Musical Miscellany (Classic FM)

By Darren Henley, Tim Lihoreau, Howard Goodall

The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction

By R V Cassill (late of Brown University)

Tchaikovsky: The Man Revealed

By John Suchet

Social Theory and Political Practice: Wolfson College Lectures, 1981

By Christopher Lloyd

Freddie Mercury (Paperback Edition)

The Concise Oxford History of Music

By Gerald Abraham

Listening to Music: The Essential Guide to the Classical Repertoire

By Jonathan D. Kramer

The New Shostakovich

By Ian MacDonald

Michael Jackson: All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track

By Francois Allard, Richard Lecocq

Encyclopedia of Classical Music

By Rob Ainsley

Bach: Chorale Harmonization and Instrumental Counterpoint

By Malcolm Boyd

Mozart and His Piano Concertos

By Cuthbert Girdlestone, Sara Davis Buechner

Bob Marley and the Wailers: The Ultimate Illustrated History

By Richie Unterberger

Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society

By Edward W. Said, Daniel Barenboim

Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception

By Richard Leppert, Susan McClary

Put the Needle on the Record: The 1980s at 45 Revolutions Per Minute

By Matthew Chojnacki

Esthetics of Music

By Carl Dahlhaus, William W. Austin

Arvo Part

By Paul Hillier (Director, Director, Early Music Institute, Indiana University School of Music)

Foundations of Music History

By Carl Dahlhaus, J. B. Robinson

Music and Imagination

By Aaron Copland

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

By Rene Leibowitz, D. Newlin

"Radiohead": Karma Police

By James Doheny

Operetta: A Theatrical History

By Richard Traubner

Music Hall: the Business of Pleasure

By Bailey

Vivaldi

By Michael Talbot

Schoenberg

By Charles Rosen