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African Music: A People's Art

By Francis Bebey, Josephine Bennett

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

The Concept of Music

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

African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms

By John Miller Chernoff

Modern Music: A Concise History

By Paul Griffiths

Authenticities: Philosophical Reflections on Musical Performance

By Peter Kivy

Musical Meaning and Expression

By Stephen Davies

A History of Emotion in Western Music: A Thousand Years from Chant to Pop

By Michael Spitzer (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, University of Liverpool)

Music Hall: the Business of Pleasure

By Bailey

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

By Antony Copley

Musica Imperialis: 500 Jahre Hofmusikkapelle in Wien 1498-1998: Ausstellung Der Musiksammlung Der Osterreichischen Nationalbibliothek, Prunksaal, Wien I., Josefsplatz I, 11. Mai Bis 10. November 19...

Dictionary of Early Music: From the Troubadours to Monteverdi

By Jerome Roche, Elizabeth Roche

Chopin's Piano: A Journey through Romanticism

By Paul Kildea

Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids?: An Indie Odyssey

By Nige Tassell

Good Night and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Life

By David Cavanagh

The Stone Roses And The Resurrection of British Pop: The Reunion Edition

By John Robb