Music History & Criticism

Correspondence, 1888-1911

By Mahler, Gustav, Strauss, Richard, Blaukopf, Herta

Music in the Mediaeval World (History of Music S.)

By Seay, Albert

Electric Shock: From the Gramophone to the iPhone – 125 Years of Pop Music

By Doggett, Peter

Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop

By Stanley, Bob

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

By Myers, Marc

The History of Rock ′N′ Roll in Ten Songs

By Marcus, Greil

Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music

By Tim Lihoreau, Stephen Fry

Cowboys and Indies: The Epic History of the Record Industry

By Murphy, Gareth

Remembering Bix: Biography of Bix Beiderbecke

By Berton, Ralph

Portrait of Elgar

By Kennedy, Michael

Why Dylan Matters

By Thomas, Richard F.

Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, the Band, and the Basement Tapes

By Sid Griffin

Popular Music in Theory: An Introduction

By Negus, Keith

Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World

By Bragg, Billy

The Great Rock Discography

By Strong, Martin C.

Modern Music and After: Directions Since 1945

By Paul Griffiths

Mozart

By Wendy Thompson

Encyclopedia of Classical Music

By Rob Ainsley

Foundations of Music History

By Carl Dahlhaus, J. B. Robinson

Arvo Part

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

Esthetics of Music

By Carl Dahlhaus, William W. Austin

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

By Matthew Chojnacki

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

By Richard Leppert, Susan McClary

Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society

By Edward W. Said, Daniel Barenboim

Bob Marley and the Wailers: The Ultimate Illustrated History

By Richie Unterberger

Mozart and His Piano Concertos

By Cuthbert Girdlestone, Sara Davis Buechner

Bach: Chorale Harmonization and Instrumental Counterpoint

By Malcolm Boyd

The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction

By R V Cassill (late of Brown University)

Social Theory and Political Practice: Wolfson College Lectures, 1981

By Christopher Lloyd

Tchaikovsky: The Man Revealed

By John Suchet