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The Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip-Hop: Power Moves

By H. Osumare

This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

By Daniel Levitin

Music of a Thousand Years: A New History of Persian Musical Traditions

By Ann E. Lucas

The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus

By Dwight Reynolds

Man and His Music: Story of Musical Experience in the West: Pt.4: Romanticism and the Twentieth Century

By Wilfrid Mellers

Gustav Mahler: Memories and Letters

By Alma Maria Werfel-Mahler, Donald Mitchell

Classical Music: A Beginner's Guide

By Julian Johnson (University of Sussex)

Authenticity and Early Music: A Symposium

By Nicholas Kenyon (Editor of ^IEarly Music^R, music critic of ^IThe Observer^R, and broadcaster, Editor of ^IEarly Music^R, and broadcaster)

The Early Music Revival: A History

By Harry Haskell

Music of the Great Composers: A Listener's Guide to the Best of Classical Music

By Patrick Kavanaugh

The Business: A History of Popular Music from Sheet Music to Streaming

By Simon Napier-Bell

Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization

By Stuart Isacoff

Essays on Schubert

By Maurice John Edwin Brown

On the Trail of Americana Music

By Ralph Brookfield, Paul Kelly, Lindi Ortega, Yola Carter, Kasey Chambers

Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise and Fall

By Joseph Horowitz

The Critique of Pure Music: English Edition

By Adler, Dr. Oskar, Shapiro M. Ed., Amy, Meiser, Michaela

Hans Keller and Internment: The Development of an Emigre Musician

By Alison Garnham, Christopher Wintle

Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe

By Philip V. Bohlman (University of Chicago, USA)

Music, Philosophy, and Modernity

By Andrew Bowie (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Music and British Culture, 1785-1914: Essays in Honour of Cyril Ehrlich

By Christina Bashford (Senior Lecturer in Music, Senior Lecturer in Music, Oxford Brookes University), Leanne Langley (on the research staff of the Department of Music, on the research staff of the Department of Music, Goldsmiths College, University of Lo...

Music and German National Identity

By Celia Applegate, Pamela Potter

Silence: Lectures and Writings

By John Cage

Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland

By John Perry

Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop

By Mr Bob Stanley

Solti on Solti: A Memoir

By George Solti, Harvey Sachs

Bowie Style

By Mark Paytress

On Record: Rock, Pop and the Written Word

By Simon Frith, Andrew Goodwin

Beethoven's Skull: Dark, Strange, and Fascinating Tales from the World of Classical Music and Beyond

By Tim Rayborn

Shostakovich: A Life

By Laurel Fay (Former Assistant Professor of Music, Former Assistant Professor of Music, Ohio State University)

Harmonograph: A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music

By Anthony Ashton