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Music in Contemporary British Fiction: Listening to the Novel

By G. Smyth

The Funk Era and Beyond: New Perspectives on Black Popular Culture

By T. Bolden

Big Bangs

By Goodall, Howard

Louis Prima

By Garry Boulard

Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America

By David Hepworth

Music for the People: The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Classical Music

By Gareth Malone

Play It Loud: An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar

By Brad Tolinski, Alan Di Perna, Carlos Santana

The Best of Jazz

By Humphrey Lyttelton

Piccolo, Saxo & Cie

By Sales, Juliette, Catalogne, Isabelle de, Popp, Andre, Broussole, Jean

Mozart in Vienna (Oxford lives)

By Braunbehrens, Volkmar, Bell, T.

Crossing Paths: Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms

By Daverio, John

HELL BENT FOR LEATHER: Confessions of a Heavy Metal Addict

By Hunter

Psychedelia and Other Colours

By Rob Chapman

1966: The Year the Decade Exploded

By Jon Savage

Turn! Turn! Turn!: The '60s Folk-Rock Revolution

By Richie Unterberger

Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock's Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock

By Richie Unterberger

Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany

By Uwe Schutte

The Classical Music Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

By DK, Katie Derham

Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation

By Daniel Rachel

No Regrets: Writings on Scott Walker

By Rob Young

Shiny and New: Ten Moments of Pop Genius that Defined the '80s

By Dylan Jones

Believe in Magic: 30 Years of Heavenly Recordings

By Robin Turner

Perfect Sound Whatever: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

By James Acaster

Hip-Hop Is History: The New York Times bestseller

By Questlove, Ben Greenman

Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation

By Daniel Rachel

The Beautiful Ones

By Prince

31 Songs

By Nick Hornby

Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation

By Daniel Rachel

Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 and All That

By Dylan Jones

Industry of Magic & Light

By David Keenan