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On Record: Rock, Pop and the Written Word

By Simon Frith, Andrew Goodwin

Bowie Style

By Mark Paytress

Solti on Solti: A Memoir

By George Solti, Harvey Sachs

Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop

By Mr Bob Stanley

Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland

By John Perry

Silence: Lectures and Writings

By John Cage

Music and German National Identity

By Celia Applegate, Pamela Potter

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, Philosophy, and Modernity

By Andrew Bowie (Royal Holloway, University of London)

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

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

Hans Keller and Internment: The Development of an Emigre Musician

By Alison Garnham, Christopher Wintle

The Critique of Pure Music: English Edition

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

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

By Joseph Horowitz

On the Trail of Americana Music

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

Essays on Schubert

By Maurice John Edwin Brown

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

By Stuart Isacoff

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

By Simon Napier-Bell

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

By Patrick Kavanaugh

The Early Music Revival: A History

By Harry Haskell

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 Anthropology of Music

By Alan P. Merriam, Valerie Merriam

A History of Western Musical Aesthetics

By Edward A. Lippman

Chopin's Piano: A Journey through Romanticism

By Paul Kildea

Empirical Musicology: Aims, Methods, Prospects

By Eric Clarke, Nicholas Cook

Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation

By Roger Scruton

Performing Rites: Evaluating Popular Music

By Simon Frith

"Beatles" Files

By Andy Davis

Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville

By Hilary Poriss (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Northeastern University)

Performing Pain: Music and Trauma in Eastern Europe

By Maria Cizmic, Kirill Batygin

The Days Grow Short: The Life and Music of Kurt Weill

By Ronald Sanders