Music History & Criticism

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

Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews

By Simon Reynolds

Queens Reigns Supreme: Fat Cat, 50 Cent, and the Rise of the Hip Hop Hustler

By Ethan Brown

Bittersweet: The Clifford T. Ward Story

By David Cartwright

"Busted": On Tour - the Official Book

By Peter Robinson

The Peel Sessions: A story of teenage dreams and one man's love of new music

By Ken Garner

YEAR OF WONDER: Classical Music for Every Day

By Clemency Burton-Hill

Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long, Strange Trip

By Joel Selvin, Pamela Turley

Message to Our Folks: The Art Ensemble of Chicago

By Paul Steinbeck

Never Enough: The Story of The "Cure"

By Jeff Apter

The Complete Guide to the Music of Jimi Hendrix

By John Robertson

Japrocksampler

By Julian Cope

Tony Bacon: Six Decades Of Fender Telecaster - The Story Of The World's First Solidbody Electric Guitar

By Tony Bacon

Uproot

By Jace Clayton

Guitarists Picture Chords

By Happy Traum

How Music Got Free: The Inventor, the Music Man, and the Thief

By Stephen Witt

The Cambridge Companion to the Saxophone

By Richard Ingham (Leeds College of Music)

Slayer's Reign in Blood

By D.X. Ferris

Wire's Pink Flag

By Wilson Neate

The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico

By Joe Harvard