Music Writing


How Music Works
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé
The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back
Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
The Philosophy of Modern Song
Nina Simone's Gum
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track
Face It
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)
Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture
The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Unlike the rhythms of literary poetry, then, the rhythms of rap are governed by something outside of the MC's own literary conceptions. Rap's beat serves an analogous purpose for the MC that meter does for the literary poet: Namely, it sets out the terms of a rhythmic ideal. One might even consider hip hop's beat as poetic meter rendered audible, clarifying the relationship beween metrical perfction and rhythmic innovation. ...more
Adam Bradley, Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop

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