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How Music Works (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 28,826 ratings — published 2014
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 1,799 ratings — published 2013
The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 611 ratings — published 2025
How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 7,242 ratings — published 2020
Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.52 — 854 ratings — published
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 87,087 ratings — published 2023
The Philosophy of Modern Song (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 3,898 ratings — published 2022
Nina Simone's Gum (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 3,995 ratings — published 2021
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 18,099 ratings — published 2001
It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 317 ratings — published 2019
Face It (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.62 — 9,446 ratings — published 2019
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)
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avg rating 4.46 — 6,655 ratings — published 2019
Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 378 ratings — published 2016
The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 5,838 ratings — published 2006
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.55 — 19,170 ratings — published 2017
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 36,988 ratings — published 1996
Rip it Up and Start Again. Post-punk 1978-1984 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 9,398 ratings — published 2005
The Age of Bowie (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.44 — 688 ratings — published 2016
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,980 ratings — published 2016
Born to Run (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 55,612 ratings — published 2016
Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 2,865 ratings — published 2015
Going into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.33 — 240 ratings — published 2014
1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This to Sing About (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 115 ratings — published 2009
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 3,004 ratings — published 1990
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 3,739 ratings — published 1989
Silence: Lectures and Writings (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 3,616 ratings — published 1961
Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,285 ratings — published 1942
33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 705 ratings — published 2011
The Essential Ellen Willis (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 145 ratings — published 2014
Music Is Power: Popular Songs, Social Justice, and the Will to Change (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 43 ratings — published 2019
Hot Wax (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.36 — 3,617 ratings — published 2025
Don't Say Please ― The Oral History of Die Kreuzen (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 30 ratings — published
The Uncool (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 7,950 ratings — published 2025
What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 868 ratings — published
Music Is History: Questlove's Sonic Journey Through the American Soul (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 5,238 ratings — published 2021
Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,361 ratings — published 1999
Hope I Get Old Before I Die: Why Rock Stars Never Retire (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.07 — 369 ratings — published
I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,629 ratings — published 2024
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[Ghost Notes]: Pioneering Spirits of Texas Music (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published
I Was There: Gigs That Changed the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 64 ratings — published 2004
The Mighty Music Box: The Golden Age of Musical Radio (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1980
Everything is an Afterthought (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 66 ratings — published 2011
Das Energi (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 470 ratings — published 1973
John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 5,028 ratings — published 2025
Live Through This (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 386 ratings — published 2015
Field Recordings from the Inside: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 25 ratings — published
The American Folk Scene: Dimensions of the Folksong Revival (paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published 1967
The Addiction Formula: A holistic approach to writing captivating, memorable hit songs. With 317 proven commercial techniques and 331 examples. (Holistic Songwriting Book 1)
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avg rating 4.08 — 339 ratings — published
The Vocal Athlete (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.48 — 33 ratings — published 2014
Vaporwave (Genre: A 33 1/3 Series)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
“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.”
― Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop
― Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop
