One of the world's greatest bassists lays down the heart of Black music, revealing how its rhythmic structures and the long history of the African diaspora made it the world's most popular form Why do Bob Marley, John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin, and...

The very first and definitive biography of Peter Tosh, rude boy, founder member of the Wailers and a compelling recording artist in his own right --Tosh was Jamaica's most controversial reggae star. For the Mystic Man, music was the message. A fiery...

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. The Sunday Times (UK) Classical Music Book of 2018 and one of The Economist’s Best Books of 2018.“A magisterial portrait.” —Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, The New York Times Book ReviewA landmark biography of...

In its early years, Rolling Stone stood out on the magazine rack: an iconoclastic bimonthly aimed at young Americans, dedicated to music, culture, and politics. Magazine cofounder Jann Wenner's vision of a magazine that blended politics with...

Persuasive, captivating, and bursting with insight, this dual biography by acclaimed New York Times journalist Jim Windolf dives into the surprisingly supportive, occasionally rivalrous, and always fertile relationship between Bob Dylan and The Beatles,...

An intimate insider's account of New York's most radical cultural revolution and the women who obliterated every barrier in their pathIn 1975 a young queer singer from Cleveland meets Nan Goldin and joins her in New York's bombed-out downtown, where...

A lively compendium of musical practices and compositions that upend notions of creativity and expressivity while diversifying our sense of the musical canon. An artist draws two octaves of pitches randomly from a hat, just enough to set each syllable...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER One of Smithsonian's 10 Best Science Books of the Year "No one else in the universe could have written this book." --Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist Neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author of This Is Your Brain on...

The definitive biography of the celebrated composer, published in English to coincide with the centenary of his death A best seller when first published in Germany in 2003, Jens Malte Fischer's Gustav Mahler has been lauded by scholars as a landmark...

In On the Record: Music That Changed America, Anna Harwell Celenza uncovers the sometimes-surprising influence of music on American politics and culture. From "The Star-Spangled Banner" and Billie Holiday's haunting "Strange Fruit" to Paul Simon's...

"In Bridging Sonic Borders, Sharina Maíllo-Pozo focuses on the intersections between Dominican, Caribbean, Afro-diasporic, and U.S. American popular music genres (hip-hop, African-American jazz, blues, pop, and rock, different types of merengue) and...

Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign is the first critical anthology dedicated to exploring the legacies of two pop music icons who died within months of one another in 2016: David Bowie and Prince. Daphne A. Brooks brings together an extraordinary...

Over the past fifty years Roger Sessions has developed, in articles, lectures, and addresses, various themes that reflect the stages of his own musical and intellectual growth. These themes form the basis of the present collection of essays. Many of the...

A remarkably open-hearted, clear-eyed memoir of the '90s Alternative era by the bassist of Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins Even the Good Girls Will Cry begins with Melissa Auf der Maur's bohemian upbringing in Montreal, where her early, deep connection...

A sweeping and in-depth history of the Brooklyn music scene over ten years in Bloomberg's New York, from a writer and concert producer who had a front-row view of it all In the tradition of Just Kids and Our Band Could Be Your Life, Ronen Givony's Us...

The first full-length biography of Alice Coltrane, the jazz musician and spiritual leader whose forward-thinking music was overshadowed by her more famous husband, even as she brilliantly laid the groundwork for the new age, ambient, and electronic music...

Edited by one of the leading Wagner scholars of modern times, and with contributions from seventeen experts from around the world, The Wagner Compendium is the key to a complete understanding of the composer -- the most comprehensive, informative and...