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Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present (Phono: Black Music and the Global Imagination) (Volume 1)
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Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste
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Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
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Country Music: An Illustrated History
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The Gospel Side of Elvis
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Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music
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The Next Next Level: A Story of Rap, Friendship, and Almost Giving Up
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Leon Neyfakh (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Aretha Franklin: The Queen Of Soul
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Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles
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Aretha: From These Roots
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Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life
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Tim Riley (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 478 ratings
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Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin
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Eva Cassidy: Songbird: Her Story by Those Who Knew Her
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
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This Is Your Brain on Music
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Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé
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Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties
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Listen to This
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In The Pleasure Groove: Love, Death, and Duran Duran
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Echoes: The Hampton Grease Band, My Life, My Music and How I Stopped Having Panic Attacks
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Play It Loud: An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar
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Your Playlist Can Change Your Life: 10 Proven Ways Your Favorite Music Can Revolutionize Your Health, Memory, Organization, Alertness and More
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Wham! George & Me
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A Hip-Hop History
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Jeff Chang (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 161 ratings
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How Music Works
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David Byrne (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 27,757 ratings
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Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams & Rumors
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Zoë Howe (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 1,054 ratings
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Country Music USA: 50th Anniversary Edition
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4.44 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Music As Medicine: Deforia Lane's Life of Music, Healing, and Faith
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4.02 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Me
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Rip it Up and Start Again. Post-punk 1978-1984
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4.06 avg rating — 9,172 ratings
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Stevie Nicks: Rock's Mystical Lady
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Walk This Way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song that Changed American Music Forever
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3.59 avg rating — 211 ratings
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Country and Blues Harmonica for the Musically Hopeless
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3.98 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music
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3.27 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Freddie Mercury: The Definitive Biography
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Lesley-Ann Jones (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 5,271 ratings
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
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For the Love of Music: A Conductor's Guide to the Art of Listening
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John Mauceri (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 265 ratings
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The Face of Folk Music
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Really Saying Something: Sara & Keren – Our Bananarama Story
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3.75 avg rating — 586 ratings
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Cash
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4.02 avg rating — 25,140 ratings
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It's a Long Story: My Life
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Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
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Music, The Brain, And Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination by author Robert Jourdain
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Who I Am
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The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart
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Nowhere To Run: The Story Of Soul Music
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Through the Fire
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Running Up That Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush
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4.15 avg rating — 358 ratings
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Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
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4.37 avg rating — 4,656 ratings
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Baby, Let's Play House: Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him
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4.08 avg rating — 830 ratings
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American Music Is
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3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Something Beautiful: The Stories Behind a Half-Century of the Songs of Bill and Gloria Gaither
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4.33 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Ticket to the World: My 80s Story
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Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
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Elvis (Paperback Songs Series)
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4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
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4.24 avg rating — 2,355 ratings
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It's More Than the Music: Life Lessons on Friends, Faith, and What Matters Most
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4.40 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Queen in Comics!
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4.12 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
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Sandi Patti: The Voice of Gospel
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Rememberings
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Hellfire
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Elvis and Gladys
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Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, And Redemption Of Jelly Roll Morton
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Shaped Notes: How Ordinary People with Extraordinary Gifts Influenced My Life and Career
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Larnelle Harris (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Straight from the Heart
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Letters from Elvis
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Gary Lindberg (Goodreads Author)
3.20 avg rating — 45 ratings
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John Coltrane: His Life and Music (The Michigan American Music Series)
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The Song of Annie Moses: A Musical Quest, a Mother's Gift
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My My!: ABBA Through the Ages
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We Got the Neutron Bomb : The Untold Story of L.A. Punk
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Elvis and Ginger: Elvis Presley's Fiancée and Last Love Finally Tells Her Story
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Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War
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We Will Survive: True Stories of Encouragement, Inspiration, and the Power of Song
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Music Composition For Dummies
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American Hardcore: A Tribal History
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Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll
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Cajun and Creole Music Makers: Musiciens cadiens et creoles
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The Marxist Minstrels: A Handbook On Communist Subversion Of Music
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Classical Music Fd, 2e
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From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World
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Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People, Vol. 1
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Ann A. Savoy (Compiler)
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Got to Tell it: Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel
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The Music of Life: Bartolomeo Cristofori & The Invention of the Piano
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Elizabeth Rusch (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 252 ratings
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Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
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Just Mahalia, Baby
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Twentieth-Century Classical Music: A Ladybird Expert Book (20) (The Ladybird Expert Series)
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A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt (North Texas Lives of Musician Series)
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The Sacred Harp: A Tradition and Its Music (Brown Thrasher Books)
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The Black Elvis - Jackie Wilson
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The Extraordinary Music of Mr. Ives: The True Story of a Famous American Composer
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Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
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Sara Marcus (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 8,883 ratings
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Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend
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Mr. B: The Music and Life of Billy Eckstine
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The Music in George's Head: George Gershwin Creates Rhapsody in Blue
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Suzanne Slade (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 299 ratings
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Inside Subculture: The Postmodern Meaning of Style
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Stars Of Country Music
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Nat King Cole
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The Complete Classical Music Guide
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John Burrows (Editor)
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How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
