Best non-fiction music books

1

Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter

door Randy L. Schmidt

188 leden

12 besprekingen

3.9

Member: dara85

2

Theft: A History of Music

door James Boyle

32 leden

3 besprekingen

3.2

Member: hipdeep

3

Those Twentieth Century Blues: An Autobiography

door Michael Tippett

16 leden

5

Member: thorold
Verklaringen: thorold: One of the best-ever musical autobiographies, whatever you think of Tippett as a composer

4

Bach muziek als een wenk van de hemel

door John Eliot Gardiner

712 leden

8 besprekingen

½ 4.3

Member: thorold
Verklaringen: thorold: Everything you would hope for in a book about Bach by one of his leading modern interpreters

5

Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs

door Dave Barry

455 leden

14 besprekingen

3.9

Member: hipdeep
Verklaringen: hipdeep: I know it's basically opinion/humor writing, but it's nonfiction, and the question of "what makes a song bad" is both interesting and laugh-out-loud funny.

6

The Last Days of John Lennon

door James Patterson

259 leden

5 besprekingen

½ 3.3

Member: dara85

7

Schubert's Songs: A Biographical Study

door Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

71 leden

4.1

Member: thorold
Verklaringen: thorold: Not always the liveliest of writers, but no-one knew Schubert's songs better

8

World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

door Jeff Tweedy

64 leden

3 besprekingen

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

9

Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader

door Lester Bangs

378 leden

2 besprekingen

3.8

Member: hipdeep

10

Benjamin Britten: A Biography

door Humphrey Carpenter

154 leden

4 besprekingen

3.9

Member: thorold

11

Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century

door Greil Marcus

1,170 leden

13 besprekingen

3.9

Member: hipdeep

12

Mozarts vrouwen zijn leven, zijn muziek

door Jane Glover

240 leden

9 besprekingen

½ 3.5

Member: thorold
Verklaringen: thorold: Very interesting account of Mozart's working relationships with singers and how they influenced his operas.

13

Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality

door Susan McClary

136 leden

3 besprekingen

½ 3.3

Member: thorold
Verklaringen: thorold: Classic postmodern feminist challenge to traditional musicology. More readable than it sounds...

14

Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band

door Christian Staebler

93 leden

7 besprekingen

½ 3.7

Member: hipdeep

15

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

door Legs McNeil

2,057 leden

24 besprekingen

4.1

Member: hipdeep

16

Bessie Smith

door Jackie Kay

86 leden

1 bespreking

½ 3.7

Member: thorold

17

Broken Horses: A Memoir

door Brandi Carlile

323 leden

12 besprekingen

4.2

Member: hipdeep

18

Gustav Mahler herinneringen en brieven

door Alma Mahler

140 leden

4 besprekingen

4

Member: thorold
Verklaringen: thorold: Of course it's more about Alma than about Gustav, but it's still fun

19

How To Play the Harmonica: and Other Life Lessons

door Sam Barry

22 leden

1 bespreking

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

20

The composer as listener; a guide to music

door Irving Kolodin

10 leden

1 bespreking

4

Member: thorold
Verklaringen: thorold: Nice anthology of writings about music by Great Composers

21

Just Kids

door Patti Smith

5,486 leden

238 besprekingen

4.1

Member: hipdeep

22

Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite: Being Gay and Jewish in America (Cassell Lesbian & Gay Studies)

door Lawrence D. Mass

47 leden

½ 4.5

Member: thorold

23

The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

door Dave Grohl

1,185 leden

45 besprekingen

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

24

Robert Schumann: Life and Death of a Musician

door John Worthen

38 leden

2 besprekingen

½ 4.4

Member: thorold
Verklaringen: thorold: Readable biography that avoids the temptation to get over-excited about the causes of Schumann's illness

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