Books about Music?

[Owen]

I work in an educational institution which has a library budget. If we do not spend that budget it will be made smaller next year. We have not spent the budget. Could anyone suggest any good things to get? I am not specifically looking for bass books. General music books, good stuff about songrwriting and other aspects of the industry, biographies, sleeve art (not tattoos!) books. Anything really.

 

TIA.

[MacDaddy]

Google "Simon Napier-Bell books".

[itu]

Standing in the shadows of Motown: stories, music, CDs...

Beneath the underdog, a tough Mingus bio

[Happy Jack]

17 Watts

 

You Never Give Me Your Money

 

1971

 

Cider With Roadies

 

Revolution In The Head

[The fasting showman]

Lost in music- Giles Smith

Retromania - Simon Reynolds 

[uk_lefty]

26 minutes ago, itu said:

 

Beneath the underdog, a tough Mingus bio

Jeez that's a weird book, it's mostly filth too, nothing about music.

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

Anthony keidis - scar tissue 

David Crosby - long time gone 

Rush - chemistry 

[Guest]

Isle of Noises, Conversations With Great British Somgwritere - Daniel Rachel.

 

 

[ambient]

What level?

[The fasting showman]

23 minutes ago, The fasting showman said:

Lost in music- Giles Smith

Retromania - Simon Reynolds 

I'll add ' Behind the glass' vol 1&2 by Howard Massey.

'How music works ' by David Byrne 

Any of the books by my mate ( & old band mate) Daniel Rachel 

[Fishfacefour]

Christopher small - music of the common tongue 

 

Jace Clayton - Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture 

 

Barry Lesser and linda Ruth salter - Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?: Experiencing Aural Architecture 

 

All world-view changing in their own way. 

 

 

+1 on the mingus biography. Very instructive for life. 

 

Also

Michael Veal - Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae 

And 

Lloyd Bradley - bass culture 

[Owen]

5 minutes ago, ambient said:

What level?

Level 3, but we might reach Level 4 one day!

 

Thanks all, keep them coming.

 

[Rosie C]

Some sort of reference tome, like the Oxford Companion to Music?

 

 

[WinterMute]

David Byrne's How Music Works is excellent.

[songofthewind]

Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks.

[Boodang]

[Boodang]

 

[Boodang]

Maybe a real book or two for good measure.

[toneknob]

I'm in a facebook group called Books About Music, you'll find lots of inspo there. https://www.facebook.com/groups/652308845438533

This is one photo I've submitted

[neepheid]

Musician biographies I have enjoyed:

 

Johnny Cash's autobiography

Hendrix - Setting The Record Straight

 

I have a book at home that goes into some detail about the Beatles and their recordings, but I can't find it online right now, will check back later.

[Leonard Smalls]

Derek Bailey and the history of free improvisation is a most excellent read... It is as well!

[Owen]

Thanks everyone! Keep them coming. I cannot guarantee to buy them all.

[TRBboy]

Ariane Cap - Music Theory for the Bass Player, and Ed Friedland - Building Walking Bass Lines are both really good books.

 

I have a bunch of good books, the problem is I don't work through them! 🙈

 

 

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[Cosmo Valdemar]

56 minutes ago, neepheid said:

 

 

I have a book at home that goes into some detail about the Beatles and their recordings, but I can't find it online right now, will check back later.

Revolution In The Head? A magnificent book.

[Cosmo Valdemar]

13 hours ago, Happy Jack said:

17 Watts

 

17 Watts was reprinted as British Rock Guitar, a far less inspiring title with cover to match. This one should be cheaper and easier to find.