QUARTET PLAYING,ART OF

Written by David Blum

Format: eBook
On Sale: March 13, 2013
Price: $14.99

How do four instrumentalists with strong individual tastes and temperaments manage to forge a distinctive approach to the music they play? This extraordinary book ushers readers into the workshop of one of the world's most accomplished string quartets. In rich and probing conversations with their longtime friend and musicologist and conductor... Read more >

This Business of Global Music Marketing
Global Strategies for Maximizing Your Music's Popularity and Profits
Written by Tad Lathrop

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2013
Price: $10.99

Think BIG—capture the global music market.

Worldwide tours, internet downloads, international album distribution–the global market for music is expanding with lightning speed, and that means big opportunities for everyone in the music business. The main obstacle? Lack of knowledge. The world market is packed with opportunity, but it's also full of cultural... Read more >

Old Gods Almost Dead
The 40-Year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones
Written by Stephen Davis

Format: eBook, 624 pages
On Sale: December 11, 2001
Price: $13.99

The acclaimed, bestselling rock-and-roll biographer delivers the first complete, unexpurgated history of the world’s greatest band.

The saga of the Rolling Stones is the central epic in rock mythology. From their debut as the intermission band at London’s Marquee Club in 1962 through their latest record—setting Bridges to Babylon world tour, the... Read more >

Dead to the Core
An Almanack of the Grateful Dead
Written by Eric Wybenga

Format: eBook, 324 pages
On Sale: August 17, 2011
Price: $11.99

The Grateful Dead have left us a musical bounty of thirty years and thousands of shows.  Now Dead to the Core: An Almanack of the Grateful Dead takes Deadheads through the seasons and years of the Dead's dazzling array of music, with lavish treatment of those "bumper crop" eras from which their... Read more >

Why Mahler?
How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World
Written by Norman Lebrecht

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $15.99

Although Gustav Mahler was a famous conductor in Vienna and New York, the music that he wrote was condemned during his lifetime and for many years after his death in 1911. “Pages of dreary emptiness,” sniffed a leading American conductor. Yet today, almost one hundred years later, Mahler has displaced Beethoven...

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The Book of Exodus
The Making and Meaning of Bob Marley and the Wailers' Album of the Century
Written by Vivien Goldman

Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99

Follow the Sacred Journey to Create One of the Lasting Musical Masterpieces of Our Time


Bob Marley is one of our most important and influential artists. Recorded in London after an assassination attempt on his life sent Marley into exile from Jamaica, Exodus is the most lasting testament to his social conscience... Read more >

On Late Style
Music and Literature Against the Grain
Written by Edward W. Said

Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $11.99

In this fascinating book, Edward Said looks at the creative contradictions that often mark the late works of literary and musical artists. Said shows how the approaching death of an artist can make its way into his work, examining essays, poems, novels, films, and operas by such artists as Beethoven, Genet... Read more >

THE BASS SAXOPHONE

Written by Josef Skvorecky

Format: eBook
On Sale: May 1, 2013
Price: $14.99

The two haunting, poetic novellas that comprise The Bass Saxophonebrilliantly evoke the comedy and sadness of life under the Nazi and Soviet dictatorships. They are prefaced by a remarkable memoir of Skvorecky's jazz-obsessed youth. Jazz is a symbol of freedom in both these novellas.

In Emoke, which is set in the shadow of the... Read more >

Lowside of the Road
A Life of Tom Waits
Written by Barney Hoskyns

Format: eBook, 640 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $16.99

With his trademark growl, carnival-madman persona, haunting music, and unforgettable lyrics, Tom Waits is one of the most revered and critically acclaimed singer-songwriters alive today. After beginning his career on the margins of the 1970s Los Angeles rock scene, Waits has spent the last thirty years carving out a place for... Read more >

The Fan Who Knew Too Much
Aretha Franklin, the Rise of the Soap Opera, Children of the Gospel Church, and Other Meditations
Written by Anthony Heilbut

Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Price: $15.99

A dazzling exploration of American culture—from high pop to highbrow—by acclaimed music authority, cultural historian, and biographer Anthony Heilbut, author of the now classic The Gospel Sound (“Definitive” —Rolling Stone), Exiled in Paradise, and Thomas Mann (“Electric”—Harold Brodkey).

In The Fan Who Knew Too Much, Heilbut writes about art and... Read more >