Mawrdew Czgowchwz

Written by James McCourt
Introduction by Wayne Koestenbaum

Format: eBook
On Sale: May 9, 2012
Price: $15.95

Diva Mawrdew Czgowchwz (pronounced “Mardu Gorgeous”) bursts like the most brilliant of comets onto the international opera scene, only to confront the deadly malice and black magic of her rivals. Outrageous and uproarious, flamboyant and serious as only the most perfect frivolity can be, James McCourt’s entrancing send-up of the world... Read more >

Higher Ground
Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of Americ an Soul
Written by Craig Werner

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99

In Higher Ground, one of our most insightful music writers brilliantly reinterprets the lives of three pop geniuses and the soul revolution they launched.

Soul music is one of America's greatest cultural achievements, and Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, and Curtis Mayfield are three of its most inspired practitioners. In midcentury America it... Read more >

The Hero And the Blues

Written by Albert Murray

Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: September 19, 2012
Price: $11.99

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Stardust Melodies
The Biography of Twelve of America's Most Popular Songs
Written by Will Friedwald

Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2009
Price: $15.99

In Stardust Melodies, Will Friedwald takes each of these legendary songs apart and puts it together again, with a staggering wealth of detail and unprecedented understanding.

Each chapter gives us an extended history of one song—the circumstances under which it was written and first performed—and then explores its musical and lyric content... Read more >

Army of She
Icelandic, Iconoclastic, Irrepressible Bjork
Written by Evelyn McDonnell

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 6, 2001
Price: $11.99

Wearing thick glasses, speaking in her thick Icelandic accent, and, well, seeming a touch thick, Bjork stormed the public consciousness in 2000 as an unlikely heroine in the experimental musical film Dancer In the Dark. Army of She is an in-depth look at the woman who first took the public stage... Read more >

How to Grow a Young Music Lover

Written by Cheri Fuller

Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 15, 2010
Price: $11.99

How to Grow a Young Music Lover is the ideal guide for parents who want to boost their children’s education through music; parents who want to aid in their children’s cognitive, motor, and creative development; parents who love music and want their children to do the same; and parents who wish... Read more >

Morning Glory
A Biography of Mary Lou Williams
Written by Linda Dahl

Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: September 19, 2012
Price: $19.99

Mary Lou Williams -- pianist, arranger, composer, and probably the most influential woman in the history of jazz -- receives the attention she has long deserved in the definitive biography by a leading scholar of women in jazz.

The illegitimate child of an impoverished and indifferent mother, Williams began performing publicly at... Read more >

The Music Business
Career Opportunities and Self-Defense
Written by Dick Weissman

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 20, 2011
Price: $12.99

The Must-Have Guide for Breaking
into the Music Business

Completely revised and updated for the twenty-first century, The Music Business provides essential career advice and information on how to get started and advance in all areas of the music industry—from an author who’s had careers in music as an artist and professor... Read more >

Guide to Sonatas
Music for One or Two Instruments
Edited by Melvin Berger

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2011
Price: $11.99

With the same authority, insight, and unique ability to bring music to life on the printed page that he brought to his Guide to Chamber Music, Melvin Berger gives us an indispensable guide to the sonata form. Comprehensive, analytical, and historical, including descriptions in nontechnical language of over two hundred of... Read more >

Chasin the Trane

Written by J.C. Thomas

Format: eBook, 252 pages
On Sale: June 6, 2012
Price: $14.99

He was always elusive, on and off the stand; like his music, he was constantly moving, incessantly changing. Just as Charlie Parker stood astride the jazz world of the late 40s and 50s, so did John Coltrane in the late 50s and 60s.

Trane was a giant of the saxophone and... Read more >