The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer

Written by Johnny Mercer, Robert Kimball, Barry Day, Miles Kreuger and Eric Davis

Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $65.00

The seventh volume in Knopf’s critically acclaimed Complete Lyrics series, published in Johnny Mercer’s centennial year, contains the texts to more than 1,200 of his lyrics, several hundred of them published here for the first time.

Johnny Mercer’s early songs became staples of the big band era and were regularly featured in... Read more >

Love Is a Mix Tape
Life, Loss, and What I Listened To
Written by Rob Sheffield

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2007
Price: $13.00

What Is love? Great minds have been grappling with this question throughout the ages, and in the modern era, they have come up with many different answers. According to Western philosopher Pat Benatar, love is a battlefield. Her paisan Frank Sinatra would add the corollary that love is a tender trap... Read more >

Can't Buy Me Love
The Beatles, Britain, and America
Written by Jonathan Gould

Format: eBook
On Sale: October 2, 2007
Price: $15.95

Nearly twenty years in the making, Can’t Buy Me Love is a masterful work of group biography, cultural history, and musical criticism. That the Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon is a given. In Can’t Buy Me Love, Jonathan Gould seeks to explain why, placing the Fab Four in the broad and... Read more >

Staring at Sound: The True Story of Oklahoma's Fabulous Flaming Lips

Written by Jim Derogatis

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95

An engrossing and intimate portrait of the Oklahoma-based psychedelic pop band the Flaming Lips, cult heroes to millions of indie-rock fans.

In July 2002, the Flaming Lips released an ambitious album called Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, which merged elements of orchestral pop, electronic dance music, and old-fashioned psychedelic rock with lyrical... 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: $14.95

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 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: $14.95

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 >

Lyrics

Written by Sting

Format: eBook
On Sale: July 16, 2009
Price: $28.00

From the first Police album, Outlandos D'Amour, through Sacred Love, here are the collected lyrics written by Sting, along with his commentary.


From the Hardcover edition. Read more >

Don't the Moon Look Lonesome
A Novel in Blues and Swing
Written by Stanley Crouch

Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.95

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Shostakovich and Stalin
The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictato r
Written by Solomon Volkov

Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $30.00

“Music illuminates a person and provides him with his last hope; even Stalin, a butcher, knew that.” So said the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose first compositions in the 1920s identified him as an avant-garde wunderkind. But that same singularity became a liability a decade later under the totalitarian rule of... Read more >

What a Song Can Do
12 Riffs on the Power of Music
Written by Jennifer Armstrong

Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $5.99

This compelling collection of stories explores the powerful impact that music has in our lives—especially in the lives of teens. Each story strikes a new note: Ron Koertge introduces us to the boys in the band—the marching band; Joseph Bruchac contributes a Native American boy with no rhythm whatsoever; Jennifer Armstrong... Read more >