Music:

Decoded

Written by Jay-Z

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $25.00

Expanded paperback edition of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller features 16 pages of new material, including 3 new songs decoded.
 
Decoded is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history... Read more >

A Natural History of the Piano
The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians--from Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in Between
Written by Stuart Isacoff

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2011
Price: $30.00

A beautifully illustrated, totally engrossing celebration of the piano, and the composers and performers who have made it their own.
 
With honed sensitivity and unquestioned expertise, Stuart Isacoff—pianist, critic, teacher, and author of Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization—unfolds the ongoing history... Read more >

Musicophilia
Tales of Music and the Brain
Written by Oliver Sacks

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $15.95

Revised and Expanded

With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls “musical misalignments.&rdquo...

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Look, I Made a Hat
Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany
Written by Stephen Sondheim

Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $45.00

After his acclaimed and best-selling Finishing the Hat (named one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2010), Stephen Sondheim returns with the second volume of his collected lyrics, Look, I Made a Hat, giving us another remarkable glimpse into the brilliant mind of this living legend, and his... Read more >

Decoded

Written by Jay-Z

Format: eBook
On Sale: December 7, 2010
Price: $14.99

Expanded edition of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller features 16 pages of new material, including 3 new songs decoded.
 
Decoded is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one of... Read more >

Le Freak
An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny
Written by Nile Rodgers

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $27.00

You will hear a Nile Rodgers song today. It will make you happy. 
 
Today’s pop music—genre-crossing, gender-bending, racially mixed, visually stylish, and dominated by dance music with global appeal—is the world that Nile Rodgers created. In the 1970s and 1980s, he wrote and produced the songs that defined that era and... Read more >

Frank
The Voice
Written by James Kaplan

Format: Trade Paperback, 800 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $18.95

Frank Sinatra was the best-known entertainer of the twentieth century—infinitely charismatic, lionized and notorious in equal measure. But despite his mammoth fame, Sinatra the man has remained an enigma.  Now James Kaplan brings deeper insight than ever before to the complex psyche and turbulent life behind that incomparable voice, from Sinatra’s...

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On a Cold Road
Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock
Written by Dave Bidini

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1998
Price: $17.95

David Bidini, rhythm guitarist with the Rheostatics, knows all too well what the life of a rock band in Canada involves: storied arenas one tour and bars wallpapered with photos of forgotten bands the next. Zit-speckled fans begging for a guitar pick and angry drunks chucking twenty-sixers and pint glasses. Opulent... Read more >

Sweet Judy Blue Eyes
My Life in Music
Written by Judy Collins

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $26.00

A vivid, highly evocative memoir of one of the reigning icons of folk music, highlighting the decade of the ’60s, when hits like “Both Sides Now” catapulted her to international fame.
 
Sweet Judy Blue Eyes is the deeply personal, honest, and revealing memoir of folk legend and relentlessly creative spirit... Read more >

Start and Run Your Own Record Label, Third Edition

Written by Daylle Deanna Schwartz

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $21.95

For everyone interested in starting a record label–to market new talent or to release and promote their own music–there has never been a better time to do it!

Music can be released, distributed, and promoted for a fraction of traditional costs. Veteran author and music-business consultant Daylle Deanna Schwartz (who started... Read more >