New and Recommended: Music
Selected by the Bookshop
From Liszt to Lee Scratch Perry, here’s a selection of new titles from our lovingly curated Music section.
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‘It is difficult to imagine the emotional power that bells exerted, their capacity to summon people together, to structure time and space in society. Still today, bell-ringing is considered an essential element of the quintessential…
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Whenever a person engages with music—when a piano student practices a scale, a jazz saxophonist riffs on a melody, a teenager sobs to a sad song, or a wedding guest gets down on the dance floor—countless neurons are firing.…
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The debut work of non-fiction by award-winning slam poet Vanessa Kisuule, this is a love letter to the musicians we adore and an unflinching look at the costs of hero worshipVanessa Kisuule is a big Michael Jackson fan. This…
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A year in the life of Lawrence, Britain's most singular musical genius who never hit the big time.'Will has finally written his masterpiece. I'm glad I could be of assistance' LAWRENCE'Essential reading' JARVIS…
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A thrilling new biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky—composer of some of the world’s most popular orchestral and theatrical music Tchaikovsky is famous for all the wrong reasons. Portrayed as a hopeless romantic, a…
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A musical biography that reveals Joaquín Rodrigo as a composer of unique visionJoaquín Rodrigo is best known as the composer of one of the most popular works of music in the classical repertoire—the Concierto de Aranjuez…
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The definitive study of global music that does for the genre what Alex Ross' The Rest is Noise did for 20th century classical music.'I doubt I'll ever read a better account of the history and sociology of popular music than this…
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A Sunday Times, Telegraph and Irish Times Book of the Year.The Sonic Youth frontman takes us from a 1960s childhood rock ’n’ roll epiphany, through the subversive world of 1970s punk blasting forth from…
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An expertly researched and vividly written account of Mozart’s formative trips to Italy, from the author of Mozart’s Women and Handel in London.'You don’t have to be able to hum Mozart to find this book…
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A memoir by the 2019 Wellcome Prize winner Will Eaves that looks at the creation of eight piano pieces.'A wonderfully sensitive and probing meditation on the writing of words and music' Rolf Hind, composer and pianistWhat lies behind the…
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The story of The Jesus and Mary Chain by the two founding membersFor 5 years after they'd swapped sought-after apprenticeships for life on the dole, brothers William and Jim Reid sat up till the early hours in the front room of their…
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Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, a stirring account of how music acts as a witness to history and a medium of cultural memory in the post-Holocaust world.'A work of extraordinary power, beauty and human feeling.' Sunday…
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