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Music
Interviews with musicians and scholars of music about their new books.
May 26, 2026
Audible Loss
It is a compulsion of the human race to find a way to memorialize those we have lost and why we have lost them, from a gravestone of a loved one to wa…
May 24, 2026
Music Between Your Ears
Explores the profound power of music to influence brain function and well-being. IPA 2026 Distinguished Favorite in the Music Category Why does musi…
May 24, 2026
Reverberations of Culture
Reverberations of Culture: Racialized Performance in Early Twentieth-Century Musical Variety by Just a Buncha Clowns (Routledge, 2026) by Dr. Shane Br…
May 11, 2026
The YIVO Sound Archive at 40
The YIVO Sound Archive houses over 20,000 recordings (including 78, 45, and 33rpm discs, open-reel and cassette tapes, piano rolls, and compact discs …
May 7, 2026
What Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To
In What Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To (U Minnesota Press, 2025) an iconic rock DJ of the Twin Cities tells her harrowing st…
May 3, 2026
The Musical Lives of Charles Manson
Nicholas Tochka analyzes the role of rock music in the life of Charles Manson, the Family, and the August 1969 Tate-LaBianca killings, which also give…
April 30, 2026
The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments
The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments (Reaktion, 2026) by Dr. Deirdre Loughridge & Dr. Thomas Patteson is a guided tour through centuries of ins…
April 28, 2026
The Lost World of African American Cantors 1915–1953
Histories of Black-Jewish cultural interaction often focus on how Jews adopted and adapted Black vernacular music—ragtime, jazz, swing, R&B, blues—as …
April 26, 2026
I Go There with You
U2 is a band from the north side of Dublin that became a global phenomenon-and while its four members have traveled the world over for almost fifty ye…
April 16, 2026
The Barton Brothers, Mickey Katz, and Others
In the years immediately following the Second World War, the Barton Brothers, an anarchic Catskill comedy duo, began recording humorous macaronic (tha…
April 14, 2026
Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign
Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign: The Sonic Afterlives of David Bowie and Prince (Duke UP, 2026) is the first critical anthology dedicated to exp…
April 11, 2026
Embracing Uncertainty
Most people hate and fear uncertainty. It causes such stress and anxiety that we often choose certain surrender over doubt, becoming passive, dependen…
April 7, 2026
Brand New Beat
Rolling Stone's first decade was truly rock and roll: chaotic, wild, and unpredictable. Brand New Beat: The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine (U Cal…
April 7, 2026
Music Technology Panic Narratives Beyond Piracy
Who makes a living from the music industry? In Music Technology Panic Narratives Beyond Piracy: From Taping to Napster to TikTok (Anthem Press, 2026) …
April 4, 2026
This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll
Over the last seven decades, some of rock 'n' roll's most celebrated figureheads have flirted with the imagery and theater of the Third Reich. From Ke…
April 3, 2026
Dreaming Japanese
Marty Friedman is a multi-platinum recording artist and government-appointed Ambassador to Japan Heritage. He has written three books in Japanese and …
April 2, 2026
Even the Good Girls Will Cry
Melissa Auf der Maur's new memoir, Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A '90s Rock Memoir(DaCapo, 2026) is a remarkably open-hearted, clear-eyed memoir of t…
March 28, 2026
Three Chords and Blessed Noise
Caryn Rose's Three Chords and Blessed Noise (2026) is an ode to the lost art of the tour diary. In November of 2025, Patti Smith and her band embarked…
March 22, 2026
Castrato Phantoms
Around 1830, opera houses stopped using castrati, and Rome and the Vatican became home to their glorious singing, engineered by surgery and intensive …
March 21, 2026
Elvis Is Dead, I'm Still Alive
Sourced from over a hundred hours of interviews with musicians, producers, booking agents, label owners, writers, fans, employees, volunteers, friends…