 | Musicians in Tune: 75 Contemporary Musicians Discuss the Creative Process by Jenny Boyd
Buy used from: $1.99 Good first-person accounts of musical creativity.
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 | Blues People: Negro Music in White America by Leroi Jones
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $1.64 Most important book about America popular music.
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 | How Musical Is Man? (Jessie and John Danz Lectures) by John Blacking
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $7.99 Best introduction to ethnomusicology.
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 | Thinking in Jazz : The Infinite Art of Improvisation (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology Series) by Paul F. Berliner
Buy new: $21.12 / Used from: $14.96 Landmark study of jazz improv (many examples, technical).
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 | In the Course of Performance: Studies in the World of Musical Improvisation (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
Buy new: $30.00 / Used from: $23.96 Improv in several different cultures, east & west.
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 | The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven by Charles Rosen
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $7.95 Important study of the Classical style-Hayden, Mozart, etc.
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 | The Anthropology of Music by Alan P. Merriam
Buy new: $23.36 / Used from: $17.00 Classic textbook on ethnomusicology.
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 | Music, The Brain, And Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination by Robert Jourdain
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.67 Fine journalistic review of the mainstream music psychology.
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 | The Psychology of Music, Second Edition (Cognition and Perception)
Buy new: $62.97 / Used from: $59.93 Best anthology of reviews of the scientific literature.
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| Folk Song Style and Culture
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $14.49 Ground-breaking cross-cultural study of musical styles.
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 | Urban Blues (Phoenix Books) by Charles Keil
Buy new: $15.60 / Used from: $1.32 2nd most important book about American popular music.
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| Sentics: The Touch of the Emotions by Manfred Clynes
Buy used from: $29.95 Essential for understanding how music touches our emotions.
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 | Music in Everyday Life by Tia DeNora
Buy new: $26.96 / Used from: $18.59 How people use music to order their world.
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 | Louie Louie: The History And Mythology Of The World's Most Famous Rock 'n' Roll Song... by Dave Marsh
Buy used from: $0.04 Fascinating study of a single tune in its many versions.
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 | Emotion and Meaning in Music (Phoenix Books) by Leonard B. Meyer
Buy new: $15.39 / Used from: $3.49 Classic mainstream account of emotion and music.
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 | Music and Trance: A Theory of the Relations Between Music and Possession by Gilbert Rouget
Buy new: $31.30 / Used from: $29.97 Important review of the scholarly literature.
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 | Beethoven's Anvil: Music In Mind And Culture by William Benzon
Buy used from: $6.24 The book I wrote based on the other books in this list, plus...... a whole bunch of other stuff.
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 | Music and Emotion: Theory and Research (Series in Affective Science)
Buy new: $80.55 / Used from: $61.30 Excellent up-to-date collection of articles on music and emotion, nicely varied.
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 | For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals by Wayne Booth
Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $3.71 An important explication and defense of amateur musicking.
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 | The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body by Steven J. Mithen
Buy used from: $24.99 Definitive synthesis of archaeology and neuroscience.
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 | The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body by Steven Mithen
Buy new: $25.95 / Used from: $14.79 Definitive synthesis of archaeology and neuroscience.
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