A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib

Fangirls: Scenes from Modern Music Culture (American Music Series)

Hannah Ewens

Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening

Christopher Small

Music in Everyday Life

Tia DeNora

Selling Songs And Smiles: The Sex Trade in Heian And Kamakura Japan

Janet R. Goodwin

Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation

Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson

Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock

Jonathan Gould

Music Is Power: Popular Songs, Social Justice, and the Will to Change

Brad Schreiber

Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow (Refiguring American Music)

Karl Hagstrom Miller

Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary

Sasha Geffen

Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music

Ann Powers

The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s

Emily J. Lordi

Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

Danyel Smith

Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies)

Ron Eyerman

Music: A Subversive History

Ted Gioia

The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory

John Seabrook

But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups

Laura Flam

Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History

Liam Warfield

Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past

Simon Reynolds

Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance

Jeremy Eichler

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey

Bill Brewster

Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King

Preston Lauterbach

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday

Angela Y. Davis

Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago's South Side to the World

Robert Palmer

Laurel Canyon

Michael Walker

Buzz Me In: Inside the Record Plant Studios

Martin Porter

Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991

Michael Azerrad

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

Legs McNeil

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

Alex Ross

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist

Liz Pelly