Words and Music: Our 60 Favorite Music Books

There is something particularly daunting preparing a line of music books. There is so much ground to cover in terms of time (one century, more than recorded music), space (there is writing on music from around the world), (any kind is conceivable playing field), and format (Record Guide biography, critical study, anthology, memory). So the idea that all 25 or 50 or 100 music books are the "best" seems ridiculous. So it's not that kind of list. Instead, it is a list of 60 music-related books that explore the depth and breadth of our collective obsessions.There is no shortage of writing about music - or ways of writing about it - and it is not definitive end-all-be-as well as the list as a starting point. All these works lead to other worthy titles, albums to discover, and new ways of thinking sounds that flows in our headphones on a daily basis. There are chronic outstanding individual talents such as Miles Davis, Neil Young, Marvin Gaye, as well as stories of scenes and phenomena - the American indie rock underground of the 1980s, 90s rave culture - who were musicians and fans to come together towards a common goal or sound.There are also untold stories and more offbeat, like John Darnielle Mountain Goats Head Black Sabbath on the theme of anti-come-age novel

"Start a regular report on the state of the dance floor." Thus began a weekly series of columns by Vince Aletti for the magazine World Record, November 16, 1974. Disco threw the rule book of pop music and, for the first time, led the club DJ's in the center of the listening experience, operating as artists and prophets music industry.Aletti recognized from the beginning:. A 1973 column he wrote for Rolling Stone magazine is widely regarded as the first article on the phenomenon of clubs in New York Disco Files: 1973-1978 includes this piece, and a nightclub in the early editorial defending as a legitimate extension of the 1960s black popular music (Aletti was an aficionado of Motown), but the bulk of this material consists of columns for a world record, when journalism effort Aletti mixed rigorous and critical reflection.Each entry contains lists of weekly records of a few notable DJs "favorite (contributors include Jellybean Benitez, Walter Gibbons and Larry Levan) and aggregated lists of the most popular titles among DJs for that period - a useful resource for hours of YouTube surfing. The columns themselves included reports on some of the most significant events of the era of disco: the founding of the first record pool New York (where the record companies can connect with DJs) the release of the key 12 "versions of popular songs, and the sudden arrival of Kraftwerk" Trans-Europe Express "to a degree of" acceptance amazing.

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