Books, books, books.
I got a very nice email from a reader asking if I wouldn’t mind going one step further and link the items on these lists to Amazon.com. I liked this idea a lot, but since I always prefer to support local or independent merchants whenever possible, my first inclination was to send you to Powells.com instead, which provides access to one of the largest inventories of new, used, and out-of-print books on the planet. And so, when you click on any of the titles below, that’s where you be taken. (Don’t worry–if Powell’s doesn’t have or can’t get a copy, I’ll still redirect you to Amazon.)
- David Suisman, Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music (Harvard)
- Barry Seldes, Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician (University of California)
- Ted Gioia, Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music (Norton)
- Alessandra Comini, The Changing Image of Beethoven: A Study in Mythmaking (Sunstone)
- Guy Rickards, Jean Sibelius (Phaidon)
- Michael Rose, Berlioz Remembered (Faber)
