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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We say it every year: There are way too many music books for any human to keep track of, let alone read. Yet this year has seen a ...

What does music have to do with joy? Daniel Chua explores the durable relationship between the two in “Music & Joy.” Mr. Chua, a professor of musicology at the University of Hong Kong, observes that ...

Every year, we read a lot of new music books, and it’s not only so that music-loving readers have holiday gift ideas for their loved ones, or just themselves; it also saves you time reading the bad or ...

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We’re very familiar with words and music. But words about music can be just as exciting. There is never a shortage of books about music -- memoirs, biographies, large-scale histories, critical ...

Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic and fervent bookworm Chris Vognar. This week we speak with Rolling Stone pop music critic Rob Sheffield about ...

Even after a very busy summer, fall promises plenty for music fans to get excited about. Here are 19 albums, shows and books to look forward to over the next three months. The OG Britpop act hasn’t ...

Tell-alls, streaming service deep-dives, personal essays, and artist mythologies defined 2025’s printed year in music. Paste has picked its 10 favorite music books from the last 12 months, but I’d ...

Robert Philip surveys the vast sweep of a vast subject in “A Little History of Music.” Beginning with the earliest evidence of musicmaking—a bone flute from 40,000 years ago—the English broadcaster ...

We say it every year: There are way too many music books for any human to keep track of, let alone read. Yet this year has seen a backbreaking pile of welcome additions to the boundless stacks, just a ...