Music
The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music
Hardback
This innovative history explores the rich tradition of music behind bars, and how prisoners have shaped the American sound from blues to hip-hop
From Ear to Ear: A Pianist's Love Affair with Song
Hardback
A moving and tartly funny musical memoir both “comic and cosmic” (Adam Gopnik) by an acclaimed pianist, spellbinding storyteller and champion of song
Schoenberg: Why He Matters
Paperback
An astonishingly lyrical biography that rescues Schoenberg from notoriety, restoring him to his rightful place in the pantheon of twentieth-century composers
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
Paperback
A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator
The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI
Hardback
An acclaimed critic, journalist and songwriter-musician tells the story of art’s relation to machines, from the Baroque period to the age of AI