Music
How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)
Paperback
"A fascinating and genuinely accessible guide....Educating, enjoyable, and delightfully unscary."—Classical Music
Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture
Paperback
"Remarkable. . . . Carried along by prose that is as sleek and slinky as its subject."—Christine Stansell, University of Chicago
All Hopped Up and Ready to Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927–77
Paperback
A penetrating and entertaining exploration of New York’s music scene from Cubop through folk, punk, and hip-hop.
The Study of Counterpoint: From Johann Joseph Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum
Paperback
The essence of the most celebrated book on counterpoint, Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum.
Jazz
Hardcover
The story of jazz for the general reader as it has never been told before, from the inside out: a comprehensive, eloquent, scrupulously researched page-turner.