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« on: 12 Aug 2006, 23:14 »
So, I'm about to start reading Giants of Jazz, by Studs Terkel, and I'm wondering what other books about music I should read.  Tell me!
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« Reply #1 on: 13 Aug 2006, 16:56 »
Have you read Gary Giddins' Visions of Jazz?  It's very good.
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« Reply #2 on: 15 Aug 2006, 01:04 »
If you're interested in undeground rock. you absolutely must read Our Band Could Be Your Life, which profiles 13 seminal bands in the formation of independent rock music in the 1980s.
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« Reply #3 on: 15 Aug 2006, 01:11 »
i have heard good things about 'can't stop won't stop: a history of the hip-hop generation'.

...aaand don't have a title to recommend you but you should try looking for something on cuban music.
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« Reply #4 on: 16 Aug 2006, 09:59 »
The 33 1/3 series are truly excellent if, like me, you tend to value albums more than their creators. The ones on Low and In the Aeroplane Over the Sea are particularly well written, and several of the folks at Pitchfork are involved.
Elsewhere, Last Gang in Town by Marcus Gray is a brilliant history of the Clash. Chilling stuff.
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« Reply #5 on: 27 Aug 2006, 09:29 »
Miles Davis' autobiography is pretty excellent.  Kind of a long read, but still good.
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« Reply #6 on: 27 Aug 2006, 09:34 »
2nding Miles & 'THis Band...'

Woody Guthrie's autobiography 'Bound For Glory' is a spectacular, fan or not.
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« Reply #7 on: 27 Aug 2006, 11:42 »
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If you're interested in undeground rock. you absolutely must read Our Band Could Be Your Life, which profiles 13 seminal bands in the formation of independent rock music in the 1980s.


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but the music sucks because the keyboards don't have the cold/mechanical sound they had but a wannabe techno sound that it's pathetic for Rammstein standars.

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« Reply #8 on: 03 Sep 2006, 15:28 »
To Air is Human

the best story ever told since Romeo and Juliet
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« Reply #9 on: 04 Sep 2006, 17:22 »
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Man, I just finished this today, and it was fucking awesome.  I am definitely gonna check out all the bands profiled.  The book itself was just awesome.
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« Reply #10 on: 05 Sep 2006, 09:11 »
I really enjoy everything I've ever read by Henry Rollins..."See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die" was one of the more intense things I have ever read in my life
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