Popular music has a profound and interesting cultural and personal effect.  What songs do you listen to again and again?  What artists do you turn to when you are feeling happy, or sad, or celebratory, or sexy?  Check out the library’s collection of literature about recent (and not so recent) popular music.  What songs changed your life?

 
November 2011

 

Assayas, Michka.  Bono in Conversation.  ML420 B6856 A5 2005

Benitez, Vincent.  The Words and Music of Paul McCartney.  ML410 M1115 B44 2010

Bogdanov, Vladimir. The Music Guide to Rock.  ML156.9 A39 2002 

Booth, Stanley.  Dance with the Devil: The Rolling Stones & their Times.  ML421 R64 B66 1984

Bynoe, Yvonne.  Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip Hop Culture.  ML102 R27 B96 2006

Cardwell, Nancy. The Words and Music of Dolly Parton.  ML420 P28 C39 2011

Cogan, Brian.  Encyclopedia of Punk Music and Culture.  ML102  R6 C64 2006

Common.  One Day It’ll All Make Sense.  ML420 C656 2011

Cross, Charles.  Room Full of Mirrors: Biography of Jimi Hendrix.  ML410 H476 C76 2005

Davis, Stephen.  Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend.  ML420 M62 D38 2004

Dodd, David.  The Grateful Dead Reader.  ML421 G72 G69 2000

Fouz-Hernandez, Santiago.  Madonna’s Drowned World.  ML420 M1387 M28 2004

Gilbert, Pat. Passion is a Fashion: The Real Story of the Clash.  ML421 C57 E55 2005

Goddard, Simon.  The Mozipedia: The Encyclopedia of Morrissey and the Smiths.  ML421 S614 G633x 2009

Goddard. Simon.  The Smiths: The Songs that Saved Your Life.  ML421 S614 G65x 2009

Hage, Erik.  The Words and Music of Van Morrison.  ML420 M63 H34 2009

Heylin, Clinton.  All Yesterday’s Parties: The Velvet Underground in Print 1966-1971.  ML421 V44 A45 2005

Heylin, Clinton.  Still on the Road: The Songs of Bob Dylan 1974 – 2006.  ML420 D98 H496x 2010

James Brown: Soul Survivor.  DVD ML420 B818 S68x 2003

Jay-Z.  Decoded.  ML420 J29 A3 2010

Jefferson, Margo.  On Michael Jackson.  ML420 J175 J44 2006

Lowe, Kelly.  The Words and Music of Frank Zappa.  ML410 Z285 L68 2006

Mason, Bobbie Ann.  Elvis Presley.  ML420 P96 M34 2003

Moskovitz, David.  The Words and Music of Jimi Hendrix.  ML410 H476 M68 2010

Norman, Philip.  Shout: The Beatles in their Generation.  ML421 B4 N65 2005

O’Dair, Barbara.  Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock.  ML394 T76 1997

Perone, James.  The Words and Music of Carole King.  ML410 K636 2006

Perone, James.  The Words and Music of Prince.  ML420 P974 P47 2008

Perone, James.  The Words and Music of Stevie Wonder.  ML410 W836 P47 2006

Povey, Glenn.  Echoes: The Complete History of Pink Floyd.  ML421 P6 P67x 2010

Rogovoy, Seth.  Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet.  ML420 D98 R64 2009

Savage, Jon.  England’s Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond.  ML421 S47 S3 2001

Simpson, Mark. Saint Morrissey. ML420 M635 S56 2006 

Spitz, Bob.  The Beatles.  ML421 S67 2005

Stone, Oliver.  The Doors.  DVD ML420 M62 D662x 2000

Tate, Joseph.  The Music and Art of Radiohead.  ML421 R25 M87 2005

This is Elvis.  DVD ML420 P96 T49575x 2007

True, Everett.  Nirvana: The Biography.  ML421 N57 T784 2007

Trynka, Paul.  David Bowie: Starman.  ML420 B754 T79 2011
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