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Music as Social Practice - a select bibliography
(source: http://www.mchanan.dial.pipex.com/music%20bib.htm)

T.W. Adorno
Introduction to the Sociology of Music
Seabury (New York) 1972.
Not an easy read, but a singularly important book.

Jacques Attali
Noise
Manchester University Press 1989
Synoptic thesis about the history of music by a leading French economist

Bela Bartok, ed. Suchoff
Essays
University of Nebraska Press 1992
Key writings by key 20th century composer.

Francis Bebey
African Music, A People's Art
Lawrence Hill (USA) 1975.
Comprehensive.

Tony Bennett et.al.
Rock and Popular Music - Politics, Policies, Institutions
Routledge 1993
Interesting collection of essays.

Leonard Bernstein
The Unanswered Question: Six talks at Harvard
Harvard University Press 1976.
Brilliant analysis of the semiotics of music. Technical explanations for the non-musical. Also available on video.

Andrew Blake
The Music Business
Batsford 1992.
Useful study of the contemporary music business.

Pierre Boulez
Orientations: Collected writings
Faber & Faber 1986.
Boulez is the most incisive thinker as well as the leading composer-conductor of our time.

Dick Bradley
Music and social science: a survey
Media Culture & Society Vol.3 No.3 1981.
Useful overview.

Philip Brett et.al.
Queering the Pitch, The new gay and lesbian musicology
Routledge 1994
Stimulating set of essays.

Michael Chanan
From Handel to Hendrix, The Composer in the Public Sphere
Verso 1994
A study of the composer as a public figure in the light of Habermas. Follows the fate of the composer from Handel, Bach and Rousseau to Kurt Weill, Duke Ellington, John Cage and Pierre Boulez in the twentieth.

Michael Chanan
Musica Practica, The Social Practice of Western Music from Gregorian Chant to

Verso 1994
A social history of music, covering aesthetics and economics, music as a profession, the production, distribution and consumption of music, music printing, instruments as technology, etc.

Michael Chanan
Repeated Takes, A short history of recording and its effects on music
Routledge 1995
A book about what audio recording has done to our minds, our culture, our economy, and most of all to our relationship with music.

Fredric Dannen
Hit Men, Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business
Vintage 1990.
Racy account of record companies involvement in music business in US, particularly CBS.

Tia DeNora
Music in Everyday Life
Cambridge University Press, 2000
An interesting ethnographic study of uses of music ranging from aerobics to muzak.

Hanns Eisler
A Rebel in Music, Selected Writings
International Publishers, New York/Seven Seas, Ber 1978.
Anthology of critical essays by one of the composers who worked with Brecht.

Simon Emmerson, ed.
The Language of Electroacoustic Music
Macmillan 1986
Excellent collection of essays

Alison J. Ewbank & Fouli T. Papageorgiou, eds.
Whose Master's Voice? The Development of Popular Music in Thirteen Cultures
Greenwood Press 1997
Covers Australia, Brazil, England, Greece, Hawaii, India, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Spain, Taiwan, U.S.A., and Uruguay

Ron Eyerman & Andrew Jamison, eds.
Music and Social Movements
Cambridge University Press 1998
Good collection of essays.

Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., ed
Black Music in the Harlem Renaissance
University of Tennessee Press 1993
Important collection of essays.

Simon Frith ed.
World Music, Politics and Social Change
Manchester University Press 1989.
Good collection of essays.
Charlie Gillett
The Sound of the City
Souvenir 1970.
A classic study of the history of rock.

Peter Heyworth
Otto Klemperer, His life and times (2 vols)
Cambridge University Press 1983.
Absorbing and highly informative about German musical culture and politics, especially the first volume..
Joseph Horowitz
Understanding Toscanini: How he became an American Culture-God and helped create a new audience for old music

Alfred Knopf 1987.
Brilliant and original study in musical politics. Indispensable reading.
Derek Jewell
Duke
Sphere 1976.
Useful biography.

Joseph Kerman
Musicology
Fontana 1985.
Not a textbook for those with technical knowledge, but a book about musicology and the issues it raises.

George Lipsitz
Dangerous Crossroads: Popular music, postmodernism and the poetics of place
Verso 1994
Stimulating reflections.

Andrew Leyshon et.al., eds.
The Place of Music
Guilford Press, 1998
Collection of essays applying radical geography to the study of music.

Krister Malm & Roger Wallis
Media policy & Music activity
Routledge 1992
A sequel to 'Big Sounds from Small Peoples'. Covers Jamaica, Trinidad, Kenya, Tanzania, Wales and Sweden.

Peter Manuel
Cassette Culture, Popular Music and Technology in North India
University of Chicago Press 1993
See the first two chapters for a global perspective.

Peter Manuel
Popular Musics of the Non-Western World
Oxford University Press 1988.
A good book.

Peter J. Martin
Sounds and Society, Themes in the sociology of music
Manchester University Press 1995
A useful book.

Linda Martin & Kerry Seagrove
Anti-Rock, The Opposition to Rock 'n' Roll
Da Capo (New York) 1993
Excellent history of rock music. Important sections about the industry.

Susan McClary
Feminine Endings: Music, Gender and Sexuality
University of Minnesota Press 1991.
Leading example of feminist musicology. Chapters on Bluebeard, Monteverdi, Vandervelde, Laurie Anderson & Madonna.

Wilfrid Mellers
Caliban Reborn, Renewal in Twentieth Century Music
Gollancz 1968.
With a chapter on jazz and pop as well as dealing with major modern composers.

Richard Middleton
Studying Popular Music
Open University Press 1990.
Chapters on Adorno, technology, politics, ideology, pleasure etc.

Keith Negus
Producing Pop, Culture and Conflict in the Popular Music Industry
Edward Arnold 1992
Excellent analysis of the music industry.

Bruno Nettl
The Study of Ethnomusicology: 29 Issues and Concepts
University of Illinois Press 1993.
Reflections on unresolved debates within the discipline. A good read.

Francis Newton
The Jazz Scene
Penguin 1961.
Still one of the best general surveys of the subject.

Christopher Norris ed.
Music & the Politics of Culture
Lawrence & Wishart 1989.
Valuable collection of essays by a range of authors.

Michael Nyman
Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond
Studio Vista 1974.
Detailed and pioneering study. Look for the new edition.

Paul Oliver
The Story of the Blues
Penguin 1972.
Classic study.

James Parakilas & others
Piano Roles, Three hundred years of life with the piano
Yale University Press 1999
Comprehensive and well illustrated socio-musical history by various authors.

Karin Pendle
Women and Music: A History
Indiana University Press 1991
A different perspective on music history.

Andrew Ross & Tricia Rose eds.
Microphone Fiends, Youth music & youth culture
Routledge 1994
Excellent collection of essays

Ross Russell
Bird Lives - Life and times of Charlie Parker
Quartet 1973.
Classic biography of a key figure..

Edward Said
Musical Elaborations
Chatto & Windus 1991
Unique, rich and eloquent reflections. Essential reading.

Eric Salzman
Twentieth-Century Music: An Introduction
Prentice Hall 1974.
A good and comprehensive survey.

John Shepperd
Music as Social Text
Polity Press 1991.
An interesting study.

Christopher Small
Musicking, The Meanings of Performing and Listening
Wesleyan University Press 1998
Highly readable study of the nature of musical activity.

Derek B. Scott, ed.
Music, Culture, and Society, A Reader
Oxford University Press, 2000
A very useful and up-to-date collection.

Martin Stokes, ed.
Ethnicity, Identity and Music, The Musical Construction of Place
Berg 1994
Covers Celtic music, Afghanistan, Chopin, Brazil, Liverpool, Australia, etc.

H.H. Stuckenschmidt
Twentieth Century Music
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1969.
Probably the best introduction to modernism in 20th century music, but difficult to get hold of.

Roger Wallis & Krister Malm
Big sounds from small peoples, The music industry in small countries
Constable 1984.
A pioneering study.

Max Weber
The Rational and Social Foundations of Music
Southern Illinois University Press/Feffer & Simons 1969.
An extremely important book by one of the founders of modern sociology.