What does music have to do with joy? Daniel Chua explores the durable relationship between the two in “Music & Joy.” Mr. Chua, a professor of musicology at the University of Hong Kong, observes that ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We say it every year: There are way too many music books for any human to keep track of, let alone read. Yet this year has seen a ...

Getting lost in the magic of music and being transported to another place by a book are two of life's greatest pleasures — so how about combining the two? "The absolute GOAT. Is this a music book?

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This year is the national year of reading, and if you’re a music lover, I urge you to pick one up about your favourite ...

"Lo Fi" author Liz Riggs rounds up two handfuls of novels, memoirs and nonfiction with music as the central theme Liz Riggs holds an MFA from NYU, and her work has been featured in "The Atlantic," ...

We’re very familiar with words and music. But words about music can be just as exciting. There is never a shortage of books about music -- memoirs, biographies, large-scale histories, critical ...

Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic and fervent bookworm Chris Vognar. This week we speak with Rolling Stone pop music critic Rob Sheffield about ...

Robert Philip surveys the vast sweep of a vast subject in “A Little History of Music.” Beginning with the earliest evidence of musicmaking—a bone flute from 40,000 years ago—the English broadcaster ...

We say it every year: There are way too many music books for any human to keep track of, let alone read. Yet this year has seen a backbreaking pile of welcome additions to the boundless stacks, just a ...