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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The music industry is constantly changing, meaning there's always something new to learn. Whether you're just getting started or you're a seasoned professional, we've gathered a list of books every ...

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 ...

There is something almost eerie about the connection between the music you love and the books that will genuinely move you.

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Hanif Abdurraqib’s They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us is a mesmerizing and deeply perceptive essay collection. Most of the essays are about music--covering Johnny Cash, Migos, Carly Rae Jepsen, ...

This year, many of the books we loved most used music as a lens through which to examine broader issues of politics, history, and identity — whether it was the story of capitalist circulation as heard ...

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It’s ironic that every student in Ireland is schooled in the poetry of Seamus Heaney and Eavan Boland, yet opportunities to mine the “profound artistry” of Irish traditional music are few and far ...

Something to savor this holiday season is “Music,” Dorling Kindersley’s “visual history” of the subject from its beginnings to the present day. How does a single volume cover so vast a stretch of time ...