Type: documentary
Status: liked
Author: John Marchese
Tags: art music violin luthier
Description: A great, essay-length book about the building of a violin by a modern master.
2007-04-03
Type: documentary
Status: liked
Author: Matthew Collin
Tags: revolution music censorship histoy serbia
Description: A great inside look at the role of radio station B-92 and the protest movement that eventually...
2007-02-13
Type: documentary
Status: liked
Author: Elijah Wald
Tags: history america culture music jazz blues
Description: Iconoclastic history of black American pop music and the blues, placing Robert Johnson, finally...
2007-01-15
Type: documentary
Status: liked
Author: Mirjana Lausevic
Tags: american dance culture music balkan ifd
2007-01-11
Type: documentary
Status: liked
Author: Veronica Doubleday
Tags: women history music sociology afghanistan
Description: Interesting and touching look behind the walls of women in Herat in the mid-1970s, before Afghanistan...
2006-12-06
& 1 users
Type: documentary
Status: neutral
Author: Ross W. Duffin
Description: Short but heavy going as Duffin argues for a return to earlier tuning systems -- when appropriate...
2006-11-29
Type: documentary
Status: liked
Author: Toby Faber
Tags: history music violin stradivarius
Description: Strong storytelling and great detail as Faber gives us Stradovari's life and traces six...
2006-10-09
& 2 users
Type: documentary
Status: liked
Author: Daniel J. Levitin
Tags: psychology music neuroscience
Description: Written by a scientist who is also a musician: accessible and fascinating look at music and...
2006-09-06
Type: documentary
Status: liked
Author: Bálint Sárosi
Description: Interesting, only occasionally dry, look at the intertwining of Rom music in the development...
2006-09-03
Type: documentary
Status: liked
Author: Kevin Bazzana
Tags: music canadian buigraphy piano
Description: A great bit of biographical writing: a lively...
2006-08-14
Type: documentary
Status: liked
Author: Leopold Auer
Description: Auer's slight book is not just about learning the violin; it's about an approach to...
2006-08-07
Type: documentary
Status: liked
Author: Joseph Lanza
Tags: psychology music sociology muzak background_music ambient techno easy_living
Description: Quirky enlightening look at the history of the music we all love to disparage.
2006-08-04
Type: educational
Status: liked
Author: Barry Green
Tags: philosophy music
Description: Interesting and quickly read look at the traits and skills needed to master music and live...
2006-07-29
Type: documentary
Status: liked
Author: Michael Dregni
Tags: biography music jazz django gypsy rom
Description: Incredibly detailed look at the life of the great jazz guitarist, well-written and moving.
2006-06-08
