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December, 2012

NBCC Reads: Some Closing Recommendations

by Mark Athitakis | Dec-19-2012

Earlier this fall, we invited NBCC members and friends of the NBCC to share their favorite books about music. For this final entry on the responses we...read »

NBCC Reads: First-Person Takes, From Hip-Hop to New Age

by Mark Athitakis | Dec-12-2012

Many of the responses to our NBCC Reads query on favorite music books focused on history, biography, novels, and criticism. But our members also paid...read »

NBCC Reads: A Few Words on Greil Marcus

by Mark Athitakis | Dec-06-2012

When we asked NBCC members to list their favorite books about music, it was no surprise that the most commonly cited author was a critic: Greil Marcus has...read »

November, 2012

NBCC Reads: Dana Spiotta on “Please Kill Me”

by Mark Athitakis | Nov-28-2012

For our NBCC Reads series on favorite music books, we thought it'd be natural to pose the question to Dana Spiotta, a 2011 NBCC finalist for her rock novel...read »

NBCC Reads: Jazz and Classical

by Mark Athitakis | Nov-27-2012

In response to our latest NBCC Reads question on favorite music books, members responded with a clutch of books on classical and jazz. Richard Horan...read »

NBCC Reads: Punk, Rock, and Blues

by Mark Athitakis | Nov-16-2012

When we asked NBCC members to talk about their favorite books about music, nobody gravitated to one particular genre. Indeed, many respondents selected...read »

NBCC Reads: Alex Ross on Doctor Faustus

by Mark Athitakis | Nov-14-2012

As part of our NBCC Reads series on favorite books about music, we asked Alex Ross---a 2007 winner in criticism for The Rest Is Noise---for his choice. He...read »

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