NBCC Reads

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 received, we include

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 tribute to plenty of examples

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 taught a

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 Stone

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 selected Louis Armstrong's In His

When we asked NBCC members to talk about their favorite books about music, nobody gravitated to one particular genre. Indeed, many respondents selected multiple books that addressed a variety of

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 responded with

When we invited members to select their favorite books about music, most responded by naming nonfiction works: biographies and autobiographies of artists, essay collections, histories. But like Wayne Koestenbaum, an

This month we'll be posting responses to our latest NBCC Reads question: What is your favorite book about music? To kick things off, we posed the question to Wayne Koestenbaum,