Yes there is more than just the music itself......

A meaning behind it (political etc....), an influence on different cultures....(btw this is the thing I want to study at university "musicology")......

 

So what music literature can you recommend? What is it about? Maybe a biography? Comments by musicologists? By the artists themselves? etc.....

 

What did you read so far?

 

 

 

I read some books about 50 years in german pop-history.....there was this huge documentary about it called "pop 2000" some years ago....quite interesting.....

 

Anything similar?

 

 

 

Whatever it is feel free to recommend something......if it's possible not only a list of names.....maybe what it is like etc....

 

Thanks:)

there are some good music essays across internet. i'll try to find some :wink:

Really? Cool I didn't even think about this........I mean just when I thought about this thread I thougt: "haha.....this is something you can't just download on the net"...lol...

 

Thanks Nik:nice:

this one was linked on wikipedia, looks good

 

"'How to Disappear Completely': Radiohead and the Resistant Concept Album" by Marianne Tatom Letts (2005, University of Texas at Austin)

 

http://www.illuin.org/Marianne/Marianne_Tatom_Letts_dissertation.pdf (pdf file)

i remember i started reading that dissertation some months ago, but stopped and never continued. i really liked the first pages of it, looked really exciting.

I started reading that thesis thing a couple of days ago. Looked pretty interesting.

Oh btw....I checked out this link......going to read it piece by piece....thanks:)

the book shop I used to work in had loads of different music books in, across a variety of subjects from biographies of artists/bands to information about the various types of music (punk/rock/classical/country etc)

 

A friend recommended 'Ratpack Confidential' by Sean Levy to me as a good music biog to read. I've not got round to reading it yet though.