The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music
By: Tom Breihan
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
By: John Seabrook
3.93
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
"An utterly satisfying examination of the business of popular music." ―Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic… read more
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"You can get in a car in Maine and drive all the way to California and hear the same Top 40 songs on the same chain broadcasters,"-John Seabrook, The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
"Connection, he explained, was the essence of pop music, according to his boss, Jimmy Iovine: “Jimmy always says it’s all about the connection between the artist and the fans,"-John Seabrook, The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
"They told me exactly how it worked, the marketing of it. Our target market was always going to be young teenage girls, because boys are into sports, and they like buying jerseys and caps and so on, f…"-John Seabrook, The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
2. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé
By: Bob Stanley
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
As much fun to argue with as to quote, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!is a monumental work of musical history, tr… read more
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3. I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution
By: Craig Marks , Rob Tannenbaum
3.99
Format: 240 pages,
Remember the first time you saw Michael Jackson dance with zombies in "Thriller"? Diamond Dave kara… read more
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4. Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
By: Ed Zwick
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends … read more
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"One of Patsy Broderick's choicer comments was to describe my writing as ' limp as a penis ."-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
"I called Matthew Broderick. The radiophone was working again. 'Hi, Matthew, I hear you want to talk about the script. Over .' 'Yeah, well, I have a lot of notes…' He neglected to say “ over ."-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
"From the moment we met Patsy Broderick was contemptuous, demeaning, and volatile. As Matthew sat in opaque silence, I was forced to defend, in excruciating detail, my rationale for every line in ever…"-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
5. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
By: Joe Posnanski
4.56
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more
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6. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage
By: Nick de Semlyen
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more
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- cultural
- history
- pop culture
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7. Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
By: Kelefa Sanneh
4.17
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty yea… read more
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8. Lou Reed: The King of New York
By: Will Hermes
4.23
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
"The only Lou Reed bio you need to read." ― The Washington Post "There have been many biographie… read more
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9. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
By: Rob Harvilla
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more
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"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
10. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!
By: David Zucker
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more
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11. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
By: Matt Singer
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more
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- cultural
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You
By: Susan Rogers
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secret… read more
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- music
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13. Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
By: Danyel Smith
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
American pop music is arguably this country’s greatest cultural contribution to the world, and its … read more
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14. The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop
By: Jonathan Abrams
4.21
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The essential oral history of hip-hop, from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its reig… read more
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- hip hop
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15. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
By: Michael Schulman
4.09
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more
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16. It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO
By: Felix Gillette
4.03
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
The inside story of HBO, the start-up company that reinvented television--by two veteran media repo… read more
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17. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
By: Sly Stone
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Not many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses … read more
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- pop culture
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18. Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation
By: Steven Hyden
4.14
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A leading music journalist’s riveting chronicle of how beloved band Pearl Jam shaped the times, and… read more
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"One of the many musical distinctions of my lifetime that used to seem important and now is completely forgotten is the difference between “alternative"-Steven Hyden, Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation
19. World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music
By: Jeff Tweedy
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting and heartening mix of memories, music, and inspiration from Wilco front man and New Yor… read more
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20. Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan (American Music Series)
By: Alex Pappademas
4.46
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
A literary and visual exploration of the songs of Steely Dan. Steely Dan’s songs are exercises in … read more
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21. Pandora’s Box: The Greed, Lust, and Lies that Broke Television
By: Peter Biskind
3.54
Format: None pages, Hardcover
We are now lucky enough to be living through the era of so-called Peak TV, in which television, in … read more
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22. Holding the Note: Profiles in Popular Music
By: David Remnick
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker gat… read more
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23. The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense
By: Edward White
3.90
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon—what define… read more
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24. There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland
By: Steven Hyden
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album, Born in the U.S.A. —a record … read more
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25. The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music
By: Tom Breihan
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Beloved music critic Tom Breihan's fascinating narrative of the history of popular music through th… read more
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26. Hip-Hop Is History
By: Questlove
4.00
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In Hip-Hop is History, Questlove, one of the major and most revolutionary figures of that genre, un… read more
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27. But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups
By: Laura Flam
4.02
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Featuring over 300 hours of new interviews with 100+ subjects, an oral history of the girl groups (… read more
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28. Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop
By: Bob Stanley
4.30
Format: 636 pages, ebook
The prequel to Bob Stanley's universally acclaimed Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let's Do It is the only book tha… read more
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29. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
By: Emily Nussbaum
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more
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30. Anatomy of 55 More Songs
By: Marc Myers
3.89
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Following his 2016 smash hit Anatomy of a Song, acclaimed music journalist Marc Myers collects fift… read more
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31. Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story
By: Joe Coscarelli
3.97
Format: 448 pages, ebook
A modern epic about the most consequential music culture today, Atlanta rap—a masterful, street-lev… read more
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