10 must-read music books like The Rhythm Code by Bodzsár Tamás

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The Rhythm Code

By: Bodzsár Tamás

4.33

Format: 128 pages, ebook

There is a hidden system behind successful songs Rhythm is the most overlooked topic in songwrit…

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1. How Music Works

By: David Byrne

4.00

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

How Music Works is David Byrne’s remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lif… read more

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"Performers try harder."

-David Byrne, How Music Works

"You might say that the universe plays the blues."

-David Byrne, How Music Works

"The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you."

-David Byrne, How Music Works

"I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?"

-David Byrne, How Music Works

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2. Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction

By: Derek Thompson

3.90

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Nothing "goes viral." If you think a popular movie, song, or app came out of nowhere to become a wo… read more

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"Some consumers buy products not because they are ‘better"

-Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction

"Quality, it seems, is a necessary, but insufficient attribute for success."

-Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction

"The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet."

-Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction

"First, understand how people behave; second, build products that match their habits."

-Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction

Cover of The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory by John Seabrook

3. 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

Cover of Chimp Paradox: How Our Impulses and Emotions Can Determine Success and Happiness and How We Can Control Them by None, Steve   Peters

4. Chimp Paradox: How Our Impulses and Emotions Can Determine Success and Happiness and How We Can Control Them

By: None , Steve Peters

3.99

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

Leading consultant psychiatrist Steve Peters knows more than anyone how impulsive behaviour or nagg… read more

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5. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

By: Greg McKeown

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin? Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underuti… read more

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6. Miles: The Autobiography

By: Miles Davis , Quincy Troupe

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American music. Universally acc… read more

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Cover of This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin

7. This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

By: Daniel J. Levitin

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Whether you load your iPod with Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life--even if yo… read more

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8. The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

By: Alex Ross

3.00

Format: 76 pages, Hardcover

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Centuryis a voyage into the labyrinth of modern music… read more

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9. Childhood’s End

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city—intellectually, technologically, and militarily sup… read more

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"...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"...no on of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"...no one of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

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10. Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music

By: Greg Milner

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In 1915, Thomas Edison proclaimed that he could record a live performance and reproduce it perfectl… read more

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Cover of How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships by Leil Lowndes

11. How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

By: Leil Lowndes

3.78

Format: 112 pages, ebook

"You'll not only break the ice, you'll melt it away with your new skills."-- Larry King "The lost a… read more

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Cover of Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix by Charles R. Cross

12. Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix

By: Charles R. Cross

4.17

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

It has been more than thirty-five years since Jimi Hendrix died, but his music and spirit are still… read more

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"One of these days, I'm going to astral project myself up into the skies," he boasted. "I'll be going to the stars and the moon. I want to fly and see what's up there. "I want to go up to the sky," he…"

-Charles R. Cross, Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix

"They drove to the parking lot of Garfield High School, where Jimi pointed to the windows on the building and told Carmen what classes were held there. The building had a pull that had him returning w…"

-Charles R. Cross, Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix

13. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

By: Christopher Moore

4.03

Format: 606 pages, Paperback

The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacri… read more

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14. The Lathe of Heaven

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more

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15. Scar Tissue

By: Larry Sloman , Anthony Kiedis

3.00

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

Now in paperback, the New York Timesbestseller by one of rock's most provocative figures Scar Tissu… read more

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16. Anger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored

By: John Lydon

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

John Lydon has secured prime position as one of the most recognizable icons in the annals of music … read more

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17. Shakey: Neil Young's Biography

By: Jimmy McDonough

3.71

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

Neil Young is one of rock and roll's most important and enigmatic figures, a legend from the sixtie… read more

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18. Songwriters On Songwriting

By: Paul Zollo

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

This expanded fourth edition of Songwriters on Songwritingincludes ten new interviews--with Alanis … read more

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19. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

By: Hunter S. Thompson , Ralph Steadman

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasis the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good … read more

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Cover of Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm by Dan Charnas

20. Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

By: Dan Charnas

4.56

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy … read more

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"The Yanceys were not a family that expressed love by saying “I love you."

-Dan Charnas, Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

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21. The Rhythm Code

By: Bodzsár Tamás

4.33

Format: 128 pages, ebook

There is a hidden system behind successful songs Rhythm is the most overlooked topic in songwrit… read more

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3.97

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Bob Spitz

4.09

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4.04

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4.11

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