In the Country of Country
by Nicholas Dawidoff | 
Schubert's Winter Journey
by Ian Bostridge | 
Music Quickens Time
by Daniel Barenboim | 
The Heart of Rock & Soul
by Dave Marsh |
Country Music U.S.A.
by Bill C. Malone | 
The Joy of Music
by Leonard Bernstein |
Stranded
by Greil Marcus | 
The Death of Rhythm and Blues
by Nelson George |
This is Uncool
by Garry Mulholland |
Where Did Our Love Go?
by Nelson George | 
Where Dead Voices Gather
by Nick Tosches | 
Pass Thru Fire
by Lou Reed | 
Nowhere To Run The Story Of Soul Music
by Gerri Hirshey | 
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory
by Michael Miller | 
1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
by Robert Dimery | 
Metallica: Back to the Front
by Matt Taylor | 
The Jazz Standards
by Ted Gioia | 
The Gold Bug Variations
by Richard Powers | 
The Loser
by Thomas Bernhard | 
On Playing the Flute
by Johann Joachim Quantz |
Celebrating the dark origins of our most American music, Country reveals a wild shadowland of history that encompasses blackface minstrels and yodeling cowboys; honky-tonk hell and rockabilly heaven; medieval myth and musical miscegenation; sex, drugs, murder; and rays of fierce illumination on Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and others, famous and forgotten, whose demonology is America's own. Profusely and superbly illustrated, Country stands as one of the most brilliant explorations of American musical culture ever written.