Bob Dylan: Jewish Roots, American Soil

Covering the same turbulent years as the hit film starring Timothée Chalamet, this entertaining biography offers new insights into Bob Dylan's early career.

Crowded House's Together Alone

A literary but accessible analysis of the much-loved Crowded House album Together Alone (1993), recorded in the Karekare wilderness and influenced by literature, the arts, philosophy and Maori beliefs.

Swingin' on Central Avenue: African American Jazz in Los Angeles

Winner of the 2016 Woody Guthrie Award

Roger Waters and Pink Floyd: The Concept Albums

Winner of the Canadian Communication Association's Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize

Nostalgia, Song and the Quest for Home: Production, Text, Reception

Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)

Meditates on Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah Part Two—engaging in deep study of its individual tracks, while also painting the album’s movement as a seamless stitching of vignettes that bleed into each other.

Harlem Jazz Adventures: A European Baron's Memoir, 1934-1969

Recounts Rosenkrantz’s happy years in New York City, where he would produce jazz concerts, record top musicians and bands, organize a “dream band” for Timme Rosenkrantz and His Barrelhouse Barons, a 1938 RCA Victor recording, (DL) live in Harlem and run a record shop with his life companion, journalist and singer Inez Cavanaugh.

Sound Recording in Post-War British Folk: Ideology, Discourse and Practice

Traces how recording technologies shaped the sound and meaning of 20th-century folk music, constructing a sonic aesthetics of authenticity in an era of rapid technological and social transformation.

What It Is: The Life of a Jazz Artist

In What It Is: The Life of a Jazz Artist, friend, pianist, and noted jazz scholar Lewis Porter conducts a series of in-depth interviews with Liebman, who discusses his professional, personal, and musical relationships with Davis and Jones, as well as such notable musicians as Chick Corea, Richie Beirach, Michael and Randy Brecker, and many others.

Daft Punk and the Legacy Album: A Vision of Ambition

Lebray in this book reveals the ambitions of Random Access Memories beyond its historical context and delves into the album's instrumentation, spirit of prog rock, and method of recording.