Music Book Summaries

Danger Music Summary
Danger Music
by Eddie Ayres 2017 304 pages
4.05
663 ratings
Music
Biography
Book Club
Music Summary
Music
A Subversive History
by Ted Gioia 2019 528 pages
4.02
744 ratings
Music
History
Art
Matriarch Summary
Matriarch
A Memoir
by Tina Knowles 2025 432 pages
4.49
2.0K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Daisy Jones & The Six Summary
Daisy Jones & The Six
by Taylor Jenkins Reid 2019 368 pages
4.20
1.7M ratings
Historical Fiction
Romance
Book Club
Herbie Hancock Summary
Herbie Hancock
Possibilities
by Herbie Hancock 2014 352 pages
4.22
1.5K ratings
Music
Biography
Jazz
Piano Playing Summary
Piano Playing
With Piano Questions Answered
by Josef Hofmann 1976 336 pages
3.78
130 ratings
Music
Classical Music
The Book of Drugs Summary
The Book of Drugs
A Memoir
by Mike Doughty 2012 256 pages
3.63
1.6K ratings
Memoir
Music
Biography
How to Write One Song Summary
How to Write One Song
Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back
by Jeff Tweedy 2020 176 pages
4.22
6.5K ratings
Music
Writing
Art
Your Music and People Summary
Your Music and People
creative and considerate fame
by Derek Sivers 2020 136 pages
4.42
541 ratings
Business
Music
Self Help
Mother American Night Summary
Mother American Night
My Life and Crazy Times
by John Perry Barlow 2018 288 pages
4.18
701 ratings
Biography
Music
Memoir
The Dirt Summary
The Dirt
Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
by Tommy Lee 2001 431 pages
4.14
47.6K ratings
Music
Biography
Memoir
Nonbinary Summary
Nonbinary
A Memoir
by Genesis P-Orridge 2021 352 pages
4.03
507 ratings
Music
Memoir
LGBT
The Healing Power of Sound Summary
The Healing Power of Sound
Recovery from Life-Threatening Illness Using Sound, Voice, and Music
by Mitchell L. Gaynor 2002 272 pages
4.20
164 ratings
Music
Health
Mental Health
Perfecting Sound Forever Summary
Perfecting Sound Forever
An Aural History of Recorded Music
by Greg Milner 2009 416 pages
4.17
1.4K ratings
Music
History
Technology
Moonwalk Summary
Moonwalk
by Michael Jackson 1988 283 pages
4.33
6.1K ratings
Biography
Music
Autobiography
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys Summary
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
by Viv Albertine 2014 421 pages
4.29
12.9K ratings
Music
Memoir
Biography
Pink Floyd and Philosophy Summary
Pink Floyd and Philosophy
Careful with that Axiom, Eugene!
by George A. Reisch 2010 288 pages
3.80
269 ratings
Philosophy
Music
Cultural
Music Heard So Deeply Summary
Music Heard So Deeply
A Music Therapy Memoir
by Betsey King 2015 228 pages
4.73
22 ratings
Music
Bel Canto Summary
Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett 2001 318 pages
3.94
307.7K ratings
Book Club
Literary Fiction
Contemporary
Einstein's Unfinished Symphony Summary
Einstein's Unfinished Symphony
Listening to the Sounds of Space-Time
by Marcia Bartusiak 2000 272 pages
4.03
194 ratings
Science
Physics
Astronomy
The Instrumentalist Summary
The Instrumentalist
by Harriet Constable 2024 336 pages
4.13
5.7K ratings
Historical Fiction
Music
Italy
Punk Rock Etiquette Summary
Punk Rock Etiquette
The Ultimate How-to Guide for DIY, Punk, Indie, and Underground Bands
by Travis Nichols 2008 144 pages
3.73
121 ratings
Music
Punk
Guitar Lessons Summary
Guitar Lessons
A Life's Journey Turning Passion into Business
by Bob Taylor 2011 272 pages
4.35
165 ratings
Music
Business
Biography
Under Their Thumb Summary
Under Their Thumb
How a Nice Boy from Brooklyn Got Mixed Up with the Rolling Stones
by Bill German 2009 368 pages
3.98
415 ratings
Music
Biography
Memoir
Three Pianos Summary
Three Pianos
A Memoir
by Andrew McMahon 2021 240 pages
4.40
2.8K ratings
Memoir
Music
Biography
How Music Works Summary
How Music Works
by David Byrne 2014 345 pages
4.01
27.1K ratings
Music
History
Art
Before My Heart Stops Summary
Before My Heart Stops
A Memoir
by Paul Cardall 2010 290 pages
3.98
388 ratings
Lds
Memoir
Book Club
Classical Music for Dummies Summary
Classical Music for Dummies
by David Pogue 1997 356 pages
3.94
629 ratings
Music
Reference
Classical Music
Re-Sisters Summary
Re-Sisters
The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti
by Cosey Fanni Tutti 2022 372 pages
3.72
110 ratings
Music
Biography
Memoir
Music Theory Secrets Summary
Music Theory Secrets
94 Strategies for the Starting Musician (Volume 1)
by Brent Coppenbarger 2014 156 pages
3.67
6 ratings
Music
Shout, Sister, Shout! Summary
Shout, Sister, Shout!
The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe
by Gayle Wald 2007 264 pages
4.04
327 ratings
Music
Biography
History
The Only Pirate at the Party Summary
The Only Pirate at the Party
by Lindsey Stirling 2016 262 pages
4.14
5.5K ratings
Biography
Memoir
Music
I'll Never Write My Memoirs Summary
I'll Never Write My Memoirs
by Grace Jones 2015 400 pages
3.76
1.6K ratings
Memoir
Music
Biography
The Sound of the Machine Summary
The Sound of the Machine
My Life in Kraftwerk and Beyond
by Karl Bartos 2022 608 pages
4.28
156 ratings
Music
Biography
Autobiography
Efficient Music Production Summary
Efficient Music Production
How To Make Better Music, Faster
by Ashley Hewitt 2020 94 pages
2.89
9 ratings
Music
The Most Beautiful Summary
The Most Beautiful
My Life with Prince
by Mayte Garcia 2017 304 pages
4.12
6.3K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Music
Rick Rubin Summary
Rick Rubin
In the Studio
by Jake Brown 2009 262 pages
3.57
258 ratings
Music
Biography
Business
A Lion's Tale Summary
A Lion's Tale
Around the World in Spandex
by Chris Jericho 2007 412 pages
4.37
5.6K ratings
Biography
Sports
Autobiography
How Sondheim Can Change Your Life Summary
How Sondheim Can Change Your Life
by Richard Schoch 2024 304 pages
4.02
328 ratings
Music
Theatre
Self Help
Audio Engineering 101 Summary
Audio Engineering 101
A Beginner's Guide to Music Production
by Tim Dittmar 2011 256 pages
4.07
130 ratings
Music
Wonderland Avenue Summary
Wonderland Avenue
Tales of Glamour and Excess
by Danny Sugerman 1989 480 pages
4.25
2.7K ratings
Music
Biography
Memoir
Brisbane Summary
Brisbane
by Eugene Vodolazkin 2018 343 pages
3.98
1.4K ratings
Russia
Historical Fiction
Literature
Slash Summary
Slash
by Slash 2007 458 pages
4.00
29.8K ratings
Music
Biography
Autobiography
The Storyteller Summary
The Storyteller
Tales of Life and Music
by Dave Grohl 2021 384 pages
4.45
160.1K ratings
Music
Memoir
Biography
See A Little Light Summary
See A Little Light
The Trail of Rage and Melody
by Bob Mould 2011 403 pages
3.80
2.0K ratings
Music
Memoir
Biography
Wouldn't it Be Nice Summary
Wouldn't it Be Nice
Brian Wilson and the Making of the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds
by Charles L. Granata 2003 255 pages
3.94
480 ratings
Music
Biography
History
Nocturnes Summary
Nocturnes
Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
by Kazuo Ishiguro 2009 221 pages
3.51
31.1K ratings
Short Stories
Music
Contemporary
Guitar Notes Summary
Guitar Notes
by Mary Amato 2012 272 pages
4.04
6.3K ratings
Young Adult
Romance
Music
A Broken People's Playlist Summary
A Broken People's Playlist
by Chimeka Garricks 2020 255 pages
4.30
2.4K ratings
Short Stories
Africa
Nigeria
Beethoven Summary
Beethoven
The Universal Composer
by Edmund Morris 2005 256 pages
4.02
1.9K ratings
Music
Biography
History
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