These are some of our favorite and most recommended music industry books, many of which reside in our well-stocked library at the Boulder studio. Click the link below most titles to find more information and to purchase the book at Amazon.com. You can also read more reviews of many of these books, and even write your own review, at our reading list at Bookswelike.net.

Browse library by category:

Recording Theory and Techniques

Acoustics

Music Business

Music History

Biography

Music Fiction

Music Psychology

Musical Instruments



Recording Theory and Techniques:

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Audio Metering

by Eddy Bogh Brixen; Broadcast Publishing & DK Audio A/S, 2001


Mastering Engineer's Handbook, The

by Bobby Owsinski; MixBooks, 2000

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Pro Tools Surround Sound Mixing

by Rich Tozzoli; Backbeat Books, 2005

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Sound System Engineering, 2nd Edition

by Don and Carolyn Davis; Focal Press, 1997

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Acoustics and Electronics:

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Acoustical Designing in Architecture

by Vern O. Knudsen, Ph.D. and Cyril M. Harris, Ph.D.; Acoustical Society of America, 1950

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Backstage Handbook: An Illustrated Almanac of Technical Information, 3rd Edition

by Paul Carter; Broadway Press, 1994

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Master Handbook of Acoustics, The, 4th Edition

by F. Alton Everest; McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics, 2000

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Music Business:

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How to Make and Sell Your Own Recording, 5th Edition

by Diane Sward Rapaport; Prentice Hall, 1999

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Music Business Primer, A

by Diane Sward Rapaport; Prentice Hall, 2002

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Music History:

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Colorado Rocks! A Half-Century of Music in Colorado

by G. Brown; Pruett Publishing Company, 2004

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Daily Adventures of Mixerman, The

by "Mixerman;" Mixerman Multimedia, Inc, 2002

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Drummer's Path, The: Moving the Spirit with Ritual and Traditional Drumming

by Sule Greg Wilson; Destiny Books, 1992

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Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977

by James Miller; Simon and Schuster, 1999

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Good Vibrations: A History of Record Production

by Mark Cunningham; Sanctuary Publishing, Ltd, 1988

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Joyful Noise, A: A Celebration of New Orleans Music

by Michael P. Smith; Taylor Publishing Company, 1990

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Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads

by Greil Marcus; Public Affairs, 2005

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Lost Chords: White Musicians and Their Contributions to Jazz, 1915-1945

by Richard M. Sudhalter; Oxford University Press, 1999

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Making of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, The

by Richard Newman; Music Maker Books Ltd, 1993

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No Depression: An Introduction to Alternative Country Music (Whatever that Is)

Grant Alden and Peter Blackstock, eds; Dowling Press, Inc, 1998

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Rolling Thunder Logbook, The

by Sam Shepard; Da Capo Press, 2004

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Rose & the Briar, The; Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad

Sean Willentz and Greil Marcus, eds; W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 2005

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Simple Twist of Fate, A: Bob Dylan and the Making of Blood on the Tracks

by Andy Gill and Kevin Odegard; Da Capo Press, 2004

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Stiffed: A True Story of MCA, the Music Business, and the Mafia

by William Knoedelseder; Harper Perennial, 1994

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Songbook

by Nick Hornby; Riverhead Books, 2003

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Songcatchers: In Search of the World's Music

by Mickey Hart with K.M. Kostyal; National Geographic, 2003

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Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music

by Irwin Chusid; A Capella Books, 2000

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Stagolee Shot Billy

by Cecil Brown; Harvard University Press, 2003

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Temples of Sound: Inside the Great Recording Studios

by Jim Cogan and William Clark; Chronicle Books, LLC, 2003

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Ticket to Ride: The Extraordinary Diary of The Beatles' Last Tour

by Barry Tashian; Dowling Press, Inc, 1997

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We Who Believe in Freedom: Sweet Honey in the Rock, Still on the Journey

by Bernice Johnson Reagon and Sweet Honey in the Rock; Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1993

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When We Were Good: The Folk Revival

by Robert Cantwell; Harvard University Press, 1996

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Woodstock: The Oral History

by Joel Makower; Doubleday, 1989

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Music Biography:

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Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out

by Bill Graham and Robert Greenfield; Dell Publishing, 1992

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Can't You Hear Me Callin': The Life of Bill Monroe, Father of Bluegrass

by Richard D. Smith; Little, Brown and Company, 2000

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Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley

by Peter Guralnick; Little, Brown and Company, 1999

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Cash

Jason Fine, ed; Crown Publishers, 2004

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Clive: Inside the Record Business

by Clive Davis with J.K. Willwerth; William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1974

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False Prophet: Field Notes from the Punk Underground

by Steven Taylor; Wesleyan University Press, 2003

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Garcia: An American Life

by Blair Jackson; Viking, 1999

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Gram Parsons: A Music Biography

by Sid Griffin; Sierra Books, 1985

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Grateful Dead Family Album

by Jerilyn Lee Brandelius; Warner Books, 1989

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Inventor of Stereo, The: The Life and Works of Alan Dower Blumlein

by Robert Charles Alexander; Focal Press, 1999

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Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley

by Peter Guralnick; Little, Brown and Company, 1994

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Making People's Music: Moe Asch and Folkways Records

by Peter D. Goldsmith; Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988

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Morton Gould: American Salute

by Peter W. Goodman; Amadeus Press, 2000

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Playing in the Band: An Oral and Visual Portrait of the Grateful Dead

by David Gans and Peter Simon; St. Martin's Press, 1985

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Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix

by Charles R. Cross; Hyperion, 2005

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Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead

by Phil Lesh; Little, Brown and Company, 2005

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Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage

by Albert Glinsky; University of Illinois Press, 2000

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This Wheel's on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of The Band

by Levon Helm with Stephen Davis; William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1993

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When I Was Cool: My Life at the Jack Kerouac School: A Memoir

by Sam Kashner; HarperCollins Publishers, 2004

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Woody Guthrie: A Life

by Joe Klein; Dell Publishing, 1980

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Wouldn't It Be Nice: My Own Story

by Brian Wilson with Todd Gold; HarperCollins Publishers, 1991

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Music Fiction:

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A & R: A Novel

by Bill Flanagan; Random House, Inc, 2000

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Lost Chord, The

by Jonathan Goldman; Spirit Music, Inc, 1999

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Music Psychology:

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Healing Sounds: The Power of Harmonics

by Jonathan Goldman; Element Books Limited, 1992

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Musical Instruments:

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Electric Guitars and Basses: A Photographic History

by George Gruhn and Walter Carter; GPI Books, 1994

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Ferrington Guitars

by Danny Ferrington; HarperCollins Publishers and Callaway Editions, 1992

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Guitarmaker's Canvas, A: The Inlay Art of Grit Laskin

by Grit Laskin; Backbeat Books, 2003

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