Lucky for you, there are endless great books about music to turn to when you want to immerse yourself in the glory of your favorite artists but need to give your precious ears a rest. As for ...

“All You Need to Know About the Music Business: 11th Edition” Donald Passman — Now in its 11 th edition, this book, written by one of the industry’s most prominent and experienced ...

Bob Dylan was many things to many people: a folk music icon, a civil rights activist, and a singing revolutionary. He ...

Dion’s allure proves to be more complicated than expected, and his lines of inquiry lead him, by the book’s end, to examine the very purpose of music criticism itself. Wilson doesn’t exactly ...

NPR Music's new book, How Women Made Music, looks at the role of women in popular music. From the Grammy stage to lawsuits, women have been the subject of protest and celebration. BEYONCE ...

Here are some suggestions from this year’s crop of music books. In the year of the Brat (Charli XCX), Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter, Taylor Swift is still the queen. There are two Taylor ...

Mood Machine,' a mix of investigative reporting and cultural criticism, focuses on how Spotify has reshaped how we listen to music: "This is a book that’s about music, but it’s also a book ...

Barack Obama is weighing in on the songs and books we should all be diving into this summer. The former president turned cultural tastemaker shared what he's recently been listening to and reading ...

Nothing transports us to enchanted lands quite as powerfully as music does. Here’s a list of 10 recent children’s picture books that feature characters – some real, some invented – whose lives were ...

Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying. By Alexandra Jacobs My ...