Why the Grateful Dead Matter

The creative act

Rick Rubin

Totally wired

Paul Gorman

The Musical Human A History of Life on Earth

Michael Spitzer

How music works

David Byrne

This is Your Brain on Music Understanding a Human Obsession

Daniel Levitin

Playing to the Crowd

Nancy K. Baym

Art matters

Neil Gaiman

The History of Death

Michael Kerrigan

Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World

Rob Sheffield

Against Everything

Mark Greif

Isn't This Fun?

Michael Foley

Gratitude

Oliver Sacks

Pretend You're In A War

Mark Blake

Music Marketing for the DIY Musician

Bobby Borg

Waging heavy peace

Neil Young

Unbelievable: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Notorious B.I.G.

Cheo Hodari Coker

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven Or, How I Made Peace with the Paranormal and Stigmatized Zealots and Cynics in the Process

Corey Taylor

Love Rock Revolution K Records and the Rise of Independent Music

Mark Baumgarten

Thug Life - Race, Gender and The Meaning of Hip Hop

Michael Alpert

You never give me your money

Qi The Book of the Dead

John Lloyd

What would Keith Richards do?

Jessica Pallington

I Am America (and So Can You!)

Stephen Colbert

It's Bigger Than Hip Hop The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation

Molefi K. Asante

Why History Matters

John Tosh

Net, Blogs and Rock'n'Roll

David Jennings

Hip Hop Revolution - The Culture and Politics of Rap

Jeffrey Armstrong

Know what I mean?

Michael Eric Dyson

Total Chaos The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop

Jeff Chang

American Popular Music: The Rock years

Larry Starr

Between the Dark and Light The Grateful Dead

Jay Blakesberg

The Meaning of Life

Bradley Trevor Greive

The Twilight of American Culture

Morris Berman

The Da Capo Book of Rock & Roll

Clinton Heylin

The Mansion on the Hill

Fred Goodman

Between God and Gangsta Rap

Michael Eric Dyson

The Denial of Death

Ernest Becker

Mystic Chords Of Memory

Kammen, Michael