Don's Book & DVD Selections for 2008 

I began buying books on music in Oct. 2008.

Student audience: Music, Community Education, General

1. 1,000 recordings to hear before you die : a listener's life list / by Tom Moon

2. A history of Russian music : from Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar / Francis Maes ; translated by Arnold J. Pomerans and Erica Pomerans

3. American Klezmer : its roots and offshoots / edited by Mark Slobin

4. Classic jazz : a personal view of the music and the musicians / Floyd Levin ; foreword by Benny Carter

5. Companion to medieval and renaissance music / edited by Tess Knighton and David Fallows

6. Dave Barry's book of bad songs / Dave Barry

7. Delta blues : the life and times of the Mississippi Masters who revolutionized American music / Ted Gioia ; artwork by Neil Harpe

8. Dusty! : queen of the postmods / Annie J. Randall

9. How the West was sung : music in the Westerns of John Ford / Kathryn Kalinak

10. Interpreting popular music / David Brackett ; with a new preface by the author

11. Leonard Bernstein : American original ; how a modern renaissance man transformed music and the world during his New York Philharmonic years, 1943-1976 / Burton Bernstein and Barbara B. Haws

12. Mister Jelly Roll : the fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "inventor of jazz" / Alan Lomax ; updated, with a new afterword by Lawrence Gushee ; drawings by David Stone Martin

13. Mozart and his operas / David Cairns

14. Music downtown : writings from The Village voice / Kyle Gann

15. Music game book : a world history of 20th century music / foreword by David Fricke ; with contributions by Jean-Jaques Groleau, Thomas Mahler, Patrick Tchiakpé

16. Nineteenth-century music / Carl Dahlhaus ; English translation by J. Bradford Robinson

17. No wave post-punk, underground, New York, 1976-1980 / Thurston Moore and Byron Coley ; introduction by Lydia Lunch

18. Proud to be an Okie : cultural politics, country music, and migration to Southern California / Peter La Chapelle

19. The Miles Davis reader / edited and compiled by Frank Alkyer, Ed Enright, Jason Koransky

20. Theory of harmony / Arnold Schoenberg ; translated by Roy E. Carter

21. Tunes for 'toons : music and the Hollywood cartoon / Daniel Goldmark

22. Unplayed melodies : Javanese gamelan and the genesis of music theory / Marc Perlman

23. Western music and its others : difference, representation, and appropriation in music / edited by Georgina Born and David Hesmondhalgh

24. What is this thing called jazz? : African American musicians as artists, critics, and activists / Eric Porter

25. Ziegfeld : the man who invented show business / Ethan Mordden