Subject: Popular music › History and criticism

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• Songbook by Nick Hornby (1,344 copies)
• Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield (752 copies)
• I Hate Myself and Want to Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs… by (No title) (154 copies)
• Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc… by Bill Brewster (151 copies)
• Ocean of Sound by David Toop (123 copies)
• 20 Years of Rolling Stone: What a Long, Strange Trip It's… by Jann Wenner (121 copies)
• Words And Music: A History Of Pop In The Shape Of A City by Paul Morley (83 copies)
• Stories Behind the Great Traditions of Christmas (Stories… by Ace Collins (75 copies)
• Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider… by Irwin Chusid (65 copies)
• Bootleg: The Secret History of the Other Recording Industry by Clinton Heylin (53 copies)
• The Faber Book of Pop by Hanif Kureishi (52 copies)
• Dream Lucky: When FDR was in the White House, Count Basie… by Roxane Orgill (50 copies)
• Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs: A Field Guide (33 1/3) by L. D. Beghtol (48 copies)
• Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music by Simon Frith (42 copies)
• She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and… by Lucy O'Brien (39 copies)
• All You Need Is Love by Tony Palmer (33 copies)
• On Record: Rock, Pop and the Written Word by Simon Frith (32 copies)
• More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction by Kodwo Eshun (31 copies)
• Solo: Women Singer-Songwriters in Their Own Words by Marc Woodworth (25 copies)
• After the Ball by Ian Whitcomb (25 copies)
• The Rough Guide to Cult Pop by Paul Simpson (25 copies)
• Touch Me, I'm Sick: The 52 Creepiest Love Songs You've Ever… by (No title) (25 copies)
• She Bop 2: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and… by Lucy O'Brien (23 copies)
• The Accidental Evolution of Rock'N'Roll: A Misguided Tour… by Chuck Eddy (22 copies)
• The Trouble with Music by Mathew Callahan (21 copies)
• Off the Record: An Oral History of Popular Music by Joe Smith (20 copies)
• Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs by Phil Freeman (19 copies)
• The Pop, Rock, and Soul Reader: Histories and Debates by David Brackett (19 copies)
• Facing the Music by Simon Frith (16 copies)
• Songs Sung Red, White, and Blue: The Stories Behind… by Ace Collins (16 copies)
• Stand and Be Counted: Making Music, Making History : The… by David Crosby (16 copies)
• This Is Pop: In Search of the Elusive at Experience Music… by Eric Weisbard (13 copies)
• The Crawdaddy! Book: Writings (and Images) from the… by Paul Williams (12 copies)
• De Bril van Buddy Holly by Boudewijn Büch (11 copies)
• 33 1/3 Greatest Hits, Volume One (33 1/3) by David Barker (11 copies)
• The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio by Ben Fong-Torres (11 copies)
• Popular Musics of the Non-Western World: An Introductory… by Peter Manuel (9 copies)
• Beats of the Heart by Jeremy Marre (9 copies)
• The great American popular singers by Henry Pleasants (8 copies)
• You Must Remember This...: Popular Songwriters 1900-1980 by Mark White (7 copies)
• Instant karma populærmusikkens kulturhistorie by Herman Willis (6 copies)
• Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music by Pamela Robertson Wojcik (6 copies)
• Interpreting Popular Music by David Brackett (6 copies)
• Let's talk about love : a journey to the end of taste by Carl Wilson (5 copies)
• What's that sound?: The contemporary music scene from the… by Ben Fong-Torres (5 copies)
• 100 Albums That Changed Popular Music: A Reference Guide by Chris Smith (4 copies)
• Idle Worship: How Pop Empowers the Weak, Rewards the… by Chris Roberts (3 copies)
• The World of Pop Music and Jazz by William Robert Miller (3 copies)
• Rap by Keith Elliot Greenberg (2 copies)
• Pop and rock music by Nicolas Brasch (2 copies)

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