Subject: Popular music › History and criticism

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• 31 Songs by Nick Hornby (2,236 copies)
• Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield (1,716 copies)
• Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc… by Bill Brewster (307 copies)
• Ocean of Sound by David Toop (300 copies)
• Stories Behind the Great Traditions of Christmas (Stories… by Ace Collins (284 copies)
• I hate myself and want to die : the 52 most depressing… by Tom Reynolds (274 copies)
• 20 Years of Rolling Stone: What a Long, Strange Trip It's… by Jann S. Wenner (226 copies)
• Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City by Paul Morley (137 copies)
• Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider… by Irwin Chusid (135 copies)
• Bootleg: The Secret History of the Other Recording Industry by Clinton Heylin (117 copies)
• Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs: A Field Guide (33 1/3) by L. D. Beghtol (103 copies)
• The Faber Book of Pop by Hanif Kureishi (91 copies)
• More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction by Kodwo Eshun (82 copies)
• On Record: Rock, Pop and the Written Word by Simon Frith (78 copies)
• All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music by Tony Palmer (78 copies)
• Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music by Simon Frith (77 copies)
• The Pop, Rock, and Soul Reader: Histories and Debates by David Brackett (75 copies)
• Touch me, I'm sick : the 52 creepiest love songs you've… by Tom Reynolds (72 copies)
• She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop &… by Lucy O'Brien (70 copies)
• Dream Lucky: When FDR was in the White House, Count Basie… by Roxane Orgill (67 copies)
• After the Ball by Ian Whitcomb (61 copies)
• Off the Record: An Oral History of Popular Music by Joe Smith (58 copies)
• Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs by Phil Freeman (47 copies)
• 33 1/3 Greatest Hits, Volume One (33 1/3) by David Barker (46 copies)
• The Trouble with Music by Mat Callahan (43 copies)
• The Rough Guide to Cult Pop by Paul Simpson (41 copies)
• Solo: Women Singer-Songwriters in Their Own Words by Marc Woodworth (41 copies)
• She Bop II: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop… by Lucy O'Brien (39 copies)
• The Accidental Evolution of Rock'N'Roll: A Misguided Tour… by Chuck Eddy (38 copies)
• Songs Sung Red, White, and Blue: The Stories Behind… by Ace Collins (38 copies)
• Stand and Be Counted: A Revealing History of Our Times… by David Crosby (37 copies)
• Facing the Music by Simon Frith (37 copies)
• The Crawdaddy! Book: Writings (and Images) from the… by Paul Williams (30 copies)
• Beats of the Heart {complete series} by Jeremy Marre (28 copies)
• The Great American Popular Singers by Henry Pleasants (28 copies)
• The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio by Ben Fong-Torres (25 copies)
• This Is Pop: In Search of the Elusive at Experience Music… by Eric Weisbard (24 copies)
• Popular Musics of the Non-Western World: An Introductory… by Peter Manuel (22 copies)
• Interpreting Popular Music by David Brackett (22 copies)
• Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music by Pamela Robertson Wojcik (20 copies)
• De Bril van Buddy Holly by Boudewijn Büch (18 copies)
• You Must Remember This...: Popular Songwriters 1900-1980 by Mark White (12 copies)
• What's that sound?: The contemporary music scene from… by Ben Fong-Torres (10 copies)
• The World of Pop Music and Jazz (The Christian Encounters) by William Robert Miller (8 copies)
• Instant karma : populærmusikkens kulturhistorie by Herman Willis (8 copies)
• Popular song & youth today (Youth world) by Louis M. Savary (6 copies)
• 100 Albums That Changed Popular Music: A Reference Guide by Chris Smith (6 copies)
• Born under a bad sign; by Tony Palmer (6 copies)
• Stir It Up: Musical Mixes from Roots to Jazz by Gene Santoro (6 copies)
• My music by Susan D. Crafts (5 copies)

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