Knowledge is power!
Below is a collection of music-related books I recommend, in no particular order.
HISTORY
- The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
- The B Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley
- How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry
- Music Habits: The Mental Game of Electronic Music Production
- Yes I Can: The Story of Sammy Davis, Jr.
- Runnin' With The Big Dogs
- We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives
- Every Night's a Saturday Night
- Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong
- Miles Davis: The Definitive Biography
- That Moaning Saxophone
- Abbey Road to Ziggy Stardust
- John Williams's Film Music
- The Underground Is Massive: How EDM Conquered America
- The Wrecking Crew
- The Devils Horn
- Respect Yourself: Stax Records Soul Explosion
- Clive Davis
- The Last Sultan: The Life And Times of Ahmet Ertegun
- A Romance on Three Legs
STUDY AIDS
- Demystifying The Cue
- Demystifying The Genre
- 56 Mix Tips for the Small Recording Studio
- The 30-Minute Songwriter
- Study the Hits: Learn the Secrets of Today's Chart Topping HIt Songs
- Dance Music: Tools, Toys and Techniques
- The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook
- The Plain and Simple Guide to Music Publishing
- The War of Art
- All You Need To Know About The Music Business
- Electronic Music: 25 Mixing Tips for Modern Electronic Music Production
- Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation
- The Jazz Language
- A Theory Of Harmony
- Nonlinearities and Synchronization in Musical Acoustics and Music Psychology
- Fundamentals of Music Composition
- The Songwriter's Handbook