10 Conversation-Shifting Contemporary Books About Music
These are multiple works of genre history and works tackling important issues of race, class, and gender. All challenge dominant narratives of music.
Carl Wilson
The Beach Boys – “Time to Get Alone”
While there are obvious downsides to the kind of discography that the Beach Boys have assembled -- it's dense, lengthy, and larded with inconsistent results -- one of the payoffs deserves special mention: those moments of discovery.