Episode 137 - Music Non-Fiction
This episode we discuss non-fiction books about Music! We talk about sea shanties, whether musical scores count as non-fiction, reading about music we’re unfamiliar with, how we interpret lyrics, and more! Plus: We made a playlist of music for you to listen to based on the books we read!
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In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards
Things We Read (or tried to…)
808s & Otherworlds by Sean Avery Medlin
808s & Heartbreak (Wikipedia)
Sailor Song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas by Gerry Smyth
Wellerman (Wikipedia)
Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture by Jace Clayton
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus
Disasterama!: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997 by Alvin Orloff
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
You're History: The Twelve Strangest Women in Music by Lesley Chow
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib
Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917 by Dale Cockrell
Companion Playlist for this Episode
Spotify
YouTube
Other Media We Mentioned
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
33 ⅓ Series
We Oughta Know (How Four Women Ruled the '90s and Changed Canadian Music) by Andrea Warner
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981 by Ed Piskor
Burning Down The Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Tim Mohr
Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota by Chuck Klosterman
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story by Chuck Klosterman
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin
Todd in the Shadows
One Hit Wonderland: "Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Dop)"
Billbuds
I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats
Punch Up the Jam
Song Exploder
All Songs Considered
Brave New Faves
BBC Radio 6
Pump Up the Volume (Wikipedia)
The Boat That Rocked (Wikipedia)
Iron and the Soul by Henry Rollins
Vintage Sadness by Hanif Abdurraqib
Hospice by The Antlers (Wikipedia)
“Hospice tells the story of a relationship between a hospice worker and a female patient suffering from terminal bone cancer”
Master of Reality by John Darnielle
Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste by Carl Wilson
Links, Articles, and Things
Episode 008 - Christmas/Holiday Reads
22 Winter Holiday Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour) Authors
Manga in Libraries: Spooky & Scary Manga
Anime Planet booklist
Google Doc
Episode 125 - Literary Theory & Literary Criticism
Hark! Podcast
Harvey Pekar (Wikipedia)
Canadian Content - How the MAPL system works (Wikipedia)
Riot grrrl (Wikipedia)
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20 Non-Fiction Music books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors
Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
Rock Roll Jihad: A Muslim Rock Star's Revolution by Salman Ahmad
Rebel Music: Race, Empire and the New Muslim Youth Culture by Hisham D. Aidi
Boyz N the Void: A Mixtape to My Brother by G'Ra Asim
Violence Girl: East LA Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story by Alice Bag
Black Music by Amiri Baraka (published as Leroi Jones)
Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter edited by Veronica Chambers
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang
Decoding Despacito: An Oral History of Latin Music by Leila Cobo
Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band by Michelle Gonzales
House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason
Gone: A Girl, A Violin, A Life Unstrung by Min Kym
My Name Is Love: the Darlene Love Story by Darlene Love
Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection by Portia K. Maultsby
Soul Serenade: Rhythm, Blues & Coming of Age Through Vinyl by Rashod Ollison
Approaching Fire by Michelle Porter
Run As One: My Story by Errol Ranville
Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies by Dylan Robinson
Buffy Sainte-Marie: It's My Way by Blair Stonechild
Musicians from a Different Shore: Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music by Mari Yoshihara
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