This could well be my desert island album. It’s certainly been number one in my allowed 10 for a long time…

I should have understood this when first I read it … and taken some more notice; a brillant book, but don’t come here for a confessional, read it for real intelligence.

I’ve no idea what 30 bucks has to do with it. But it’s cheaper at the Safari Bookshelf than going to a revision teacher…

It’s fun, clever, very witty. Several stories in one. I’ve read it before so know the end is a rotten cop-out, but getting there is so enjoyable!

The link to this reference work provided by All Consuming is to a 1968 edition! If interested, check under David Ewen—it has been updated.

This book is among others I find essential to an understanding of the music industry, where the issues are rarely clear-cut. It’s quite a tough read, but will become a reference.

This is a mixed blessing. The book’s excellent and clear; moreover, there’s now a 3rd edition open to perusal—or even purchase—on the Safari Bookshelf.

The downside is needing such books at all, along with a host of web sites apart from Apple’s own many support pages, because the company has dropped the practice of producing good and lucid maintenance manuals itself.

A renowned textbook from a 20th composer.
Studying parts of this again is deep background to what you get on the site itself.

Re-reading!
Alongside her autobiography, Jamison engages in a superb study of the ties between mental instability, manic depression and milder disorders, as both ‘insider’ and therapist. I once found it very helpful; now I identify strongly with it and am also reading it in relation to music studies.

...if you go back to the French.