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I'll start with an obvious one. Great read.

I believe nobel winner bob dylan wrote a few good books.

>>24844183 (OP)
Used to read this as a kid thinking he was "literally me"

I read this when my wish was to be a composer at some point, it put me off.

>>24844249
Should've started with Models for Beginners in Composition

this is mildly entertaining but not as good as I expected, mostly just a bunch of touring anecdotes and some rants about topical subjects

>>24844316
Interesting, I would have thought it to have le randumb wacky humor scrawled across each page, but then I remember he wanted to be taken seriously most of the time.

Its pretty solid southern Gothic worship

>>24844249
I'm gonna look that up

frog eyes frontman carey mercer has a collection called 'clouds of evil' with some bizarre short stories, personal essays, and blog posts. i love his writing.

>>24844330
Actually I'm looking through it again and it's better than I remember, maybe I was in a bad mood when I read it? It's worth reading, it's just that the humor and idioms are extremely dated. And prepare for a lot of "we live in a society" type stuff.

Not a RHCP fan but it was unironically a fun read.

>>24844183 (OP)
Fahey is actually a pretty good writer (kinda unsurprisingly I guess)

Other than that I guess Wagner was decent

>>24844208
>get in the van

>>24845068
No idea this existed, great late Christmas pick. Thanks.

>>24844613
I like their early stuff and the fact Mr. Kiedis bangs 19 year olds, but their output since the late 90s has been subpar.

>>24845117
Looking back, Rollins comes off like Dostoyevsky's underground man on a fuckton of steroids.

>>24844183 (OP)
I'm writing a theoretical treatise and making a computer program for set theory (set theory is the study of scales in their prime forms).

>>24844249
if you can teach yourself everything about music from textbooks and sheet music, I advise against wasting your money and time pursuing it in an academic setting.

has anyone here read Jamie Stewart's book?

>>24845696
Yeah, in fact I/m reading it right now. Depraved shit

>>24844183 (OP)
The short story from that book about the drunk waking up on his brothers couch to the niece he's supposed to be babysitting having a train run on her by some street rats still haunts me.

>>24845749
best answer ITT. what an amazing writer he was.

>>24844316
I find Zappa very readable and I like that book a lot. This one is also very good. It says on the sleeve that Co de Kloet is a musician but I don't know his music, in any case much of the text is transcripts of Zappa answering his questions. It reads well as a more freewheeling companion to TRFZB. Includes some discussions with people who worked with Zappa as well, including Kent Nagano, who provides a very interesting perspective on Zappa as a musician.

>>24844249
If you want less technical and more personal Schoenberg, this is an excellent collection.

>>24844183 (OP)
Gira is an embarrassment to the human race.

>>24846592
Just another edgy tryhard like Boyd Rice.

>>24846453
what kind of depravity? is it any good? do you like his prose?

>>24844183 (OP)
>>24846592
Hi, Michael Gira here.
Thank you for reading my book.

>>24847346
I didn't read it, Michael

bumpp

>>24847346
It was great seeing you in concert Micheal, I'll check out your book

"Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground" by Moynihan. Pretty fun read about the black metal retards in Norway.

>>24844183 (OP)
We made a chart some time ago, but I can't find it in my archives. Maybe go ask /mu/

>>24845136
hey sweetie that's a DVD

>>24845068
cool, didn't know fahey wrote.

>>24845749
>>24847738
will I like reading these even though I know jack shit about music theory and classical music?

>>24851746
If you don't know but are interested in learning, I think Rosen is worth your time. He gives a robust understanding of where the Classical style came from, how it developed, the culture and times in which it flourished. There are copious musical examples with analysis, but even if you don't read music or know much theory there's still plenty of history to dig into. Rosen's prose is highly readable and elegant too.

"How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life: Stories by John Fahey"

Brilliant musician, probably my favorite. Strange, sad man. Spent years in poverty and a declining mental state until 90s alternative rockers dug him out of obscurity, at which point he had a bit of a resurgence and made a bunch of terrible avant garage ambient music. Responsible for reviving the careers of old bluesmen like Bukka White and Son House himself. Has stories of getting drunk and hopping freight trains with Bukka White from his youth, when he'd travel south and search for old blues records by going door to door in poor black neighborhoods. He was an atheist, but had a lot of religious interests, including gnosticism. Many of his works were based on old Southern spirituals, as well as Protestant hymns. When I was in my 20s I once spent two years listening only to his records and learning his "American Primitive" style of finger picking. I've never read the book.

>>24851844
There's a good documentary film about his life called In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey, too.

>>24845068
Oops

>>24851821
thanks, I might give it a try

Rousseau was known as a great musician first by the general public after Le Devin du Village.
It's too bad very few of his compositions have recordings nowadays

>>24851844
My dad might know who he is

About as comprehensive as you could hope for a single volume biography to be. Swafford is trying to sit between two stools, by his own admission, in writing a book for the general reader and also for learned musicians. His musical analysis is surface level and quite uninteresting. By far the worst parts of the book are the opera chapters, in which he recounts, sometimes for upwards of 40 pages, the minute plot details of the libretti, with almost no real commentary or insight. These should have been cut. Nonetheless, as a biography it is highly recommended.

>>24845551
post a link to the book and program here when they're finished.

>>24845551
What is there still to do in set theory?

>>24854780
you don't know what you don't know.

>>24854817
Answer the question.

>>24854866
you wouldn't understand the answer.

>>24848528
I own that.
I'd also suggest American Hardcore by Steven Blush and Choosing Death by Albert Mudrian

>>24844183 (OP)
The board is mine
/lit/ta get back
Dont criticize my stack
My books are fat
About to kill a pseud
Turn the motherfuckin' page
Finished 'Jest a bit too late
Some anons want to necro the thread
While its dead
Theyre out of words to use in their head
Shitposting
Interrupting my reading
Writing dumbass novels thinking its Ulysses
The unseen printing words, driving herds
Being silently heard
Posting words
That dont mean anything
Making publishers scared of their email pings
So post shelf, before I sing the pseud call
Get 25 anons coping up on me
Now for the day, were posting bait
Posting "Kant was wrong LOL" on the front page
But no one listens
They just post in their thread
And they say discourse is dead

>>24844316
This book was the father figure i desperately needed after growing up with a neurotic nutty single mom who offered no answers and no direction

Technically "Our Band Could Be Your Life" counts since the author was in a few bands. Very entertaining read.

Autobiographies need not apply as they are all written by ghostwriters

>>24848691
>>24844183 (OP)
It's mostly non fiction/biographies and the like but I'm glad it got made
>>24848528
I've heard Lords of Chaos is bullshit. Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult seems to be highly praised though

>>24855850
pretty cool chart, was it made by /lit/ or /mu/?

Stravinsky was a great and highly opinionated conversationalist and this is a very fun read. I believe there is an edition currently in print from Faber.

>>24855900
An anon on /mu/ propose to make a chart with books about music/musicians and we made that one in less than a week, I think

>>24844183 (OP)
Emo twink kino. Haven't read the follow-up yet.

>>24845551
>>24854817
>>24854877
>interacting with an “academic” on xis/xer obsolete subject matter used to cling to a modicum of self-importance

You will be read by non-musicians such as yourself bastardizing the actual art form.

>>24857103
cope harder, retard.

>>24855850
I'd add Genesis P-Orridge's memoir, Nonbinary. Together with the Cosey Fanni Tutti book it makes for a great double read.