Reference & Special Interest

Autobiography of Li Cunxin, dancer from the Bejing  Dance  Academy during the Cultural Revolution in China.

Written with wit by a former NY Times music critic, with the useful addition of  a Naxos website of 500 listening examples.

by Norman Lebrecht

Shaping Music Education from a Global Perspective by Huib Schippers.

Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places by Bernie Krause.

A Guide for All Music Students by Bonnie Blanchard with Cynthia Blanchard Acree offers students a set of tools for their musical lives.

Bonnie Blanchard. Enriching Lives for Music Teachers and Having a Blast! for Music Students

Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places by Bernie Krause.

Meet the innovators Fender, Hammond, Steinway, Moog, Conn, Zildjian, Ludwig, .F. Martin and more.

by Barry Green. Techniques and ideas to help musicians overcome self-consciousness and recapture an effortless ability to learn. 

by Barry Green

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The Science of a Human Obsession.  Neurologist Daniel Levitin unravels the mystery of music.

How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel J. Levitin.

My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.