Bob Dylan doesn’t think much of the current state of songwriting or of contemporary pop music, two points underscored in his sometimes dizzying, sometimes confounding, but rarely less than absorbing ...

If you had to recommend just one book on jazz history to a neophyte, which would it be? Ted Gioia's The History of Jazz (Oxford University Press, 1997) is rightly regarded as a definitive account, but ...

Bob Dylan has written his first book since his 2004 memoir Chronicles: Volume One. The Philosophy of Modern Song, out November 8th, will be a collection of over 60 essays focusing on songs by other ...

Sprinkled with photos of record stores and record pressing plants, LP covers, Elvis postcards and similar ephemera, the book conjures a far-away world—not the Old Weird America, but the old physical ...

“The Philosophy of Modern Song” offers commentaries on a range of music, written in the singer’s unmistakable lyrical style. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through ...

Duncan Ivison receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of The Conversation. Matthew Sharpe has taught and written on political philosophy at ...

“There are already many wonderful books about science,” says the author and M.I.T. professor, whose new book is “The Transcendent Brain.” “I wish more authors would write about philosophy in an ...