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Published on 1st November 2021

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Very Short Introductions: From Oxford University Press, this collection of over 600 books provides intelligent and serious introductions to a range of subjects written by experts in their field. This comprehensive range of titles covers numerous subjects in the Arts, Law, Medicine, Sciences, and Social Sciences, and includes an interesting selection on music.

  • Music: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn) by Nicholas Cook 
  • Country Music: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Carlin
  • World Music: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn) by Philip V. Bohlman 
  • Film Music: A Very Short Introduction by Kathryn Kalinak 
  • The Psychology of Music: A Very Short Introduction by Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
  • The Blues: A Very Short Introduction by Elijah Wald 
  • Early Music: A Very Short Introduction by Thomas Forrest Kelly 
  • Ethnomusicology: A Very Short Introduction by Timothy Rice 
  • Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction by Mark Slobin 

BorrowBox has a great selection of books about music. Here are some of the titles on offer – just remember you need to login first with you library card:

  • Music Technology from Scratch by Mortimer Rhind-Tutt
  • This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession by Daniel Levitin
  • Ideas in Profile: Music by Andrew Gant
  • Discovering Classical Music: Handel (plus other composers in the series)
  • Musicophilia by Oliver Sachs
  • Digital Media in the Music Classroom by James Cross
  • Hallelujah - George Frideric Handel’s Messiah in Dublin

Books by and about musicians

  • Year of the Monkey – Patti Smith
  • M Train – Patti Smith 
  • My Crazy World – Christy Dignam 
  • What Is It All But Luminous – Art Garfunkel
  • Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music – David Grohl
  • I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp – Richard Hell
  • Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen
  • Bruised, Never Broken – Phil Coulter

     

Access eBooks/eAudiobooks on your phone, tablet or reader. Once you have installed the app, search for Dublin in the ‘Library’ field provided and then sign in using your library membership card number and PIN.

Watch our how to video on Borrowbox. Members of other library authorities will need to log in using a different link.

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