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websites to purchase books:

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https://www.indiebound.org

https://www.bookshop.org

https://www.bookriot.com

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https://www.diversebooks.org

https://www.biblio.com

music/sound books:

composing and notation:

Deep Listening, a Composer’s Sound Practice by Pauline Oliveros

Quantum Listening by Pauline Oliveros

Behind Bars by Elaine Gold

A-Z Foreign Musical Terms by Christine Ammer

Essential Dictionary of Music Notation by Tom Gerou

The Technique of Orchestration by Donald Grantham, Grant Kennan

Contemporary Counterpoint by Beth Denisch

Analysis of Tonal Music by Allen Cadawaller

The Mind’s Ear by Bruce Adolphe

8 Lectures on Experimental Music by Alvin Lucier

Composers on Music by Josiah Fisk 

Three Questions for 65 Composers by Bálint András Varga

Composition in the Digital World by Robert Raines

Introduction to Post Tonal Theory by Joseph Straus

Music After the Fall by Tim Rutherford-Johnson

Noise by David Hendy

The Musician’s Soul by James Jordan 

The Music Lesson by Victor Wooten

This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin

Breaking the Sound Barrier by Amy Goodman

The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross

Music Since 1945 by Elliot Schwartz

Inside Arabic Music by Johnhy Faraj

Improvised Music After 1950 by George Lewis  

The Time of Music by Jonathan Kramer

Post Modern Music Post Modern Listening by Jonathan Kramer

Free Jazz Harmolodics and Ornette Coleman by Stephen Rush

The Tuning of the World by R. Murray Schafer

Confronting Silence by Toru Takemitsu, Seiji Ozawa

Music and/as Process by Vanessa Hawes, Lauren Redhead

practice to process to performance:

The Art of Practicing by Madeline Bruser

Sound in Motion by David McGill

Effortless Mastery by Kenny Werner

The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey

The Inner Game of Music by Barry Green

What to Listen for in Music by Aaron Copeland

Audition success by Don Greene

How to Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon

Show Your Work by Austin Kleon

Make it Stick by Peter C. Brown 

The Power of Concentration by William Atkinson

Fully Engaged by Thomas Sterner

The Practicing Mind by Thomas Sterner

Unlimited Memory by Kevin Horsley

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson

Audition Success by Don Greene  

acoustics:

Sound Reproduction Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms by Floyd E, Toole

Clang! Chlandi’s Sound Experiments by Darcy Pattison

Master Handbook of Acoustics, 6th ed. by F. Alton Everest, Ken c. Pohlmann 

Architectural Acoustics Illustrated by Michael Ermann

Analysis, Synthesis and Perception of Musical Sounds by James Beauchamp

Acoustics and Physhoacoustics by David Howard, Jamie Angus

Fourier Acoustics by Earl G. Williams

The Craft of Controlling Sound by Stephen Solum

Digital Audio and Acoustics for the Creative Arts by Mark Ballora

Signals, Sound, and Sensation by William Hartmann

education:

A Talk to Teachers by James Baldwin 

Oblique Strategies by Brian Eno

Intelligent Music Teaching by Robert Duke 

Tuning for Wind Instruments by Shelley Jagow

How to Make it in the New Music Business by Ari Herstand

The Teaching of Instrumental Music by Richard Colwell

Analyzing Classical Form by William Caplin

Teaching Percussion by Gary Cook

Conducting: The Art of Communication by Wayne Bailey

personal growth, identity, and liberation:

How to be Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis   

We Should all be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Beating the Impostor Syndrome by Portia Mount

All About Love by Bell Hooks

Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought by Sandy Grande

Socialism … Seriously by Danny Katch

Decolonizing Methodologies by Linda Smith

The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House by Audre Lorde

Are prisons obsolete? by Angela Davis

Anarcho-blackness by Marquis Bey

Women Race and Class by Angela Davis

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon 

Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams

Black looks by Bell Hooks

Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber

For Indigenous Eyes Only: a Decolonization Handbook by Waziyatawin

As Black as Resistance by William Charles Anderson

Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky

Embodying Black Experience; Stillness, Critical Memory & the Black Body by Harvey Young

The Feminism of Uncertainty : A Gender Diary by Ann Bar Snitow

A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe

No Justice in the Shadows by Alina Das

Resistance and Decolonization by Amilcar Cabral 

Black Liberation and Socialism by Ahmed Shawki

Yourself in the World by Glenn Ligon

history:

An Indigenous People’s History of the US by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

A Black Woman’s History of the US by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross

A Queer History of the US by Michael Bronski

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

Migration to Prison – America’s Obsession with Locking up Immigrants by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

An African American and Latinx History of the US by Paul Ortiz

Inside the Neolithic Mind by David Lewis-Williams and David Pearce

Native Historians Write Back: Decolonizing American Indian History by Susan A. Miller, James Riding In

Sapiens by Yuval Harari

America, the New Imperialism: from white settlement to world hegemony by V.G. Kieran, Eric Hobsbawm

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

A People’s History of the US by Howard Zinn

The Nations Within: the Past and Future of Ameican Indian Sovereignity by Vine Deloria Jr.

The History of Sexuality by Michael Foucault

America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia by Erika Lee

other contexts/misc:

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg 

Likeable Social Media by Dave Kerpen

Rework by Jason Fried, David Hansson

The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod

From the Inside Out by Mark Watkins  

All We Can Save by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine Keeble Wilkinson

Metaphors we Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson

What we Know About Climate Change by Kerry Emanuel

The End of Nature by Bill Mckibben

Bad feminist by Roxane Gay 

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

Losing Earth, a Recent History by Nathaniel Rich

podcasts:

Classical Classroom

New Classical Tracks with Julie Amacher

LPR Live

Meet the Composer

Talking Up Music Education