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Scott S. (Polley)’s Reviews – 1
Scott S.
Music Librarian of the Lillian Helms Polley Music Library
reviewing for BookGuide since July 2020
Scott’s most recent reviews
Beneath Missouri Skies: Pat Methany in Kansas City, 1964-1972
by Carolyn Glenn Brewer (Music 781.65 Methany)
reviewed in November 2023
Do You Believe in the Power of Rock and Roll?
by John Robb (Music 781.66 Rob)
reviewed in November 2023
Aphex Twin: Every Album, Every Song
by Beau Waddell (Music 781.66 Aph)
reviewed in November 2023
Beck: Every Album, Every Song
by Arthur Lizzie (Music 781.66 Beck)
reviewed in October 2023
Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life in Music
by Henry Threadgill (Music 781.65 Thr)
reviewed in October 2023
BBC Radiophonic Workshop: A Retrospective
by William L. Weir (Music 781.546 Wei)
reviewed in October 2023
Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution
by Albert Glinsky (Music 786.74 Moog)
reviewed in September 2023
The Names of Minimalism: Authorship, Art, Music and Historiography in Dispute
by Patrick Nickelson (Music 780.904 Nic)
reviewed in September 2023
Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer
by Philip Watson (Music 781.65 Frisell)
reviewed in September 2023
On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement
by Kerry O’Brien and William Rubin (Music 781.68 Obr)
reviewed in August 2023
Recombo DNA: The Story of Devo, or How the 60s Became the 80s
by Kevin C. Smith (Music 781.66 Dev)
reviewed in August 2023
Who Cares Anyway? Post Punk San Francisco and the End of the Analog Age
by Will York (Music 781.66 Yor)
reviewed in August 2023
Music for Prime Time: A History of Americna Television Themes and Scoring
by Jon Burlingame (Music 781.546 Bur)
reviewed in July 2023
On Music Theory and Making Music Welcoming for Everyone
by Philip Ewell (Music 781.09 Ewe)
reviewed in July 2023
How to Write Chord Sequences
by Rikky Rooksby (Music 787.87 Roo)
reviewed in July 2023
How to Write Lyrics
by Rikky Rooksby (Music 781.316 Roo)
reviewed in July 2023
How to Write a Songs= That Matters
by Dar Williams (Music 781.316 Wil)
reviewed in July 2023
Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit
by Matt Brennan (Music 786.9 Bre)
reviewed in June 2023
Dance-Punk
by Larissa Wodtke (Music 781.66 Wod)
reviewed in June 2023
Songs of Earth: Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music
by Anna Lomax Wood (Music 780.89 Woo)
reviewed in June 2023
Artifical Music
by Detlef Diederichsen and Arno Raffeiner (Music 781.76 Art)
reviewed in May 2023
Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles
by Alex Harvey (Music 781.66 Waits)
reviewed in May 2023
Overtone Singing
by Mark Van Tongeren (Music 783.092 Ton)
reviewed in May 2023
The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and the Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront
by Cisco Bradley (Music 781.65 Bra)
reviewed in April 2023
Sound Within Sound: Radical Composers of the Twentieth Century
by Kate Molleson (Music 780.922 Mol)
reviewed in April 2023
The Hip Hop Family Tree
by Ed Piskor (Music 789.1648 Pis)
reviewed in April 2023
Sound Experiments: The Music of the AACM
by Paul Steinbeck (Music 781.65 Ste)
reviewed in April 2023
Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal
edited by Mark Christman, Celeste DiNucci and Anthony Elms (Music 781.65 Graves)
reviewed in March 2023
Rodger Coleman’s Sun Ra Sundays
by Rodger Coleman, edited by Sam Byrd (Music 781.65 Sun Ra)
reviewed in March 2023
Organic Music Societies
edited by Lawrence Kumpf, Naima Karlsson, and Magnus Nygren (Music 781.65 Kumpf)
reviewed in March 2023
Holy Ghost: The Life and Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler
by Richard Koloda (Music 781.65 Ayler)
reviewed in February 2023
Primus: Over the Electric Grapevine
by Greg Prato (Music 781.66 Pri)
reviewed in February 2023
Drumming With Dead Can Dance and Parallel Adventures
by Peter Ulrich (Music 781.66 Ulr)
reviewed in February 2023
Aural Diversity
by John J. Drever and Andrew Hugill, eds. (Music 780.87 Aur)
reviewed in January 2023
Renegade Snares: The Reisistance and Resilience of Drum and Bass
by Ben Murphy and Carl Loben (Music 781.648 Mur)
reviewed in January 2023
Chanson: A Tribute to France’s Most Romantic and Poetic Musical Tradition
by Olaf Salie (Music 781.63 Sal)
reviewed in January 2023
Variations on the Theme Galina Ustvolskaya: The Last Composer of the Passing Era
by Semyon Bokman (Music 780.92 Ustvolskaya)
reviewed in December 2022
Luc Ferrari: Complete Works
edited by Brunhild Ferrari (Music 786.75 Fer)
reviewed in December 2022
A War of Songs: Popular Music and Recent Russia-Ukraine Relations
edited by Arve Hansen (Music 781.63 Han)
reviewed in December 2022
MusicQuake: The Most Disruptive Moments in Music
by Robert Dimery (Music 781.64 Dim)
reviewed in November 2022
The Selected Letters of John Cage
by Laura Kuhn (ed.) (Music 780.92 Cag)
reviewed in November 2022
Musician Healer: Transforming Art Into Medicine
by Islene Runningdeer (Music 781.11 Run)
reviewed in November 2022
The Sound of the Machine: My Life in Kraftwerks and Beyond
by Karl Bartos (Music 781.66 Bar)
reviewed in October 2022
Endless Endless: A Lo-Hi History of the Elephat 6 Mystery
by Adam Clair (Music 781.66 Cla)
reviewed in October 2022
Blue Note: Uncompromising Expression
by Richard Havers (Music 781.54 Hav)
reviewed in October 2022
Titans of Bass: The Tactics, Habits and Routines From Over 130 of the World’s Best
by K.J. Jensen (Music 787.878 Jen)
reviewed in September 2022
The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth
by Michael Spitzer (Music 780.9 Spi)
reviewed in September 2022
Rock Stars on the Record: The Albums That Changed Their Lives
by Eric Spitznagel (Music 781.66 Spi)
reviewed in September 2022
Sonic Art: An Introduction to Electroacoustic Music Composition
by Adrian Moore (Music 786.76 Moo)
reviewed in August 2022
Conversations
by Steve Reich (Music 780.92 Rei)
reviewed in August 2022
Music is History
by Questlove (Music 781.64 Que)
reviewed in August 2022
The Subversive Guitarist
by Joe Gore (Music 787.782 Gor)
reviewed in July 2022
Record Store Day: The Most Improbable Comeback of the 21st Century
by Larry Jaffee (Music 781.66 Jaf)
reviewed in July 2022
Palaces of Memory: American Composer Diane Thome on Her Life and Music
by Diane Thome (Music 780.92 Tho)
reviewed in July 2022
Sonic Boom: The Impossible Rise of Warner Brothers Records
by Peter Ames Carlin (Music 781.66 Car)
reviewed in June 2022
Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties and Sound Recording
by David Grubbs (Music 780.904 Gru)
reviewed in June 2022
Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Pun, Emo and Hardcore (1994-2007)
by Dan Ozzi (Music 781.66 Ozz)
reviewed in June 2022
Listening: Music, Movement, Mind
by Nik Bartsch (Music 780.1 Bar)
reviewed in May 2022
Possibilities
by Herbie Hancock (Music 781.65 Han)
reviewed in May 2022
Notes of a Dream: The Authorized Biography of R.A. Rahman
by Krishna Trilok (Music 780.92 Rah)
reviewed in May 2022
Nothing Has Been Done Before: Seeking the New in 21st Century American Popular Music
by Robert Loss (Music 781.66 Los)
reviewed in April 2022
Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives
by Lavender Suarez (Music 780.04 Sua)
reviewed in April 2022
Letters of Note: Music
by Sean Usher (Music 780.922 Let)
reviewed in April 2022
Musics Lost and Found: Sound Collectors and the Life and Death of Folk Tradition
by Michael Church (Music 781.62 Chu)
reviewed in March 2022
Sound Inventions: Selected Articles From Experimental Musical Instruments
edited by Bart Hopkin anfd Sudhu Tewari (Music 784.19 Sou)
reviewed in March 2022
Stompbox: 100 Pedals of the World’s Greatest Musicians
by Eilon Paz (Music 787.87 Paz)
reviewed in March 2022
The Pocket Shantyman: 130 Songs of the Sea
by Gary Coover (Music 781.62 Coo)
reviewed in February 2022
Beefheart: Through the Eyes of Magic
by John French (Music 781.66 VanVliet)
reviewed in February 2022
Nonbinary: A Memoir
by Genesis P-Orridge (Music 781.66 P-Orridge)
reviewed in February 2022
Elegant People: A History of the Band Weather Report
by Curt Bianchi (Music 781.65 Wea)
reviewed in January 2022
Charles Ives’s Concord: Essays After a Sonata
by Kyle Gann (Music 780.92 Ive)
reviewed in January 2022
Ode to a Tenor Titan: The Life and Times and Music of Michael Brecker
by Bill Milkowski (Music 781.65 Bre)
reviewed in January 2022
Lived Through That: 90s Musicians Today
by Mike Hipple (Music 781.66 Hip)
reviewed in December 2021
William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock and Roll
by Caey Rae (Music 781.66 Burroughs)
reviewed in December 2021
Arcana X: Musicians on Music
by John Zorn (Music 180.904 Arc V.10)
reviewed in December 2021
Scored to Death 2: More Conversations With Some of Horror’s Greatest Composers
by J. Blake Fichera (Music 781.542 Fic)
reviewed in November 2021
(See Scott’s review of the first Scored to Death in October 2020 — linked chronologically below.)
Mortality and Music: Popular Music and the Awareness of Death
by Christopher Partridge (Music 781.64 Par)
reviewed in November 2021
Hidden in the Mix: The African-American Presence in Country Music
by Diane Pecknold (Music 781.642 Hid)
reviewed in November 2021
Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking, 3rd Ed.
by Nicolas Collins (Music 786.7 Col)
reviewed in October 2021
The Music and Mythocracy of Col. Bruce Hampton: A Basically True Biography
by Jerry Grillo (Music 781.66 Ham)
reviewed in October 2021
The History of Bones: A Memoir
by John Lurie (Music 781.65 Lur)
reviewed in October 2021
Relax Baby, Be Cool: The Artistry and Audacity of Serge Gainsbourg
by Jeremy Allen (Music 780.63 Gainsbourg)
reviewed in September 2021
Reminded By the Instruments: David Tudor’s Music
by You Nakai (Music 780.92 Tudor)
reviewed in September 2021
Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist
by Marc Ribot (Music 781.66 Rib)
reviewed in September 2021
Music Lessons: The College de France Lectures
by Pierre Boulez (Music 780 Bou)
reviewed in August 2021
Music and the Myth of Wholeness: Toward a New Aesthetic Paradigm
by Tim Hodgkinson (Music 781.1 Hod)
reviewed in August 2021
Music, Math and Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of Music
by David Sulzer (a.k.a. David Soldier) (Music 781.1 Sol)
reviewed in August 2021
Queering Kansas City Jazz: Gender, Performance and a History of a Scene
by Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone (Music 781.65 Cli)
reviewed in July 2021
Between the Tracks: Musicians on Selected Electronic Music
by Miller Puckette and Kerry L. Hagan (Music 786.7 Puc)
reviewed in July 2021
Song and System: The Making of American Pop Music
by Harvey Rachlin (Music 781.65 Rac)
reviewed in July 2021
Mad Skills: Midi and Music Technology in the 20th Century
by Ryan Alexander Diduck (Music 786.7 Did)
reviewed in June 2021
Hold on to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene: 1973-1999
by Tim Lawrence (Music 78.092 Rus)
reviewed in June 2021
A Sound Mind: How I Fell in Love With Classical Music (and Decided to Rewrite Its Entire History)
by Paul Morley (Music 781.68 Mor)
reviewed in June 2021
A Perfectly Good Guitar: Musicians on Their Favorite Instruments
by Chuck Holley (Music 787.87 Hol)
reviewed in May 2021
Talking Guitar: Conversations With Musicians Who Shaped Twentieth Century American Music
by Jas Obrecht (Music 787.87 Obr)
reviewed in May 2021
The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul and the Guitar Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock & Roll
by Ian S. Port (Music 787.87 Por)
reviewed in May 2021
Silence (50th Anniversary Edition with new Forward by Kyle Gann)
by John Cage (Music 780.078 Cag)
reviewed in April 2021
Double Lives in Art and Pop Music
by Jorge Heiser (Music 781.66 Hei)
reviewed in April 2021
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
by Peter Hill (Music 784.18 Str)
reviewed in April 2021
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Posted to the BookGuide site in January 2021 | Last updated in November 2023