5 Books on Music

Our designers and commentators have chosen these 5 books on music.

See which books Chris Bangle, Alexa Hampton, Steven Holl, Ellen Lupton, Jean-Marie Massaud, and Massimo Vignelli recommend.

Image/Music/Text

Roland Barthes

On 2 lists

L’esperienza musicale e l’estetica

Massimo Mila

On 1 list

Modern Music: The Avant-Garde since 1945

Paul Griffiths

On 1 list

Novecento

Alessandro Baricco

On 1 list

Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons

Igor Stravinsky

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Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976–1986 by Andrew Blauvelt

Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976–1986

by Andrew Blauvelt
Publisher: Cranbrook Art Museum
Published: June 1, 2018

Explores the printed matter—posters, flyers, zines, and album covers—produced by and for the punk and post-punk music scenes in the United States and UK. Printed as a special, oversized, 52-page color newspaper, the catalogue has been published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name, curated by Andrew Blauvelt, on view at the Cranbrook Art Museum through October 7, 2018.

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