Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we discuss non-fiction books about Music! We talk about sea shanties, whether musical scores count as non-fiction, reading about music we’re unfamiliar with, how we interpret lyrics, and more! Plus: We made a playlist of music for you to listen to based on the books we read!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• 808s & Otherworlds by Sean Avery Medlin
  • 808s & Heartbreak (Wikipedia)
• Sailor Song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas by Gerry Smyth
  • Wellerman (Wikipedia)
• Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture by Jace Clayton
• Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus
• Disasterama!: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997 by Alvin Orloff 
• They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
• You're History: The Twelve Strangest Women in Music by Lesley Chow
• Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib
• Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917 by Dale Cockrell

Companion Playlist for this Episode

• Spotify
• YouTube

Other Media We Mentioned

• Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
• 33 ⅓ Series
  • Master of Reality by John Darnielle
  • Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste by Carl Wilson
• We Oughta Know (How Four Women Ruled the '90s and Changed Canadian Music) by Andrea Warner
• Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981 by Ed Piskor
• Burning Down The Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Tim Mohr
• Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota by Chuck Klosterman
• Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story by Chuck Klosterman
• This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin
• Todd in the Shadows
  • One Hit Wonderland: "Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Dop)"
• Billbuds
• I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats
• Punch Up the Jam
• Song Exploder
• All Songs Considered
• Brave New Faves
• BBC Radio 6
• Pump Up the Volume (Wikipedia)
• The Boat That Rocked (Wikipedia)
• Iron and the Soul by Henry Rollins
• Vintage Sadness by Hanif Abdurraqib
• Hospice by The Antlers (Wikipedia)
  • “Hospice tells the story of a relationship between a hospice worker and a female patient suffering from terminal bone cancer”

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 008 - Christmas/Holiday Reads
• 22 Winter Holiday Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour) Authors
• Manga in Libraries: Spooky & Scary Manga
  • Anime Planet booklist
  • Google Doc
• Episode 125 - Literary Theory & Literary Criticism
• Hark! Podcast
• Harvey Pekar (Wikipedia)
• Canadian Content - How the MAPL system works (Wikipedia)
• Riot grrrl (Wikipedia)

Vote for which romance genre we’ll discuss in our February episode!

• Amish
• Contemporary
• Fantasy/Fairy Tale
• Western

20 Non-Fiction Music books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
• Rock Roll Jihad: A Muslim Rock Star's Revolution by Salman Ahmad
• Rebel Music: Race, Empire and the New Muslim Youth Culture by Hisham D. Aidi
• Boyz N the Void: A Mixtape to My Brother by G'Ra Asim
• Violence Girl: East LA Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story by Alice Bag
• Black Music by Amiri Baraka (published as Leroi Jones)
• Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter edited by Veronica Chambers
• Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang
• Decoding Despacito: An Oral History of Latin Music by Leila Cobo
• Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band by Michelle Gonzales
• House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason
• Gone: A Girl, A Violin, A Life Unstrung by Min Kym
• My Name Is Love: the Darlene Love Story by Darlene Love
• Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection by Portia K. Maultsby
• Soul Serenade: Rhythm, Blues & Coming of Age Through Vinyl by Rashod Ollison
• Approaching Fire by Michelle Porter
• Run As One: My Story by Errol Ranville
• Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies by Dylan Robinson
• Buffy Sainte-Marie: It's My Way by Blair Stonechild
• Musicians from a Different Shore: Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music by Mari Yoshihara

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