PENGUIN GROUP (USA) Here is a round-up of the Penguin Group (USA)’s great selection of Music titles. Click on the 13-digit ISBN to get more information on each title. Examination and personal copy forms are available at the back of the catalog. For personal service, adoption assistance, and complimentary exam copies, sign up for our College Faculty Info Service at http://www.penguin.com/facinfo MUSIC STUDIES 2009 Daniel J. Levitin eTHE WORLD IN SIX SONGS How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature The author extends the argument of his This Is Your Brain on Music by showing how the brain evolved to listen to music in six fundamental forms— knowledge, friendship, ceremony, joy, comfort, and love. “Leading research- ers in music cognition are already singing its praises.”—Evolutionary Psychology. “Works much like a great piece of pop music whose combined elements can induce feelings of enlightenment and euphoria.”—The New York Times. Dutton • 368 pp. • 978-0-525-95073-8 • $25.95 Plume • 368 pp. • 978-0-452-29548-3 • $16.00 Paperback available August 2009 THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC The Science of a Human Obsession “Endlessly stimulating, a marvelous overview, and one which only a deeply musical neuroscientist could give….An important book.”—Oliver Sacks, M.D. “Levitin is a deft and patient explainer of the basics for the non-scien- tists as well as the non-musician….By tracing music’s deep ties to memory, Levitin helps quantify some of music’s magic without break its spell.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review. Plume • 320 pp. • 978-0-452-28852-2 • $15.00 A Quill Award nominee Steve Lopez e THE SOLOIST A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music The true story of the Los Angeles Times journalist Steve Lopez’s discovery of Nathaniel Ayers, a Julliard trained violin prodigy who now lives on the streets of L.A. “Written with elegant spareness, there are no punches pulled in this portrait of Nathaniel Ayers...The Soloist is singularly and unforgettably true in all respects.”— Buzz Bissinger. “An intimate portrait of mental illness, of atrocious social neglect, and the struggle to resurrect a fallen prodigy.”—Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down. Berkley • 304 pp. • 978-0-425-22600-1 • $15.00 A Publisher’s Weekly Best Book Cover photo credit: Getty Images 2 Featured Titles e DENOTES NEW OR FORTHCOMING TITLE MUSIC STUDIes 2009 Greil Marcus MUSIC AND CULTURE e MYSTERY TRAIN Images of America in Rock ’n’ Roll Music Fifth Edition Roger D. Abrahams “Probably the best book ever written about rock.”—Roll- SINGING THE MASTER ing Stone. Features updated notes and discography. The Emergence of African-American Culture Plume • 336 pp. • 978-0-452-28918-5 • $17.00 in the Plantation South Penguin • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-017919-4 • $18.00 John McWhorter e ALL ABOUT THE BEAT Nelson George Why Hip-Hop Can’t Save Black America HIP HOP AMERICA “This is a remarkable book because, in its way, it cele- “I love hip hop more than I love my mother, and Nelson brates hip-hop even as it argues against its political sig- George writes about hip hop with heart and soul, and nificance. McWhorter separates the powerful elements insight.”—Chris Rock. of the music itself from the often mindless political pre- Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-303515-2 • $15.00 tensions that surround it. He does what only the best A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist cultural critics can do: he parses and clarifies to show THE DEATH OF RHYTHM AND BLUES the way beyond the dead-ends that art forms inevitably Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-200408-1 • $16.00 come to. He wants hip-hop to align with logic and rea- POST-SOUL NATION son. He wants it to grow.”—Shelby Steele, author of The The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s Content of Our Character. as Experienced by African Americans (Previously Known as Gotham • 192 pp. • 978-1-592-40374-5 • $20.00 Blacks and Before That Negroes) Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-303447-6 • $15.00 Friedrich Nietzche Also of interest: City Kid, 978-0-670-02036-2 THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY Out of the Spirit of Music Kristen Laine Translated by Shaun Whiteside e AmERICAN BAND Editor by Michael Tanner Music, Dreams, and Coming of Age in the Heartland Penguin Classics • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-043339-5 • $12.00 Self-doubt and a series of tragedies turn what should be a triumphant senior year for the Marching Minutemen Robert Palmer of Concord High into a moving story of loss. “A multi- DEEP BLUES layered account of nearly novel-like richness.”—The A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta Wall Street Journal. “American Band has everything going Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-006223-6 • $16.00 for it, from tempo to heart to the grand bittersweet finale. What a gift for readers: a pitch-perfect tribute to Mickey Rapkin kids and song and community.”—Madeleine Blais, e PITCH PERFECT Pulitzer Prize winner and author of In These Girls, Hope The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory Is a Muscle. 8 pp. b/w photos. High notes, high drama, and high jinks collide as elite Gotham • 320 pp. • 978-1-592-40400-1 • $15.00 collegiate a cappella groups compete to be the best in L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award the nation. “Finally, a journalist with the courage to investigate the cutthroat world of college a cappella…. Lawrence Lessig Rapkin has the perfectly bemused and giddy tone to tell FREE CULTURE these stories with the reverence they deserve.”—New The Nature and Future of Creativity York Post. “Reveals a world with as much discord as Penguin • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-303465-0 • $16.00 harmony.”—Newsweek. A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title; a BusinessWeek Gotham • 288 pp. • 978-1-592-40376-9 • $26.00 Top Ten Book of the Year; A Publisher’s Weekly Best Gotham • 288 pp. • 978-1-592-40463-6 • $15.00 Nonfiction Book of the Year Paperback available April 2009 Also of interest: Remix, 978-0-1-59420-172-1 June Skinner Sawyers, editor Daniel J. Levitin RACING IN THE STREET e THE WORLD IN SIX SONGS The Bruce Springsteen Reader How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature Foreword by Martin Scorsese THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC Penguin • 464 pp. • 978-0-14-200354-1 • $18.00 The Science of a Human Obsession See page 2 Go to us.penguingroup.com/newsletters to sign up Now you can E-MAIL your desk copy request to Penguin Group for the Penguin Classics Newsletter, to get all the (USA)’s Academic Marketing Department to save time: [email protected]. Or FAX to: 212-366-2933. latest information on new books for your courses. www.penguinspeakersbureau.com Join Penguin Group (USA) Inc.’s College Faculty Information Service for personal For all inquiries, including speakers’ fees assistance in selecting books for college and availability, email courses. See page 18 for more information [email protected] or go to: www.penguin.com/facinfo e DENOTES NEW OR FORTHCOMING TITLE Music and Culture 3 MUSIC STUDIes 2009 POP CULTURE/ THE WISDOM CONTEMPORARY OF MUSICIANS... Michka Assayas Mark Blake, editor BONO: IN CONVERSATION WITH MICHKA ASSAYAS e STONE ME A Self-Portrait in Conversation The Wit and Wisdom of Keith Richards Riverhead • 400 pp. • 978-159448173-4 • $15.00 Ruminations on life, music, drugs and sex from rock’s most legendary bad boy and Rolling Stones guitarist. Gorillaz NAL • 144 pp, • 978-0-451-22758-4 • $12.95 e RISE OF THE OGRE Available May 2009 The official autobiography of the world’s most famous cartoon band, who unleash stories of adventure, Mike Daly debauchery, and creativity that have marked their rise e TIME FLIES When You’re in a COMA to fame. “This book is equal parts graphic novel, design The Wisdom of the Metal Gods catalog, and spoof of Hammer of the Gods: the Led Zeppelin Introduction by Michael Azerrad Saga…the best biography of a mainstream pop act this Dissects decades-worth of lyrics from heavy metal reviewer has ever read.”—Library Journal. “Finds that songwriters. rare common ground between humor, pastiche, and Plume • 208 • 978-0-452-28977-2 • $13.00 genuine entertainment.”—Earplug. Full-color illustra- tions throughout. Willie Nelson with Turk Pipkin Riverhead • 304 pp. • 978-1-59448-271-7 • $20.00 e THE TAO OF WILLIE A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart Nick Hornby “[A] whimsical yet serious guide to happiness….The SONGBOOK Willie philosophy is simple, a blending of ‘do unto oth- Riverhead • 224 pp. • 978-157322356-0 • $14.00 ers as you would have them do unto you’ and ‘don’t A National Book Critics Circle Award nominee; a New York sweat the small stuff.’”—Boston Sunday Herald. Times Notable; a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year Gotham • 208 pp. • 978-1-592-40287-8 • $12.00 Alex Kapranos Rev Run and Justine Simmons with Chris Morrow e SOUND BITES e TAKE BACK YOUR FAMILY A World Tour of Eating with Franz Ferdinand A Challenge to America’s Parents The lead singer of the platinum-selling neo–New Wave The stars of the blockbuster MTV reality series Run’s band gathers his reflections on his many international House share their parenting principles: run your family gastronomic encounters. 50 b/w illustrations. as Chief Officers of Everything; help your children feel Penguin • 128 pp. • 978-0-14-303808-5 • $13.00 large; and older children need more involvement, not less.