Popular Music:

• David Bracket (ed.) - The Pop, Rock, and Soul Reader: Histories and Debates
• Simon Frith - Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music (1998)
• Reebee Garofalo, Steve Waksman - Rockin’ Out: Popular Music in the U.S.A.
• Larry Starr - American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MP3
• Eric Weisbard (ed.) - Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music

Music and Technology:

• Hans-Joachim Braun - Music and Technology in the Twentieth Century
• David Byrne - How Music Works (2012)
• Christopher Cox - Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music
• Timothy D Taylor - Strange Sounds: Music, Technology and Culture (2001)
• Paul Théberge - Any Sound You Can Imagine: Making Music/COKonsuming Technology
• Timothy Warner - Pop Music - Technology and Creativity: Trevor Horn and the Digital Revolution

Sampling-related:

• Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton - Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey (2013)
• Mark Katz - Capturing Sound: How Technology has Changed Music (2010)
• David Suisman, Susan Strasser (ed.) - Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (2009)
• Justin A. Williams (ed.) - The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop (2015)

Beatles:

• Andy Babiuk - Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four's Instruments, from Stage to Studio (2002)
• Geoff Emerick, Howard Massey - Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles (2007)
• Mark Lewisohn - The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Story of the Abbey Road years 1962-1970
• Ian MacDonald - Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties (2007)
• The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook

Studio and Music Production:

• Samantha Bennett - Modern Records, Maverick Methods (2019)
• Richard James Burgess - The History of Music Production (2014)
• Michael Denning - Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution (2015)
• Simon Frith, Simon Zagorski-thomas - The Art of Record Production: An Introductory Reader for a New Academic Field (2012)
• Paul D. Greene, Thomas Porcello - Wired for Sound: Engineering and Technologies in Sonic Cultures (2004)
• Greg Milner - Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music (2010)
• Susan Schmidt Horning - Chasing Sound: Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP (2013)
• David L. Morton Jr. - Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology (2006)
• Michael Zager - Music Production: A Manual for Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students (2006)

Audio and Recording Techniques:

• David Gibson - The Art of Mixing : A Visual Guide to Recording, Engineering, and Production (2008)
• David Miles Huber, Robert E. Runstein - Modern Recording Techniques (2013)
• Virgil Moorefield - The Producer as Composer: Shaping the Sounds of Popular Music (2005)
• Karl Pedersen - Recording, Mixing, and Mastering Reference Handbook  (2019)
• Mike Senior - Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio  (2013)
• Ethan Winer - The Audio Expert : Everything You Need to Know About Audio
• Michael Zager - Music Production : A Manual for Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students (2006)

Instruments:

• Thomas Patteson - Instruments for new music : sound, technology, and modernism (2016)
• Cathy Van Eck - Between Air and Electricity: Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments (2017)
• Norie Neumark Voicetracks : attuning to voice in media, and the arts  (2017)
• Steve Waksman - Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience (1999)
• Miriama Young - Singing the Body Electric: The Human Voice and Sound Technology (2015)

Formats and Consuming Music:

• Jennifer Otter Bickerdike  - Why Vinyl Matters: A Manifesto from Musicians and Fans (2017)
• Kiri Miller - Playing Along: Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance (2012)
• Jonathan Sterne - MP3: The Meaning of a Format (2012)
• Jonathan Sterne - The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (2003)
• David Suisman - Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music (2009)
• Timothy D. Taylor - The Sounds of Capitalism: Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture (2012)
• Timothy D. Taylor - Music and Capitalism: A History of the Present  (2016)
• Timothy D Taylor - Music, Sound, and Technology in America: a Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio  (2016)
• Patrik Wikstrom - The Music Industry: Music in the Cloud (2010)

EDM and Electronic Music:

• Rene T. A. Lysloff, Jr. Leslie C. Gay, Andrew Ross - Music and Technoculture (2003)
• Michaelangelo Matos - The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America (2015)
• Tara Rodgers - Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound (2010)
• Peter Shapiro - Modulations: A History of Electronic Music: Throbbing Words on Sound  (2000)
• Daniel Warner - Live Wires: A History of Electronic Music  (2017)

Other Topics:

• J. Martin Daughtry - Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq  (2015)
• Sumanth Gopinath - The Ringtone Dialectic (an interesting case study of a once multi-billion dollar global industry)  (2015)
• Joseph Lanza - Elevator Music: A Surreal History of Muzak, Easy-Listening, and Other Mood song; Revised and Expanded Edition   (2004)
• Zizi A. Papacharissi - A Private Sphere: Democracy in a Digital Age (2010); online technologies, musical or otherwise)
• Jacob Smith - Eco-Sonic Media (2015; on media culture and the environment)