Description

With more than 100 beautiful photos and extensive tables and graphs describing the collection’s content, Building the Perfect Music Collection is intended as a reference guide for music lovers to consider and embrace their own choices.

Meticulously detailed and beautifully presented across 408 pages, this full-color, large-format book (the size of a record album cover) is an incredible reference guide that invites music enthusiasts to explore and celebrate their own unique musical journeys.

Key Features of Building the Perfect Music Collection:

• An Overview of Popular Music: The book takes readers on an intimate, highly personal journey through the rich tapestry and evolution of the most acclaimed twentieth-century popular music.
• Stories, Reflections, and Analysis: Through essays, academic research, personal reminiscences, and fascinating facts and figures, author John Kirk thoughtfully expounds on diverse topics ranging from musical preferences, songwriting, and ratings to greatest artists, handclaps, covers, how music indelibly imprints on our past, and so much more.
• Iconic Musical Moments in Pictures: The book’s rich stories come alive with more than 100 breathtaking color and black-and-white photographs of some of the greatest musical artists of the twentieth century.
• Song List Extravaganza: Making up 60 percent of the book, the elaborate song list is the crown jewel. Officially curated for 19 years but representing more than 60 years of experience, metadata for more than 12,400 songs is presented in detailed tables, providing a valuable resource for readers to explore and discover new favorites.

Building the Perfect Music Collection is far more than a book—it’s an invitation to embark on a musical odyssey and add to your own. With its unique blend of personal anecdotes, striking visuals, and a song list like no other, it’s an invitation for readers to not only delve into the author’s journey, but also to reflect on and celebrate their own musical passion and curiosity.

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