Here are some interesting books on music:

• Applegate, C., & Potter, P. (2002). Music and German National Identity. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.



• Bennett, A. (2000). Popular music and youth culture. New York: Palgrave.



• Blacking, J. (1974). How musical is man. Seattle: University of Washington Press.



• Bruhn, H., Oerter, R. & Roesing, H. (2002). Musikpsychologie: Ein Handbuch (4 ed.). Reinbek: Rowohlt.



• Clayton, M., Herbert, T., & Middleton, R. (2003). The cultural study of music: a critical introduction. London: Routledge.



• DeNora, T. (2000). Music in everyday life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.



• DeNora, T. (2003). After Adorno. Rethinking Music Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.



• Deutsch, D. (1999). The Psychology of Music (2nd ed.). San Diego: Academic Press.



• Falck, R., & Rice, T. (Eds.). (1982). Cross-cultural Perspectives on Music. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press.



• Frith, S. (1981). Sound Effects. Youth Leisure and the Politics of Rock’n’Roll. New York: Panteon.



• Frith, S. (1996). Performing Rites. On The Value of Popular Music. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.



• Hargreaves, D. J., & North, A. C. (1997). The Social Psychology of Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press.



• Hebdige, D. (1991). Subculture: the meaning of style. London; New York: Routledge.



• Juslin, P., & Sloboda, J. A. (2001). Music and Emotion: Theory and Research. Oxford Oxford University Press.



• Lehmann. (1994). Habituelle und situative Rezeptionsweisen beim Musikhören: eine einstellungsorientierte Untersuchung. Frankfurt/Main: P.Lang.



• Leppert, R. & McClary, S. (1987). Music and Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.



• Levitin, D. J. (. (2006). This is your brain on music: The science of a human obsession. New York, NY, US: Dutton/Penguin Books.



• MacDonald, R. R., Hargreaves, D., & Miell, D. (2001). Musical identities. Oxford: Oxford University Press.



• McCann, B. (2004). Hello, Hello Brazil. Duke University Press.



• Merriam, A. P. (1964). The Anthropology of Music. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press.



• Mitchell, T. (1996). Popular music and local identity: rock, pop, and rap in Europe and Oceania. Leicester: University Press.



• Mueller, R., Glogner, P., Rhein, S., & Heim, J. (2002). Wozu Jugendliche Musik und Medien gebrauchen. Jugendliche Identität und musikalische und mediale Geschmacksbildung. Weinheim: Juventa.



• Nercessian, A. (2002). Postmodernism and globalization in ethnomusicology: an epistemological problem / Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press.



• Perrone, C. A., & Dunn, C. (2002). Brazilian Popular Music & Globalization. New York, London: Routlegde.



• Pratt, C. C. (1931). The meaning of music: a study in psychological perspectives. New York: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1968.



• Santos, R. P. (2005). TUNUGAN: Four essays on Filipino Music. Diliman, Quezon City: The University of the Philippines Press.



• Shaw, L. (1999). The Social History of the Brazilian Samba. Aldershot: Ashgate.


• Sloboda, J. A. (1985). The Musical Mind. The cognitive psychology of music. Oxford: Clarendon Press.



• Sloboda, J. A. (2005). Exploring the musical mind: cognition, emotion, ability, function. Oxford: University Press.



• Stokes, M. (1994). Ethnicity, Itendity, and Music: The musical construction of place. Oxford: Berg.



• Thornton, S. (1995). Club Cultures: music, media and subcultural capital: Polity Press.



• Vianna, H. (1999). The Mystery of Samba. Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press.



• Whiteley, S., Bennett, A., & Hawkins, S. (2004). Music, space and place: popular music and cultural identity: Ashgate.



• Zuberi, N. (2001). Sounds English: transnational popular music Urbana: University of Illinois Press.