Følgende bøker er basislitteratur:
Populærmusikkanalyse:
Danielsen, Anne. 2006. Presence and Pleasure: The Funk Grooves of James Brown and Parliament. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press.
Feld, Steven & Keil, Charles. 1994. Music Grooves. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Kap. 1 – 4)
Filene, Benjamin. 2000. Romancing the Folk. Public Memory & American Roots Music. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. (Kap. 1 – 3)
Frith, Simon. 1996. Performing Rites. On the Value of Popular Music. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Hawkins, Stan. 2002. Settling the Pop Score: Pop Texts and Identity Politics. Aldershot: Ashgate. (Utdrag)
Lindberg, Ulf; Gestur Gudmundsson, Morten Michelsen og Hans Weisethaunet. 2005. Rock Criticism From The Beginning. New York: Per Lang Publishing. (Kap. 1 – 5)
Moore, Allan (ed) 2003. Analyzing Popular Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Utdrag, finnes også online)
Walser, Robert 1993 Running With the Devil. Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music. Hanover & London: Wesleyan University Press. (Kap. 1 – 4)
Jazzanalyse:
Berendt, Joachim E. 1976. The Jazz Book. London: Granada Publ. Berliner, Paul. 1994. Thinking in Jazz. The Infinite Art of Improvisation. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Cooke, Mervyn og David Horn (red.). 2002: The Cambridge Companion to Jazz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gabbard, Krin (red.) 1995. Jazz Among the Discourses. Durham: Duke University Press.
Gendron, Bernard. 2002. Between Montmatre and the Muddclub. Popular Music and the Avant-Garde. Chicago: The University Of Chicago Press.
O’Meally, Robert G. 1998. The Jazz Cadence of American Culture. New York : Columbia University Press.
Forslag til fordypningslitteratur:
Born, Georgina and Dave Hesmondhalgh (red.). 2000. Western Music and its Others: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Fast, Susan. 2000. In the Houses of the Holy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Guralnick, Peter. 1986. Sweet Soul Music. Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom. New York: Harper Perennial.
Hesmondhalgh, David. 2002. The Cultural Industries. London: Sage.
Krims, Adam. 2000. Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lindberg, Ulf. 1995. Rockens Text. Ord, musik och mening. Stockholm: Brutus Ôstlings Bokförlag Symposion.
Lipsitz, George 1994. Dangerous Crossroads. Popular Music, Postmodernism and the Poetics of Place. London: Verso.
Meintjes, Louise. 2003. Sound of Africa! Making Music in a South African Studio. Durham: Duke University Press.
Middleton, Richard. 1990. Studying Popular Music. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
Neal, Mark Anthony. 1999. What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture. New York: Routledge.
Negus, Keith. 1996. Popular Music in Theory: An introduction. Oxford: Polity Press.
Radano, R.M. & Bohlman, Philip (red.). 2000. Music and the Racial Imagination. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Skårberg, Odd. 2003. Da Elvis kom til Norge: Stilbevegeler, verdier og historiekonstruksjon i rocken fra 1955 til 1960. Oslo: Unipubavhandlinger Acta humaniora.
Tate, Greg. 2003. Everything But The Burden. What White People Are Taking from Black Culture.
Taylor, Timothy D. 1997. Global Pop: World Music, World Markets. New York: Routledge.
Jazz: Davis, Miles og Troupe, Q. 1989. Miles. The Autobiography. New York: Simon and Schuster.
DeVeaux, Scott. 1997. The Birth of Bebop. A Social and Musical History. Berkeley: The University of California Press.
Dybo, Tor. 1996. Jan Garbarek. Det åpne roms estetikk. Oslo: Pax forlag. Gates, Henry Louis. 1988. The Signifying Monkey. A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism. New York: Oxford University Press.
Gennari, John. 2006. Blowin’ Hot and Cool. Jazz and its Critics. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Gottlieb, Robert 1996. Reading Jazz. New York: Random House. Gridley, M. C. 1999. Jazz Styles. History and Analysis. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Prentice Hall.
Kristiansen, Steinar. 2001. “Norsk jazz fra 1950 til 2000”, i Norges muikkhistorie, bind 5. Oslo: Aschehoug. Monson, Ingrid. 1996. Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Nettl, Bruno and Melinda Russell. 1998. In the Course of Performance: Studies in the World of Musical Improvisation. Chicago: Chicago University Press. Nicholson, Stuart, 2005. Is Jazz Dead? (Or has it Moved To a New Address). New York: Routledge.
Porter, Lewis. 1999. John Coltrane: His Life and Music. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.
Potter, Eric. 2002. What Is This Thing Called Jazz? African American Musicians as Artists, Critcs, and Activists. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Radano, Ronald M. 1993. New Musical Figurations: Anthony Braxton's Cultural Critique. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Russell, George. 1959. Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization for Improvisation. Concept Publishing.
Stendahl, Bjørn.1987. Jazz Hot og Swing, Jazz i Norge 1920- 1940, Oslo: Norsk jazzarkiv. Stendahl, Bjørn og Johs Bergh. 1991. Sigarett Stomp. Jazz i Norge 1940-1950, Oslo: Norsk jazzarkiv. Stendahl, Bjørn og Johs Bergh. 1997. Cool, kløver & dixie. Jazz i Norge 1950-1960, Oslo: Norsk jazzarkiv.