Music Books

Drum Instructional: 

Learn to Groove, by Robert Jospe

Stick Control, by G.L. Stone

Funk Drumming, by Jim Payne

Brazilian Rhythms for the Drumset, by Henrique C. De Almeida

West African Rhythms for Drumset, by Royal Hartigan

Riddim, by Billy Martin

Pure Rhythm, by Adam Rudolph

 

Drum & Music General: 

George, Nelson. Hip Hop America.  

Eno, Brian. A Year with Swollen Apendices: The Diary of Brian Eno.

Hagedorn, Catherine. Divine Utterances: The Performance of Afro-Cuban Santeria. 

Hamel, Peter. Through Music to the Self.  

Hart, Mickey. Drumming at the Edge of Magic. 

Kisliuk, Michelle. Seize the Dance: BaAka Musical Life and the Ethnography of Performance. 

Locke, David. Drum Gahu: An Introduction to African Rhythm. 

Nachmanovitch, Stephen. Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art. 

Veloso, Caetano. Tropical Truth: A Story of Music & Revolution in Brazil.  

Wilson, Sule Greg. The Drummer’s Path: Moving the Sprit with Ritual and Traditional Drumming. 

Wilmer, Valerie. As Serious as Your Life: The Story of New Jazz.