Notable music books of 2015

Ian Bostridge, Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession (Knopf)

Jessica Hopper, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic (featherproof)

Rufus Jones, Jr., Dean Dixon: Negro at Home, Maestro Abroad (Rowman & Littlefield)

Elijah Wald, Dylan Goes Electric! (Dey Street)

Michael Church, ed., The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions (Boydell)

Renée Levine Packer and Mary Jane Leach, eds., Gay Guerrilla: Julius Eastman and His Music (University of Rochester Press)

J. Martin Daughtry, Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq (Oxford)

Vincent Giroud, Nicolas Nabokov (Oxford)