This page highlights the incredible authors who’ve joined the Enhance Life with Music podcast to share insights from their music-related books. Whether you’re an educator, performer, parent, or lifelong learner, these conversations and titles will deepen your understanding of music’s power in our lives and enrichen your music experience. Read. Reflect. Resonate.
- Abel, Anne: High Hopes: A Memoir
- Austin, Diane: The Theory and Practice of Vocal Psychotherapy: Songs of the Self
- Bergauer, Aubrey: Run It Like a Business: Strategies for Arts Organizations to Increase Audiences, Remain Relevant, and Multiply Money – Without Losing the Art
- Brown, Peter: Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, by Brown, Henry Roediger, and Mark McDaniel
- Buchanen, Jennifer: Wellness, Wellplayed: The Power of a Playlist
- Caicedo, Patricia: We Are What We Listen To: The impact of Music on Individual and Social Health
- Camie, Amy: Loving Life… all of it: A Walk with Cancer, Compassion and Consciousness
- Collins, Anita: The Music Advantage: How learning music helps your child’s brain and wellbeing
- Cornett, Vanessa: The Mindful Musician: Mental Skills for Peak Performance
- Dean, Laura: Music in the Westward Expansion: Songs of Heart and Place on the American Frontier
- Dusick, Ryan: Harder to Breathe: A Memoir of Making Maroon 5, Losing It All, and Finding Recovery
- Edgar, Scott: Music Education and Social Emotional Learning: The Heart of Teaching Music
- Errico, Mike: Music, Lyrics, and Life: A Field Guide for the Advancing Songwriter
- Faber, Joanna & King, Julie: How To Talk When Kids Won’t Listen: Whining, Fighting, Meltdowns, Defiance, & Other Challenges of Childhood
- Fancourt, Daisy: Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Save Lives
- Fitzpatrick, Frank: Amplified: Unleash Your Potential Through the Power of Music
- Fleming, Renée: MUSIC AND MIND: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness
- Gasser, Nolan: Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste
- Grove, Tim: Star-Spangled: The Story of a Flag, a Battle, and the American Anthem (Ages 10-14)
- Habermeyer, Sharlene: Good Music, Brighter Children: Simple and Practical Ideas to Help Transform Your Child’s Life Through the Power of Music
- Hammel, Alice: Teaching Music to Students with Autism, by Hammel and Ryan Hourigan
- Heiderscheit, Annie: Creative Arts Therapies and Clients with Eating Disorders
- Hotz, Julia: The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging
- Kosik, Kenneth: Outsmarting Alzheimer’s: What You Can Do to Reduce Your Risk
- Kraus, Nina: Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World
- Levitin, Daniel: I Heard There Was A Secret Chord – Dr. Daniel Levitin on His New Book and the Science Behind Music as Medicine
- Magsamen, Susan: Your Brain On Art: How the Arts Transform Us, by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross
- Marinkovic, Pavle: How to Hook Your Customer With Music
- Marinkovic, Pavle: Sounds from Farm to Fork (and Back): How Audio and Music Can Enhance the Food Life Cycle
- Morris, Thomas: Always the Music: How A Lifelong Passion Framed a Future for Orchestras
- Nagel, Julie Jaffee: Career Choices in Music beyond the Pandemic
- Nagoski, Amelia: Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
- Plies, Dennis: Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music, by Drs. Dennis Plies and Larry Sherman
- Randles, Clint: To Create: Imagining the Good Life through Music
- Richards, Cynthia: How to Get Your Child to Practice…Without Resorting to Violence!
- Ringgold, Tim: Sonic Recovery: Harness the Power of Music to Stay S.O.B.E.R.
- Roig-Francolí, Jennifer: Make Great Music with Ease!
- Saunders, Elizabeth Grace: The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: How to Achieve More Success with Less Stress
- Savage, Dylan: The Transposed Musician: Teaching Universal Skills to Improve Performance and Benefit Life
- Sherman, Sara Leila: Resonant Minds: The Transformative Power of Music, One Note at a Time
- Simoyan, Olapeju: Girls Become Doctors and Much More: Inspiring Stories of Women in Medicine
- Sloane, Carolyn: Welcome to the Opera: Discover the Enchanting World of Opera with Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Ages 3 and up)
- Treuer, Anton: Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask
- Vanderbilt, Tom: Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning
- Viskontas, Indre: How Music Can Make You Better
- Wright, Craig: The Hidden Habits of Genius: Beyond Talent, IQ, and Grit – unlocking the Secrets of Greatness