Working class listeners
- David Vincent, The Rise of Mass Literacy: Reading and Writing in Modern Europe (Polity, 2000)
- David Vincent (with John Burnet and David Mayall), The Autobiography of the Working Class, 3 vols (Harvester, 1984, 1987, 1989)
- Paul Thompson, The Voice of the Past, 3rd edn (Oxford, 2000)
- E P Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (Penguin, 1968)
- Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the Working Classes, 2nd edn (Yale University Press, 2010)
Life writing
- Daniel Cook and Amy Culley, Women’s Life Writing, 1700-1850: Gender, Genre and Authorship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
- Laura Marcus, Auto/biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, Practice (Manchester University Press, 1994)
- James Olney, Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing (University of Chicago Press, 1998)
- Susan E. Whyman, The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800 (Oxford, 2009)
Microhistories
- Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms: The cosmos of a sixteenth-century miller (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992)
- Edward Muir and Guido Ruggiero, Microhistory & the Lost Peoples of Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991)
- John Brewer, ‘Microhistory and the Histories of Everyday Life’, Cultural and Social History (2010) 7:1, 87-109
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Reception theory
- Jim Samson, New Grove 2
- The Routledge Handbook on Reception
- John Butt, Playing with History: The Historical Approach to Musical Performance (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
- William Weber, The Rise of Musical Classics in Eighteenth-century England: A Study in Canon, Ritual and Ideology (Clarendon Press, 1992)
- Eric Clarke, Nicola Dibben, Stephanie Pitts, Music and Mind in Everyday Life (Oxford: OUP, 2010)
Sociologists, anthropologists and other musical ‘outsiders’
- Howard S Becker, Art Worlds (Berkley: University of California Press, 2008)
- Ruth Finnegan, The Hidden Musicians: music making in an English town (Wesleyan Press, 2007)
- Christopher Small, Musicking: the meanings of performing and listening (Wesleyan Press, 1998)
Special Editions
Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Volume 135 (2010) - Issue sup1: Listening: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Musical Quarterly, Volume 82 Issue 3-4 (1998)
Early Music, Vol. 25, No. 4, 25th Anniversary Issue; Listening Practice (1997)
Rachel Cowgill and Peter Holman, Music in the British Provinces, 1690-1914 (Aldershot: Ashgate 2007)