Discographies & Buyer's Guides

The Strachwitz Frontera Collection is the largest repository of commercially produced Mexican and Mexican American vernacular recordings in existen...

Recent American Art Song: A Guide is a reference source devoted to songs with English texts by American composers, written for solo voice and piano...

“Everybody has to start somewhere. Businessmen start on the ground floor and try to work their way up the corporate ladder. Baseball players bide t...

Artie Shaw, the world famous clarinet-playing bandleader who became popular during the Swing Era, was immersed in the music business as a performer...

Soul is the most powerful expression of American music -- a distinct combination of roots, migration, race, culture, and politics packaged together...

In Boston Symphony Orchestra: An Augmented Discography, James H. North gathers all the information about Boston Symphony musical recordings into on...

The Beatles, the 1968 double LP more commonly known as the White Album, has always been viewed as an oddity in the group’s oeuvre. Many have found ...

* The first book to combine the "classic" output of Deep Purple and Rainbow into one book in such detail. * 2018 sees the 50th anniversary of the f...

This title was first published in 2002. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is one of Britain's most distinguished composers. This source book documents as mu...

Recent American Art Song: A Guide is a reference source devoted to songs with English texts by American composers, written for solo voice and piano...

More than just a biography or discography, this work is a thoroughly detailed guide to every known recording of the legendary British rock band...

Featuring 666 standout metal songs from 1960 to the present day and illustrated with sleeves, flyers, posters and magazine ads, this is a feast for...

From Abracadabra by the Steve Miller Band to Zoom by ELO, this indispensable, innovatively designed book celebrates fifty years of British album ch...

Volumes 3 and 4 of the The Encyclopedia of More Great Popular Song Recordings provides the stories behind approximately 1,700 more of the greatest ...

Traditional African musical forms have long been accepted as fundamental to the emergence of blues and jazz. Yet there has been little effort at...

Nominated for the 2023 Heritage Toronto Book AwardA defense of the dying art of losing an afternoon—and gaining new appreciation—amidst the bins an...

One of the most iconic and successful British bands of the 1980s, Level 42 are also arguably the ultimate ‘fusion’ unit, streamlining their energet...

Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers' 1972 song “Roadrunner” captures the freedom and wonder of cruising down the highway late at night with the ...

BRAND NEW & EXPANDED EDITION! Packed with dozens of additional horror titles and containing limited edition enhanced packaging (gilded foil pag...

'I'm no stranger to failure, and I'm aware it can arrive at any minute-as it often has. You have to keep things close to your chest and be aware of...

When Columbia Records finally decided to open up the voluminous Bob Dylan vaults, unleashing thousands of hours of long-sought-after, oft-rumore...

Without Beethoven, music as we know it wouldn’t exist. Who was this titan of world culture? 'You want to build a Beethoven library? There can be n...

Even in this digital age, we haven’t moved so far from our past that there’s no room for the traditional musical format that is vinyl. In 100 Grea...