Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups

A lively and thorough exploration of the aesthetic, metaphysical, ethical, political, and legal implications of Taylor Swifts ongoing project of re...

A lively and thorough exploration of the aesthetic, metaphysical, ethical, political, and legal implications of Taylor Swifts ongoing project of re...

The Brian Jonestown Massacre are one of the great contemporary cult American rock and roll bands. At the peak of their anarchic reign in the San F...

He was the leading light of the Beat Generation writers and the most dynamic author of his time, but Jack Kerouac also had a lifelong passion for m...

From 1969 to 1971, as the United States convulsed with political upheaval and transformative social movements, no band was bigger than Creedence Cl...

'A charmingly modest tale of a long brush with stardom, with all its pleasures and frustrations' Kirkus'A captivating and intimate window into the ...

A reflection on the idea of the composer in the medieval period, including a study of the individuals and groups active in the creation of medieval...

Shortly before his second birthday, Allison Moorer's son, John Henry, stopped using the twenty-seven words he had learned. John Henry's diagnosis o...

Porcupine Tree began in 1987 as a solo project for Steven Wilson but became a four-piece band when Steven was later joined by Richard Barbieri, Col...

Sometimes acclaimed as Scotland's finest-ever singer-songwriter, Gerry Rafferty was born in 1947. After developing a passion for several genres of ...

In 1998, the future of the Red Hot Chili Peppers seemed extremely uncertain. Once considered alternative rocks hottest act on the back of their tri...

Vincenzo Bellini on Stage and Screen, 19352020 offers nine case studies of the history of Vincenzo Bellinis operas on stage, on screen, and in soun...

In Please Please Tell Me Now, bestselling rock biographer Stephen Davis tells the story of Duran Duran, the quintessential band of the 1980s. Their...

Get a completely new look at guitar legend Eddie Van Halen with this groundbreaking oral history, composed of more than fifty hours of interviews w...

In 1921, insurance executive Charles Ives sent out copies of a piano sonata to two hundred strangers. Laden with dissonant chords, complex rhythm, ...

Although David Bowie has famously characterized himself as a leper messiah, a more appropriate moniker might be rock god: someone whose influence ...

Roy Massey is one of the most influential organists and choir trainers of the past 50 years. In this fascinating memoir, Roy takes us from his begi...

Which Song is the Best and Why? Read it and see! Organized by rank, from 1 to 100, this illustrated celebration of the best songs by the boys who r...

Monumental biography of one of the major musicians of the twentieth century. Revised edition: Adolf Busch (1891-1952) was an all-round musician an...

The Hollywood careers of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler brought the composers and their high art sensibility into direct conflict with the premier ...

Having designed Roxy Music as an haute couture suit hand-stitched of punk and progressive music, Bryan Ferry redesigned it. He made Roxy Music ever...

The Hollywood careers of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler brought the composers and their high art sensibility into direct conflict with the premier ...

This annotated bibliography uncovers the wealth of resources available on the life and music of John Cage, one of the most influential and fascinat...