Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups

This title was first published in 2000. John Ireland (1879-1962) was as elusive as the music that he composed. His music resists easy categorizatio...

'I couldn't put this book down. Malcolm inspired us to make art out of our boredom and anger. He set us free' Bobby Gillespie, Primal ScreamInclude...

Hugh Masekela is a prodigiously talented giant of jazz and world music, and a pioneer in sharing the voice and spirit of South Africa with the rest...

SING: The Story of Rock Choir is the heartfelt and deeply personal memoir of Caroline Redman Lusher, the visionary behind Rock Choir, the world's l...

A rich and revealing examination of the legendary pop duo Soft Cell.Soft Cell are not your average pop band. Marc Almond and Dave Ball may be best ...

Jazz in Nazi-era and postwar Germany, as lived by a Jewish prodigy who survived the horrors of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. Coco, it's not import...

In Iceland in the 1930s, classical music was only beginning to be seriously practiced, at the same time when musicians of Jewish heritage were flee...

Madeleine Dring: Lady Composer is a biography that examines the British composer's life and music, supported by extensive archival research and pri...

Worldwide heart-throbs BTS exploded onto the internet in 2010 with their infectious tunes and youthful looks. As cheeky as the Beatles and as styli...

Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in ...

Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in ...

When it was originally published in 1967, this study of J.S. Bach was the first important work on the composer in nearly a generation. The many dis...

In 1972, a group of creative Brazilian musicians and poets informally led by singer-songwriter Milton Nascimento recorded a landmark double-LP titl...

[An] illuminating memoir. -Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, The New York Times The story of a composer's life in the Alaskan wilderness and a meditati...

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly atten...

From Coltrane to Davis, Fitzgerald to Armstrong, Jazz Legends Alphabet is the quintessential A to Z of the smoothest, coolest, hippest cats to have...

From Butter to Dynamite, I Need U to No More Dream, BTS Legends Alphabet is a color-filled, cant-stop-dancing journey through BTSs greatest hits. W...

Go behind the scenes with the musician The New York Times called a guitar God!Oft-hailed as the Jimi Hendrix of his generation, living guitar legen...

The essays in The Resistible Demise Of Michael Jackson consummately demonstrate that writing on popular culture can be both thoughtful and heartfel...

You could consider Kate Bush's The Dreaming to be her finest moment, depending on whether you value the rejection of compromise and see that as a s...

A teen idol of the 1950s who virtually invented the idea of singer-songwriter-heartthrob that still fuels the industry today, Paul Anka's slew of h...

Vic Damone is a lasting legend of American pop music. Befriended by Frank Sinatra and encouraged by legends like Perry Como and Tommy Dorsey, he ha...

A new trade publication of Before Easter After, originally published in a limited edition at $1,000. With hundreds of rarely seen images by Lynn G...

This is Taylor Swifts life story, in a beautifully illustrated Poster Book with 16 pull out on the page posters.Her record sales top 200 million wo...

Colonel Tom Parker, often reviled in his time, led the strategy from the earliest days of Elvis's career. Together, they built the most legendary p...

New Orleans is a kind of Mecca for jazz pilgrims, as Whitney Balliett once wrote. This memoir tells the story of one aspiring pilgrim, Clive Wilson...

On January 13, 1968, Johnny Cash (19322003) took the stage at Folsom Prison in California. The concert and the live album, At Folsom Prison, propel...

Johann Sebastian Bach's legacy is undeniably one of the richest in the history of music, with a vast influence on posterity that has only grown sin...

From the 1980s through the early 2000s, a golden era for southern roots music, producer and three-time Grammy winner Scott Billington recorded many...