Music: Styles & Genres

Thousands of shows have opened on Broadway. Why do we remember some and not others? The musical theatre repertory is not composed of titles popula...

This first academic collection dedicated to popular music in Leeds - developed from the work of interdisciplinary scholars, drawn from a major publ...

The Stranglers exploded onto the music scene in 1977 with their iconic debut album Rattus Norvegicus. Lazily classed as a punk band because of thei...

From the bands first single, In The City in April 1977, to their last, Beat Surrender in November 1982, The Jam went from new wave wannabees to arg...

A groundbreaking collection of inspiring and instructive conversations about the beauty, brutality, discipline, and technique of being a successful...

A gorgeous hardcover time capsule of the emo music scene as it was from 1996 to 2006, featuring never-before-seen photographs and never-before-told...

Dave Grohl once said of Oasis, 'We've played shows with them before, where we play with them we think That's the greatest rock band I've ever seen ...

An impassioned tribute (Publishers Weekly, starred review) to the most influential music culture today, Atlanta rapa masterful, street-level story ...

This is the most in-depth exploration of Metallica's songs ever written.From their widely circulated demo, No Life 'til Leather, all the way to th...

The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles beloved roadie, assistant, confidant and friend A tower...

A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023A GUARDIAN MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023The Cure are arguably the biggest alternative rock band in the world. Betw...

What makes us fall in love with a song? What makes us want to write our own songs? Do songs help? Do songs help us live better lives? And do the li...

A lively, subversive history of the new UK jazz wave, encapsulating its revolutionary spirit and tracing its foundations to birth of the genre itse...

This is pop history told from a delightfully original perspective. Daily Mail With entries for every day of the year, ranging from mini-essays to...

From male bisexuality to religion in pop, Little Richard spent the 1950s pioneering ideas that are still too challenging for the mainstream. As a B...

** Now with three bonus songs**'Go Your Own Way' by Fleetwood Mac'Come on Eileen' by Dexys Midnight RunnersWhy Can't We Be Friends?' by WarSongs th...

Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom is the book Simon Napier-Bells fans have always hoped hed write. His previous bestsellers lifted the lid on the industry, ...

Fleetwood Mac is one of the most successful bands of all time. Despite a long and complicated history, the band has survived dysfunction on a scale...

Rob Halford's A-to-Z of Rock and Metal sees Rob to run his lively eye over all facets of the music and metal world. It's a lively encyclopaedia in ...