Music: Styles & Genres

Listen up Swifties! Ten years ago, an unknown sixteen-year-old released a self-titled debut country album. A decade later, Taylor Swift has reached...

The remarkable autobiography of the last great wartime icon. Born Vera Welch on 20 March, 1917 in the East End of London, Dame Vera Lynns...

#1 New York Times Bestseller A People Magazine Top Ten Book of the Year 'A sensational memoir ...brilliantly well written. Carly Simon is incapabl...

Perry Como put aside his career as a barber to become one of the top American crooners of the 20th century and also one of the first multimedia ...

#1 New York Times BestsellerA People Magazine Top Ten Book of the Year''A sensational memoir . . . brilliantly well written. Carly Simon is incapab...

A comprehensive companion to the six-part Emmy-winning PBS documentary series, Broadway: The American Musical is the gold standard of musical theat...

Bringing together life advice and gorgeous illustrations inspired by some of the best drag queens from all over the world, this book will have you ...

When Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey opened at the Barrymore on Christmas day, 1940, it flew in the face of musical comedy convention. The characters a...

It's Bobbie's thirty-fifth birthday party, and all her friends are wondering why she isn't married. Why can't she find the right man, settle down a...

Victorian Vocalists is a masterful and entertaining collection of 100 biographies of mid- to late-19th-century singers and stars. Kurt Gänzl paints...

Songscape Assembly presents 21 songs to inspire and motivate by leading educational composer Lin Marsh. This new title in the best-selling Songscap...

From his writing of ÊGodspellÊ's score at age 23 through the making of the megahit musical ÊWickedÊ and beyond ÊDefying Gravity: The Creative Care...

Sondheim's landmark musical about a reunion of showgirls, with a book by James Goldman. New York, 1971. Theres a party on the stage of the Weisman...

During the era often commonly known as McCarthyism, many motion picture and television creators were blacklisted for supposed communist ties. Th...

Sing Musical Theatre: Any Dream Will Do features fifteen theatre songs in a range of styles, both classic and contemporary with useful background a...

Hamilton Easy Piano Selections presents music from the critically acclaimed musical about Alexander Hamilton. The show debuted on Broadway in Augus...

Specially arranged in a clear, easy-to-read format, The Easy Piano Series: Shows contains 12 really easy arrangements of popular show tunes for the...

Everyone has heard the songs from The Sound of Music by Rodgers and Hammerstein. The stage show was a roaring success in New York and London, and t...

For millions of moviegoers unable to see the original stage version of West Side Story, director Robert Wises adaptation was a cinematic gift that ...

Hamilton presents vocal selections from the critically acclaimed musical about Alexander Hamilton. The show debuted on Broadway in August 2015 to u...

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star Press This limited edition book documents the creation of four music albums in t...

Sing Musical Theatre: Wouldnt It Be Loverly? features fifteen musical theatre songs in a range of styles, both classic and contemporary with useful...

Sing Musical Theatre: Over The Rainbow features fifteen musical theatre songs in a range of styles, both classic and contemporary with useful backg...

Bar Yarns and Manic Depressive Mix Tapes distills thirty delirious, jam-packed years of some of the best music writing ever to come out of the Twin...

Michael Ball is more than a Laurence Olivier Award winner and multi-platinum recording artist; he holds the unique status of being Britain's foremo...

The Book of Mormon , which follows a pair of mismatched Mormon boys sent on a mission to a place that''s about as far from Salt Lake City as you ca...

Recognising one of the most-honoured performers of all time, A Celebration of Dolly Parton: The Activity Book is 2021''s follow-up to A Celebration...

An intimate collection of fond memories, personal letters, good songs, and bad jokes from a true American legend.This is your old friend, Willie, s...

Is their friendship holding them together or holding them back?After years of putting work first, Andreas love life is a mess. Shes in a relations...

Many Broadway stars appeared in Hollywood cinema from its earliest days. Some were 19th century stage idols who reprised famous roles on film as...

Pre-World War II Hollywood musicals weren't only about Astaire and Rogers, Mickey and Judy, Busby Berkeley, Bing Crosby, or Shirley Temple. The ear...

The first book to deal exclusively with the British musical film from the very beginning of talking pictures in the late 1920s through the Depressi...