Music: Styles & Genres

As more people come to value the natural world and venture into wildlife areas, a reference to help identify the animals who call these places home...

Soft Machine are perceived as cold and forbidding. At their peak in the 1970s, they purposefully raised the hackles of pop journalists, the musical...

Many listeners first heard Hound Dog when Elvis Presleys single topped the pop, country, and R&B charts in 1956. But some fans already knew the...

Many listeners first heard Hound Dog when Elvis Presleys single topped the pop, country, and R&B charts in 1956. But some fans already knew the...

The first book to critically examine the legacy of pop superstar Mariah Carey. When it comes to Mariah Carey, star power is never in doubt. She has...

Since its beginnings more than fifty years ago, metal music has grown in popularity worldwide, not only as a musical culture but increasingly as a ...

Exploring the many dimensions of Messiaen's life, thought and music, this book provides fresh perspectives on the contexts within which the compose...

This biography of Minna Planer, Richard Wagner's wife of 30 years, reveals her as a self-assured woman and artist who was vital to her husband's cr...

The Lost Tradition of Dvoáks Operas: Myth, Music, and Nationalism examines Antonín Dvoáks operas, specifically Jakobín and Rusalka, from a critical...

Crosby, Holiday, Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Garland, and Streisand were the major interpreters of the American songbook, and this is the interlocking sto...