Music: Styles & Genres

This collection of ten essays constitutes the proceedings of a two-day conference held at Harvard in October 2007. The conference focused on three ...

In The Williamsburg Avant-Garde Cisco Bradley chronicles the rise and fall of the underground music and art scene in the Williamsburg neighborhood ...

Cultural landscape and geography have affected the history of Western music from its earliest manifestations to the present day. City, Chant, and t...

The artists impact on country music and how his death changed the genre A beloved member of the country music community, David Stringbean Akeman fo...

How and why do listeners come over time to 'feel the nation' through particular musical works? This book develops a comparative analysis of the re...

Pink is one of the most trailblazing artists of our time. Her breakthrough album, Missundaztood, was released to critical acclaim in 2001 and showc...

The Little Book of the Beatles is a superb book of quotations by, and about, the band that revolutionised popular music the world over. A perfect c...

Author and radio personality Stanley Péan is a jazz scholar who takes us seamlessly and knowledgeably through the history of the music, stopping at...

Revered and massively influential the Smiths have been called the most important band of the fertile U.K. 1980s music scene. While the group was o...

The first history of Seattle hip hopand hip hops role in Seattle historyFrom the first rap battles in Seattles Central District to the Grammy stage...

Just how Irish is traditional Irish music? Trad Nation combines ethnography, oral history, and archival research to challenge the longstanding prac...

Looking for some beautiful piano music? Best-Loved Sheet Music for Piano brings together an impressive range of the most loved classical masterpi...

______________________THE #MERKY STORY SO FAR Edited and co-written by Jude YawsonContributions by Team #MerkyImages by Kaylum DennisIts been a lon...

Opera is food for the soul. At its best, opera can hold up a mirror to society. Opera invites us to approach rational thinking from a different per...