Music: Styles & Genres

A Guardian, Mojo and Rough Trade Book of the YearFifty years on from the psychedelic summer of love, acclaimed music writer Rob Chapman explores wh...

J-Rod moves like a small tank on the court, his face mean, staring down his opponents. I play just like my father, he says. Before my father died, ...

This selection of nineteen essays by Nigel Wilkins, in English and in French, is characterised by an inter-disciplinary approach crossing the borde...

This study in artistic hermeneutics contains objections and critiques that have been generated by the contemporary cultural scenery of musical inte...

Full score Carl Vine''s Piano Concerto No.1 (1997) is one of three large-scale works composed with pianist Michael Kieran Harvey in mind - t...

A SUNDAY TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZETHE BOOKSELLER'S Most Picked Book in General Non-Fiction ...

Ever since its first performances in 1985, Les Misérables has been a smash success, and is now the longest running musical in the world with an awa...

A tour de force of storytelling years in the making: a dual biography of two of the greatest songwriters, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, that is also...

This book challenges commonplace conceptions of musical conservatism during Germany's Weimar Republic (1918-1933). Its primary goal is to offer scr...