Music: Styles & Genres

This book examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas. Timothy Rommen analyzes Bahami...

This celebrated collection contains arrangements prepared for Harriet Cohen by some of Britain's finest composers, such as Frank Bridge, William Wa...

Claudio Monteverdi is now recognized as the towering figure of a critical transitional moment of Western music history: relentless innovator in eve...

The 300th anniversary of Henry Purcell's death in 1995 stimulated a good deal of new research into his music, its sources, performance, reception a...

The hard-rocking British supergroup was fronted by Steve Marriott, possessor of what is generally regarded as one of the finest ever rock and blue-...

Bursting out of industrial Birmingham in the late 1970s and hitching a ride on the Two-Tone bandwagon for their first single, The English Beat answ...

Bob Dylan is the magician who sprinkled poetic fairy dust on to the popular music of the early sixties and his songwriting sparked a revolution and...

** CONTAINS NEW MATERIAL ** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER & WINNER OF THE ATTITUDE BOOK AWARD 'Refreshing, inspiring and candid.' ATTITUDE 'I l...

for SATB, accompanied, and unaccompanied To celebrate the centenary of the Oxford University Press Music Department, this volume of 50 new carols ...

Celebrated in hardcover, a deeply reported and richly textured biography of Christopher Wallacenow in paperback!The Notorious B.I.G. was one of the...

From Sunday Times bestselling author Lesley-Ann JonesOn 12 July 1962, the Rollin' Stones performed their first-ever gig at London's Marquee jazz cl...