Music: Styles & Genres

***'Wise and playful...'BBC Music MagazineWith a foreword by James NaughtieWithin the pages of this book lie musical prescriptions that offer comfo...

Reversing into the Future: New Wave Graphics 19771990 is a unique and fascinating book of graphic design history curated from Andrew Krivines perso...

There's no template for making it as a globally successful pop group. Some of the ingredients remain constant and beyond the music, there's a mix'n...

Doomed to Fail explores the heaviest music the world has ever heard, tracing doom, sludge, and post-metal as their own distinct (and incredibly lou...

*Includes an exclusive new chapter*'Excellent' Guardian'Hugely enjoyable' Irish Times'Dazzling' LRB 'Fascinating' New Statesman 'An absolute must-r...

One of Britain's best-loved and most successful fanzines, Jamming! documented the musical landscape as it evolved between 1977 and 1986. Fully i...

The Nashville Cats bounced from studio to studio along the city's Music Row, delivering instrumental backing tracks for countless recordings throug...

During Mexico's silent (1896-1930) and early sound (1931-52) periods, cinema saw the development of five significant genres: the prostitute melodra...

Whether social, cultural, or individual, the act of imagination always derives from a pre-existing context. For example, we can conjure an alien's ...

To the tune of Yankee Doodle, the American obsession with politics was born alongside America itself. From the end of the Revolutionary War through...

Forget Blur/Oasis and Cool Britannia. None of that actually happened. Bad Vibes is the true story of English Rock in the nineties. Written with wit...

This book analyses the relationships between music and contemporary media, both via the mediation of music, and music as mediator. It does so throu...

The South Korean percussion genre, samul nori, is a world phenomenon whose rhythmic form is the key to its popularity and mobility. Based on both e...

Disability and Music Performance examines discriminatory social practices in music conservatoria, orchestras, music festivals and music competition...

In the thirty years since their immigration from Ethiopia to the State of Israel, Ethiopian-Israelis have put music at the center of communal and p...

This collection provides readers with a diverse and contemporary overview of research in the field. Drawing upon scholarly writing from a range of ...

Twenty-five years since acid house and Ecstasy revolutionized pop culture, Simon Reynolds's landmark rave history Energy Flash has been expanded an...

The life and good times of one of the worlds favourite songwriters. If youve ever hummed a popular film or stage song from the mid-1950s on, the c...

Music and violence have been linked since antiquity in ritual, myth, and art. Considered together they raise fundamental questions about creativity...

Santa Claus, singing cowboys, love, hymns, satire, snow, Bing and Dean and Frank, fictional reindeer and warbling chipmunks: American Christmas mus...

On the coast of Washington and British Columbia sit the misty forests and towering mountains of Cascadia. With archipelagos surrounding its shores ...

'Glorious' Guardian'Revelatory' New Yorker'Evocative' Los Angeles TimesIn 1971, as her groundbreaking album Blue emerged as a singular commercial a...

The long-awaited memoir of Booker T. Jones, leader of the famed Stax Records house band, architect of the Memphis soul sound, and one of the most l...

The cowboy songs and dusty Texas car rides of his youth set Patrick B. Mullen on a lifelong journey into the sprawling Arcadia of American music. T...

How could the Mississippi Delta, one of the world's most prolific cultural centres, be demolished by a predictable natural disaster? This revised e...

In 1994, the music critic Simon Reynolds coined a new term: post-rock. It was an attempt to give a narrative to music that used the tools of rock b...

Geechi Suede and Sonny Cheeba are Camp Lo. These two emcees from the Bronx, NY entered the American hip hop scene with an insider slang that bewild...

This annotated discography covers the first 50 years of audio recordings by black artists in chronological order, music made in the acoustic era...