Music: Styles & Genres

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, whose life and mystical poetry provided the inspiration for the Mevlevi Sufi order, is one of the world's best-known poets...

It was a scene that had many names: some original members referred to themselves as punks, others, new romantics, new wavers, the bats or the morbi...

How to Write a Song That Matters is an invaluable guide to writing music by a woman who knows how to do it and do it well: iconic singer-songwriter...

Penny Pepper has led an extraordinary life. She is a writer, an activist, a punk pioneer. She also happens to be disabled. In her absorbing memoir,...

Status Quo are a British institution - a multi-million selling band of epic proportions and while their career was in it's hey day during the 1970s...

Pink Floyd are one of the most innovative and enduringly successful bands in history. 1973's Dark Side of the Moon, though far from the first conce...

A definitive look at how church music is changing in the 21st century.There is no lack of resources for the church musician focusing on particular ...

Drawing on interviews with stars and musicians, producers and photographers, stylists, writers and celebrity fans, this book chronicles the glam er...

After 40 years in existence, the shorthand of critics of Tears for Fears has been to describe them as an 80s band. It is understandable why that ca...

This is a music autobiography to remember. This is the story of Martyn Ware. The Human League and Heaven 17 were among some of the most pioneering ...

Discover the stories behind the songsTHE LIFE OF A SONG contains the stories of 100 songs exploring each song's biography and how they took on a ne...

The image of Jordan with her white shards of beehive and Mondrian make-up is one of the most iconic in pop culture. From the counter of Malcolm McL...

A ROUGH TRADE, MOJO, UNCUT & LOUDER THAN WAR BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE RALPH J. GLEASON MUSIC BOOK AWARDA redemptive, myth-shattering...

A wild ride of a life... Oakenfold's story is extraordinary - The Times Follow Paul Oakenfold world-renowned DJ and dance music pioneer as he tel...

Ours is music with built-in hatred.  Pete Townshend A Band with Built-In Hate pictures The Who from their inception as the Detours in the mid-sixt...