Music: Styles & Genres

In the early 1970s, a strange apparition began to appear on the stages of a vibrant U.K. gig circuit in the shape of a band of West Country troubad...

Donovan is one of the musicians who defined the 1960s. From his humble, working-class roots as a teenager with big dreams, he rose to become an ico...

Music may not have been the designated career path for the members of Tool when they each relocated to Los Angeles in the 1980s, but the quartet wo...

Captain Beefheart (Don Vliet) was undoubtedly the creator of the most bizarre and wonderful music. A child prodigy sculptor, he applied his artisti...

There is simply no one like Cher. A mix of street smart, intelligence, talent and beauty, she's the celebrities' favourite celebrity and if you're ...

'Gillespie is rock and roll's Oliver Twist. A punk rock fairytale, razor sharp on class struggle, music, style, and a singular view of the world re...

The ''80s were about big ideas writ large - new money, new style, gender fluidity, gay pride, attritional politics, the ''special relationship'', n...

The 365 most legendary Jazz classics in one calendar. Vinyl records and record stores are currently experiencing a revival and with this, the artis...

Maria Callas was, perhaps, the greatest opera singer of the 20th century. Hers was a life lived on the world stage, and her fame extended to the pu...

This biography of Minna Planer, Richard Wagner's wife of 30 years, reveals her as a self-assured woman and artist who was vital to her husband's cr...

Since the first performance of the first opera in 1600, operas have been telling stories from myth and history. This book - beginning with the Crea...

Experience the passion and drama of the world's greatest operas with this sumptuously illustrated visual guide.Immerse yourself in more than 400 ye...

Maria Callas (192377) was the greatest opera diva of all time. Despite a career that remains unmatched by any prima donna, much of her life was ove...

Opera has been around ever since the late 16th century, and it is still going strong in the sense that operas are performed around the world at pre...

For decades, eighteenth-century Paris had been declining into a baroque backwater. Spectacles at the opera, once considered fit for a king, had ...

Focusing on songs by the troubadours and trouvères from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera contends tha...

Explores the political meanings that Italian opera - its composers, agents and institutions - had for audiences in eighteenth-century Britain. The...