Music: Styles & Genres

'A thorough, objective telling of McCartney's story - in and out of the most famous band ever.' ESQUIREThe first biography written with McCartney's...

Great music arouses wonder: how did the composer create such an original work of art? What was the artist's inspiration, and how did that idea beco...

In his first collection of essays, Peter Guralnick dives deep into question at the heart of his body of work: What is the source of creativity? Spa...

Ever since Pearl Jam first blasted onto the Seattle grunge scene three decades ago with their debut album, Ten, they have sold 85M+ albums, perform...

Women played crucial roles in the history of rock music. Without Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a gospel-singing electric guitarist, rock might never have ...

The Journal of Beatles Studies is the first journal to establish The Beatles as an object of academic research, and will publish original, rigorous...

In Sonata Fragments, Andrew Davis argues that the Romantic sonata is firmly rooted, both formally and expressively, in its Classical forebears, usi...

Making the Scene in the Garden State explores New Jerseys rich musical heritage through stories about the musicians, listeners and fans who came to...

Founded in 1872, the Glee Club is Rutgers Universitys oldest continuously active student organization, as well as one of the first glee clubs in th...

WINNER of the 2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award Follows the fascinating story of musical timekeeping, beginning in an age before the ex...

The author of the book analyses selected 19th-century operas based on Shakespeares plays from the perspective of their relations to the literature,...

This collection is a unique exploration of the heritage and legacy of the Canterbury Sound: a signature style emerging in the 1960s that draws upon...

Most die-hard Brazilian music fans would argue that Getz/Gilberto, the iconic 1964 album featuring The Girl from Ipanema, is not the best bossa nov...

Race, politics, and opera production during apartheid South Africa intersect in this historiographic work on the Eoan Group, a coloured cultural or...

K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-orient...

Hailed by corporate, philanthropic, and governmental organizations as a metaphor for democratic interaction and business dynamics, contemporary jaz...

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