Music

GB. Grayson and Henry Whitter were two of the most influential artists in the early days of country music. Songs they popularized--Tom Dooley, L...

The song John Henry, perhaps America's greatest folk ballad, is about an African-American steel driver who raced and beat a steam drill, dying w...

The 1970s saw a wave of singer-songwriters flood the airwaves and concert halls across the United States. This book organizes the stories of approx...

After years of studying piano as a young woman in her family home in Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson curated her music book, a common pract...

From the one-bit beeps of Pong to the 3D audio of PlayStation 5, this book examines historical trends in video game sound and music. A range of ...

Exploring the paranormal through musical phenomena, this encyclopedia covers a range of anomalies, from musical mediumship to locations througho...

Songs of Sonderling is the story of Jacob Sonderling's unique contributions to Jewish liturgical music. Rabbi Sonderling was many things: a descend...

In the late 1970s legendary pianist Bill Evans was at the peak of his career. He revolutionized the jazz trio (bass, piano, drums) by giving each p...

You ain't nothing but a Hound Dog ... with these words shouted into the microphone she will always be remembered: Big Mama Thornton. Who is this...

Jan Berry, leader of the music duo Jan & Dean from the late 1950s to mid-1960s, was an intense character who experienced more in his first 25 y...

Adopted as a child from the Masonic Home for Children at Oxford, Tommy Malboeuf grew up in Troutman, North Carolina before enlisting in the Navy...

Ann Miller (1923-2004) was an American actress, dancer, singer and author. Best known as a tap dancer, Miller practiced all forms of dance, and ...

In Boyle Heights, gateway to East Los Angeles, sits the 1889 landmark Hotel Mariachi, where musicians have lived and gathered on the adjacent plaza...

Samuel Milligan's Five Medieval Dances is the third in the the Wings Press Ars Musicæ Hispaniæ series, joining Milligan's Seven Medieval Songs and ...

Many of Bob Dylan's most well-known works date from the 1960s, and can be seen as critical indicators of the changes in American society then an...

Renowned composer Jennifer Higdon is best known for her symphonic pieces Blue Cathedral, Concerto for Orchestra, City Scape, Concerto 4-3 and Violi...

On March 31, 1943, the musical Oklahoma! premiered and the modern era of the Broadway musical was born. Since that time, the theatres of Broadwa...

Wizard rock--music based on the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling--is an idiosyncratic subgenre, with band names like Harry and the Potters, ...

A companion volume to the authors Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth Century Cases (2002), this reference work...

What does freedom sound like in the context of traditional Japanese theater? Where is the space for innovation, and where can this kind of innovati...

Three years after entering the pop music scene, Lady Gaga became the most well-known pop star in the world. These thirteen critical essays explo...