Rock & Pop Music

Michael Jackson challenged the power structure of the American music industry and struck at the heart of blackface minstrelsy, Americas first form ...

Embodied Nostalgia is a collection of interlocking case studies that focus on how social dance in musical theatre brings forth the dancer on stage ...

Ya-Hui Cheng examines the emergence of popular music genres jazz, rock, and hip-hop in Chinese society, covering the social underpinnings that sh...

Psychedelic music is a fascinating yet under-researched field of study. This thought-provoking collection offers a broad introduction to the field ...

The Brian Jonestown Massacre are one of the great contemporary cult American rock and roll bands. At the peak of their anarchic reign in the San F...

From 1969 to 1971, as the United States convulsed with political upheaval and transformative social movements, no band was bigger than Creedence Cl...

Elvis Presley stands tall as perhaps the supreme icon of 20th-century U.S. culture. But he was perceived to be deeply un-American in his early year...

In 1998, the future of the Red Hot Chili Peppers seemed extremely uncertain. Once considered alternative rocks hottest act on the back of their tri...

In Please Please Tell Me Now, bestselling rock biographer Stephen Davis tells the story of Duran Duran, the quintessential band of the 1980s. Their...

Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers' 1972 song Roadrunner captures the freedom and wonder of cruising down the highway late at night with the ra...

Are you the ultimate fan?Show your loyalty to the ultimate Rock n Roll Stars with this supersonic celebration of the Gallagher brothers. Featuring ...

Get a completely new look at guitar legend Eddie Van Halen with this groundbreaking oral history, composed of more than fifty hours of interviews w...

Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers' 1972 song Roadrunner captures the freedom and wonder of cruising down the highway late at night with the ra...

Although David Bowie has famously characterized himself as a leper messiah, a more appropriate moniker might be rock god: someone whose influence ...

Which Song is the Best and Why? Read it and see! Organized by rank, from 1 to 100, this illustrated celebration of the best songs by the boys who r...

* INCREDIBLE PACKAGE: This deluxe journal features a red vinyl cover reminiscent of Britney's famed space suit from the music video; the song title...

Having designed Roxy Music as an haute couture suit hand-stitched of punk and progressive music, Bryan Ferry redesigned it. He made Roxy Music ever...

Late on 8 December 1980, the world stopped turning for millions when news broke that its best-loved rock star had been gunned down in cold blood in...

New York Times BestsellerLeon Russell is an icon, but somehow is still an underappreciated artist. He is spoken of in tones reserved not just for t...

Well into the new millennium, the analog cassette tape continues to claw its way back from obsolescence. New cassette labels emerge from hipster en...

Well into the new millennium, the analog cassette tape continues to claw its way back from obsolescence. New cassette labels emerge from hipster en...

The first entrant in Backbeat Books new Goes to 11 series, this fun and informative book explores Stevie Wonders place in pop music history through...

Idiosyncratic.Iconoclastic.Acerbic.Hilarious.The influence of Tom Hibbert's music writing across print, radio, TV and podcasts is incomparable. Fro...