Music : Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal

"Understanding Popular Music" is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the history and meaning of popular music. It begins with a critical assessme......

Tokio Hotel-twin brothers, vocalist Bill and guitarist Tom Kaulitz; drummer Gustav Schäfer; and bassist Georg Listing-were already multiplatinum-selling supe......

An intimate profile of one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century, this first full-length biography of Karen Carpenter details every aspect......

Living Through Pop explores pop's history and the ways in which it has been produced by musicians, boradcasters, critics and fans. Publisher: Routledge Illu......

After a hundred years of recording, the process of making records is still mysterious to most people who listen to them. Records hold a fundamental place in ......

Ranging from Los Angeles to Havana to the Bronx to the U.S.-Mexico border and from klezmer to hip hop to Latin rock, this groundbreaking book injects popular......

Music and Revolution provides a dynamic introduction to the most prominent artists and musical styles that have emerged in Cuba since 1959 and to the policie......

In a tour de force of lyrical theory, Joshua Clover boldly reimagines how we understand both pop music and its social context in a vibrant exploration of a y......

Popular musicians acquire some or all of their skills and knowledge informally, outside school or university, and with little help from trained instrumental ......

He Is...I Say examines Neil Diamond's singular place in the pantheon of popular music. David Wild-who has written about Diamond for Rolling Stone, penned the......

The fascinating world of Âmusic scenes, where local musicians and fans explore common musical tastesand create distinctive lifestyles. Publisher: Vanderbil......

Stuart Rosenberg traces the growth of rock and roll music from its beginnings in 1955 through the end of the 1960s. During this fifteen year period, rock and......

The first all-encompassing guide to the imrovisational rock music scene and the emerging wave of improvisational music now thriving in North America. The boo......

Intimate and touching, this biography captures the warmth and wit of Steve Goodman, one of the most respected songwriters of the 1970s and early 1980s. Diagn......

From Elvis and a hound dog wearing matching tuxedos and the comic adventures of artificially produced bands to elaborate music videos and contrived reality-s......

From its indefinite beginnings through its broad commercialization and endless reinterpretation, American rock-and-roll music has been preoccupied with an en......

Memphis Boys chronicles the story of the rhythm section at Chips Moman's American studios from 1964, when the group began working together, until 1972, when ......

This enjoyable read ties in some of our favorite songs with key passages in literature and scripture and monuments of modern art. Exploring the nexus between......

Based on the author's research in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and other urban areas in Vietnam, this study of contemporary Vietnamese popular music explores the......

Praise for No Static at All: "Don Tanner provides a compelling inside look at radio. This book is a must-read for anyone who has ever thought about a...