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What happens to "local" sound when globalization exposes musicians and audiences to cultural influences from around the world? Jeremy Wallach...

From Robert Johnson to Aretha Franklin, Mahalia Jackson to John Lee Hooker, blues and gospel artists figure heavily in the...

Music is the most popular and dynamic aspect of Caribbean expressive culture. From the well-known genres-salsa, merengue, reggae, calypso, and...

A search for the sources and sounds of an often overlooked sister genre of Cajun and zydeco music. Author: Bernard, Shane...

Bossa nova is one of the most popular musical genres in the world. Songs such as “The Girl from Ipanema”...

Hip Hop Africa explores a new generation of Africans who are not only consumers of global musical currents, but also...

In Expressive Singing: Dalcroze Eurhythmics for Voice, Timothy Caldwell pulls together concepts from Eurhythmics, "rules" of musical expression from Lussy,...

Rock musicals are an increasingly dominant force in contemporary musical theatre. ÊRock the AuditionÊ defines what is required of the...

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

You are invited to tango, the world's most sensual and intimate dance, through the stories and memoirs of two American...

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

Musical Meaning in Beethoven offers a fresh approach to the problem of expressive meaning in music. Beginning with a provocative...

In this enlightening and entertaining book, one of the most original and sophisticated musicologists writing today turns his attention to...

In a tour de force of lyrical theory, Joshua Clover boldly reimagines how we understand both pop music and its...

Mozart's enduring popularity, among music lovers as a composer and among music historians as a subject for continued study, lies...

Stuart Rosenberg traces the growth of rock and roll music from its beginnings in 1955 through the end of the...

The summer of 1976 through the summer of 1977 was the most significant year in British rock history, when punk...

By far the most comprehensive book on Dylan’s words ever written, including a number of songs that no one has...

Compiled from exclusive interviews with the band, this definitive rock reference chronicles all the facts surrounding one of the biggest...

The American musical has long provided an important vehicle through which writers, performers, and audiences reimagine who they are and...