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At the outset of summer in 1990, a Houston gangsta rap group called the Geto Boys was poised to debut...

The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a record company that...

Exploring U2: Is This Rock 'n' Roll? features new writing in the growing field of U2 studies. In keeping with...

Perceptive and entertaining, Try Whistling This is a pleasurable journey through music, ideas and history. Andrew Ford traces the...

The music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts. Joseph Auner's Music in the...

By providing a focused examination of the historical development of Black music artistry, William C. Banfield formulates a usable philosophy...

In this revealing history, author, historian, and musician Ian Glasper explores in minute detail the influential and esoteric UK anarcho-punk...

Stylized dance music and music based on dance rhythms pervade Bach's compositions. Although the music of this very special genre...

The three volumes of The Masterwork in Music present complete English translations of major works by Austrian music theorist Heinrich...

A groundbreaking study of every aspect of Van Morrison's artistic career - his influences, lyrical themes, vocal performances, his relationship...

Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was one of jazz's greatest and most enigmatic figures. As a composer, pianist, and bandleader, Monk both...

This Companion offers a concise and authoritative survey of the string quartet by eleven chamber music specialists. Its fifteen carefully...

In their analyses of a pivotal work from the Counter Reformation in Germany, the authors provide a broader knowledge of...

Words like "inspiring," "expansive," and "moving" are regularly used to describe Sigur Rós's ( ), and yet the only words...

Background Noise follows the development of sound as an artistic medium and illustrates how sound is put to use within...

This legendary work presents a comprehensive survey that covers every issue of significance to today's performers, with numerous musical examples,...

The first full-length scholarly study of Morrissey's career - as a writer, performer, and troublemaker. Author: Hopps, Gavin Publisher: Continuum USA Illust......

Aja was the album that made Steely Dan a commercial force on the order of contemporaries like Fleetwood Mac, the...

This book presents two stories: one of a man creating that elusive American second act, and secondly finding the perfect...

Los Angeles, 1976. David Bowie is holed up in his Bel-Air mansion, drifting into drug-induced paranoia and confusion. Obsessed with...