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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...

In Classical Music in a Changing Culture, Donald Vroon takes no prisoners in assessing the challenges and failures and possible...

These essays explore music and its relationship to language, aesthetics, and culture in the life and work of the preeminent...

Considered one of the greatest composers-and music critics-of the Romantic era, Robert Schumann (1810-1856) played an important role in shaping...

Renaissance music in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts. Richard Freedman's Music in the Renaissance shows how music and other...

Sex, the body, and pop music in modern urban Russia Author: Amico, Stephen Publisher: University of Illinois Press Illustration: N Language: ENG Title: Roll......

Denise Von Glahn explores the relationship between listening and musical composition focusing on nine American women composers inspired by the...

From Buddy Holly and the Crickets to the Flatlanders, Terry Allen, and Natalie Maines, Lubbock, Texas, has produced songwriters, musicians,...

Outstanding musical examples — chants, motets, madrigals, more — illustrating course of musical style from early Middle Ages to mid-18th...

The first compact history of jazz to place it within broader context. With an eye on the music, the musicians,...

Text and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll explores the interaction between two of the most powerful socio-cultural movements in the post-war years...

In Choral Masterpieces: Major and Minor, historian Nicholas Tarling offers short essays on over 28 works, from major masterpieces such...

This classic chronicle of the longstanding challenges of tuning and temperament devotes a chapter to each principal theory, features a...

Finally, after all that waiting, The Future arrived in 1980. Ohio art-rockers Devo had plainly prepared with their 1979 second...

Many albums could be cited to support the claim that great suffering yields great art. Elliott Smith's XO should not...

Although Exile in Guyville was celebrated as one of the year's top records by Spin and the New York Times,...

A brilliant exploration of Radiohead's game-changing album, looking at its place in the career of "The World's Best Band" with...

David Bowie: every single song. Everything you want to know, everything you didn't know. Author: O'Leary, Chris Publisher: Zero Books Illustration: n La......

(Book). How does an underground oddity become a cultural phenomenon? For over 40 years, the rock band Kiss has galvanized...