Music: styles & genres books

The Bene Israel are a Jewish community from western India who, over centuries, developed a distinctive identity...  Read More >>

DISCO! Music, Image, Dance takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring disco's untold stories--sonic, visual,...  Read More >>

A study of The Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night (1964) by journalist and broadcaster Samira Ahmed, in the BFI Film...  Read More >>

This Element studies music in 'nostalgia mode', reproducing perfected versions of existing sounds, and hauntological...  Read More >>

A study of Italian composer Ennio Morricone's creative engagement with the western film genre, surveying his original...  Read More >>

This biography explores the inspiring story of one of the world’s greatest entertainers, from humble beginnings...  Read More >>

This Element studies music in 'nostalgia mode', reproducing perfected versions of existing sounds, and hauntological...  Read More >>

The arabesque, a crucial component of nineteenth-century aesthetics characterized by recurring patterns of interlocking...  Read More >>

Music has always been profoundly transnational, transcending language barriers and crossing borders in ways that...  Read More >>

Public and Private Modes of Musical Discourse brings a new contribution to discussions on the difference between...  Read More >>

Hip Hop Studies and Queer Black Feminism presents a dynamic and much-needed fresh analysis of Black gendering and...  Read More >>

The arabesque, a crucial component of nineteenth-century aesthetics characterized by recurring patterns of interlocking...  Read More >>

Music has always been profoundly transnational, transcending language barriers and crossing borders in ways that...  Read More >>

Public and Private Modes of Musical Discourse brings a new contribution to discussions on the difference between...  Read More >>

As the Iron Curtain fell and Cold War suspicions thickened in the second half of the twentieth century, the quintessentially...  Read More >>

The first monograph in English to offer a comprehensive account of Pierre Schaeffer's music philosophy including...  Read More >>

Of all the loud, rebellious rock groups forged in the white heat of America's Motor City, MC5 were the most uncompromising....  Read More >>

Black Sabbath The Dio years looks at the three different Dio eras with every album and track put under the microscope,...  Read More >>

They're still rocking the world today, a dozen albums in, touring the world and never resting on their laurels....  Read More >>

James Michener's first novel, Tales of the South Pacific, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and the Pulitzer-winning...  Read More >>

Presents the history of a radical movement in Seventies Britain. With its own clothes, hair, artwork, fanzines and...  Read More >>

Bringing together nineteen essays from leading specialists in poetics and American music, this collection offers...  Read More >>

As Love’s most revered album is titled Forever Changes, it’s little wonder that their superior back catalogue encompasses...  Read More >>

For a few short years in the 1970s, the unique music of Focus entertained the world.  Stephen Lambe's book guides...  Read More >>

Featuring a new introduction by Jon Savage, Faber presents a beautiful paperback edition of One Hundred Lyrics and...  Read More >>