Music: styles & genres books

For the first time, Hottest Hits brings together the fastest-moving UK singles charts of the 1960s and 1970s. Between...  Read More >>

Mensuration and Proportion Signs represents the first attempt to see the origin of musical mensuration and proportion...  Read More >>

This book, the first of two volumes on Steven Wilson, tackles the first ten years of his solo career, from his debut...  Read More >>

The Moog synthesizer ""bent the course of music forever"" Rolling Stone declared. Bob Moog, the man who did that...  Read More >>

Smokin Jo, a legend in the club world and the only woman to be awarded DJ of the Year in DJ Magazine's list of Top...  Read More >>

This is the untold history of Oceania's 1960s lost psychedelic album, The Happy Prince. Recorded in Sydney by the...  Read More >>

The authorized Paul Weller biography.  Read More >>

A BFI Film Classic exploring Todd Haynes’s kaleidoscopic glam-rock epic, Velvet Goldmine (1998) - an alternative...  Read More >>

Queercore revolutionized the possibilities of sonic kinship among self-identified queer in the 1980s and '90s, through...  Read More >>

The story of Australia’s most popular modern jazz group of 1960, and their best-selling debut album Move.  Read More >>

The untold story of how women shaped punk - and how punk shaped them.  Read More >>

An in-depth study of a medieval manuscript of songs from the Cistercian monastery in Vyšší Brod. Manuscript 42...  Read More >>

Spanish music is universally popular but seldom well understood. For the first time in English, in a single volume,...  Read More >>

A story of pop music, identity crisis and Hong Kong, from the acclaimed singer-songwriter Emma-Lee Moss (a.k.a....  Read More >>

Relive The Beatles’ last live public concert through the eyes of the ultimate rock 'n' roll photographer Jim Marshall....  Read More >>

This is the story of how Cuban music captivated the world in the 1950s, told through the life of mambo’s most famous...  Read More >>

An unforgettable and in-depth exploration of The Beach Boys’ incredible output during their peak years as recollected...  Read More >>

What song takes you back-instantly-to another time, another place, another version of yourself? In Part I of this...  Read More >>

What song takes you back-instantly-to another time, another place, another version of yourself? In Part I of this...  Read More >>

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An exploration of the allure of the ageing male rockstar by one of the UK's greatest music writers.  Read More >>

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Celebrate Jungkook, the once-in-a-generation talent at the centre of BTS, in this illuminating look into the forces...  Read More >>