Music books

The complete, incredible story of one of the hardest-rocking bands in music history - 40th anniversary edition  Read More >>

A close look at how wylers, a popular musical style from the island of St. Kitts and Nevis, expresses a unique mode...  Read More >>

""To compose was as natural to me as to breathe; and this gift of nature, never having been suffered to fall into...  Read More >>

The Gift of Song: Performing Exchange in Western Arnhem Land draws on first-person ethnographic fieldwork, to examine...  Read More >>

Designed for students and others seeking an up-to-date introduction, this Companion explores electric guitar technology,...  Read More >>

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A close look at how wylers, a popular musical style from the island of St. Kitts and Nevis, expresses a unique mode...  Read More >>

Discover ""Always the Music"", Thomas W. Morris' journey through classical music, orchestra management and leadership...  Read More >>

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Mexican rock history has tended to end as Mexican democracy begins. There is another story to tell, however, about...  Read More >>

This volume brings together for the first time two lesser-known aspects of Gerard Manley Hopkins's creative drive:...  Read More >>

Contributors to this volume push the boundaries of contemporary opera scholarship by examining works that disrupt...  Read More >>

The new book from Jimmy Barnes, the award-winning author of the number-one bestsellers Working Class Boy, Working...  Read More >>

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Thomas Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into...  Read More >>

Robert Fludd (1574-1637) is well known among historians of science and philosophy for his intriguing work. 'The...  Read More >>

Innovative and collaborative in its approach, this volume engages with the question of how gender informed song...  Read More >>

What defines pop music? Why do we consider some styles as easier listening than others? This collection of essays...  Read More >>

This book tells three interrelated stories that radically alter our perspective on plainchant reform at the turn...  Read More >>

The focus of this collection of essays is the powerful interaction between popular music and multimedia: film, television,...  Read More >>

The many complex and difficult issues relating to the performance of music from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries...  Read More >>

The study of opera in the second half of the eighteenth century has flourished during the last several decades,...  Read More >>

Discos, clubs and raves have been focal points for the development of new and distinctive musical and cultural practices...  Read More >>

This volume reprints articles that cover an array of significant twentieth-century operas and critical questions...  Read More >>

This collection of articles engages with issues that are central to the changing discourse of jazz in popular culture....  Read More >>