Forty years after the release of their first single, Genesis are back. Phil Collins, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford have reunited for their first t...

This richly illustrated three-volume set is a treasure for connoisseurs of European culture and history. It is accompanied by audio recordings of 2...

In cities across the land in the 1980s it was not uncommon to wake up in the morning and find nearly every telephone pole sporting a poster adverti...

Bob Marley died in 1981, but the interest he generated in the raggae, blues, and world beat music continued to grow. Around the world local bands s...

Proceedings from The Nordic Festival and Conference of Gregorian Chant.

Nevin on Nevin -- and the times of our lives: I became a serious collector of 45 rpm recordings in the mid-Fifties. I tried to collect every hit si...

As meteoric rises go - Gareth Ashton's takes some beating. Born and bred in Derbyshire, he had always been a keen drummer, like his father and in 1...

Hilary Duff is everywhere these days--from movie theatres to DVDs, radio and CDs, and even the clothing sections of major department stores. She's ...

Since the 1960s historical studies of European folk and traditional music have had a centre in the 'Study Group on Historical Sources of Folk Music...

The 1950s and early '60s were a period of unprecedented change on the British music scene, witnessing the emergence of trad jazz, skiffle, folk and...

For the past 20 years, 'Hot Wacks Books' -- bootleg CD and record rating guides and discographies -- have been indispensable tools for the bootleg ...

Kate Bush exploded onto the world stage in 1978 with her smash hit single Wuthering Heights. Music lovers around the world were enamoured with her ...

Indian music is vast like an ocean, so deep that its depths can hardly be fathomed. It is said that the unique beauty of Indian music lies between ...

The monograph supplements the series with a country that has so far been neglected in the history of music and opera in Europe: Romania. There, the...

The intersection between literature and music is a major feature in Anglo-American cultural history. The present volume analyzes the transatlantic ...

In 1908 a local rancher and surveyor by the name of N Howard 'Jack' Thorp walked into the cramped offices of the Estancia News in Estancia, New Mex...

Through both personal stories and stunning photographs captured behind the scenes—including scores of images never before published—lose yourself i...

As a founder member of the world's most successful instrumental group, the Shadows, and a chart-topper in his own right, bassist Jet Harris scaled ...

John Mayall is an icon in the world of blues music and the Godfather of British blues. A pioneering musician, blues promoter and talent scout for o...

This book looks at the anatomy of a big band radio station with the broadcasters and the songwriters. Chapters cover the early dance bands of Paul ...

This book brings together a wide range of contemporary explorations of Indigenous music and dance in the Torres Strait and the tropical regions of ...

Lumberman Larry Gorman was no respecter of borders -- nor of anything else, it seems. From the time he was a young man growing up on Prince Edward ...

Born to shell-shocked parents in shell-shocked London shortly after the end of World War II, Paul 'Sailor' Vernon came into his own during the 1960...

This book is a radical attempt to explain musical meaning as the complex fabric of tension and relaxation resulting from the courses of the individ...