Daniel J. Levitin 
World in Six Songs [EPUB ebook] 

Deems Taylor (1885-1966) was a composer, music critic, author, commentator, translator, and artist. He was the first American composer commissioned to write an opera by New York’s Metropolitan Opera, …

Bob Marley was the undisputed sovereign of reggae music and the revolutionary soul-prophet whose music had – and continues to have – a massive impact on people of throughout the world. "Catch A …

What is it about the history, geographical position and cultures of the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia that has made music such a potent and powerful agent? This volume presents the first …

Now updated with two new chapters and an extraordinary collection of photographs, this second edition of Paul Friedlander“s Rock and Roll: A Social History is a smash hit. The social force of rock a …

Quincy Jones: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography and discography on one of the most prolific composers, arrangers, and conductors in American music. This reference work wil …

Sounds of the Borderland is the first book-length study of how popular music became a medium for political communication and contested identification during and after Croatia“s war of independence f …

Musical Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction presents new insights into the study of musical rhythm through investigations of the micro-rhythmic design of groove-based music. The main purpose of …

With the advent of modern cognitive neuroscience and new tools of studying the human brain ‚live, ‚ music as a highly complex, temporally ordered and rule-based sensory language quickly became a fasc …

Despite the influence of African American music and study as a worldwide phenomenon, no comprehensive and fully annotated reference tool currently exists that covers the wide range of genres. This mu …

The music industry has been waging some very significant battles in recent years, reacting to numerous inter-related crises provoked by globalization, digitalization and the ever more extensive comme …