James Edwards 
Arias for Acoustic Guitar [PDF ebook] 

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 …

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 …

The word motreb finds its roots in the Arabic verb taraba, meaning ‘to make happy.’ Originally denoting all musicians in Iran, motrebi came to be associated, pejoratively, with the cheerful vulgarity …

This selection of essays represents a wide cross-section of the papers given at the Tenth International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music held at the University of Bristol in 1998. Sections incl …