Simon Frith & Will Straw 
Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock [EPUB ebook] 

This is the first comprehensive historical analysis of how black music and musicians have been represented in the fiction of African American writers. It also examines how music and musicians in fict …

Christians and Christianity have been central to Hip Hop since its inception. This book explores the intersection of Christians and Hip Hop and the multiple outcomes of this intersection. It lays out …

HONK! A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism explores a fast-growing and transnational movement of street bands—particularly brass and percussion ensembles—and examines how this exciting phe …

"The Great German Composers" by George T. Ferris is a comprehensive masterpiece in classical music history books, offering insightful biographies of prominent German composers. Through meti …

First Published in 1998. This is Volume VIII, of nine in the Sociology of Culture series and discusses how to approach the area of a sociology of music, looking at scope, definition, evaluation metho …

Baroque composer George Frideric Handel easily ranks among the world”s greatest composers. The first edition of this research guide on Handel appeared in 1988; since that time a great deal of schola …

A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Theoretic-Analytical Context is an integrated account of the genres and concepts of twentieth-century art music, organized topically according to aesthetic, …

Perhaps we saw the 1950”s movie with Kirk Douglas, or maybe we had the snot scared out of us on the Disney World ride as kids-regardless, 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea is indelibly etched into the c …

Isaac Albéniz is one of the most important figures in the history of Spanish music. A legendary child prodigy, he went on to become one of the leading concert pianists of his generation in Europe. Ho …

Translating for Singing discusses the art and craft of translating singable lyrics, a topic of interest in a wide range of fields, including translation, music, creative writing, cultural studies, pe …