歌唱与音乐制作

A joyful, moving, vivid window onto the life and heart of an American icon. In the spring of 2018, Tom Piazza climbed into a 1977 Coupe De Ville with the great singer-songwriter John Prine, taking a …

A founder of the iconic band Faith No More shares his coming-of-age and out-of-the-closet story in pre–tech boom San Francisco THE ROYAL WE is a poetic survey of a time set in a magical city that onc …

Well before she married Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann was already an internationally renowned pianist, and she concertized extensively for several decades after her husband’s death. Despite be …

God & Monster is the ultimate profile of the world’s most controversial superstar: Kanye West. Kanye revolutionised hip-hop with his debut album The College Dropout and has collaborated with the bigg …

The definitive history of the acid house explosion and its reverberations across popular culture,  Adventures In Wonderland has been out of print for more than 20 years. This new edition ha …

French composer Maurice Ravel was described by critics as a magician, conjurer, and illusionist. Scholars have been aware of this historical curiosity, but none so far have explained why Ravel attrac …

Gabriel Fauré’s mélodies offer an inexhaustible variety of style and expression that have made them the foundation of the French art song repertoire. During the second half of his long career, F …

The definitive biography of pop sensations ABBA, revised and fully updated. Exploding on to the international music scene after winning Eurovision with ‘Waterloo’ in 1974, Abba have since become one …

The demonization, internment, and deportation of celebrated Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Dr. Karl Muck, finally told, and placed in the context of World War I anti-German sentiment in the Unit …

A pioneering study of how American composer Aaron Copland helped shape the sound of the Hollywood film industry and introduced the moviegoing public to modern musical styles. One of the most influent …