(Hardback)

A timely interdisciplinary volume from the emergent field of EDM (Electronic Dance Music) festival and event-culture studies.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

When Shane, Kian, Mark, Nicky and Bryan celebrated the beginning of 2001 in true Irish style, they had no idea of the adventures that lay ahead. Eddie Rowley, co-author of Ronan Keating's bestselling autobiography Life is A Rollercoaster, followed Westlife on their biggest ever world tour.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

Film musicals: you either love them or they make you want to kill yourself slowly with plastic cutlery. Nothing has the power to lift your heart or turn your stomach like Howard Keel in fake sideburns singing 'Bless Your Beautiful Hide' or Julie Andrews singing... well, just about anything.

(Paperback)

A history of the uneasy relationship between jazz and rock through the lens of the music press.

(Hardback)

A history of the uneasy relationship between jazz and rock through the lens of the music press.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

In Who Did It First: Great Rock and Roll Cover Songs and Their Original Artists, the third volume in Bob Leszczak's exciting Who Did It First series, readers explore the hidden history of the most famous, indeed legendary, rock and roll classics. As Leszczak points out, the ...

(Paperback)

As lead singer and extraordinary frontman of SLADE, Noddy Holder was one of the most successful musicians of the '70s and '80s. The epitome of the Glam Rock look and lifestyle, they released anthem after anthem as they mixed pure pop madness with football chant choruses.

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

New, expanded and updated edition of the best comprehensive survey of who's who of British jazz musicians. Over 900 biographies detail the work of musicians from every era of British jazz, ranging from those who played professionally before 1920 at the dawn of jazz in Britain, through to today's young stars.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

Presenting an insiders view of the music industry and music making in 13 countries, this work looks at the interactions between transnational communication and national cultures.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

Presenting the life and professional career of "The Dean of Afro-American Composers", this book deals with the writings by and about William Still, the compositions of manuscript sources, the performances of Still's works and the reviews of those performances.

(Hardback)

The first full-length volume on the life work of one of the most well-known and prolific masters of our time, William Thomas McKinley: A Bio-Bibliography provides both musicologists and performers with a guide toward further exploration of the composer and his music.

(Paperback)

The first biography of the legendary, beloved, long-running band Little Feat, by veteran music journalist Ben Fong-Torres.

(Hardback)

This book addresses a highly complex and elusive matter: why the Christian Church was able to contribute so generously to music from its earliest days through the 18th century and why it has suffered since that time from a creeping artistic paralysis.

(Hardback)

This discography is successful in its attempt to `present a complete picture of women instrumentalists' recording activity from 1913 to 1968.' Jan Leder also shows the significant contributions made by women in jazz and their involvement playing jazz since its beginnings.

(Hardback)

An unforgettable time, documented in this exhaustively researched reference work.

(Hardback)

Cohan, the American theatre's first important lyricist, and continuing up into the 1980s, the book presents an overall history of the musical theatre during this century.

(Paperback)

(Paperback, New edition)

A guide to the world of contemporary and electronic music.