Music reviews and criticism

An award-winning account of the importance of semiotic play in Classic instrumental music, including that of Mozart, Haydn, and BeethovenOf all the repertories of Western Art music, none is as explicitly listener-oriented as that of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

If you experienced the Sixties as more than just sex, drugs and rock 'n roll, then this book will resonate with you.

Hip-hop and superstar woman vocalists reigned supreme in the late 90s.

The Rock 'n' Roll Archives is a series collecting vintage artist interviews and record reviews from the archives of award-winning rock critic and music historian Rev.

Folk music of the 1960s and 1970s was a genre that was always shifting and expanding, yet somehow never found room for so many.

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Eddie Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Brian May, David Gilmour, Prince, Neil Giraldo, Trevor Rabin, Steve Lukather: the early 80s boasted some massive guitar firepower on its #1 hits!

Garth Brooks was the best-selling country artist of the 1990s.

Folk music of the 1960s and 1970s was a genre that was always shifting and expanding, yet somehow never found room for so many.

Iceland is one of the most unique and fascinating countries in the world.

Nevermind was the album that took Nirvana out of Seattle's alternative rock scene and turned them into a worldwide mainstream sensation.

The Everly Brothers-aka Don and Phil to fans with an intimate appreciation for them-seemed to exist almost as an apparition.

"e;I'm a Barbie Girl, in a Barbie world,"e; the ubiquitous refrain that dominated the airwaves in summer 1997.

Renowned for his literary style as well as his musical scholarship, Nicolas Slonimsky wrote many program notes and articles for newspapers and other periodicals, in addition to his well-known books.

Red Hot + Blue is a meditation on music's capacity to find us, transform us, and help us make sense of our historical moment.

Best known for co-founding the early punk duo Suicide, Alan Vega lived a complex and labyrinthine life, driven by a desire to express himself uncompromisingly through art.

Women have been important players in the recording industry from the very beginning, but not until 1996 did they out-chart their male competitors and pull ahead in the race for hits.

This book charts the emergence of Kate Bush in the early-to-mid-1980s as a courageous experimentalist, a singularly expressive recording artist and a visionary music producer.

Country music might have started its life in the untamed Appalachians, but it was Nashville that took the raw sound and dirt-farm imagery and turned it into the glossy, glitzy, glamorous pageant it is today.

In Waking Up In Dublin, Neil Hegarty takes readers on a personal tour of Dublin's multifaceted music scene, talking to performers and promoters in areas as diverse as modern rock, traditional folk, classical, avant-garde, jazz, cabaret and choral music.

Von lang tradierten Klängen, alten und neuen Liedermachern, dem Festival von Sanremo und der Showbühne des Eurovision Song Contest bis zur globalen Tragweite der Hip-Hop-Kultur präsentiert der Band aus romanistischer Perspektive ein Spektrum, das zeigt, wie diesseits und jenseits der Romania Pop(ulär)musik sich in Europa verortet, Europa konstituiert und zugleich kritisiert

One of the many reasons why children and adults love the How to Train Your Dragon films is the music.

Detailed account of Manson's life, including his attempt to break into the LA scene of the mid '60s, to his bizarre relationship with the Beach Boys, his obsession with The Beatles, his demo releases from prison which achieved quadruple platinum sales, the resultant lawsuit to ban his royalties, his influence on Guns n' Roses, and his links with ne-Nazi rock underground.

One of the many reasons why children and adults love the How to Train Your Dragon films is the music.

Perhaps the best musical encapsulation of the Cold War as experienced in the walled city of West-Berlin, Kollaps is a product of its time while remaining as vital, exhilarating and surprising as the day it was released.

In this book you will find an astounding 400 biographies that highlight the history and personnel of the great bands.

This monograph studies opera as music drama, guided by four ideas: opera as an ambiance (setting an acoustic stage where dramatic action becomes possible), as a Gesamtkunstwerk (incorporating other arts forms into a coherent whole), as archaeology (revivifying lost worlds of experience) and as a dialectical syllogism (resulting in the negation of a paralysing negation via a dramatic act).

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The BBC Proms is the world's biggest and longest-running classical music festival and one of the jewels in the crown for the BBC.

Music of Initiative: Julian Joseph on Jazz is for any musician interested in jazz, no matter what your instrument or level of experience.

The rise and rise of the 'manufactured' pop group has been a reliable and consistent trend over the last 50 years of the pop music charts, and this entertaining account by Nick Brownlee features them all!

From humble beginnings in murky, Liverpool clubs in the early sixties, four songwriters emerged who would change the course of popular music forever: The Beatles.

The creation of the Confederate States of America and the subsequent Civil War inspired composers, lyricists, and music publishers in Southern and border states, and even in foreign countries, to support the new nation.

Walk the halls of the famous studio that produced hits for Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Sam and Dave, and Booker T.

The fascination with tragedy and the subsequent theatre of voyeurism are part of human nature, especially when it involves our icons, celebrities and musicians.

From his childhood paintings to the song he recorded on the day he died, here is a complete catalogue of Lennon's work across many fields: songwriting, performing, drawing, painting, film, poetry, prose and conceptual art.

Elvis, Ozzy, George Michael, Metallica, George Harrison, The Smiths.

An absorbing account of the record industry's worst nightmare.

It was our version of a Hollywood epic, shot in black and white over a ten year period, with no script and a cast of thousands who had to make it up as they went along.

'Excellent' - EconomistMost women in the developed world are dissatisfied with their breasts.

The first book to consider the shellac disc as a global format.

The creation of the Confederate States of America and the subsequent Civil War inspired composers, lyricists, and music publishers in Southern and border states, and even in foreign countries, to support the new nation.

The BBC Proms is the world's biggest and longest-running classical music festival and one of the jewels in the crown for the BBC.

Popular music has always attracted the kind of morally bankrupt individuals who are too unhinged to hold down a proper job.