Music: styles and genres

Situated at the interstices of music and theatre studies, Theatrimusicality:  Spectauralising Performance reframes the dynamic interplay of theatricality and musicality and theorises theatrimusicality as a conceptual consequent of analysing contemporary performance practices that lie in the intersection between theatre and music.

Situated at the interstices of music and theatre studies, Theatrimusicality:  Spectauralising Performance reframes the dynamic interplay of theatricality and musicality and theorises theatrimusicality as a conceptual consequent of analysing contemporary performance practices that lie in the intersection between theatre and music.

Musical theatre is a global art form that is constantly shaped by local contexts.

Ce premier volume d'un guide en huit tomes, propose une exploration inedite de la musique a travers ses thematiques.

This book explores the synergetic cooperation and sometimes complex relationship between Western pop songs and East Asian films.

Ever since their debut single was released in 1983, The Smiths have influenced musicians worldwide with their jangly guitar pop, infectious melodies and front man Morrissey's passionate lyrics.

When Freddie Bulsara arrived in England in 1964, fleeing with his family from a bloody revolution on the streets of his homeland Zanzibar, he already knew that he wanted to be a rock star.

As a band, The Beatles released over 200 songs in the eight years between 1962 and 1970.

Saschko Gawriloffs Karriere in Berlin begann 1945 unmittelbar nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg als sechzehnjahriger Solist, 1947 trat er die Stelle als Erster Konzertmeister der Dresdner Philharmonie an, wechselte im Folgejahr zu den Berliner Philharmonikern und 1949 zum Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.

Phish - The Baker's Dozen On Stage provides an in-depth exploration of Phish's monumental 13-night residency at Madison Square Garden in 2017.

Some albums are simply undeniable watersheds in an artist's career.

En esta obra la cumbia no solo se escucha.

In the mid-1960s, two notable bands emerged from the rarified cloisters of Charterhouse Public School in rural Surrey: The Anon, with guitarists Anthony Phillips and Mike Rutherford and The Garden Wall, a unit driven by the duo of Peter Gabriel and Tony Banks.

Once, there were four university students who started a rock band named after a firetruck.

Slade were one of the biggest British bands of the 1970s.

The 1980s saw Alice Cooper arguably release his most diverse collection of albums, ranging from new wave to metal to full-on radio-friendly rock.

The 1970s was the decade that saw the arrival of Alice Cooper as a major force in the rock firmament.

An enigma, Leonard Norman Cohen was possibly the most improbable bohemian intellectual singer/songwriter in music history.

90125, released towards the end of 1983, was Yes' best-selling album.

In 1998, the future of the Red Hot Chili Peppers seemed extremely uncertain.

The Stooges were formed in 1967 in Ann Arbor, outside Detroit.

Of all the British bands that rose to fame in rock's golden age, Nektar remain the most mysterious and least documented.

One of the most pivotal albums in the evolution of rock music, few other recordings have had more impact than the 1965 Bob Dylan classic, Bringing It All Back Home.

Depending on who you asked, George Harrison was many different things to different people.

One of the most iconic and successful British bands of the 1980s, Level 42 are also arguably the ultimate 'fusion' unit, streamlining their energetic early jazz/funk/rock sound into slick, effortlessly-soulful pop music.

Arguably the greatest album by the best rock band ever, The Beatles - also known as The White Album - proved to be a watershed recording.

This book charts all of the albums which feature The Chic Organisation, helmed by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards.

Few singers have been able to change with the times like Johnny Mathis.

Traversing power metal, acoustic introspect and finally settling on their breakthrough cinematic sound, Finnish heavyweights Nightwish are the leading name in the sumptuous world of symphonic metal.

Formed as shambolic art-punk four-piece Seymour whilst attending London's Goldsmiths University, the rechristened Blur released their debut album Leisure in 1991, marking them as promising indie upstarts in thrall to the voguish sub-genres of baggy and shoegaze.

This book explores the synergetic cooperation and sometimes complex relationship between Western pop songs and East Asian films.

Released in 1969, Let It Bleed was The Rolling Stones' eighth studio album and tenth in the USA.

'He was probably the most naturally talented person I've ever worked with.

It was the year the Sixties really started swinging - the Summer of Love, when the Rolling Stones said 'We Love You' and The Beatles pointed out that 'All You Need Is Love'.

You could consider Kate Bush's The Dreaming to be her finest moment, depending on whether you value the rejection of compromise and see that as a sign of authenticity.

In January 1981, the four members of Bucks Fizz - Mike Nolan, Cheryl Baker, Jay Aston, and Bobby G - met each other for the first time.

The Damned are a great British rock n' roll institution.

Joe Hill emigrated from Sweden to the United States in 1902, eventually joining the Industrial Workers of the World and becoming the most celebrated labor songwriter in the country.

Joe Hill emigrated from Sweden to the United States in 1902, eventually joining the Industrial Workers of the World and becoming the most celebrated labor songwriter in the country.

We only ever get glimpses of Ian Dury; nothing is as it seems.

There are many reasons for loving The Yardbirds that go way beyond knowing that the group was the launchpad for three superstar guitarists - Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page.

When Sonicbond Publishing produced its first books in 2018, we didn't expect that by 2024, we would have published over 120 new titles in our flagship On Track series.