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Volumes I and II cover orchestral music. Volume III covers every field of chamber and instrumental music, and a fourth volume surveys vocal music. The listings are by composer, based on importance and number of records available. A selective list of those records, and some collector's items, round off each entry.

Not only have a breathtaking array of musical giants come from the South--think Elvis Presley, Robert Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Rodgers, to name just obvious examples--but so have a breathtaking array of American music genres. From blues to rock & roll to jazz to country to bluegrass--and areas in between--it all started in the American South. Since its debut in 1996, The Oxford American's more-or-less annual Southern Music Issue has become legendary for its passionate and wide-ranging ap...

A pioneering “horror-punk” band, the Misfits are legends in their own time. This discography tells the story of the band in all of its incarnations through all of their recorded output—both official and unauthorized releases. Discographies are provided for both present and former members’ solo projects and bands, along with a wealth of rare record sleeves, photos and vintage posters documenting the evolution of the band and the brand.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy is the first thorough analysis of how policy frames the behavior of audiences, industries, and governments in the production and consumption of popular music. Covering a range of industrial and national contexts, this collection assesses how music policy has become an important arm of government, and a contentious arena of global debate across areas of cultural trade, intellectual property, and mediacultural content. It brings together a diverse ra...

Since the eighteenth century, violin concertos have provided a showcase for dramatic interplay between a soloist's virtuosity and the blended sonority of an orchestra's many instruments. Using this genre to showcase skill and ingenuity, composers cemented the violin concerto as a key genre of classical music and gifted our ears with such timeless masterpieces as Vivaldi's Four Seasons. In Experiencing the Violin Concerto, Franco Sciannameo draws on his years of scholarship and violin performanc...

Now updated through 1991, this popular volume lists every single to appear in the top spot on the Hot 100 chart since 1955, along with anecdotes, interviews, and chart data.

This is the only comprehensively annotated guide to all the significant literature on American composer Charles Ives (1874-1954), and is the latest addition to the invaluable Routledge Music Bibliographies series. It includes English and foreign-language books, monographs, articles, chapters, dissertations and masters' theses.

Biographies of 600 women who performed patriotic acts.

This work offers the latest information on downloading music, podcasts, photographs and movies to the latest generation of iPods, MP3 players, mobiles and computers, giving a unique Virgin slant on how to stay at the cutting edge of the downloading revolution. With special emphasis on creating and downloading playlists, this is the last word in structuring your individual media library. What? - it is a quick guide to the latest download technology. How? It tells how to go about downloading. Who?...