The story of an iconic group, the advent of pop, and the birth of rock music in 1960s Britain.The Yardbirds were trailblazers in the rapid development of pop music in Britain between 1963 and 1968. With members including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and...

"Revelatory and propulsively arranged." - The New York TimesThe first ever oral-history of Krautrock, the sound that changed modern music.West Germany, 1968. Like everywhere else in the Western world, the young generation is pushing for radical change,...

David Bowie, though well-traveled, was fundamentally a London boy. The capital shaped his cosmopolitan worldview and influenced all aspects of his persona and artistry. From his distinctive voice with its Brixton-by-Bromley inflections to his...

Offers a detailed examination of Mozart's final months, discusses the cause of his death, and looks at his final compositions

A detailed analysis of the musical styles and forms developed by Mozart, Hadyn, and Beethoven

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Turn-of-the-century modernists were involved, implicated, and often locked in a struggle with all the formidable legions of nineteenth-century music. The focus of this collection, essays originally published in the journal 19th-Century Music, is upon...

What Charles Rosen's celebrated book The Classical Style did for music of the Classical period, this new, much-awaited volume brilliantly does for the Romantic era. An exhilarating exploration of the musical language, forms, and styles of the Romantic...

Combining biography, cultural history, and music criticism, the author explores the cultural and commercial mechanisms that aided in the formation of the Toscanini legend and reveals Toscanini himself as a musicians' icon

James Baldwin used to tell Nina Simone, "This is the world you have made for yourself, now you have to live in it." Simone has created for herself a world of magnificent peaks. Often compared to Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf, Simone is known as one of...