Performing in musical ensembles provides a remarkable opportunity for interaction between people. When playing a piece of music together, musicians contribute to the creation of an artistic work that is shaped through their individual performances. However, even though ensembles are a large part of musical activity.

This is the definitive account of the shift in popular music and youth culture that took place in the 1980s. It draws on interviews with DJs, record company bosses, musicians, producers and fans to outline a transition in pop thinking from the obsession with style and packaging to content, socially conscious lyrics and a new authenticity. -- .

Tells the story of rave culture and explores the origins of this dance music, chronicling the ways in which its reverberations have influenced 1990s pop. Examining the music as well as the drugs, this book includes how Chicago house and Detroit techno catalyzed the "Madchester" ferment of 1988-90.

Tells the sensational story of the meteoric rise and rapid decline of the last great rock'n'roll band and the cultural moment they came to define. The critical reputation of England's Dreaming has grown over the past decade and a half, and now it joins the Faber Modern Classics list.

This book present a years-long discussion between composers Ennio Morricone and Alessandro De Rosa about life, music, and the unpredictable ways that the two influence each other.

Designed to supplement a textbook for an introductory course in ethnomusicology, this reader presents a cross section of the best writing in the field. It features articles that provide information on geographic regions and topics, and introduces issues that facilitate classroom or small group discussion.

Grunge, also known as the 'Seattle Sound', emerged from the Pacific north-west in the early part of the 1980s. With the unexpected success of Nirvana's single 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' in 1991, grunge became a household word overnight and launched an American music movement on a par with punk and hip-hop. This book tells the whole story.

Everything in its Right Place identifies the secret to Radiohead's immense commercial and critical success in the band's ability to navigate a sweet spot between expectation and surprise. The author uses tools from musical perception, semiotics, and music theory to demonstrate this reconciliation of extremes, and analyzes musical meaning with lyrics, biographical details, and intertextual relationships.

The most definitive book ever written on the history of Pink Floyd and their music

The worlds of pop and rock owe a much greater debt to the classical canon than we realise. Alker shines a light on the rich tapestry that exists between their borders through exclusive interviews with Sir Paul McCartney, Steve Reich, La Monte Young, Nils Frahm, The Blessed Madonna, Jonny Greenwood, Soweto Kinch and Jean-Michel Jarre among others.

A definitive insight into the ever-influential world of Mark E. Smith and the Fall, featuring never-before published essays and ephemera from fans, collectors and the artist and band themselves.

Composer Michael Nyman's classic 1974 account of the postwar experimental tradition in music.

A pocket Guide looks at all Bach's music, sacred and secular, and explores why he speaks so profoundly to our age about both the spiritual and the sensual in life.

Why is Mozart the best known and most popular of all the great Western classical composers? More than 250 years after his birth, his reputation stands higher than ever before. With recommendations of good recordings, the author shows how Mozart's music has communicated with unique power across many generations.

Incorporates many more operas from all periods, including recent works by Philip Glass, Mark Anthony Turnage, Thomas Ades and George Benjamin.

A meditation on faith, art, music, grief and much more - from cultural icon and bestselling author Nick Cave

Collects material from mid-1970s through 2010 to trace the evolution of ethnomusicological thinking about women, gender, and music, offering a perspective of how questions emerged and changed in those years, as well as Koskoff's reassessment of the early years and development of the field.

A revelatory and very personal exploration of Indian classical music from 'one of his generation's best writers' (Guardian).

"One of the most entertaining and informative books of the year...to be enjoyed not only by rock fans, but by anyone interested in popular culture and social change."--NPR.org

Five Years Ahead of My Time: Garage Rock from the 1950s to the Present tells the story of an explosive musical phenomenon whose continuing influence on popular culture is dramatic and deep.