Demonstrates the split personalities of South African popular music, and how it spread around the world and yet retained a full suite of unique and original languages, both literally and figuratively.
This book depicts the life and career of Scott Hoying, Grammy Award-winning cofounder of Pentatonix, as seen by his mother Connie. More than just a close-up look at Scott’s life and the meteoric rise of Pentatonix, Connie tells a heartfelt story of perseverance, dedication to music, LGBTQ+ acceptance, and supportive parenting.
This first-ever look at the global phenomenon known as math rock includes interviews with musicians, producers, and critics and contains a thorough breakdown of what makes up the enigmatic, complex, and largely instrumental musical genre that has been fascinating listeners for decades.
Guides readers through an overview of death metal, broken down to explore its foundations, tropes and myriad microgenres, presented for an outsider with a morbid curiosity but little experience.
Music critic and writer Paul Morley weaves together memoir and history in a spiralling tale that establishes classical music as the most rebellious genre of all
Examines the flash-in-the-pan Neue Deutsche Welle movement—its history, importance to youth rebellion in Germany and beyond, and ultimate (re)appropriation by the mainstream establishment.
Guides readers through the enigmatic genre of shoegaze—a subgenre of 90s indie rock defined by dreamy melodies and obscured vocals and made popular by bands like My Bloody Valentine, Ride, and Slowdive.
Guides readers through dance-punk, a sub-genre of post-punk, drawing from the historical and cultural conditions surrounding the genre in the 1970s and early 1980s, and then again in the early 2000s.
