The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music Volume 2 explores elements of production and performance and their relationship to popular music. This second volume consists of 460 entries by 130 contributors from around the world and is arranged in four parts: Part I: Performers and Performing; Part II: Musical Production and Transmission; Part III: Musical Instruments; and Part IV: Musical Forms and Practice. Entries include musical examples, bibliographies, discographies and filmographies.
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These first two volumes (of a projected 12) portend great things for the set. Among the 250 contributors are most of the leading scholars, musicians, and journalists in popular music studies. Nearly 20 years in the making, the encyclopedia responds to a need for a comprehensive approach to popular music, one that would give due attention to non-Anglo-American musics. To that end, much thought was devoted to the taxonomy and layout of each volume. Rather than simply listing entries alphabetically, each volume presents broad topics in some detail, with indexes in each volume to bring subjects together. An important ... addition to the canon of popular music studies. Highly recommended.