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Harper's has called them "the best reference books in the language." And The Boston Globe wrote, "How did we ever get along before Oxford began to publish its thick, encyclopedic volumes which, modestly and accurately, it calls Companions?" From the redoubtable Oxford Companion to English Literature to the fascinating Oxford Companion to the Mind , these browsable volumes have long been acclaimed as goldmines of information, capturing in thousands of entries the essence of a particular field of interest. Now comes the newest addition to the Companion series, The Oxford Companion to Popular Music , encompassing in one alphabetic sequence all that is notable within this vast subject, everything from jazz, reggae, blues, and calypso, to Broadway musicals, rock and roll, and country western. There are hundreds of biographical entries on such diverse figures as John Philip Sousa and Ma Rainey, Fred Astaire and Joan Baez, Josef Lanner (the Father of the Viennese Waltz) and Mistinguett, Otis Redding and Prince. The great Broadway writers, performers, and musicals (including plot outlines) are all Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern; "South Pacific," "West Side Story,"

Author

PETER GAMMOND

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA; First edition

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780193113237

Subjects

Music, Arts

Rating

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Updated

2026-03-24