Table of Contents

Adult Contemporary African-American Musical Theater, 1890- Album-Oriented Rock Alternative Country Alternative Rock Backstage Musical Bakersfield Sound Ballad (North American) Barbershop Bebop (Bop) Bluegrass Music Blues Boogie Woogie Brill Building Pop Broadway Musical Burlesque Cajun Music Chanson canadienne/Chanson québécoise Chicago Blues Chicago Jazz Chicano Music Christian Rock Classic Blues Contemporary Christian Music Contemporary Worship Music Cool Jazz Coon Song Country Music Country Rock Cowboy Songs Delta Blues Disco Doo Wop Duranguense Easy Listening Electro Emo Ethnic Music Exotica Folk Music (North American) Free Jazz Funk Garage, US Garage Rock Girl Groups Go-Go Gospel Hymn Gospel Music, African-American Gospel Music, White Granola Music Grunge Hardbop Hip-Hop Honky-Tonk Hot Rod House Music Indita Jazz Jazz-Rock Latin Boogaloo Latin Jazz Mainstream Jazz Mardi Gras Indian music Matachines Miami Bass Minstrelsy Modal Jazz Motown Nashville Sound, The Native American Pop New Country New Jack Swing New York Downtown Scene New Orleans Jazz Outlaw Country Music Powwow Music Progressive Jazz Quebradita & Technobanda R&B, Contemporary Ragtime Railroad Songs Revue, American Rhythm and Blues Riot Grrrl Rockabilly Rock 'n' Roll Salsa Shape-Note Hymnody Singer-songwriter Singing Cowboy Smooth Jazz Soft Rock Soul Soul Jazz Southern Rock Spiritual, African-American Stride Surf Music Sweet Music Swamp Blues Swamp Pop Swing Music and Big-Band Jazz Symphonic Jazz Talking Blues Techno Tejano Music Third Stream Tin Pan Alley Torch Song Trad and Néo-trad Vaudeville Vaudeville, African-American Waila West Coast Jazz Western Swing Yé-yé québécois Zydeco

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A comprehensive and authoritative reference to a huge range of American musical styles, from Barbershop to Bluegrass and from Ragtime to Rockabilly.

About the Author

John Shepherd is Chancellor's Professor of music and sociology, and Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research at Carleton University, ON. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. David Horn was a founding editor of the journal Popular Music (Cambridge University Press, 1981+), and a founding member of IASPM (The International Association for the Study of Popular Music). He was Director of the Institute of Popular Music at the University of Liverpool from 1988 until his retirement in 2002. Together with the blues scholar Paul Oliver he first proposed the idea of EPMOW in the 1980s, and has worked on the project since that time. Other recent publications include two edited volumes: The Cambridge Companion to Jazz (with Mervyn Cooke, 2002),and a special issue of Popular Music in honour of Paul Oliver (2006).

Reviews

Volume 8 of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World is a comprehensive and incredibly useful guide to the musical styles of North America. The combination of history and description in the text, with the addition of bibliographies and discographies, makes EPMOW the ideal book with which to survey the vast array of musical genres associated with North America. The entries are illuminating and insightful and provide an unparalleled resource for teachers and students.
*Steve Jones, University of Illinois at Chicago Distinguished Professor*

Volume VIII of the Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World (Genres: North America) reminds us just how spectacularly varied are the highways and byways of American popular music. This fascinating guide takes us from the Brill Building in New York City to Bakersfield's distinctive country sound; from California's sunny surf music to D.C.'s gogo scene; from the Southwest's technobanda to Louisiana zydeco. Musics that swept the entire continent (rock ‘n' roll) rub up against sounds that are the product of a few fertile neighborhoods of a single city (Mardi Gras Indian Music). This is the one indispensible companion for any fan of popular music, written in such a way that one can read and enjoy the volume cover-to-cover or choose to use it as needed as a reference.
*Gage Averill, Dean of Arts, The University of British Columbia, Canada*