Provides a study of the most important musical form of the 1970s that assesses the history of disco music and the cultural, social, and economic milieu of the era that spawned it.

Product Description: Completely updated and radically expanded, the new Rough guide to Hip-Hop is the definitive guide to every aspect of the music, tracing its story from its origins in the 1970s as New York’s urban folk music all the way to hip-hop’s current dominance as the world’s best-selling genre...read more

Product Description: "The Rough Guide Website Directory" is a companion to the "Rough Guide to the Internet" aiming to save you hours of online frustration. Reviewing a couple thousand of the world's most useful (and strangest) sites, it'll help you to: find anything fast; shop the world; trace your ancestry; discover new music; invest your income; publish your photo album; meet your perfect match; source a recipe; fix your computer; follow the football; look up free encyclopedias; diagnose your ailment; know your films; book an adventure; tune in to foreign radio; and more...read more

Product Description: This guide informs readers how to build a representative collection of soul music. It traces the music's path, with a brief stop-over in Ethiopia, from its birth in pentecostal churches in cotton country, to a proliferation of styles. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)