From Vaudeville to Rock, Big Bands to Techno
With over 500 pictures and cross-referenced entries covering more than 150 musical genres, singers and styles, this is the first-ever chronicle-style account of the many faces of popular music through the 20th Century, the Century Of Pop.
Pop didn’t start with Elvis – or Frank Sinatra for that matter. A Century Of Pop traces more than 100 years of popular music from its diverse geographical and ethnic roots to the truly international vocabulary it represents today. From Victorian hymns and West African drum rhythms, through light opera, Vaudeville songs, Latin America, Country, Blues and rock’n’roll, to the techno-driven pop music of the Nineties, A Century Of Pop describes with stunning pictures and a wealth of archive material the many-sided history of the popular music of the 20th Century.
