A Basic Music Library: Essential Recordings, 4e, Volume 1: Popular Music Cores and Sound

compiled by the Music Library Association

ISBN-13: 9780838910399 

368 pages • 8½ x 11
Year Published: 2017

Prepared by the Music Library Association, with thousands of records selected by experts in dozens of specialized and popular areas of music, A Basic Music Library constitutes the most authoritative music collection resource available. Volume 1 of this completely revised and reorganized reference is divided into these sections:

• Music of Colonial North America and the United States to about 1900
• Blues
• Jazz
• Mainstream Popular and New Age
• Country and Western
• Rock
• Rhythm and Blues and Soul
• Rap and Hip-Hop
• Gospel Music and Other Popular Christian Music
• Children’s Music
• Holidays, Special Occasions, Patriotic Music, and Miscellaneous