Product Description: Other books have been written on electronic music, but none with the breadth and accessibility offered by Modulations, the tie-in volume to the critically acclaimed film directed by Iara Lee, released in 1998. Going beyond the limits of an encyclopedia or a record guide, essays by musicians and music journalists illuminate such genres as techno, house, krautrock, disco, hip-hop, drum'n'bass, ambient, and downtempo in more expansive detail than was possible in the film...read more

Product Description: The Rough Guide to Drum 'n' Bass Music covers the breakbeat and its circulation through the world in genres such as Jungle, Hardcore Techno, Trip-Hop, and Big Beat. This pocket-sized but encyclopedic tome traces the innovators and apprentices, with hundreds of reviews and recommendations...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)

Product Description: "At their best, Rough Guide volumes present a balanced consideration of facts and criticism. But under the ostensibly authoritative brand name, they assume the reader's implicit trust in a single author covering a given genre. In the case of Peter Shapiro, this seems a safe bet...read more

Product Description: The Rough Guide to Soul and R&B is the definitive guide to the genre’s greatest singers, musicians, songwriters and record labels, encapsulating the entire history of soul music from gospel and doo-wop, through funk and disco, to hip-hop and R&B. T...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: A long-overdue paean to the predominant musical form of the 70s and a thoughtful exploration of the culture that spawned itDisco may be the most universally derided musical form to come about in the past forty years. Yet, like its pop cultural peers punk and hip hop, it was born of a period of profound social and economic upheaval...read more