Updated to include seventy percent new material, a reference to the past decade's top trends, performers, and sounds reviews the music industry's most influential albums, provides biographical overviews of key artists, and considers how technology and the Internet have impacted the industry. Original. 75,000 first printing.

An offbeat guide to higher education provides information on the campuses and towns that offer quality music venues, record stores, radio stations, and music festivals, in addition to colleges that offer courses or degrees in music or the music business. Original.