The Virgin Encyclopedia of Sixties Music
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Sixties Music
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The Virgin Encyclopedia of Sixties Music by Colin Larkin
Here are 1000 entries on the bands, musicians, songwriters, producers and record labels - everyone who had a significant impact on the development of rock and pop music in those ten years, from the Beatles-led invasion of America to the States' own pop aristocracy of Phil Spector and the Beach Boys, from the rise of Motown to the arrival of psychedelia and the Summer of Love. As well as all the giants of the period the encyclopedia has the range and depth to include artists who flourished briefly and yet were quintessential to the decade. A perfect mix of fact and informed opinion contained in one single volume, distilled from the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, universally acclaimed as the world's leading source of reference on rock and pop history. Informed, infatuating and invaluable.
'The meticulous accuracy here is infuriating' The Guardian; 'approaches the subject with genuine scholarly intent and never descends into pretension' The Express
Colin Larkin has the best credentials for the compiler of a music reference book - he loves the music. In 1989 with twenty years' experience in music and publishing, and unhappy that popular music has not been deemed worthy of serious reference, he set about creating an equivalent to the Grove Dictionary Of Music. The Encyclopedia Of Popular Music from which this Encyclopedia is derived was first published in 1992, following three years of intensive research. The original database has trebled in size and now includes over 8 million words, the biggest of its kind in the world. Everyday of every year the database in updated and expanded.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852279332 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852279338 |
| Title | The Virgin Encyclopedia of Sixties Music |
| Author | Colin Larkin |
| Series | The Virgin Encyclopedia |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Ebury Publishing |
| Year published | 2002-05-16 |
| Number of pages | 550 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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