Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 2

Professor John Shepherd, Carleton University, Ottawa David Horn, Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool Dave Laing, University of Westminster, London Dr Paul Oliver, Oxford Brooks University, Oxford Professor Peter Wicke, Centre for Popular Music Research, The Humboldt University, Berlin

• Preface; List of contributors; List of abbreviation; Arrangement of the material - Part I: Performers and Performing: Groups: Individuals - Performance Techniques - Part II: Musical Production and Transmission: Personnel - Processes - Interpretative/ Technological - Technologies - Part III: Musical Instruments: Found Instruments - Guitars - Keyboard Instruments - Mechanical Instruments - Percussion Instruments - Stringed Instruments - Voice - Wind Instruments - Part IV: Musical Form and Practice: Form - Harmony - Melody - Rhythm - The Piece - Timbre - Words, Images and Movement

These first two volumes (of a projected 12) portend great things for the set. Among the 250 contributors are most of the leading scholars, musicians, and journalists in popular music studies. Nearly 20 years in the making, the encyclopedia responds to a need for a comprehensive approach to popular music, one that would give due attention to non-Anglo-American musics. To that end, much thought was devoted to the taxonomy and layout of each volume. Rather than simply listing entries alphabetically, each volume presents broad topics in some detail, with indexes in each volume to bring subjects together. An important ... addition to the canon of popular music studies. Highly recommended.