Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume 8

David Horn was a founding editor of the journal Popular Music (Cambridge University Press, 1981+), and a founding member of IASPM (The International Association for the Study of Popular Music). He was Director of the Institute of Popular Music at the University of Liverpool from 1988 until his retirement in 2002. Together with the blues scholar Paul Oliver he first proposed the idea of EPMOW in the 1980s, and has worked on the project since that time. Other recent publications include two edited volumes: The Cambridge Companion to Jazz (with Mervyn Cooke, 2002),and a special issue of Popular Music in honour of Paul Oliver (2006). John Shepherd is Chancellor's Professor of music and sociology, and Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research at Carleton University, ON. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

• Adult Contemporary; African-American Musical Theater, 1890-; Album-Oriented Rock; Alternative Country; Alternative Rock; Backstage Musical; Bakersfield Sound; Ballad (North American); Barbershop; Bebop (Bop); Bluegrass Music; Blues; Boogie Woogie; Brill Building Pop; Broadway Musical. Burlesque; Cajun Music; Chanson canadienne/Chanson quebecois; Chicago Blues; Chicago Jazz; Chicano Music; Christian Rock; Classic Blues; Contemporary Christian Music; Contemporary Worship Music; Cool Jazz; Coon Song; Country Music; Country Rock; Cowboy Songs; Delta Blues; Disco; Doo Wop; Duranguense; Easy Listening; Electro; Emo; Ethnic Music; Exotica; Folk Music (North American); Free Jazz; Funk; Garage, US; Garage Rock; Girl Groups; Go-Go; Gospel Hymn; Gospel Music, African-American; Gospel Music, White; Granola Music; Grunge; Hardbop; Hip-Hop. Honky-Tonk; Hot Rod; House Music; Indita; Jazz; Jazz-Rock; Latin Boogaloo; Latin Jazz; Mainstream Jazz; Mardi Gras Indian music; Matachines; Miami Bass; Minstrelsy; Modal Jazz; Motown; Nashville Sound, The; Native American Pop; New Country; New Jack Swing; New York Downtown Scene; New Orleans Jazz; Outlaw Country Music; Powwow Music; Progressive Jazz; Quebradita & Technobanda; R&B, Contemporary; Ragtime; Railroad Songs; Revue, American; Rhythm and Blues; Riot Grrrl; Rockabilly; Rock 'n' Roll; Salsa; Shape-Note Hymnody; Singer-songwriter; Singing Cowboy; Smooth Jazz. Soft Rock; Soul; Soul Jazz; Southern Rock; Spiritual, African-American; Stride; Surf Music; Sweet Music; Swamp Blues; Swamp Pop; Swing Music and Big-Band Jazz; Symphonic Jazz; Talking Blues; Techno; Tejano Music; Third Stream; Tin Pan Alley; Torch Song; Trad and Neo-trad; Vaudeville; Vaudeville, African-American; Waila; West Coast Jazz; Western Swing; Ye-ye quebecois; Zydeco.

Volume 8 of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World is a comprehensive and incredibly useful guide to the musical styles of North America. The combination of history and description in the text, with the addition of bibliographies and discographies, makes EPMOW the ideal book with which to survey the vast array of musical genres associated with North America. The entries are illuminating and insightful and provide an unparalleled resource for teachers and students.