Contemporary World Musicians
- ISBN-10
- 1135939616
- ISBN-13
- 9781135939618
- Category
- Reference
- Pages
- 600
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-10-08
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Clifford Thompson
Description
Music lovers, researchers, students, librarians, and teachers can trace the personal and artistic influences behind music makers from Elton John to Leontyne Price. Individual entries on over 400 of the world's most renowned and accomplished living performers, composers, conductors, and band leaders in musical genres from opera to hip-hop. Also includes an in-depth Index covering musicians of all eras, so that readers can learn which artists, alive or dead, influenced the work of today's most important figures in the music industry.
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