Excellent sense detail and interest in the writing. There are just enough details and facts on each artist to give an overall sense of who they were/are but not so much info that it blunts the impact of the major points or obscures larger concepts.

--Guy Cantwell, Cabrillo College

This approach is much needed in general, and particularly in music, where influences of diverse cultures are of such importance. Thank you for creating this book.

--Barry Salwen, Uniiversity of North Carolina at Wilmington

This text is very up-to-date; the discussion is carried to the present and music that students are likely to know or have heard about.

--Roberta Freund Schwartz, University of Kansas