Identifies every recording artist in the 20th-century whose music has been certified as gold or platinum.

Documents the history of rhythm and blues music by examining every song to top the Billboard R & B singles chart between 1965 and 1990 and offers inside stories

The field of Popular Music Studies is growing, but still lacks some basic reference materials. The Chronology of American Popular Music, 1899-2000 fills this ga

A guide to locating information on popular music and the people who create it, this volume is designed as a desk reference—to locate answers to specific quest