An annotated index of over 18.000 American popular songs, cumulating and updating eight volumes of Popular Music and including introductory essays, lyricists and composers index, important performances index, awards index, and list of publishers.

Look to volume 22 of Popular Music and you'll find this series of 20th century music updated through the end of 1997. Covering approximately 500 of the most popular songs of the year, Popular Music's individual entries provide title and alternate title(s), publisher, copyright date and annotation on the song's origins or performance history.

Offers a multidisciplinary analysis of Anglo-American popular music of the last two hundred years.

Nearly 500 popular songs of 1996 are featured in this volume, which contains a lyricists and composers index, important performances index, and awards index.

"Popular Music's individual entries typically provide title and alternate title(s), country of origin {for non-U.S. songs), author(s) and composer(s), current publisher, copyright date and annotation on the song's origins or performance history.

This is a comprehensive guide to popular music literature, first published in 1986. Its main focus is on American and British works, but it includes significant works from other countries, making it truly international in scope.