A Guide to Essential Popular Music-Volume Two - A Guide to Essential Popular Music

This book is the second volume of a two-volume guide to the best popular music ever recorded and the artists who created and recorded it. This book, like its predecessor, covers a number of genres that comprise popular music including pop, rock, blues, jazz, country, reggae, hip hop, ragtime, folk, and others. The premier performers of these various genres are included here along with their best and definitive musical recordings.
  The book covers a period of time spanning more than 100 years beginning with the earliest recordings of ragtime and pop music and continuing up to the present day.  This book has been organized in alphabetical order from K to Z and serves as the final volume of this two-volume set.