The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Second Edition - Softcover

A new and completed revised edition of Donald Clarke's highly successful work covering a truly spectacular array of artists from the early blues (Bill Broonzy, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith) and ragtime (Scott Joplin, Eubie Blake) to the golden age of Broadway musicals, the great swing bands of the 1930s, jazz from around the world, American country, English folk, rock and roll, reggae, soul, funk, punk and the rest. Hundreds of new entries now make possible wider coverage of such genres as cabaret singers and world musics. With over 5000 entries that span the entire field of non-classical music this century, THE PENGUIN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POPULAR MUSIC is the most comprehensive and entertaining one-volume guide available.

Donald Clarke was born in the American Midwest and graduated from the University of Wisconsin. In 1973 he moved to England and now lives in rural Norfolk.