Though the distance between opera and popular music seems immense today, a century ago opera was an integral part of American popular music culture, and familia

Author Larry Hamberlin guides us through the large but oft-forgotten repertoire of operatic novelties, and brings to life the rich humour and keen social critic

"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2016."

Although many opera dictionaries and encyclopedias are available, very few are devoted exclusively to operas in a single language. In this revised and expanded

From Tin Pan Alley to grand opera, player-pianos to phonograph records, David Suisman’s Selling Sounds explores the rise of music as big business and the crea