1st Edition

Contemporary World Musicians

Edited By Clifford Thompson Copyright 1999

    Music lovers, researchers, students, librarians, and teachers can trace the personal and artistic influences behind music makers from Elton John to Leontyne Price. Individual entries on over 400 of the world's most renowned and accomplished living performers, composers, conductors, and band leaders in musical genres from opera to hip-hop. Also includes an in-depth Index covering musicians of all eras, so that readers can learn which artists, alive or dead, influenced the work of today's most important figures in the music industry.

    Introduction, List of Musicians, Biographical Sketches, Musicians’ Index, Key to Back Cover Photo

    Biography

    Clifford Thompson