The Encyclopedia of Popular Music is widely accepted as the most authoritative reference work on popular music available. This new fourth edition has been thoroughly revised with all existing entries updated and many new entries included for the first time. Edited and largely written by Colin Larkin, this exhaustive, meticulous, and authoritative biographical encyclopedia includes information on a broad range of popular music genre from the 1900s to the present day; including rock, pop, jazz, folk, blues, heavy metal, techno, R&B, reggae, and hip-hop. Each entry includes key dates and locations for the artist, critical discographies, record labels and release dates. In addition, the Encyclopedia contains a complete name index, an index of song titles, and extensive bibliographies by artist and subject.