Popular Musics is a reflection on societies through the ages. Prepared for the general reader, this study views cultures from the Ancient World to the Twentieth Century. Roman arenas, medieval troubadours, Italian madrigals, castrati singers, operettas and musical comedies, jazz and rock fill its pages. Dr. Alice A. Moerk is the author of eight novels that comprise of the NewFoundSouls and PasTimes series, and a children's book Jackie, The Sailor Boy.