New facsimile edition of a Classic Text of Music Education. This detailed study is based on reliable information and dev......more
Startup language, culture and strategy--once seen as enemies to the music business--have permeated artists’ careers and ......more
Startup language, culture and strategy--once seen as enemies to the music business--have permeated artists’ careers and ......more
Schenkerian theory has become recognized internationally as a valuable method of music analysis. But Viennese theorist H......more
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Changes in the construction of musical instruments have always taken place, some with more radical results than others. ......more
Changes in the construction of musical instruments have always taken place, some with more radical results than others. ......more
Thomas Morley (1557/8-1602) has long been regarded as the most important English music theorist of the early modern peri......more
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Musical improvisation is a complex form of creative human expression. In this book, Sabina Rakcheyeva explores the logic......more
Adolph Bernhard Marx (1795-1866) may be the single most influential music theorist before Heinrich Schenker; he is also ......more
Mali has provided many of Africa s best known and most celebrated artists, several of whom have won Grammy awards and ot......more
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With the abrogation of the Zen Buddhist Fuke sect during Japan s modernisation process in the late nineteenth century, t......more
Carl Stumpf (1848-1936) was a German philosopher and psychologist and a visionary and important academic. During his lif......more
2018 will mark the 800th anniversary of the consecration of the Abbey of St Beno (R)t-sur-Loire - or Fleury Abbey - the ......more
This is the first book to explore the manifestation of myth, magic and mysticism in music since 1920 against a backgroun......more
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This new and musicologically informed version presents for the first time an accurate translation of a key text within M......more
This book offers the first musical, cultural, and technological history of loudness, highlighting how loudness calls att......more
Phaedra was the album that saw Tangerine Dream move from relative obscurity to mainstream success. Championed by broadca......more
Phaedra was the album that saw Tangerine Dream move from relative obscurity to mainstream success. Championed by broadca......more
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Dave Davieswas seventeen when he recorded "You Really Got Me." With the British Invasion in full swing, the precocious t......more
How do we study the sonic nature of war when very few of these sounds remain? World War One has left little sonic trace ......more
The sound of New Wave pop music and the early days of MTV were defined by the work of a handful of iconic musicians, and......more
Discourse on popular music frequently describes artists’ recordings and performances as "intimate." Yet that discourse o......more
Throughout the history of popular music, the careers of many culturally significant artists and groups began on the smal......more
Listening, Belonging, and Memory puts connected listening at the center of current debates around whose voices might be ......more
This exploration of the controversial polymath scholar Marcus Meibom (1630-1711) sheds new light on aspects of his scien......more
Listen to Jazz!: Exploring a Musical Genre explores jazz as both an American musical genre and a global creative exchang......more
This book explores the enigma of class in heavy metal, challenging existing accounts that have dismissed the genre for i......more
Deeply informed by jazz, Billie’s Bent Elbow explores the nonsensical and nonsensuous in black radical thought and expre......more
Deeply informed by jazz, Billie’s Bent Elbow explores the nonsensical and nonsensuous in black radical thought and expre......more
Scholars devoted to analysis of Richard Wagner’s operas and music-dramas have long noted his numerous comparisons betwee......more
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This book examines how compression can be understood not only as a digital process enacted through computing, but as a w......more
Treatments of synesthesia in the arts and humanities generally assume a clear distinction between the neurological condi......more
Treatments of synesthesia in the arts and humanities generally assume a clear distinction between the neurological condi......more
The Exeter Ordinale is a huge ordinal issued by John de Grandisson, bishop of Exeter [1327-69], in 1337; it is edited on......more
Far from being yesterday’s fading, forgotten format, vinyl records have survived and flourished as the music medium of c......more
Like most Mancunians of his age, Sacha Lord’s life has been a tale of two cities. Then and now. Over the past three deca......more
Between 1937 and 1940 fieldworkers in the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Writers’ Project interviewed around 3,......more
Focusing on Amy Winehouse, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and Lana del Rey, Nathalie Weidhase conceptualises the female dandy as a ......more
On the emergence, embodiment, and mediation of voice as skin. How do we build a voice, instead of giving a voice to some......more
The follow-up to The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1, the most complete work on the life and work of Paul McCartney ever publ......more
An exquisite edition of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence, accompanied by an introduction to his life and work. One of ......more
The definitive guide to the band offering song-by-song analysis, full chronology and gig guide, full bootleg guide, and ......more
A cello has no language, yet it possesses a vocabulary wide enough to tell, bear witness, and make connections across ti......more
Love songs are for everybody and so is this book. In We Found Love, Song by Song, award-winning author and music journal......more
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Vincenzo Bellini on Stage and Screen, 1935-2020 offers nine case studies of the history of Vincenzo Bellini’s operas on ......more
An original history of music and its consequences in the ranks of the US military. Since the Civil War, the United State......more
The definitive biography of the musical trailblazer who launched the rockabilly craze with his classic "Blue Suede Shoes......more
Room 100 chronicles the tragic story of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, punk rock’s very own Romeo and Juliet. Through a ......more
Freshly revised and chock-full of new, vibrant stories, Last Night a DJ Saved My Life is the "lively and . . . necessary......more
The first book about De La Soul, High and Rising is a stunning cultural biography of the era-defining hip-hop trio that ......more
Joe Mulhall uncovers how music has shaped resistance movements across the globe, from Irish protest songs to Apartheid S......more
Thirty years after releasing their famous Black Album, Metallica announced a major European tour for 2022. This is an op......more
ONE OF PITCHFORK’S BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2023 Now in paperback, a companion to the #1 music podcast on Spotify, this book ......more
The Sage Handbook of School Music Education stands as an essential guide for navigating the evolving educational landsca......more
’A brilliant musical almanac, compiled by an engaging writer whose musical knowledge is not just detailed but wide-rangi......more
A new analysis of Mahler’s symphonies, placing each within the context of his musical way of being in and experiencing t......more
Author, journalist, and historian Will Friedwald is one of the leading writers on jazz music today. Nights at the Red St......more
YouTube has afforded new ways of documenting, performing and circulating musical creativity. This first open access sust......more
The era of ska shame is officially over, and ska fans no longer need to hide in the basement, skanking alone. The creato......more
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In Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters, songwriter, scholar, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of Blac......more
In Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters, songwriter, scholar, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of Blac......more
Break out the flannel, scrunchies, and high-rise jeans and indulge in this nostalgic illustrated trip through the 1990s’......more
The final word from one of Canada’s greatest cultural critics and music writers. In the summer of 2020, acclaimed music ......more
Since the magazine’s first issue in 1964, TeenSet’s role in popular music journalism has been overlooked and underapprec......more
Since the magazine’s first issue in 1964, TeenSet’s role in popular music journalism has been overlooked and underapprec......more
The first full examination of the priceless scores of the Juilliard School’s unparalleled collection that has educated p......more
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Analyzing music’s contributions to video games’ narrative and thematic meanings. This book provides semiotically focused......more
An Eastern Caribbean music festival as a window on social change Every year, on a weekend before Christmas, the small Ca......more
For readers of Oliver Sacks and Being Mortal by Atul Gawande. A celebrated art therapist plays the cello for patients wi......more
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How Welsh bands and musicians soared up the music charts in the 1990s. The 1970s and ’80s were a bleak time for much of ......more
Elgar’s The Music Makers, for contralto solo, choir and large orchestra, has experienced a chequered reputation. Followi......more
Drawn from NPR Music’s acclaimed, groundbreaking series Turning the Tables, the definitive book on the vital role of Wom......more
Spanning the period from the French Revolution to the beginning of the First World War, Ambache reveals the breadth and ......more
While New Wave pop music was dominating the charts in the early 1980s, one band made up of a trio of throwback-loving mu......more
An illuminating deep-dive into everything Fleetwood Mac--the songs, the rivalries, the successes, and the failures--Drea......more
A vibrant account of Ballroom Marfa’s ground-breaking first two decades of art and music Since its founding in the stori......more