|
|
Music
(by title)
|
Music
Alvin Lucier
A tribute to the work and influence of this groundbreaking composer
|
Miller-Keller, Andrea |
|
|
Biography - Musicians & Composers / String Instruments / Women's Biography
American Luthier
The female pioneer who revolutionized violin acoustics and built the first violin octet
|
Whitney, Quincy |
|
|
Music / Ethnomusicology / Film & Video
American Music Documentary
A critical companion to the most celebrated music documentaries of the twentieth century
|
Harbert, Benjamin J. |
|
|
Music / Middle East Studies
Among the Jasmine Trees
The first ethnographic study of music-making in modern Syria
|
Shannon, Jonathan Holt |
|
|
Music / Essays / Art
Anarchy
A major American thinker of the 20th century muses on anarchism.
|
Cage, John |
|
|
Opera / Biography - Entertainment & Performing Arts
Angela Gheorghiu
The biography of the great soprano, in her own words
|
Gheorghiu, Angela w/ Jon Tolansky |
|
|
Dance / Music / Gender Studies / Latin American Studies
Angora Matta
Bilingual Spanish-English ed.
Operatic, ethnographic thriller tests the boundaries between art and scholarship.
|
Savigliano, Marta Elena |
|
|
Music / Ethnomusicology / Nature - Birds
Animal Musicalities
How conflicts between science and the humanities have shaped our understanding of the line between art and animal behavior
|
Mundy, Rachel |
|
|
Ethnomusicology
Antiphonal Histories
A vivid ethnography and in-depth history of musical performance in North Sumatra
|
Byl, Julia |
|
|
Music / Cultural Studies
Any Sound You Can Imagine
Describes digital musical instruments, industries that supply and promote them, and the meanings they have for musicians.
|
Théberge, Paul |
|
|
Music / Arab Studies
The Arab Avant-Garde
The first in-depth study of diverse and radical innovation in Arab music
|
Burkhalter, Thomas, Kay Dickinson, and Benjamin J. Harbert, eds. |
|
|
Music / Film, TV, Visual Culture / Popular Culture
The Art of Film Music
An exploration of the powerful effect of music in films produced from the 1930s through the 1980s.
|
Burt, George |
|
|
Opera / British & European History / Biography
The Autumn of Italian Opera
The first full-length study of the last great era of Italian opera
|
Mallach, Alan |
|
|
Rock Music / Entertainment Law / Popular Culture
Baby You're a Rich Man
How Allen Klein, Morris Levy, and Nixon’s Justice Department battled to bring down the world’s greatest band
|
Soocher, Stan |
|
|
Music / Latin American & Caribbean Studies / Cultural Studies / Anthropology
Banda
The first in-depth study of banda, a Mexican and Mexican American musical practice.
|
Simonett, Helena |
|
|
Poetry / Music
The Bar of the Flattened Heart
With melancholy and wit, the poems of The Bar of the Flattened Heart remind us of the sheer wonderment of life
|
Keller, David |
|
|
Music / Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Between Nostalgia and Apocalypse
Chronicles the entanglement of traditional and experimental music in northeast Brazil
|
Sharp, Daniel B. |
|
|
Music / African-American Studies / Cultural Studies
Black Noise
A comprehensive look at the lyrics, music, cultures, themes, and styles of rap music.
|
Rose, Tricia |
|
|
Essays / Jazz
Black Pearls
A collection of essays by Sascha Feinstein.
|
Feinstein, Sascha |
|
|
Music / African-American Studies / Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Black Rhythms of Peru
How Afro-Peruvian music was forgotten and recreated in Peru.
|
Feldman, Heidi Carolyn |
|
|
Music / Nature
The Book of Music and Nature
2nd edition, includes audio web links
A provocative book explores the relationship of music and the natural world.
|
Rothenberg, David, and Marta Ulvaeus, eds. |
|
|
Music / Nature
The Book of Music and Nature
Includes audio supplement
A provocative book with audio explores the relationship of music and the natural world
|
Rothenberg, David, and Marta Ulvaeus, eds. |
|
|
Music / Popular Culture / Cultural Studies / American Studies
Born in the U.S.A.
A thinking person’s exploration of the cultural significance of Bruce Springsteen.
|
Cullen, Jim, Daniel Cavicchi, fwd.
|
|
|
Music / Anthropology
Bright Balkan Morning
Audio CD.
A celebration of settled “Gypsies” and music-dance in Greek Macedonia with CD.
|
Blau, Dick, photos; Keil, Charles & Angeliki, text; Feld, Steven, soundscape |
|
|
Opera / Biography - Musicians & Composers
Can't Help Singing
The long-anticipated memoir of one of the greatest and most celebrated American singers of the twentieth century
|
Farrell, Eileen; Kellow, Brian |
|
|
Music / Literary Criticism - Spanish & Portuguese
Cape Verde
A collection of scholars from Cape Verde, Brazil, Portugal, the United States, the United Kingdom and Spain writing about Cape Verde
|
Leite, Ana Mafalda, ed. |
|
|
Memoir / Opera
Challenges
A powerful pioneer in opera and music recounts her struggles and triumphs
|
Caldwell, Sarah with Rebecca Matlock |
|
|
Music
Chambers
First edition of this experimental music classic is now available
|
Lucier, Alvin and Douglas Simon |
|
|
Classical Music / Blues / Jazz
The Christopher Small Reader
A rich representation of the transformative work of an influential scholar of music studies
|
Small, Christopher; ed. by Robert Walser |
|
|
Music / Music History & Criticism / History of Israel & Palestine
Citizen Azmari
An examination of popular Ethiopian music styles in Tel Aviv
|
Webster-Kogen, Ilana |
|
|
Music / Cultural Studies / Latin American & Caribbean Studies
The City of Musical Memory
A social history of salsa in Colombia.
|
Waxer, Lise A. |
|
|
Music / Cultural Studies / Popular Culture
Club Cultures
A close look at the music and culture of dance clubs and the “rave” phenomenon..
|
Thornton, Sarah |
|
|
Music
Composers On Music
Sam Morgenstern's classic anthology, now thoroughly updated with new selections and commentary reflecting recent music scholarship
|
Fisk, Josiah, ed.; Nichols, Jeff, ed. |
|
|
Rock Music / Blues
Crossroads
The blues revival rescued the creators of America’s most influential music from dusty obscurity, put them onstage in front of a vast new audience, and created rock ’n’ roll
|
Milward, John |
|
|
Jewish Studies / Biography
The Darker Side of Genius
Richard Wagner’s anti-Semitism considered in the context of his time, place, and aspirations rather than in relation to his later appropriation by the Nazis.
|
Katz, Jacob. |
|
|
Rock Music
The Decibel Diaries
An insider’s tour of rock through 50 memorable concerts
|
Alan, Carter |
|
|
Music / Popular Culture / Sociology
Dissonant Identities
A fascinating analysis of the music scene in Austin, Texas.
|
Shank, Barry |
|
|
Music / Latin American & Caribbean Studies / Popular Culture
Dub
The first inside story of this Jamaican reggae style
|
Veal, Michael E. |
|
|
Music / Popular Culture / History
Echo and Reverb
The untold story of acoustic effects in popular music.
|
Doyle, Peter |
|
|
Music
Empire of Dirt
Inside the culture of an artistically influential music community
|
Fonarow, Wendy |
|
|
Music / Art
Empty Words
Writings through James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, Norman O. Brown, and "The Future of Music."
|
Cage, John |
|
|
Philosophy / Literary Criticism - French / Music
Essay on the Origin of Languages and Writings Related to Music
Trans. from the French
Rousseau's major works, available for the first time in a uniform English edition, continue with a work that situates Rousseau's linguistic and musical theory within his larger philosophical system.
|
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. John T. Scott, trans. and ed. |
|
|
Jazz / Music History & Criticism
Eurojazzland
The critical role of Europe in the music, personalities, and analysis of jazz
|
Cerchiari, Luca, Laurent Cugny, and Franz Kerschbaumer |
|
|
Music / Cultural Studies / ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
The Exotic In Western Music
A look at the ways western composers from Mozart to George Harrison have used exotic elements in their music
|
Bellman, Jonathan, ed. |
|
|
Music / Cultural Studies
False Prophet
Audio CD.
On the road with a punk rock band.
|
Taylor, Steven |
|
|
Composer/Musician / Music History & Criticism / Classical Music / Contemporary Music
The Farthest Place
The first critical anthology of an important and singular contemporary composer
|
Herzogenrath, Bernd, ed. |
|
|
Composer/Musician / World Beat / Black Studies (Global)
Fela
2nd edition.
An intimate portrait of the Afrobeat legend
|
Collins, John; foreword by Banning Eyre |
|
|
Biography - Musicians & Composers / Memoir / Opera
55 Years In Five Acts
One of the world's greatest Wagnerian sopranos talks about an illustrious career that flourished for over five decades
|
Varnay, Astrid; Arthur, Donald |
|
|
Music / American History
From Psalm to Symphony
Examines for the first time New England's rich heritage of music making over a span of 350 years
|
Tawa, Nicholas E. |
|
|
Biography - Musicians & Composers / Composer/Musician / New England History
George Whitefield Chadwick
The definitive biography of a major American composer and musical leader
|
Faucett, Bill F. |
|
|
Music / Cultural Studies / Popular Culture
Global Noise
International scholars explore the hip hop scenes of Europe, Canada, Japan and Australia.
|
Mitchell, Tony, ed. |
|
|
Music / Film, TV, Visual Culture
Global Soundtracks
The first volume focusing on film music as a worldwide phenomenon
|
Slobin, Mark, ed. |
|
|
Biography - Musicians & Composers / Music
György Ligeti
Fuses biographical and musical analysis to provide a multi-layered portrait of one of the most influential and admired composers of the late twentieth century.
|
Steinitz, Richard |
|
|
Folk & Traditional Music / Music History & Criticism / Cultural Studies
Gypsy Music in European Culture
A history and typology of the impact of Gypsy music on Europe
|
Piotrowska, Anna G. |
|
|
Memoir / Biography - Musicians & Composers / Opera
Hans Hotter
Trans. from the German
An expanded and updated translation of the memoirs of the great German bass-baritone
|
Hotter, Hans; Donald Arthur, trans. and ed.; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Zubin Mehta, fwds. |
|
|
Music / Cultural Studies / Popular Culture / American Studies
Hard Travelin’
A celebration by friends, family, and scholars of the life and achievements of America's foremost folk singer.
|
Santelli, Robert, and Emily Davidson, eds |
|
|
Music / Cultural Studies / Anthropology
The Hidden Musicians
A classic ethnography reveals the worlds of amateur musicians. Back in print with a new preface.
|
Finnegan, Ruth |
|
|
Music / Cultural Studies / African-American Studies
The 'Hood Comes First
Examines the significance of the 'hood in rap and hip hop
|
Forman, Murray |
|
|
Folk & Traditional Music / Country & Bluegrass / Music History & Criticism
I Got a Song
The first book-length history of an essential American music festival
|
Massimo, Rick |
|
|
Cultural Studies / Music / Folklore
Identity and Everyday Life
A critical examination of core issues in social and cultural theory.
|
Berger, Harris M.; Del Negro, Giovanna P. |
|
|
Jewish Studies / Cultural Studies / Music / Theater & Performing Arts
In Search of American Jewish Culture
A leading cultural historian explores the complex interactions of Jewish and American cultures.
|
Whitfield, Stephen J. |
|
|
Poetry / Folk & Traditional Music / Arctic Studies
Inuit Poems and Songs
Having devoted his life to study of the Eskimos, their language, spiritual life and religion, Thalbitzer found in their values his own mission to search for and preserve theirs
|
Thalbitzer, William |
|
|
Jazz / Music History & Criticism / Social History
Jazz and Culture in a Global Age
Explores the past, present, and future of jazz in a global context
|
Nicholson, Stuart |
|
|
Music / African-American Studies / Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Jazz Consciousness
Grounded essays on jazz as a unifying and transcendent force.
|
Austerlitz, Paul |
|
|
Biography - Musicians & Composers / Memoir / Opera
Jon Vickers
The first biography of a legendary tenor
|
Williams, Jeannie; Nilsson, Birgit, foreword |
|
|
True Crime
Killer Show
The definitive book on The Station nightclub fire on the 10th anniversary of the disaster
|
Barylick, John |
|
|
Jazz / African-American Studies / Feminism & Feminist Theory
The Kind of Man I Am
An exploration of masculinity in jazz culture and the work of Charles Mingus Jr.
|
Rustin-Paschal, Nichole |
|
|
Memoir / Biography - Musicians & Composers / Opera / Women's Studies
La Nilsson
Trans. from the Swedish
The long-awaited English translation of the autobiography of opera legend Birgit Nilsson
|
Nilsson, Birgit and Popper, Doris Jung and Solti, Georg and Tuller, Peggy |
|
|
Music / Ethnomusicology / World Beat
Lineage of Loss
Explores the forgotten voices and visions of a North Indian musical tradition
|
Katz, Max |
|
|
Music / American History - 19th Century
Listening and Longing
An intriguing look at music listening in nineteenth-century America
|
Cavicchi, Daniel |
|
|
Music / Cultural Studies / Latin American & Caribbean Studies / Anthropology
Listening to Salsa
Portrays the complex politics of gender, sex, class, and race in Puerto Rican salsa music.
|
Aparicio, Frances R. |
|
|
Biography - Musicians & Composers / Opera / Music
Lotfi Mansouri
A lively and engaging memoir of one of opera’s driving forces
|
Mansouri, Lotfi with Donald Arthur |
|
|
Music / Essays / Art
M
Mainly mesostics inspired by music, mushrooms, Marcel Duchamp, Merce Cunningham, Marshall McCluhan, etc. and includes "Mureau"-composed from the writings of Henry David Thoreau.
|
Cage, John |
|
|
Biography - Musicians & Composers / Composer/Musician / Classical Music
Mad Music
The life and times of the famed modernist composer
|
Budiansky, Stephen |
|
|
Rock Music / Music / Southern US History
Magic City Nights
An oral history of rock’n’roll music and culture in Birmingham, Alabama
|
Millard, Andre |
|
|
Music / Popular Culture / Cultural Studies
Making Beats
First book on hip-hop sampling as a musical process, now with a new foreword and afterword
|
Schloss, Joseph G.; foreword by Jeff Chang |
|
|
Biography / Women's Studies / Labor Studies
Making Time
This first biography of the nurturing mom made famous in the popular book and film Cheaper by the Dozen, who met the challenges of combining marriage and motherhood with a high-profile career.
|
Lancaster, Jane |
|
|
Biography - Musicians & Composers
Malevolent Muse
The fascinating life and times of the one and only Alma Mahler
|
Hilmes, Oliver |
|
|
Music / Cultural Studies
Manufacturing the Muse
Audio CD.
How a 19th century instrument helped to shape New World culture.
|
Waring, Dennis G. |
|
|
Biography - Musicians & Composers / Composer/Musician
Memoirs and Reflections
The life of a musical prodigy
|
Kissin, Evgeny |
|
|
Music / Cultural Studies / Philosophy
Metal, Rock, and Jazz
A lively comparison of musical meaning in Ohio's Jazz, metal, and hard rock scene.
|
Berger, Harris M. |
|
|
Opera / Biography - Musicians & Composers / Music
Montserrat Caballe
The first full-length authorized biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest operatic sopranos
|
Pullen, Robert; Taylor, Stephen |
|
|
Music / African-American Studies / Biography - Musicians & Composers
Monument Eternal
Long-awaited biography of an African American avant-garde composer
|
Berkman, Franya J. |
|
|
Music / Music - Philosophy
Music & Camp
Illuminates the expressive, social, and political stakes of style
|
Moore, Christopher, and Philip Purvis, Edited by
|
|
|
Music
Music 109
An engaging inside view of experimental music
|
Lucier, Alvin. Foreword by Robert Ashley. |
|
|
Music / Film, TV, Visual Culture
Music and Cinema
A wide-ranging look at the role of music in film.
|
Buhler, James, Caryl Flinn, and David Neumeyer,eds. |
|
|
Music / Media Studies / Social Theory
Music and Cyberliberties
An activist’s guide for musicians and fans opposed to the major label lockdown of online music
|
Burkart, Patrick |
|
|
Music / Cultural Studies
Music and Technoculture
Explores the rich relationship between technology, music and culture.
|
Lysloff, René T. A. and Leslie C. Gay, Jr., eds. Afterword by Andrew Ross. |
|
|
Music
Music at Wesleyan
A vividly illustrated, richly anecdotal account of over 150 years of music at Wesleyan University
|
Slobin, Mark |
|
|
Music / Reference & Bibliography / Books on Books
Music History from Primary Sources
An amply-illustrated book on the Moldenhauer Archives, spanning the history of Western classical music, with essays by noted experts.
|
Newsom, Jon, and Alfred Mann, eds. The Rosaleen Moldenhauer Memorial |
|
|
Music / African-American Studies
Music of the Common Tongue
“A magnificent book about Afro-American music and its impact on western culture. ”—Race and Class
|
Small, Christopher |
|
|
Music / Cultural Studies
Music, Society, Education
A groundbreaking work expanding our view of music beyond the Western classical tradition.
|
Small, Christopher. Robert Walser, new fwd. |
|
|
Music / Biography - Musicians & Composers / Art
MUSICAGE
The entire range of John Cage's work and thought, explored in three wide-ranging dialogues, which constitute his last unified statement on his art.
|
Cage, John, in Conversation with Joan Retallack. |
|
|
Theater & Performing Arts / Music / Ancient History
Musical Design in Sophoclean Theater
A new way to interpret the musical design underlying the music and choreography of Sophoclean theater.
|
Scott, William C. |
|
|
Music / Cultural Studies
Musicking
Acclaimed scholar rethinks the nature and meaning of music.
|
Small, Christopher |
|
|
Music
Musicking Bodies
Investigates the life of the body in Indian vocal music
|
Rahaim, Matthew |
|
|
Music / Cultural Studies / Sociology
My Music
A first-hand exploration of the diverse roles music plays in people's lives.
|
Crafts, Susan D., Daniel Cavicchi, Charles Keil, and the Music in Daily Life Project |
|
|
Ethnomusicology / Iraq War (2003-2011) / Afghan War (2001-)
My Music, My War
Music in the everyday lives of U.S. troops and combat veterans
|
Gilman, Lisa |
|
|
Music / Education
On Playing the Flute
2nd edition.
Originally published in 1752, this is a new paperback edition of the classic treatise on 18th-century musical thought, performance practice, and style
|
Quantz, Johann Joachim; Reilly, Edward R. |
|
|
Music / Cultural Studies
The Other Side of Nowhere
Scholars, composers and performers write about the art of jazz improvisation.
|
Fischlin, Daniel, ed.; Heble, Ajay, ed.; Monson, Ingrid, intro. |
|
|
Theater & Performing Arts / Popular Culture / Musicals
Our Musicals, Ourselves
The first comprehensive social history of the American musical theater
|
Jones, John Bush |
|
|
Biography - Musicians & Composers / Music / Jewish Studies
Papa, Play for Me
The heartwarming autobiography of a vintage Jewish comedian, with a new introduction highlighting his relevance to contemporary culture and cultural studies.
|
Katz, Mickey. Joel Grey, fwd.; Josh Kun, introd. |
|
|
Music / African-American Studies
Phat Beats, Dope Rhymes
How Aussies came to belong to the hip-hop nation.
|
Maxwell, Ian |
|
|
Music
Planet Beethoven
Exploring the complexities and significance of classical music today
|
Yang, Mina |
|
|
Music / Cultural Studies
Popular Music in Theory
A lively contribution to the debates that are central to popular music studies.
|
Negus, Keith |
|
|
Music / African-American Studies
Presence and Pleasure
What does it mean to be in the groove?
|
Danielsen, Anne |
|
|
Country & Bluegrass
Producing Country
Legendary producers describe the making of country music’s great recordings
|
Jarrett, Michael |
|
|
Biography - Musicians & Composers / Music
Puccini
This masterful biography provides the most authentic and revealing portrait to date of this major operatic composer
|
Phillips-Matz, Mary Jane; Weaver, William, foreword |
|
|
Ethnomusicology / Music History & Criticism
Punk Ethnography
A critical companion to the radical DIY record label that challenges the conventions of ethnography, representation, and the category of “world music”
|
Veal, Michael E., & E. Tammy Kim, Editors |
|
|
Political Ideologies / Radicalism / Music / Violence in Society
Radicalism and Music
A comparative study of the music cultures of four radical groups
|
Pieslak, Jonathan |
|
|
Radio History & Criticism / Rock Music
Radio Free Boston
The definitive story of the pioneering rock radio station that galvanized a city and a generation
|
Alan, Carter with a Foreword by Steven Tyler |
|
|
Music / African Studies / Cultural Studies / Anthropology
Recollecting from the Past
Studies interconnections between sound production, spirit possession, colonialism and ceremonial remembering in Madagascar.
|
Emoff, Ron |
|
|
Music / Jazz
Reel History
Striking visual account of jazz in the 1960s and 1970s
|
Farina, Stephen |
|
|
Music / Ethnomusicology / World Beat
Resonances of Chindon-ya
An investigation of music, sound, and public space in contemporary Japan
|
Abe, Marié |
|
|
Music / Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Rhythms of Resistance
The first definitive history of the full range of African contributions to Brazilian music.
|
Fryer, Peter |
|
|
Musicals / Theater & Performing Arts / American History
The Rise and Fall of the Broadway Musical
A highly original, incisive, and spirited examination of the rise, heyday, and decline of American musical theatre
|
Grant, Mark N. |
|
|
Music / Music History & Criticism / Caribbean & West Indies History
Roots in Reverse
A study of the impact of Cuban music on Senegalese music and modernity
|
Shain, Richard M. |
|
|
Music / Cultural Studies / Popular Culture
Running with the Devil
A comprehensive musical, social, and cultural analysis of heavy metal music, with a new foreword and afterword
|
Walser, Robert; foreword by Harris M. Berger |
|
|
Music / Classical
Schumann
Revised & exapanded ed.
New and Expanded Edition with a Foreword by Kurt Masur
|
Ostwald, Peter and Lise Deschamps Ostwald |
|
|
Jewish Studies / Jewish Religious Music / Biography - Musicians & Composers
A Season of Singing
Describes the development of feminist Jewish songwriting in the United States and analyzes key composers and their songs
|
Ross, Sarah M. |
|
|
Music / Irish Studies / History - 20th Century
See You at the Hall
An engaging look at Boston’s golden era of Irish traditional music
|
Gedutis, Susan |
|
|
Literary Collections / Composer/Musician
The Selected Letters of John Cage
Letters of an avant-garde icon available to the public for the first time
|
Cage, John. Edited by Laura Kuhn. |
|
|
Music / Dance / Asian Studies
Sensational Knowledge
Includes DVD.
A compelling ethnography of traditional dance and bodily knowledge
|
Hahn, Tomie |
|
|
Music / Dance / Asian Studies
Sensational Knowledge
A compelling ethnography of traditional dance and bodily knowledge
|
Hahn, Tomie |
|
|
Biography - Musicians & Composers / Classical Music
Sergei Prokofiev
A richly detailed portrait of a man whose complex character, like his music, combined the traditional and the contemporary in odd and unexpected ways
|
Robinson, Harlow |
|
|
Music / Popular Culture / History
Setting the Record Straight
Audio CD.
The words surrounding music influence how we listen to it.
|
Symes, Colin |
|
|
Music / Cultural Studies / Sociology / American Studies
The Seventh Stream
A cultural and social study of the origins and evolution of “rocknroll”.
|
Ennis, Philip H. |
|
|
Theater & Performing Arts / Musicals
Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, and Musicals
An endlessly entertaining and informative look at how musicals have both reflected and adapted to America’s changing mores
|
Miller, Scott |
|
|
Music / Shakers
A Shaker Musical Legacy
A unique collection of Shaker songs and dances that keeps alive this important musical heritage
|
Opdahl, Robert; Opdahl, Viola |
|
|
Linguistics / Music / World Music
The Shapes of Our Singing
A guide to verse forms and metres from around the world by Robin Skelton.
|
Skelton, Robin |
|
|
Music / Literary Criticism / Art
Silence
Silence, A Year from Monday, M, Empty Words and X (in this order) form the five parts of a series of books in which Cage tries, as he says, "to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them." Often these writings include mesostics and essays created by subjecting the work of other writers to chance procedures using the I Ching (what Cage called "writing through").
|
Cage, John |
|
|
Music / Literary Criticism / Art
Silence
Special edition of the book that revolutionized our understanding of how we make and experience art
|
Cage, John and Kyle Gann, fwd. |
|
|
Composer/Musician / Literary Criticism - American / American Studies
Silencing the Sounded Self
Understanding John Cage in America’s experimental continuum
|
Shultis, Christopher |
|
|
Music / Opera
Singing Archaeology
Illuminates the aesthetics of a major American composer.
|
Richardson, John |
|
|
Music / Cultural Studies / British & European History
Singing Our Way to Victory
A penetrating cross-disciplinary study of the cultural constructions of singing.
|
Sweeney, Regina M. |
|
|
Music / Ethnic Studies / Dance
Solkattu Manual
Includes links for online video.
The first hands-on introduction to South Indian spoken rhythm
|
Nelson, David P. |
|
|
Music / Media Studies / Women's Studies
Some Liked It Hot
Investigates the changing representations of jazz women in American culture
|
McGee, Kristin A. |
|
|
Music / Popular Culture / Anthropology
Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts
2nd edition paperback
A mesmerizing journey into the musical world of Australia’s Aboriginal people.
|
Marett, Allan |
|
|
Music / Cultural Studies
The Sounds of Place
Looks at the ways in which America’s places, from the natural wonders of Niagara Falls and the Grand Canyon to the urban landscape of New York City, have inspired American composers from the nation's beginnings to the present
|
Von Glahn, Denise |
|
|
Music / Theater & Performing Arts / Folklore / Performance Studies
Stance
How we find and make meaning through music and performance
|
Berger, Harris M. |
|
|
Music / Cultural Studies
Subcultural Sounds
A fascinating study of subcultural musics and their cultural identities.
|
Slobin, Mark |
|
|
Music / Classical
Sviatoslav Richter
The first biography of the noted Soviet pianist Sviatoslav Richter
|
Rasmussen, Karl Aage |
|
|
Music / Cultural Studies
Symphonic Metamorphoses
An intimate investigation of Mahler’s distinctive voice.
|
Knapp, Raymond |
|
|
Music / History / Latin American Studies
The Teatro Solís
The first comprehensive history of the oldest major opera house in the Americas.
|
Salgado, Susana. Foreword by E. Thomas Glasow, preface by Julio Marìa Sanguinetti |
|
|
Poetry / Jazz
Testimony, A Tribute to Charlie Parker
Includes audio supplement
A collaborative tribute of words and music reflecting the tension and beauty of jazz, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation audio recording with music by Sandy Evans
|
Komunyakaa, Yusef |
|
|
Poetry / Jazz
Testimony, A Tribute to Charlie Parker
Does not include any audio supplement
A collaborative tribute of words and music reflecting the tension and beauty of jazz
|
Komunyakaa, Yusef |
|
|
Music / Music - Philosophy
Theorizing Sound Writing
An eclectic and experimental exploration of sound from the vantage point of writing
|
Kapchan, Deborah, Ed. |
|
|
Music / African-American Studies
A Thousand Honey Creeks Later
The rise of jazz and Motown seen through the eyes of a premier African American performer.
|
Love, Preston. Johnny Otis, pref.; George Lipsitz, introd. |
|
|
Folk Dance / Social History / Dance Music
A Time to Dance
A well thought-out, carefully put together volume on an important part of Americana
|
Nevell, Richard |
|
|
Music / Middle East Studies / Media Studies
Umm Kulthum
How an extraordinary woman shaped her career and legacy through war
|
Lohman, Laura |
|
|
Music / African-American Studies
Upside Your Head!
An intriguing memoir by the legendary bandleader.
|
Otis, Johnny. George Lipsitz, introd. |
|
|
Music
Voices in Bali
Audio CD.
A polyphonic study of Balinese aesthetics that broadens an intercultural understanding of performance.
|
Herbst, Edward; Judith Becker, fwd.; René T. A. Lysloff, afterward. |
|
|
Music History & Criticism / Rock Music
Why the Beach Boys Matter
The musical, historical, and cultural argument for the centrality of the Beach Boys
|
Smucker, Tom |
|
|
Rock Music / Music History & Criticism / Biography - Entertainment & Performing Arts
Why the Grateful Dead Matter
What a long, strange trip it’s been
|
Benson, Michael
|
|
|
Music History & Criticism / Rock Music / Music - Punk
Why the Ramones Matter
Hey Ho, Let’s Go! A musical, cultural, historical argument for the centrality of the Ramones
|
Gaines, Donna |
|
|
Music / Nature / Arctic Studies
Winter Music
Audio CD.
Eminent composer discusses music, culture, and the environment.
|
Adams, John Luther. Gann, Kyle, fwd. |
|
|
Music / Cultural Studies
Wired for Sound
Ethnographically-grounded studies of technology in global music.
|
Greene, Paul D., and Porcello, Thomas, eds. Greene, Paul D. and Porcello, Thomas, contribs. |
|
|
Music / Women's Studies
Women In Music
This classic anthology combines source readings with interpretive essays and personal portraits to illuminate the rich yet neglected history of women in music
|
Neuls-Bates, Carol, ed. |
|
|
Music / Women's Studies / 18th Century Studies
Women's Voices Across Musical Worlds
This eclectic collection of original essays explores women’s musical activities and expressions from the twelfth century to the present
|
Bernstein, Jane A. |
|
|
Reggae Music / Folk & Traditional Music / Biography - Musicians & Composers
Words of Our Mouth, Meditations of Our Heart
Celebrating the legendary studio musicians of Jamaican popular music through personal photographs and interviews
|
Bilby, Kenneth |
|
|
Music / Literary Criticism / Art
X
One of a series of experimental texts in which Cage tries “to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them,” he attempts in X to create looser structures in both life and art, to free “my writing from my intentions.”
|
Cage, John |
|
|
Biography - Musicians & Composers / Jazz
Yardbird Suite
Newly revised, this musical, discographical, and biographical analysis examines the evolution of Parker's innovative music
|
Koch, Lawrence O. |
|
|
Music / Essays / Art
A Year from Monday
Includes lectures, essays, diaries and other writings, including "How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)" and "Juilliard Lecture."
|
Cage, John |
|
|
Biography / Music
Yip Harburg
A new interview-based biography of The Wizard of Oz lyricist
|
Alonso, Harriet Hyman |
|
|
Music / African-American Studies / Gay Studies
“You Better Work!”
The first in-depth study of underground dance music.
|
Fikentscher, Kai |
|
<<
Back to Main Subject Index
|
|
