Music-History & Criticism

Iran Amplified: One Hundred Years of Music and Society, the first edited volume on music in modern Iran, presents a cross-genre collection of compelling scholarship, musician narratives, and primary sources. This groundbreaking volume, seizing on this burgeoning academic field, offers historiography and critical examination...

Jack White Complete Lyrics and Selected Writings collects the artist's lyrics for Dead Weather, The Raconteurs, his solo recordings and collaborations. The book additionally features selected poems and writing by White. Pulitzer Prize finalist poet Adrian Matejka, award-winning filmmaker and writer dream hampton, and...

Author: Bruce SpizerISBN-13: 9798986319094Publisher: 498 Productions, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/2025Pages: 272Format: Hardcover

Author: Caitlin VincentISBN-10: 1668084066ISBN-13: 9781668084069Publisher: Scribner Book CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/13/2026Pages: 320Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.83d

Despite his long and rich career, Peter Hammill is one of the most important "best kept secrets" of English rock. In 1967 he formed the group Van Der Graaf Generator while studying at the University of Manchester, a group that he led as a...

A wide cast of musicians and artists provide surprising and thought-provoking insights into punk rock from the lens of spirituality and liberation. Punk Spirit! is an oral history that examines this movement from many unique perspectives, bringing together well-known and cutting-edge bands including Sex...

Popular music history collides with data analytics, charts, and numbers in this insightful and surprising look at the greatest hits and musicians, fads, forgotten artists, and much more. Data analyst and musician Chris Dalla Riva reframes everything you thought you knew about music over...

A musical adventure through America as a land of songs, uncovering how American identity and values are found in popular and folk music. Michael Lasser cuts across a wide swath of history and people, from "This Land Is My Land" to Bruce Springsteen and...

Here is an in-depth exploration of Robert Forster's debut solo album, Danger in the Past (1990). Dublin, Ireland. That World Cup summer of 1990. A 21-year-old poet listens entranced when his friend puts on an LP, The Go-Betweens: 1978-1990. As the city outside goes...

David McComb, the driving force behind The Triffids, shaped one of Australia's most revered albums, Born Sandy Devotional ( 1986). But after the band's breakup, illness curtailed his solo career. He died in 1999, age 36. Truckload of Sky: The Lost Songs of David...

David McComb, the driving force behind The Triffids, shaped one of Australia's most revered albums, Born Sandy Devotional ( 1986). But after the band's breakup, illness curtailed his solo career. He died in 1999, age 36. Truckload of Sky: The Lost Songs of David...

Sorrow Tears and Blood offers a glimpse into the complicated social, cultural, and political phenomenon that is Nigeria. Though Nigeria is the most populous African country, and sometimes called the "Giant of Africa," Fela's album sheds a sharp light on the reasons why Nigeria...

Featuring interviews with John Oswald, Negativland, and others and drawing on a wealth of research on copyright and intellectual property, Plunderphonics explores the impact of a genre that made illegality a point of pride. In Plunderphonics, Matthew Blackwell tells the storyf a group of...

This book is about unveiling and exploring the many layered gestures of Re. Re, the 1994 album by the Mexican group Café Tacvba, is a spectacularly unique musical object that adopts and adapts myriad musical genres with the pulse, the attitude, and the energy...

This book introduces readers to the most significant technological developments in music making and listening, including such topics as metronomes and the development of music notation as well as synthesizers, the latest music collaboration apps, and other 21st-century technologies. Rather than focusing on technical...

From Antonín Dvorák to the White Stripes, from Gaudí to Niemeyer--dip into the realm of "sonic architecture" with this groovy collection of album covers"Architecture is frozen music," wrote Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It should come as no surprise, then, that architecture is a major...

In its first years of existence, in the 1930s, the Glyndebourne Festival Opera set out to internationalize English opera culture, both by attracting international artists and leading proponents of a new concept of opera production and by giving émigrés the chance to further hone...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.The religious reforms of the mid-sixteenth century raised important questions about what it meant to be English in the Tudor period--after all, the medieval liturgy had been one of the few...

The rich history of the acoustic guitar and its impact on the music world. In 2020, guitar expert John Stubbings released a limited-edition book on the American acoustic guitar that sold out in days. Now, The Devil Is in It returns with additional research...

Rhapsodie is a book written by William Henry Ireland and published in 1803. It is a collection of poems that are inspired by the author's travels and experiences in Europe. The book is divided into three parts, each focusing on a different theme. The...

When Miranda Sawyer interviewed Noel Gallagher in 1995, his gag wishing Damon Albarn would die of AIDS became front-page news. This fascinating pop history, exploring the mid-90s moment when British music suddenly meant everything, explains why. Picking out twenty key songs, delving into the...

Provides a pioneering interdisciplinary overview of the literature and music of nine centuries Offers research essays by literary specialists and musicologists that provides access to the best current interdisciplinary scholarship on connections between literature and musicIncludes five historical sections from the Middle Ages to...

This is a new release of the original 1944 edition.Author: Albert E. BrumleyISBN-10: 1258833654ISBN-13: 9781258833657Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 132Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Pawnee Music is a book written by Frances Densmore that provides a comprehensive exploration of the music and culture of the Pawnee Native American tribe. The book is based on Densmore's extensive field research and recordings of Pawnee music, which she conducted in the...

The Republican Campaign Songster For 1860 is a book written by William Henry Burleigh in 1860. The book is a collection of campaign songs and lyrics that were used during the 1860 United States presidential election campaign. The songs and lyrics were written in...

Frederic Chopin: Complete Works For The Pianoforte, Various Compositions (1895) is a comprehensive collection of all the piano compositions by the renowned Polish composer Frederic Chopin. This book includes all of Chopin's works for solo piano, including his famous Nocturnes, Mazurkas, Waltzes, and Polonaises....

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

Explore the life and work of one of history's most celebrated composers with "Johann Sebastian Bach: The Organist and His Works for the Organ" by André Pirro. This engaging study delves into the world of Johann Sebastian Bach, focusing specifically on his profound contributions...

From a celebrated critic, a heartfelt and adventurous reflection on the art of writing about art "Essential for fans of Marcus and fruitful reading for anyone reflecting on the mysteries of art."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Writers write. They can't help it. They can't not."...

Reintroduces the traditional sea shanty for a new generationPassed down in the oral tradition and sung as working songs, sea shanties tell the compelling human stories of life on the water: hard labor, battling the elements, pining for distant loves and far-away homes. The...

Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music is the definitive history of how a city danced its pain away. In Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music, music journalist Al Shipley draws from 18 years' worth of interviews with dozens of DJs,...

The first book to examine the classic Italian opera house in a global context. In Opera and the Built Environment, music scholar Laura Vasilyeva considers the remarkable mass construction of opera houses around the world since the 1800s and the no-less-remarkable bids to standardize...

A collection of essays and documents illuminating the work of Bohuslav Martinů, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. Bohuslav Martinů was one of the most extraordinary and prolific composers of the twentieth century. Martinů and His World offers a portrait of the...

Pierre Boulez was a towering figure in contemporary music from the 1940s and 1950s to his death in 2016. This volume demonstrates his distinctive impact on new music and situates him within a wide range of contexts to enhance appreciation of the cultural embeddedness...

Timeless lessons on the pleasures of listening, the dilemmas of composition, and the meaning of artistic freedom from a founder of musical modernism. In October 1939, Igor Stravinsky took the stage at Harvard not as a conductor but as a speaker. Invited to deliver...

Author: Troy TaylorISBN-10: 1958589241ISBN-13: 9781958589243Publisher: Whitechapel ProductionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/27/2025Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.62d

La Musique Militaire (1917) is one of the first comprehensive histories of military music in Europe, written by Marie Bobillier under the pseudonym Michel Brenet. At a time when scholarly music writing was dominated by men, Bobillier-an accomplished historian and musicologist-brought intellectual rigour and...

Under the Table and Screaming is a multi-volume series exploring the history and legacy of the local music scene in Charlottesville, VA. From literally underground shows in DIY basements to the racially suppressed hip-hop scene to thriving roots music on woodsy back porches to...

From recent decades' digitization have emerged a myriad of techniques for mapping musical life, identifying patterns in sound or musico-cultural practices, and compiling labels, names, tags, and classes on an unprecedented scale. Proliferating genre catalogs in the context of digital platforms and the conjunction...

Are you struggling to master the art of playing the Dilruba? Looking for a comprehensive guide that simplifies learning this unique instrument? Want to enhance your skills and impress your audience with effortless performances? Playing Dilruba with Ease is your definitive resource for becoming...

Senegalese music is rich in diversity and history, having given birth to many internationally renowned artists. Among them, Thione Seck stands out as one of the most influential and respected poets. His career, spanning several decades, has not only shaped Senegal's musical landscape, but...

The collected run of the groundbreaking and iconoclastic zine. From 1977 to 1979, Search & Destroy chronicled the birth of San Francisco's punk scene with an intensity and vision that transformed music journalism. Now, for the first time, every issue of this seminal publication...

The BBC Proms is the world's biggest and longest-running classical music festival and one of the jewels in the crown for the BBC. Held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London and across the UK, it is one of the strongest brand...

The author considers how the relationships between avant-garde music and ideas of modernity in post-revolutionary Mexico shaped discourses of nationality.Author: Alejandro MadridISBN-10: 159213694XISBN-13: 9781592136940Publisher: Temple University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2008Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.80w x 0.90dReview Citation(s): Chronicle of Higher Education 11/28/2008 pg....

Songs of Toil: With an Introductory Sketch is a book written by Carmen Sylva and published in 1888. The book is a collection of poems that focus on the struggles and hardships of the working class, including the poor, farmers, and laborers. The poems...

""Square Dances For Piano And Violin"" is a comprehensive guide to traditional square dance music and choreography. Written by Edward Durlacher, a renowned musician and dance caller, the book features sheet music for piano and violin arrangements of classic square dance tunes, as well...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

Delve into the captivating world of classical music with "Story-Lives of Great Musicians" by Francis Jameson Rowbotham. This meticulously prepared print edition offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives and legacies of celebrated composers and musicians. Explore the narratives behind the masterful works that...

This fascinating collection of letters by Ludwig van Beethoven provides a rare glimpse into the life and mind of one of history's greatest composers. From personal correspondence with friends and family to letters to political figures and publishers, this collection highlights the wide-ranging interests...

Hits and Misses examines a selection of songs and recordings through the lens of textual criticism and delineates the creative process as it unfolds from the initial conception of a song to the final mix presented on disc. The book takes as its subject...