Music-History & Criticism

Current Thought in Musicology covers a variety of topics, ranging from the Middle Ages to the present and touching on all the major disciplines of musicology: music history, theory and composition, music education, and performance. Taken together, the nine papers constitute a broad overview...

Though the distance between opera and popular music seems immense today, a century ago opera was an integral part of American popular music culture, and familiarity with opera was still a part of American "cultural literacy." During the Ragtime era, hundreds of humorous Tin...

Ambitious and groundbreaking, Electric Shock tells the story of popular music, from the birth of recording in the 1890s to the digital age, from the first pop superstars of the twentieth century to the omnipresence of music in our lives, in hit singles, ringtones...

The Indiana Jones of rock history and founding curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum narrates the Hall's wild history and his quest to build its collection from scratch--from Ozzy Osbourne's country manor to Keith Moon's childhood bedroom and Art Garfunkel's...

The working-class records from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s labor movements that capture the power of music to galvanize and document a movement.Workers have been producing culture for as long as they've been fighting for better working conditions, higher wages, and sometimes even revolution....

Dancing Queen. Respect. Brandy (You're a Fine Girl). There are some songs so infectious that you can't help but belt out the lyrics along with the singer. Karaoke--meaning "empty orchestra" in Japanese--gets rid of the singer and leaves you in the spotlight alone. It...

This major study of the famous seventeenth century music manuscripts at Peterhouse sets them in the context of the religious and political movements leading to the Civil War. The Peterhouse partbooks constitute a unique resource for studying two periods of English choral music. Their...

This collection offers students a practical guide to understanding the ways music and literature intersect and the influence of each on the other, as well as developing methods of study. This is the first coursebook to help students explore the many types of relationship...

"Robertson offers the whole picture, warts and all. In doing so, he honors the music of artists who have enriched his life--and opens the door for his readers to experience the same magic."--Blues Blast MagazineDust: More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars) is a...

Doomed to Fail explores the heaviest music the world has ever heard, tracing doom, sludge, and post-metal as their own distinct (and incredibly loud) traditions. Anselmi covers the bands and musicians that have impacted those styles most--Black Sabbath, Candlemass, Melvins, Eyehategod, Godflesh, Neurosis, Saint...

Perhaps the best musical encapsulation of the Cold War as experienced in the walled city of West-Berlin, Kollaps is a product of its time while remaining as vital, exhilarating and surprising as the day it was released. The book explores the contexts, themes and...

Inside the global music industry and the racialized and gendered assumptions we make about what we hear Fearing the rapid disappearance of indigenous cultures, twentieth-century American ethnographers turned to the phonograph to salvage native languages and musical practices. Prominent among these early "songcatchers" were...

Irish Independent Music Book of the Year Guardian Book of the Week After discovering a derelict record plant on the edge of a northern English city, and hearing that it was once visited by David Bowie, Karl Whitney embarks upon a journey to explore...

Vocal Wisdom: Maxims Of Giovanni Battista Lamperti is a book written by William Earl Brown. The book is a collection of teachings and maxims from the renowned Italian singing teacher Giovanni Battista Lamperti. Lamperti was a respected vocal instructor in the 19th century and...

Verdi's Rigoletto is a book written by Francis Burgess in 1906. It is a comprehensive guide to the opera Rigoletto composed by Giuseppe Verdi. The book provides a detailed analysis of the plot, characters, and music of the opera. It also explores the historical...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Morrissey is arguably the greatest disturbance popular music has ever known. Even more than the choreographed carelessness of punk and the hyperbolic gestures of glam rock and the New Romantics, Morrissey's early bookish ineptitude, his celebration of the ordinary, and his subversive endorsement of...

Get the definitive story of the '90s alt-rock movement straight from the musicians and figures who lived it. No period in the history of rock music offered such an abrupt shift in prevailing tastes as the 1990s. While just a short while before, radio...

THE LOUDER THAN WAR #1 BOOK OF THE YEARA ROUGH TRADE, THE TIMES, MOJO, UNCUT, THE HERALD BOOK OF THE YEAR"To 50,000 Fall Fans: please buy this inspired & inspiring, profound & provocative, beautiful & bonkers Book of Revelations."DAVID PEACE"Mind blowing... brilliant."TIM BURGESS"A container...

Schumann's famous song cycle Dichterliebe of 1840 is one of the most enigmatic works in the Western musical repertoire. This book employs Romantic poetics and recent critical thought to help explain the mysterious magnetism of this essentially fragmentary work. A musico-poetic analysis demonstrates the...

In twenty-two essays that comprise this collection, Dr. Strunk discusses aspects of musical development and style from late antiquity to that period of Byzantine history corresponding to the early Renaissance. His contributions in the study of medieval Slavic chants and Carolingian music, for examples,...

A poignant consideration of the material aspect of sound and how it fundamentally shapes our experience of the world, both in its presence and absence From the joyous communal connections fostered through shared auditory experience to the devastating impact of noise pollution in the...

Volume 1 of Nothing but Love in God's Water traced the music of protest spirituals from the Civil War to the American labor movement of the 1930s and 1940s, and on through the Montgomery bus boycott. This second volume continues the journey, chronicling the...

What is a cantata? How and why did Bach compose his cantatas? What did cantatas mean to Bach and what do they mean today? In Bach's Church Cantatas Ruth Tatlow addresses these questions through discussion of five of Bach's most beloved works enriched by...

In the written record of music in the West, there are many examples of long melodies sung to a single vowel with no other text; but in almost all cases that vowel is part of a syllable in a word, which in turn is...

Revived with new intensity at the end of the twentieth century, questions of meaning and interpretation in music continue to generate widespread interest and give rise to new research directions and methods. This collection of essays brings together leading musicologists and music theorists working...

Author: Stephanie RuozzoISBN-10: 3031834097ISBN-13: 9783031834097Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2025Pages: 223Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.56d

Stories about new musical instruments are often told as quests for new kinds of sounds. The Composer's Black Box asks, What happens when new musical instruments produce not only new sounds but also new dynamics of musical agency and control? And what consequences do...

Authorship is a pertinent issue for historical musicology and musicians more widely.The discovery of new sources and methodologies has also opened up opportunities for reassessing specific authorship problems. This book aims to build on what has already been achieved by focusing on keyboard music....

We've all heard some version of the line: "I enjoy classical music but don't know anything about it." Why but? Why and when did listeners begin to accept the idea that knowledge was needed to enjoy this particular repertory? Music's Fourth Wall and the...

Hearing with the Mind synthesizes two exciting approaches to music--cognitive psychology and social history--by focusing on the remarkable work of musical theorist John Holden (1729--72) during the Scottish Enlightenment. One of the first musical thinkers to propose a detailed account of how the human...

An absorbing study of the development and reception of musical culture in Ireland by a pioneering and deservedly renowned author. This volume is a collection of fourteen essays on the history and reception of Irish music and music in Ireland. It addresses three prevailing...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

French concert music and jazz often enjoyed a special creative exchange across the period 1900-65. French modernist composers were particularly receptive to early African-American jazz during the interwar years, and American jazz musicians, especially those concerned with modal jazz in the 1950s and early...

Mahler Studies comprises ten innovative essays by leading experts on topics spanning the range of current Mahler research, including biographical, psychoanalytical, source-critical, and theoretical approaches to the composer who, with astonishing foresight, repeatedly claimed that "my time will come." Highlights include previously inaccessible documents,...

An Introduction to Bach Studies is a comprehensive guide to the resources and materials of Bach scholarship, both for students beginning work in the enormous literature on J. S. Bach, and for the Bach specialist looking for a convenient and up-to-date survey of the...

A detailed investigation, based on extensive study of press reports and early recordings, of the popular Hungarian bands in Vienna who influenced Brahms and other composers. It has long been recognized that Viennese composers, especially Brahms, were profoundly influenced by Hungarian "Gypsy bands." Furthermore,...

Hector Berlioz combined writing music with lively and informed music criticism. This collection of articles, engagingly translated by Roger Nichols, covers the middle years of his critical career. Berlioz's music criticism from 1837 to 1850 covers a period druing which he composed some of...

The must-read memoir from the visionary figure behind Manchester's legendary music scene, from The Ha?ienda to The Warehouse Project. Tales From the Dance Floor is an electrifying journey into the heart of Manchester's music culture with its most influential promoter.Over the past three decades,...

Author: Corey WashingtonISBN-10: 1453568832ISBN-13: 9781453568835Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2010Pages: 142Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

MASTERING THE ART OF PLAYING HAND PAN AS A BEGINNER is your ultimate guide to unlocking the beautiful sounds of the hand pan, whether you're picking up this unique instrument for the first time or looking to refine your skills. Designed for absolute beginners,...

How the sound of the female playback voice impacts Bollywood's cultural, musical, and cinematic environment. Drawing on sound studies and performance theory, scholar Shikha Jhingan explores the discursive nature of the female playback voice in Bombay film songs. Mapping the production, circulation, and reception...

Author: Richard F. ThomasISBN-10: 0062937987ISBN-13: 9780062937988Publisher: Dey Street BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2025Pages: 384Format: Paperback

This collection offers students a practical guide to understanding the ways music and literature intersect and the influence of each on the other, as well as developing methods of study. This is the first coursebook to help students explore the many types of relationship...

How the sound of the female playback voice impacts Bollywood's cultural, musical, and cinematic environment. Drawing on sound studies and performance theory, scholar Shikha Jhingan explores the discursive nature of the female playback voice in Bombay film songs. Mapping the production, circulation, and reception...

Through text and comics, 20th Century Ambient searches through ambient music's recent history to unearth how the genre has evolved and the role it plays in our daily lives. Ambient music is a part of our daily lives, whether we all realize it or...

David Bowie: every single song. Everything you want to know, everything you didn't know. The legacy of David Bowie is roughly 450 songs, which he recorded or performed over half a century. They range from cabaret to psychedelia to folk rock to glam rock...

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM One of the greatest musicians of all time, Johann Sebastian Bach was also a genius in the search for new sounds through technology--a pursuit as lively in his moment as it is in ours....

From Stage to Studio: Performances versus Recordings in Classical Music presents a cultural study of classical music-making through the analysis of live and studio performances of orchestral and operatic repertoire conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras.Author: Amy Blier-CarruthersISBN-10: 0367485753ISBN-13: 9780367485757Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/21/2025Pages: 286Format: HardcoverWeight:...