Music Reviews & Criticism

Break out the flannel, scrunchies, and high-rise jeans and indulge in this nostalgic illustrated trip through the 1990s most influential albums acr...

Public commemorations of various kinds are an important part of how groups large and small acknowledge and process injustices and tragic events. Pe...

Jon Savage, the author of the canonical Englands Dreaming, explodes new ground in this electrifying history of pop music from 1955 through 1979. In...

The author outlines how memory is treated by contemporary artists, philosophers,musicians, sociologists, musicologists, as well as victims of the H...

Building on his 2006 book, Which Side Are You On?, Dick Weissmans A New History of American and Canadian Folk Music presents a provocative discussi...

He was the leading light of the Beat Generation writers and the most dynamic author of his time, but Jack Kerouac also had a lifelong passion for m...

Noise has become a model of cultural and theoretical thinking over the last two decades. Following Hegarty's influential 2007 book, Noise/Music, An...

During the Great War, composers and performers created music that expressed common sentiments like patriotism, grief, and anxiety. Yet music also r...

A reflection on the idea of the composer in the medieval period, including a study of the individuals and groups active in the creation of medieval...