Music Reviews & Criticism

KEXP DJ and musician Eva Walker and music writer Jake Uitti take readers on a musical journey, exploring the songs and artists instrumental to deve...

If you didnt experience rock and roll in Minnesota in the 1960s, this book will make you wish you had. This behind-the-scenes, up-close-and-persona...

Whether its Tom and Jerry, Scooby-Doo, the Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Top Cat, Huckleberry Hound, or hundreds of others, the creations of the Hanna-Barber...

Newly revised and updated, a deep dive into all things Phish for new and old fans alike! Few music groups have been able to sustain a fan base as p...

This book explores the relationships between rock and roll, social protest, and authenticity to consider how rock and roll could function as social...

Modern art is a mass phenomenon. Conceptual artists like Damien Hirst enjoy celebrity status. Works by 20th century abstract artists like Mark Roth...

A woman wearing a ballgown singing in the snow for returning ski troops; a technicians tears ruining a master recording of a new wartime song; fres...

Humour, as much as any other trait, defines British cultural identity. It is 'crucial in the English sense of nation,' argues humour scholar Andy M...

Australia's three best music journalists - Toby Creswell, Craig Mathieson and John O'Donnell - have joined forces to tackle the difficult task of d...

London, 1820. The British capital is a metropolis that overwhelms dwellers and visitors alike with constant exposure to all kinds of sensory stimul...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminoso...

Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer is the lively story of legal giant Nathan Burkan, whose career encapsulated the coming of age of the institutions, ...

The first book to use subversive sexuality as a lens through which to provocatively view opera in the 21st century. Imagine Armida, Handels Saracen...

Gabriel Faurés mélodies offer an inexhaustible variety of style and expression that have made them the foundation of the French art song repertoire...

Does it make sense to refer to bird songa complex vocalization, full of repetitive and transformative patterns that are carefully calculated to woo...

Living Genres in Late Modernity rehears the American 1970s through the workings of its musical genres. Exploring stylistic developments from the la...

What does it mean to have an emotional response to poetry and music? And, just as important but considered less often, what does it mean not to hav...

In Terminated for Reasons of Taste, veteran rock critic Chuck Eddy writes that rock'n'roll history is written by the winners. Which stinks, because...

The authoritative Beethoven biography, endorsed by and produced in close collaboration with the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, is timed for the 250th anniver...

Music listeners today can effortlessly flip from K-pop to Ravi Shankar to Amadou & Mariam with a few quick clicks of a mouse. While contemporar...

How did voice become a metaphor for selfhood in the Western imagination? The Lyric Myth of Voice situates the emergence of an ideological connectio...

Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., is an award-winning musicologist, music historian, composer, and pianist whose prescient theoretical and critical intervent...

Stories of Tonality in the Age of François-Joseph Fétis explores the concept of musical tonality through the writings of the Belgian musicologist F...

A collection of essays and short object lessons on the composer Hector Berlioz, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. Hector Ber...

A collection of essays and short object lessons on the composer Hector Berlioz, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. Hector Ber...