Music Reviews & Criticism

The Starday Story: The House That Country Music Built is the first book entirely dedicated to one of the most influential music labels of the twent...

New York City has long been a generative nexus for the transnational Latin music scene. Currently, there is no other place in the Americas where su...

The all-embracing, "whaddya got?" nature of rebellion in Fifties America included pop music's unlikely challenge to entrenched notions of masculini...

In April 1998, legendary southern jam band Widespread Panic held a free open-air record release show in downtown Athens, Georgia, its homebase. No ...

Decades after his passing, Elvis Presley remains one of popular music's greatest icons. He was among the most successful, influential, socially sig...

The contributors to Playing for Keeps examine the ways in which musical improvisation can serve as a method for negotiating violence, trauma, syste...

A behind-the-scenes, in-depth look at the making of one of the greatest sonic masterpieces and most commercially successful albums of all time. ...

This book studies George Crumb’s The Winds of Destiny (2004) and Black Angels (1970) as artifacts of collective memory and cultural trauma. It situ...

The contributors to Playing for Keeps examine the ways in which musical improvisation can serve as a method for negotiating violence, trauma, syste...

Nyman's rise to international prominence during the last three decades has made him one of the world's most successful living composers. His music ...

In her study of the relationship between Byron’s lifelong interest in historical matters and the development of history as a discipline, Carla Poma...

Hawaiian Music in Motion explores the performance, reception, transmission, and adaptation of Hawaiian music on board ships and in the islands, rev...

Concerto Grosso no. 1 is one of Alfred Schnittke's best-known and most compelling works, sounding the surface of late Soviet life while resonating ...

Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain addresses operatic “experiences” outside the opera houses of Britain during t...

Audrey Ekdahl Davidson was a professor of music for many years at Western Michigan University. In honor of her retirement and her history with the ...

Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) was Victorian Britain’s most celebrated and popular composer, whose music to this day reaches a wider audience than tha...

Although medieval English music has been relatively neglected in comparison with repertoire from France and Italy, there are few classical musician...

This collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the field looks at various aspects of musical life in eighteenth-century Britain. The...