Music Reviews & Criticism

Immerse yourself in the groundbreaking exploration of diversity and representation in music videos with Audiovisual Alterity. This new research del...

When I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen hit stores in 1991, Leonard Cohen's career had plummeted from its revered 1960s high. Cohen's record ...

American composer Louise Talma (1906-1996) was the first female winner of two back-to-back Guggenheim Awards (1946, 1947), the first American woman...

Ewan MacColl is widely recognized as a key figure in the English folk revival, who tried to convey traditional music to a mass audience. Dominant i...

The metaphor of marriage often describes the relationship between poetry and music in both medieval and modern writing. While the troubadours stand...

Resonances against Fascism explores some of the myriad ways music and, more broadly, sound have emerged from, and been mobilized to address, the ur...

Beginning with a quick history of film scoring and then taking the reader backstage to interview a dozen major screen composers, Overhearing Film M...

Upstate New York's Anti-Rent Movement is considered the last struggle over feudalism in the United States. Tenant farmers in the Hudson-Mohawk regi...

In Iceland in the 1930s, classical music was only beginning to be seriously practiced, at the same time when musicians of Jewish heritage were flee...

Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in ...

In 1972, a group of creative Brazilian musicians and poets informally led by singer-songwriter Milton Nascimento recorded a landmark double-LP titl...

BRAND NEW & EXPANDED EDITION! Packed with dozens of additional horror titles and containing limited edition enhanced packaging (gilded foil pag...

David Hajdu begins Love for Sale, his personal history of pop music, in an unexpected place - not with nostalgic reminiscences of the 45s of his yo...

A cultural clearinghouse of the American 1960s and '70s told through the story of the period's most important forgotten comedy group.   This expans...

A cultural clearinghouse of the American 1960s and '70s told through the story of the period's most important forgotten comedy group.   This expans...

During the rise of second-wave feminism in the 60s and 70s, political activists were not the only ones at work to usher in a more equitable world. ...

Twentieth-century composers created thousands of original works for solo percussion and percussion ensemble. Concise and ideal for the classroom, A...

PROSE Award- Music and Performing Arts Category Winner A framework for understanding the deep archive of Black performance in the digital era In an...

From the winds of Mars to a baby's first laugh, a prolific philosopher-composer reflects on the profound imperative of sound in everyday life.  Exp...

Of all the things we can know about J. S. Bach's Mass in B Minor and Christmas Oratorio, the most profound come from things we can hear. Listening ...

Seachanges brings together original essays examining human and cultural mobility from a musical perspective. Musicians have always been migratory f...

Margot E. Fasslers richly documented historywinner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the John Nicholas Brown ...

Following the Drums: African American Fife and Drum Music in Tennessee is an epic history of a little-known African American instrumental music for...

Booms Blues stands as both a remarkable biography of J. Frank G.Boom (19201953) and a recovery of his incredible contribution to blues scholarship ...