Music Reviews & Criticism

Celebrating Anita O'Day s 100th birthday anniversary, this classic and engaging memoir is a must read for anyone wanting a real look behind the sce...

The historical significance of music-makers, music scenes, and music genres has long been mediated through academic and popular press publications ...

Chico Buarque comprises a critical appreciation of the self-titled album (1978), which is one of the Brazilian artist’s most representative. This v...

This collection of new interviews with twenty-five accomplished female composers substantially advances our knowledge of the work, experiences, com...

“This book is a fascinating cri de coeur and made me question everything I think about musicals” Alan Cumming A book for those who can’t stand mus...

The study of music within multimedia contexts has become an increasingly active area of scholarly research. However, the application of such studie...

Music was, in some form or another, a pastime enjoyed by all in sixteenth-century society, and a fundamental part of their lives. It was both throu...

Panamanian Suite narrates the complex relationship between Panama and the United States by tracing the paths of their music, tracking the developme...

This is the first comprehensive study of the trombone in English. It covers the instrument, its repertoire, the way it has been played, and the soc...

Female-to-male crossdressing became all the rage in the variety shows of nineteenth-century America and began as the domain of mature actresses who...

Byron Almén proposes an original synthesis of approaches to musical narrative from literary criticism, semiotics, historiography, musicology, and m...

Among his numerous children, Johann Sebastian Bach sired five musically gifted sons. The eleventh volume of Bach Perspectives presents essays that ...

Life is a Rip Off is a collection of record reviews by John "Inzane" Olson aka American Tapes aka 1/3 of the band Wolf Eyes. How does the disturbin...

A complete history of Toronto’s legendary Horseshoe Tavern, “the Birthplace of Canadian Rock,” to coincide with its seventieth anniversary.Like the...

Counting Down is a unique series of titles designed to select the best songs or musical works from major performance artists and composers in an ag...

Brian Dolan's social and cultural history of the music business in relation to the history of the player piano is a critical chapter in the story o...

The power of music, the way it works on the mind and heart, remains an enticing mystery. Now two noted writers on classical music, Michael Steinber...

This book offers a detailed examination of the literary influences behind the experimental music of five twentieth-century Italian composers: Luigi...

Schoenberg's Correspondence with American Composers is the first edition of all known and available letters between Arnold Schoenberg and over seve...

With the 21st century audience in mind, the scholarship in this book focuses on how Johann Sebastian Bach used his compositional creativity to inte...