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...

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...

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

In Please Please Tell Me Now, bestselling rock biographer Stephen Davis tells the story of Duran Duran, the quintessential band of the 1980s. Their...

In 1921, insurance executive Charles Ives sent out copies of a piano sonata to two hundred strangers. Laden with dissonant chords, complex rhythm, ...

This Must Be The Place is the first architectural history of popular music performance space, describing its beginnings, its different typologies, ...

In this new collection of interviews, Steve Cushing once again invites readers into the vaults of Blues Before Sunrise, his acclaimed nationally sy...

The Hollywood careers of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler brought the composers and their high art sensibility into direct conflict with the premier ...

Having designed Roxy Music as an haute couture suit hand-stitched of punk and progressive music, Bryan Ferry redesigned it. He made Roxy Music ever...

A no-holds-barred narrative history of the iconic label that brought the world Black Flag, Hüsker Dü, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, and more, by the co...

The Hollywood careers of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler brought the composers and their high art sensibility into direct conflict with the premier ...

In this new collection of interviews, Steve Cushing once again invites readers into the vaults of Blues Before Sunrise, his acclaimed nationally sy...

The first entrant in Backbeat Books new Goes to 11 series, this fun and informative book explores Stevie Wonders place in pop music history through...

Idiosyncratic.Iconoclastic.Acerbic.Hilarious.The influence of Tom Hibbert's music writing across print, radio, TV and podcasts is incomparable. Fro...

No Future. Punk is Dead. That is what was sung and said. Yet as we approach 50 years of punk rock, it still endures, and sometime thrives. From 'Wh...

The initial volume in a series of American Bach Society Guides, Bach's Art of Fugue and Musical Offering is a comprehensive study of two closely re...

In the '80s, the Birmingham, England, band Duran Duran became closely associated with new wave, an idiosyncratic genre that dominated the decade's ...

HOWLING TO THE MOONLIGHT ON A HOT SUMMER NIGHT: THE TALE OF THE STRAY CATS

Honorable Mention, 2019 Foreword INDIES Awards - Performing Arts & MusicHonorable Mention, Graphis 2021 Design Annual Competition Popular music...

The violinist Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987) is considered among the most influential performers in history and still maintains a strong following amon...