Theory of Music & Musicology

The City of Hip-Hop positions a unique conceptualization of the history of Hip-Hop, that it was a combination of forces that produced the environme...

The City of Hip-Hop positions a unique conceptualization of the history of Hip-Hop, that it was a combination of forces that produced the environme...

For generations, religion and music have been regarded as universals, yet despite the fact that they have been frequently linked throughout history...

From rockers to ravers, The Illustrated Book of Songs is the book every music lover will want. In quick-witted style, Irish writer Colm Boyd naviga...

Part exploration of a key group of Black Canadian poets, part literary, cultural, and musical history, Soundin Canaan demonstrates how music in Bla...

The U.S. incarceration machine imprisons more people than in any other country. Music-Making in U.S. Prisons looks at the role music-making can pla...

Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation analyzes the role of the mixtape as a site of collective memory tied to youth culture, commu...

Experiencing Jazz, Second Edition, is an integrated textbook with online resources for jazz appreciation and history courses. Through readings, ill...

Few western musical repertories speak more to the imagination than the Requiem mass for the dead. Yet, surprisingly, despite the significance of Re...

An exhilarating journey through the subcultures, the occupied squats, and late-night scenes in the anarchic first few years of Berlin after the fal...

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...

Music Will Never Sound the Same Again. No longer will music theory be an intimidating notion! Whether youre new to music and want to know the funda...

Between 1780 and 1850, the growing prominence of female singers in Britain's professional and amateur spheres opened a fraught discourse about wome...

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