Theory of Music & Musicology

In early modern Italy, letters were not only written and read but, in some cases, sung. Musical settings of love letters rekindled a complex kind o...

In early modern Italy, letters were not only written and read but, in some cases, sung. Musical settings of love letters rekindled a complex kind o...

The study of music and the brain can be traced back to the work of Gall in the 18th century, continuing with John Hughlings Jackson, August Knoblau...

Thinking Community Music explores critical questions concerning community music practice and theory with emphasis on intervention, hospitality, ped...

Thinking Community Music explores critical questions concerning community music practice and theory with emphasis on intervention, hospitality, ped...

This book presents aspects of the oral culture of Romanians, and some traditional musical instruments, as yet unknown on a global level. The book h...

Traditionally, popular music has long been said to intrinsically contest, resist, and defy the powers that be. This new book challenges this long-s...

This book is interdisciplinary in nature and presents the dispute around beauty in art of the last century. It is a synthesis of artistic phenomena...

The author outlines how memory is treated by contemporary artists, philosophers,musicians, sociologists, musicologists, as well as victims of the H...

Ya-Hui Cheng examines the emergence of popular music genres jazz, rock, and hip-hop in Chinese society, covering the social underpinnings that sh...

Kevin Korsyn is a renowned music theorist, musicologist, and pedagogue who has taught at the University of Michigan since 1992. He has published wi...

Psychedelic music is a fascinating yet under-researched field of study. This thought-provoking collection offers a broad introduction to the field ...

With a discography of over 1000 songs, 20 musicals and three motion pictures, the Lebanese singer and performer, Fairouz, is an artist of pan-Arab ...

In The Dancers Voice Rumya Sree Putcha theorizes how the Indian classical dancer performs the complex dynamics of transnational Indian womanhood. P...

The revised edition of Understanding Records explains the musical language of recording practice in a way any interested reader and student can eas...

Musical activity is one of the most ubiquitous and highly valued forms of social interaction in North America (to say nothing of world over), being...

An important modern exponent of Asian dance, Pandit Chitresh Das brought kathak to the United States in 1970. The North Indian classical dance has ...

An important modern exponent of Asian dance, Pandit Chitresh Das brought kathak to the United States in 1970. The North Indian classical dance has ...

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music Production provides a detailed overview of current research on the production of mono and stereo recorded music. T...

This volume charts a new frontier of applied ethnomusicology by highlighting the role of music in both inciting and resolving a spectrum of social ...

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2022 China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) produced propaganda music that still stirs unease and, at tim...