Theory of Music & Musicology

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...

A rich interdisciplinary exploration of the world of Sara Levy, a Jewish salonnière and skilled performing musician in late eighteenth-century Berl...

An icon of global Punjabi culture, the dhol drum inspires an unbridled love for the instrument far beyond its application to regional vernacular mu...

In recent years, girls' and mixed-gender ensembles have challenged the tradition of male-dominated gamelan performance. The change heralds a fundam...

From one of the most lauded scholars in ethnomusicology comes this enlightening and highly personal narrative on the evolution and current state of...

A performance culture of illness and wellness In southern Uganda, ritual healing traditions called kusamira and nswezi rely on music to treat sickn...

Sound Inventions is a collection of 34 articles taken from Experimental Musical Instruments, the seminal journal published from 1984 through 1999. ...

We often think of music in terms of sounds intentionally organized into patterns, but music performed in signed languages poses considerable challe...

Play with Sound: Manual for Electronic Musicians and Other Sound Explorers offers a thorough introduction to music technology by centering on curio...

Play with Sound: Manual for Electronic Musicians and Other Sound Explorers offers a thorough introduction to music technology by centering on curio...

Pulse is essential to life. Everything we do as humans is influenced by the phenomenon of rhythm. The Hildebrandt Method is about rhythm or more ...

Master the fundamentals of music with the updated edition of The Everything Music Theory Book that features online audio examples, challenging prac...

Seit der industriellen Produktion von Notendrucken nutzen Unternehmen Musik, um ihre Marken zu entwickeln und zu etablieren. Diese Studie beleuchte...

Explores the heroic life and revolutionary music of the pioneering German saxophonist, and the radical social and political convictions that inform...

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...

Rhythm is the fundamental pulse that animates poetry, music, and dance across all cultures. And yet the recent explosion of scholarly interest acro...

Music and sound studies have increasingly turned their attention to questions of empire and postcolonial thought in recent years, raising new quest...

An in-depth study of the Bulgarian harmonic system is long overdue. More than two decades since the Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares choir was awarded ...

This unique edited volume offers a distinctive theoretical perspective and advanced insights into how music is impacted by the interaction of globa...

The Digital Musician, Third Edition is an introductory textbook for creative music technology and electronic music courses. Written to be accessibl...