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Free Jazz
(October 2022)
Jeff Schwartz - Author
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(White)Washing Our Sins Away
(August 2022)
American Mainline Churches, Music, Power, and Diversity
Deborah Justice - Author
Annetta Alexandridis - Gratis Copies
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Analyzes how White American mainline Protestants used the internal musical controversies of the turn-of-the-millennium Worship Wars to negotiate their shifting position within the nation's diversifying religious and sociopolitical ecosystems.
What if simply changing musical styles could resurrect social power and religious vitality? By the early 1990s, Christianity was losing groun...(Read More) |
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Punk Rock
(August 2022)
Music Is the Currency of Life
Mindy Clegg - Author
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Shows how punk rock shaped modern culture around the world.
Punk Rock examines the history of punk rock in its totality. Punk became a way of thinking about the role of culture and community in modern life. Punks forged real alternatives to producing popular music and built community around their music. This punk counterpublic, forged in the late Cold War period, spanned the...(Read More) |
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The Sound of Vultures' Wings
(July 2022)
The Tibetan Buddhist Chod Ritual Practice of the Female Buddha Machik Labdron
Jeffrey W. Cupchik - Author
Ven. Phuntsok Rabgey - Foreword by
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Explores the music of the Tibetan Chöd tradition.
The Sound of Vultures’ Wings offers the first in-depth exploration of the music of the Tibetan Chöd tradition, which is based on the liturgical song-poems of the twelfth-century Tibetan female ascetic Machik Labdrön (1055–1153). Chöd is a musical/meditative Vajrayāna method for cutting off the root of suffering, namely, egoic...(Read More) |
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Rock on Record
(January 2022)
Albin J. Zak - Author
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Rock on Record shows students how to listen to and enjoy the rich repertory of rock records made between the 1950s and 1980s.
An introductory textbook for Rock Music Appreciation and History courses, Rock on Record traces the story of rock from the late 1940s through the pre-rock styles of the 1950s to rock in its heyday in the 1960s and, then follows its continued gr...(Read More) |
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Gilbert and Sullivan
(October 2021)
The Players and the Plays
Kurt Gänzl - Author
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Highlights the original cast members—both the well-known and the (until now) wholly unknown—who staged the duo's comic operas in Britain and in America.
In this, the first book to focus on the original cast members of the classic Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas, world-renowned musical theater expert Kurt Gänzl provides a concise history of the writing and production of each oper...(Read More) |
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Sounds Like Helicopters
(October 2019)
Classical Music in Modernist Cinema
Matthew Lau - Author
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Explores how modernist films use classical music in ways that restore the music’s original subversive energy.
Classical music masterworks have long played a key supporting role in the movies—silent films were often accompanied by a pianist or even a full orchestra playing classical or theatrical repertory music—yet the complexity of this role has thus far been underappreciated. ...(Read More) |
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Word, Chant, and Song
(September 2019)
Spiritual Transformation in Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Sikhism
Harold Coward - Author
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An accessible introduction to the centrality of word, chant, and song in the Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, and Sikh traditions.
In academic religious studies and musicology, little attention has been given to chanted word, hymns, and songs, yet these are often the key spiritual practices for lay devotees. To address this gap in knowledge, Harold Coward presents a thematic study of sacred sound as it functions in word, chant, and so...(Read More) |
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Anti-Music
(June 2018)
Jazz and Racial Blackness in German Thought between the Wars
Mark Christian Thompson - Author
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Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.
Anti-Music examines the critical, literary, and political responses to African American jazz music in interwar Germany. During this time, jazz was the subject of overt political debate between le...(Read More) |
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Imagination, Music, and the Emotions
(September 2017)
A Philosophical Study
Saam Trivedi - Author
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Articulates an imaginationist solution to the question of how purely instrumental music can be perceived by a listener as having emotional content.
Both musicians and laypersons can perceive purely instrumental music without words or an associated story or program as expressing emotions such as happiness and sadness. But how? In this book, Saam Trivedi discusses and critiques the leading philosophical approaches to this question...(Read More) |
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