Music reviews and criticism

From colonial times to the present, American composers have lived on the fringes of society and defined themselves in large part as outsiders.

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As one of the first African American vocalists to be recorded, Bessie Smith is a prominent figure in American popular culture and African American history.

Defined by its distinct performance style, stage practices, and regional and dialect based identities, Cantonese opera originated as a traditional art form performed by itinerant companies in temple courtyards and rural market fairs.

A virtuoso violinist, conductor, composer, and a professor of mathematics and botany, Francesco Galeazzi (1758-1819) firmly believed that musical education should be clear, demonstrable, and practical.

Unapologetic, troublemaking, agitating, revolutionary, and hot-headed: radical feminism bravely transformed the history of politics, love, sexuality, and science.

Making Money, Making Musicoffers tools to encourage creative and adaptive entrepreneurship in the music business.

Categorizing Sound addresses the relationship between categories of music and categories of people, particularly how certain ways of organizing sounds becomes integral to how we perceive ourselves and how we feel connected to some people and disconnected from others.

For over a century and in scores of countries, patriarchal presumptions and practices have been challenged by women and their male allies.

Where previous accounts of the Renaissance have not fully acknowledged the role that music played in this decisive period of cultural history, Laurenz Lutteken merges historical music analysis with the analysis of the other arts to provide a richer context for the emergence and evolution of creative cultures across civilizations.

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Dreaming with Open Eyes examines visual symbolism in late seventeenth-century Italian opera, contextualizing the genre amid the broad ocularcentric debates emerging at the crossroads of the early modern period and the Enlightenment.

The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it.

In this first detailed study of seventeenth-century sepolcrisacred operas written for court performance on Holy Thursday and Good FridayRobert L.

Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture documents the transition of recorded music on CDs to music as digital files on computers.

Nostalgia for the Future is the first collection in English of the writings and interviews of Luigi Nono (19241990).

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An approach to music as an instrument of philosophical inquiry, seeking not so much a philosophy of music as a philosophy through music.

Charles Mingus is one of the most importantand most mythologizedcomposers and performers in jazz history.

Affect has become something of a buzzword in cultural and feminist theory during the past decade.

In this innovative book, Gundula Kreuzer argues for the foundational role of technologies in the conception, production, and study of nineteenth-century opera.

Within both feminist theory and popular culture, establishing similarities between embodied practices rooted in different cultural and geo-political contexts (e.

In this book, feminist scholar Nina Lykke highlights current issues in feminist theory, epistemology and methodology.

Over the past decade, democratization and civil society promotion became key variables in preserving global security and the liberal economic market.

Edgework brings together seven of Wendy Brown's most provocative recent essays in political and cultural theory.

In the third volume of his bestselling series, Pastor Robert Morgan expands his material to include the great history of worship, the first biblical hymns, biographical sketches of the most interesting composers, and almost 60 generations of hymn singing.

How do you define rockabilly?

This is the first complete survey of the historical pitch standards used by musicians during the last four centuries.

Small-town dance halls once overflowed with people flocking to see their favorite country bands and to dance.

Examining three interconnected case studies, Tamar Carroll powerfully demonstrates the ability of grassroots community activism to bridge racial and cultural differences and effect social change.

In Robert Ward's The Crucible: Creating an American Musical Nationalism, Robert Paul Kolt explores the life of the American composer Robert Ward through an examination of his most popular and enduring work, The Crucible.

Elvis Presley and his two faithful sidekicks tore up Texas highways, crisscrossing the state, always late for their next high school hop, car dealership opening, or Lion's Club fund raiser.

Innovative sounds in pop, rock and soul in the 1960s and 1970s meant that music appealed to more people than ever before.

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While some film scores crash through theater speakers to claim their place in memory, others are more unassuming.

Jethro Tull was one of the truly innovative rock bands to emerge from the late 1960s.

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The history of Florida State University's Marching Chiefs is chronicled, from early efforts to found a band before the program's 1939 establishment at Florida State College for Women, to the Chiefs' attainment of "e;world renowned"e; status.

Over 400,000 people moved their families in search of a better life in the American West during the Westward Expansion.

Ushering in a new era of confessional music that spoke openly about experiences of trauma, depression, and self-loathing, Nine Inch Nails seminal album, The Downward Spiral, changed popular music foreverbringing transgressive themes of heresy, S&M, and body horror to the masses and taking music technology to its limits.

Even before the Beatnik Riots of 1961, New York Citys Greenwich Village was the epicenter of revolutionary movements in American music and culture.

In this behind-the-scenes look at the making of Fleetwood Mac's epic, platinum-selling double album, Tusk, producers and engineers Ken Caillat and Hernan Rojas tell their stories of spending a year with the band in their new million-dollar studio trying to follow up Rumours, the biggest rock album of the time.

Led by the iconic frontman Robert Smith, the Cure remain one of the most beloved and influential bands in the history of alternative rock.

After John Coltrane, there was no more revered and profoundly influential saxophonist on the planet than Michael Brecker.

No band in recent history has divided listeners' opinions as much as Radiohead.

Throughout the 1990s, Dave Thompson was the Seattle-based contributing editor to Alternative Press magazine-America's biggest-selling and most influential alternative rock monthly-and a regular contributor to other publications both nationally and internationally.

The Doors, James Brown, the Grateful Dead, the Sir Douglas Quintet, David Bowie-the list goes on.

Many of the architects of rock and roll in the 1950s, including Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard, were Southerners who were rooted in the distinctive regional traditions of country, blues, and R&B.

This is the story of Fred Taylor, who since 1960 has been bringing entertainers and audiences together in Boston and New England in nightclubs, concert halls, and festival grounds.

Celebrating the One Hundredth Anniversary of Anita O'Day's Birth.