Music reviews and criticism

Library Journal praises the book as "e;an excellent one-volume ready reference resource for students, researchers, and others interested in music history.

By gathering historical and musical fragments from a Europe torn apart by the Second World War and the Cold War, East German playwright Heiner Muller and West German composer Heiner Goebbels created Wolokolamsker Chaussee as a musical panorama that stretched across modern European history at a moment of international crisis.

Few composers even begin to approach Beethoven's pervasive presence in modern Western culture, from the concert hall to the comic strip.

The Child Ballads are a series of over 300 traditional ballads from England and Scotland that, along with their American variants, were anthologized by folklorist Francis James Child in the nineteenth century.

Although academic study of the Grateful Dead began shortly after the group's formation, the dramatic growth of scholarly literature only occurred after the band's formal retirement of the name in 1995.

In The Politics of Vibration Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration.

In New Orleans, music screams.

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

This collection represents current research on Birtwistle''s music, reflecting the diversity of his work through a wide range of perspectives.

The Grosse Fuge, composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in his late period, has an involved and complicated history.

From scouring flea markets and eBay to maxing out their credit cards, record collectors will do just about anything to score a long-sought-after album.

This collection represents current research on Birtwistle''s music, reflecting the diversity of his work through a wide range of perspectives.

Following the creation of the United States, profound disagreements remained over how to secure the survival of the republic and unite its diverse population.

What does it mean to hear scientifically?

Featuring exclusive interviews with key figures, from Napalm Death vocalist Barney Greenway to guitarist Bill Steer of Gentlemans Pistols, Carcass, and Napalm Death, this is your guide through the history of death metal.

A radical reappraisal of the left-wing politics at the heart of nineteenth-century German music and culture, first published in 2010.

Über prägende Role Models von den 1920ern bis heuteBessie Smith wurde vor 100 Jahren ein Weltstar, obwohl eine solche Karriere für eine weibliche, aus armen Verhältnissen stammende Afroamerikanerin höchst unwahrscheinlich war.

Often considered Romania's greatest musical force and a significant mind of the 20th century, composer George Enescu (1881-1955) achieved international fame and succeeded in incorporating Romanian spirituality into worldwide culture.

The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present.

Bella Ciao is the album that kick-started the Italian folk revival in the mid-1960s, made by Il Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano, a group of researchers, musicians, and radical intellectuals.

A landmark study, based on thousands of music-related references mined by the authors from a variety of contemporaneous sources, especially African American community newspapers, Out of Sight examines musical personalities, issues, and events in context.

Listening to the sound practices of bands and musicians such as the Asian Dub Foundation or M.

Regarded as one of the greatest film composers of all time, Bernard Herrmann was responsible for some of the most memorable music in film.

Elliott Carter (1908-2012) was the foremost composer of classical music in America during the second half of the 20th century.

The first collection ever of essays and reviews by the renowned pedagogue, composer, and conductor, providing fresh perspectives on her musical influence and impact.

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.

Black Sabbath has often been credited with inventing heavy metal with their first album released in 1970.

Listening to the sound practices of bands and musicians such as the Asian Dub Foundation or M.

Often considered Romania's greatest musical force and a significant mind of the 20th century, composer George Enescu (1881-1955) achieved international fame and succeeded in incorporating Romanian spirituality into worldwide culture.

This account of Led Zeppelin's decadent life on the road by their longtime tour manager "e;dishes up the real dirt as only an insider's report can"e; (Kirkus Reviews).

Cohen traces a history of modernism in migration through the composer Stefan Wolpe, from the Bauhaus to Black Mountain College.

Over the past 30 years, musicologists have produced a remarkable new body of research literature focusing on the lives and careers of women composers in their socio-historical contexts.

Winner of the Modern Language AssociationsAldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies Hip hop is a global form of creative expression.

A biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.

The influence of Rome on medieval plainsong and liturgy explored in depth.

In 1997 the rap group Racionais MCs (the 'Rational' MCs) recorded the album Sobrevivendo no Inferno (Surviving in Hell), subsequently changing the hip-hop scene in Sao Paulo and firmly establishing itself as the point of reference for youth across Brazil.

Punkbands mit provokanten Namen wie Böhse Onkelz, Cotzbrocken, Oberste Heeresleitung oder Stosstrupp sorgten bereits in der Frühphase der wohl kontroversesten deutschen Schallplattenfirma medial für reichlich Zündstoff: Tonträger wurden indiziert, zensiert oder staatsanwaltschaftlich beschlagnahmt.

Ein Standardwerk über den großen Komponisten - von einem der angesehensten Musikkritiker der USA.

In the whole body of Christmas carols sung in English, among the most famous and beloved is a song universally called "e;The Twelve Days of Christmas.

During his early years, Franz Liszt worked as a traveling piano virtuoso, his adventures highlighted by his entree into the literary world as a correspondent for the most popular French journals of his time.

The scholar Robin A.

The creation of the Confederate States of America and the subsequent Civil War inspired composers, lyricists, and music publishers in Southern and border states, and even in foreign countries, to support the new nation.

Reveals how in the culturally volatile 1930s the symphony, long associated with ideas of selfhood, was a flourishing transnational phenomenon.

Tuning the World tells the unknown story of how the musical pitch A 440 became the global norm.

For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme.

Refazenda connects a remarkable album by one of the 20th and 21st centuries' great musicians to a dazzling, often unexpected, array of people and places spread across the globe from Brazil to England to Chile to Japan.