Music reviews and criticism

An exploration of the castrato as a critical provocation to explore the relationships between sound, music, voice instrument, and machine.

A corporeal history of music-making in early modern Europe.

Between 1941 and 1963, Aaron Copland made four government-sponsored tours of Latin America that drew extensive attention at home and abroad.

"El análisis general del conflicto colombiano le permitirá al lector desprevenido comprender la naturaleza y el contenido de este libro que recoge una serie de canciones, poemas, fotografías y mapas sobre la guerra de guerrillas en los Llanos Orientales de Colombia, durante la década de los 50 y 60.

Este libro se enmarca en la búsqueda de poner en conocimiento investigativo y sistemático, la dimensión interpretativa de estilos y tendencias, individuales y grupales, en el contexto del lenguaje del joropo practicado en Colombia, desde 1970 hasta el año 2000.

Melbourne, 1971: radical counterculture, hippies, opposition to the Vietnam War and consumerism.

Melbourne, 1971: radical counterculture, hippies, opposition to the Vietnam War and consumerism.

In Search of Soul explores the meaning of ';soul' in sacred and profane incarnations, from its biblical origins to its central place in the rich traditions of black and Latin history.

As one of the most influential and popular genres of the last three decades, rap has cultivated a mainstream audience and become a multimillion-dollar industry by promoting highly visible and often controversial representations of blackness.

The Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer's most important work on music and its relationship with technology.

Race, politics, and opera production during apartheid South Africa intersect in this historiographic work on the Eoan Group, a ';coloured' cultural organization that performed opera in the Cape.

What happened to musical modernism?

Listening for the Secret is a critical assessment of the Grateful Dead and the distinct culture that grew out of the group's music, politics, and performance.

The Music Issue enhanced eBook include all the tracks on our special CD and:The tell-all letter from a teenage girl who kissedand kissedElvis PresleyHow corruption and greed made the Jacksonville music sceneGretchen Wilson, country musics Redneck WomanThe invaluable social spaces of African American record storesBobby Rush, bluesman-plusWhere Opryland resides in hearts, minds, and soulsBackstage with the Avett Brothers, Doc Watson, Tift Merritt, Southern Culture on the Skids, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Johnny Cash, and more great artists.

Despite its extraordinary popularity and worldwide influence, the world of rap and hip hop is under constant attack.

Originally published in 1991, Rodger Lyle Brown's Party Out of Bounds is a cult classic that offers an insider's look at the underground rock music culture that sprang from a lazy Georgia college town.

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Jimmy Page knew that Led Zeppelin had to take America by storm for the group to be successful.

Few bands in the past three decades have proven as affecting or exciting as the Misfits, the ferocious horror punk outfit that lurked in the shadows of suburban New Jersey and released a handful of pivotal underground recordings during their brief, tumultuous time together.

Famously reclusive and secretive, North Korea can be seen as a theatre that projects itself through music and performance.

Famously reclusive and secretive, North Korea can be seen as a theatre that projects itself through music and performance.

While much has been said about the nostalgia and historic references of Daft Punk's final album, Random Access Memories, this book reveals its ambition and future-focus, and claims these aspects do not necessarily contradict.

A contemporary of Shakespeare and Monteverdi, and a colleague of Galileo and Artemisia Gentileschi at the Medici court, Francesca Caccini was a dominant musical figure there for thirty years.

In this unique and hybrid book, cultural and music historian Michael P.

In this book, Emily Wilbourne boldly traces the roots of early opera back to the sounds of the commedia dell'arte.

From bell ringing to fireworks, gongs to cannon salutes, a dazzling variety of sounds and soundscapes marked the China encountered by the West around 1800.

The years between roughly 1760 and 1810, a period stretching from the rise of Joseph Haydn's career to the height of Ludwig van Beethoven's, are often viewed as a golden age for musical culture, when audiences started to revel in the sounds of the concert hall.

Feasting and Fasting in Opera shows that the consumption of food and drink is an essential component of opera, both on and off stage.

Daniel Albright investigates musical phenomena through the lens of monism, the philosophical belief that things that appear to be two are actually one.

A history of nineteenth-century New Orleans and the people who made it a vital, if unexpected, part of an emerging operatic world.

Early seventeenth-century Italy saw a revolution in instrumental music.

Offering a broad perspective of the philosophy, theory, and aesthetics of early Indian music and musical ideology, this study makes a unique contribution to our knowledge of the ancient foundations of India's musical culture.

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

Through archival work and storytelling, Musical Migration and Imperial New York revises many inherited narratives about experimental music and art in postwar New York.

A biography of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.

London, 1820.

Film has shaped modern society in part by changing its cultures of memory.

The Jazz Age.

Music listeners today can effortlessly flip from K-pop to Ravi Shankar to Amadou & Mariam with a few quick clicks of a mouse.

Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon.

We seem to see melodrama everywhere we look-from the soliloquies of devastation in a Dickens novel to the abject monstrosity of Frankenstein's creation, and from Louise Brooks's exaggerated acting in Pandora's Box to the vicissitudes endlessly reshaping the life of a brooding Don Draper.

The Low Countries were at the heart of innovation in Europe in the fifteenth century.

This study uncovers how Saint Cecilia came to be closely associated with music and musicians.

A study of the networks of opera production and critical discourse that shaped Italian cultural identity during and after Unification.

This is a groundbreaking study of the prestigious Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics during the Third Reich.

Sound Authorities shows how experiences of music and sound played a crucial role in nineteenth-century scientific inquiry in Britain.

Jazz is born of collaboration, improvisation, and listening.

Richard Kramer follows the work of Beethoven and Schubert from 1815 through to the final months of their lives, when each were increasingly absorbed in iconic projects that would soon enough inspire notions of "e;late style.

An Unnatural Attitude traces a style of musical thought that coalesced in the intellectual milieu of the Weimar Republic-a phenomenological style that sought to renew contact with music as a worldly circumstance.

Analyzing the final three decades of Haydn's career, this book uses the composer as a prism through which to examine urgent questions across the humanities.