Music reviews and criticism

In the 1960s, The Beatles would address like no other musical act a radical shift in the cultural mindset of the late twentieth century.

This present work had it's origin in two series of twelve public lectures on music as part of the general culture, given at Harvard University between 1934 and 1935.

Described by music critic Alex Ross as "e;the most original musical thinker of our time"e; and having received innumerable accolades in a career spanning over fifty years, composer Steve Reich is considered by many to be America's greatest contemporary composer.

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

The musical scores of Stanley Kubrick's films are often praised as being innovative and forward-looking.

Music was everywhere during the Civil War.

Howard Smither has written the first definitive work on the history of the oratorio since Arnold Schering published his Geschichte des Oratoriums in 1911.

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

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, HIP-HOP (AND OTHER THINGS) is about, as it were, rap, but also some other things.

2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title WinnerDrawing on a wealth of unexplored sources, this biography offers the first comprehensive critical reappraisal of the life and works of Nikolay Myaskovsky.

No other instrument has witnessed such a dramatic rise to popularity--and precipitous decline--as the accordion.

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

Described in the Radio Times (27 July 2015) as 'A remarkable, unique institution lying at the heart of British life', the Three Choirs Festival celebrated its three-hundred-year anniversary in 2015.

The success of the Hip-Hop album The Calling (2003) by the Hilltop Hoods was a major event on the timeline of Hip-Hop in Australia.

Capturing the fraught moment in popular music history as reflected in and anticipated by Since I Left You (2000), the debut studio album from electronic music group The Avalanches.

In the early 1800s, Rossini's operas permeated Italy, from the opera house to myriad arrangements heard in public and private.

Complements the ongoing revival of Mieczysław Weinberg''s music and explains its unique blend of Polish and Soviet Russian influences.

"e;The American Negro,"e; Arthur Schomburg wrote in 1925, "e;must remake his past in order to make his future.

Triple Entendre discusses the rise and spread of background music in contexts as diverse as office workplaces, shopping malls, and musical performance.

Sonic Overload offers a new, music-centered cultural history of the late Soviet Union.

Prince's position in popular culture has undergone only limited academic scrutiny.

When record men first traveled from Chicago or invited musicians to studios in New York, these entrepreneurs had no conception how their technology would change the dynamics of what constituted a musical performance.

If you drive into any American city with the car stereo blasting, you'll undoubtedly find radio stations representing R&B/hip-hop, country, Top 40, adult contemporary, rock, and Latin, each playing hit after hit within that musical format.

The origin story of a groundbreaking albumThe 1971 Allman Brothers Band albumAt Fillmore Eastwas a musical manifesto years in the making.

Dreiser's captivating portraits of turn-of-the-century America's famous figures In this volume, liberally seasoned with period illustrations, Yoshinobu Hakutani has collected and annotated a rich selection of Theodore Dreiser's pre-fame writings on the cultural milieu of his day.

Howard Bloom-called "e;the greatest press agent that rock and roll has ever known"e; by Derek Sutton, the former manager of Styx, Ten Years After, and Jethro Tull-is a science nerd who knew nothing about popular music.

Centered on the musical experiences of homosexual men in St.

"e;I'm a Barbie Girl, in a Barbie world,"e; the ubiquitous refrain that dominated the airwaves in summer 1997.

The turn of the millennium has heralded an outgrowth of culture that demonstrates an awareness of the ephemeral nature of history and the complexity underpinning the relationship between location and the past.

Music represents one of humanity's most vivid contemplations on the nature of time itself.

*Exclusively for iBooks* Discover and Share the Year of Wonder Playlists on Apple Music.

In 2007, the great Bach scholar Anne Leahy died at the age of 46.

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

After Sound considers contemporary art practices that reconceive music beyond the limitation of sound.

From recent decades' digitization have emerged a myriad of techniques for mapping musical life, identifying patterns in sound or musico-cultural practices, and compiling labels, names, tags, and classes on an unprecedented scale.

Building on his 2006 book, Which Side Are You On?

Master interviewer Balint Andras Varga poses three probing questions to renowned contemporary composers about their work, and carefully renders their answers in their own words.

In Extended Play, one of the country's most innovative music writers conducts a wide-ranging tour through the outer limits of contemporary music.

This book chronicles the Kyoto/Kansai 1980s hardcore punk scene through the album Don't Be Swindle by S.

'An alternately funny and moving book about the most important art form on Planet Earth.

The relationship between Romanticism and film remains one of the most neglected topics in film theory and history, with analysis often focusing on the proto-cinematic significance of Richard Wagner's music-dramas.

A devout Catholic, a visionary-and some say prophetic-writer, Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) has gained a growing presence in contemporary popular culture.

American composer Charles Ives (1874-1954) has gone from being a virtual unknown to become one of the most respected and lauded composers in American music.

For his 2007 critically acclaimed 33 1/3 series title, Let's Talk About Love, Carl Wilson went on a quest to find his inner Celine Dion fan and explore how we define ourselves by what we call good and bad, what we love and what we hate.

With a focus on 50 defining artists, songs, and albums, Listen to Hip Hop!

Shortly after Chopin's death in 1849, Franz Liszt wrote the first full-length biography of his fellow composer.

Approaches the topic of classical music in the GDR from an interdisciplinary perspective, questioning the assumption that classical music functioned purely as an ideological support for the state.