Music reviews and criticism

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.

WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH AGEE PRIZE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE A groundbreaking appreciation of Dylan as a literary practitioner.

When Colleges Sang is an illustrated history of the rich culture of college singing from the earliest days of the American republic to the present.

The first biography of Asenath Nicholson, Compassionate Stranger recovers the largely forgotten history of an extraordinary woman.

The first history of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to describe and document its origins in 1887 to the present day, relating its changing fortunes in light of the economic, demographic, and cultural history of the city of Detroit.

A discussion of White Limozeen, from Dolly's self-fashioning to a rigorous critique of her genre.

From Mexico to Patagonia, the struggle for women's rights in Latin America comes alive in the voices of the artists and activists making the change.

The origin story of a groundbreaking albumThe 1971 Allman Brothers Band album At Fillmore East was a musical manifesto years in the making.

Radical subcultures in an unlikely placeTold in personal interviews, this is the collective story of a punk community in an unlikely town and region, a hub of radical counterculture that drew artists and musicians from throughout the conservative South and earned national renown.

The enduring achievement and legacy of a rock movementFlorida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for Florida NonfictionThe Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd helped usher in a new kind of southern music from Jacksonville, Florida.

Florida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for Florida NonfictionWhen the Beatles launched into fame in 1963, they inspired a generation to pick up an instrument and start a band.

"e;A persuasive argument that Presley's "e;moonshot"e; to fame could not have happened without Florida.

On September 19, 1973, Gram Parsons became yet another rock-and-roll casualty in an era of excess, a time when young men wore their dangerous habits like badges of honor.

In Avant Rock,, music writer Bill Martin explores how avant-garde rock emerged from the social and political upheaval of the sixties.

Who are the folk in folk music?

An essential work for rock fans and scholars, Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll surveys the origins of rock 'n' roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley.

In 1986, when Bon Jovi's third studio album, Slippery When Wet, was released, America had found its next superband.

Where did the major scale come from?

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.

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

Steel Drums and Steelbands: A History is a vivid account of the events that led to the "e;accidental"e; invention of the steel drum: the only acoustic musical instrument invented in the 20th century.

From John Philip Sousa to Green Day, from Scott Joplin to Kanye West, from Stephen Foster to Coldplay, The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 1 and 2 covers the vast scope of its subject with virtually unprecedented breadth and depth.

Shortly after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's death, his widow Constanze sent a manuscript copy of one of his most beloved operas, Die Zauberflote, to the court of the Elector of Cologne.

Shakespeare's three political tragedies-Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear-have numerously been presented or adapted on film.

Audiences as well as other artists have responded to Franz Schubert's music with passion, both during his time and in the past two centuries.

The Annual Review of Jazz Studies (ARJS) is a journal providing a forum for the ever expanding range and depth of jazz scholarship, from technical analyses to oral history to cultural interpretation.

In Child Composers and Their Works: A Historical Survey, Barry Cooper examines over 100 composers born before 1900 who wrote substantial musical works before age 16.

The work of multiple scholars is combined in this single volume, bringing together in conversation the traditions of brass instrumentalism and jazz idiom.

Inside Pierrot lunaire: Performing the Sprechstimme in Schoenbergs Masterpiece is a handbook on the performance and interpretation of the recitation in Arnold Schoenbergs Pierrot lunaire, op.

Mystical Love in the German Baroque: Theology, Poetry, Music identifies the cultural and devotional conventions underlying expressions of mystical love in poetry and music of the German baroque.

In The Contradictions of Jazz, Paul Rinzler takes a new approach to jazz aesthetics and theory by exploring four pairs of opposites present in jazz: individualism and interconnectedness, assertion and openness, freedom and responsibility, and creativity and tradition.

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

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.

An Instant New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller!

From John Philip Sousa to Green Day, from Scott Joplin to Kanye West, from Stephen Foster to Coldplay, The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 1 and 2 covers the vast scope of its subject with virtually unprecedented breadth and depth.

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.

A year of journaling inspiration through the most beloved hymns, based the bestselling Then Sings My Soul series.

Friendly Remainders draws on Adorno's concept of the negative dialectic, examining its importance in Adorno's thought and its critical application to musical forms.

Russell's discussion reflects the broad categories of popular music activity during this period.

This volume shows Charles Ives in the context of his world in a number of revealing ways.

Brian Dolan's social and cultural history of the music business in relation to the history of the player piano is a critical chapter in the story of contemporary life.

During the Cold War, thousands of musicians from the United States traveled the world, sponsored by the U.

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

After February 9, 1964, everyone wanted to be Debbie Gendler.

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) has a reputation as one of the leading composers of the twentieth century.

An outstanding anthology in which notable musicians, artists, scientists, thinkers, poets, and more-from Gustavo Dudamel and Carrie Mae Weems to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Paul Muldoon-explore the influence of music on their lives and workContributors include: Laurie Anderson * Jamie Barton * Daphne A.

"e;It is [a] fully illuminated story that Richard Taruskin, in the path-breaking essays collected here, unfolds around Modest Musorgsky, Russia's greatest national composer.

A world-renowned scholar of plainchant, Kenneth Levy has spent a portion of his career investigating the nature and ramifications of this repertory's shift from an oral tradition to the written versions dating to the tenth century.

The world-renowned musicologist Richard Taruskin devoted much of his career to helping listeners appreciate Russian and Soviet music in new and sometimes controversial ways.

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