Music reviews and criticism

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.

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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.

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.

A Hundred Flowers Blossoming is a collection of literary essays written by faculty members of Xi'an International Studies University, China with two distinctive features.

A landmark manifesto New York TimesThe ground-breaking, international bestseller with over two million copies sold that launched a new movement to empower women everywhere.

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.

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

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

Exploring the unintentional production of seemingly feminist outcomes In India, elite law firms offer a surprising oasis for women within a hostile, predominantly male industry.

A rare look at the life and music of renowned Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-KorsakovDuring his lifetime, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) was a composer whose work had great influence not only in his native Russia but also internationally.

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

This thesis outlines the influence of Judeo-Christian Religious Faith and American literature of the lyrics of American songwriter Bob Dylan, who rose to prominence in the culture of 1960s America.

Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxi_me Sexe has been studied extensively since its appearance in 1949.

All people spend a considerable portion of their lives either as dependents or the caretakers of dependents.

THE LOUDER THAN WAR #1 BOOK OF THE YEARA ROUGH TRADE, THE TIMES, MOJO, UNCUT, THE HERALD BOOK OF THE YEARThis is not a book about a rock band.

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'It's just another song to me.

Ian Bostridge is one of the outstanding singers of our time, celebrated for the quality of his voice but also for the exceptional intelligence he brings to bear on the interpretation of the repertoire of the past and present alike.

Bela Bartok, who died in New York fifty years ago this September, is one of the most frequently performed twentieth-century composers.

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

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

Stravinsky in the Americas explores the ';pre-Craft' period of Igor Stravinsky's life, from when he first landed on American shores in 1925 to the end of World War II in 1945.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the late work of Euripides.

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.

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

In Hymns for the Fallen, Todd Decker listens closely to forty years of Hollywood combat films produced after Vietnam.

What happened to musical modernism?

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