Music reviews and criticism

Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, U2, Peter Gabriel, and the Neville Brothers all have something in common: some of their best albums were produced by Daniel Lanois.

While some film scores crash through theater speakers to claim their place in memory, others are more unassuming.

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There has never been a band like Pearl Jam.

Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR and GQJoining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Cant Stop Wont Stop, an intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scene, led by a group of iconoclastic rock bands.

In Music in Disney's Animated Features James Bohn investigates how music functions in Disney animated films and identifies several vanguard techniques used in them.

A swinging cultural history of the instrument that in many ways defined a centuryThe twentieth century was barely under way when the grandson of a slave picked up a trumpet and transformed American culture.

Die Münchner Tagung über Aufführungs- und Interpretationsfragen zur Musik für Tasteninstrumente vom April 2018 hat innovativ musikwissenschaftliche Darstellungen mit musikalischen Demonstrationen an historischen Typen des Klaviers verbunden.

Performing Folk Songs is the first full-length volume to explore English folk singing from the perspective of performance studies.

Melodious panpipes and kena flutes.

Singular and star-studded writings on America's neon-lit playground At once a Technicolor wonderland and the embodiment of American mythology, Las Vegas exists at the Ground Zero of a reverence for risk-taking and the transformative power of a winning hand.

This pathbreaking work reveals the pivotal role of music--musical works and musical culture--in debates about society, self, and culture that forged European modernity through the "e;long nineteenth century.

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

Released in 1996, Kitten Licks catapulted Brisbane indie-rock three-piece Screamfeeder into the '90s alternative-rock boom alongside Powderfinger, silverchair, You Am I and Regurgitator.

We often say that music is ineffable, that it does not refer to anything outside of itself.

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

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In the late sixteenth century, the French royal court was mobile.

Challenges the longstanding perception that modernist composers made art, not money, and that those who made money somehow failed to make art.

Over the last two centuries, Beethoven's music has been synonymous with the idea of freedom, in particular a freedom embodied in the heroic figure of Prometheus.

Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human character changed.

Now in its sixth decade, country music studies is a thriving field of inquiry involving scholars working in the fields of American history, folklore, sociology, anthropology, musicology, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, and geography, among many others.

That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound is the definitive treatment of Bob Dylan's magnum opus, Blonde on Blonde, not only providing the most extensive account of the sessions that produced the trailblazing album, but also setting the record straight on much of the misinformation that has surrounded the story of how the masterpiece came to be made.

My Neighbor Totoro is a long-standing international icon of Japanese pop culture that grew out of the partnership between the legendary animator Miyazaki Hayao and the world-renowned composer Joe Hisaishi.

Leipzig, Germany, is renowned as the city where Johann Sebastian Bach worked as a church musician until his death in 1750, and where Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy directed the famed Gewandhaus orchestra until his own death in 1847.

When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips's Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound.

Building upon the developing picture of the importance of British music, musicians and institutions during the eighteenth century, this book investigates the themes of composition, performance (amateur and professional) and music-printing, within the wider context of social, religious and secular institutions.

Music was everywhere during the Civil War.

The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period.

Examines the genesis of Ernest Newman's major publications in the context of prevailing intellectual trends in history, criticism and biography.

Rhythm & blues emerged from the African American community in the late 1940s to become the driving force in American popular music over the next half-century.

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

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

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Marching to the Canon examines the history of Schubert's Marche militaire no.

Dieser durchgehend zweisprachige Band versammelt Beitrage zu asthetischen, kunstlerischen und padagogischen Fragestellungen der musikalischen Improvisation.

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

More than simply a paragon of Brazilian samba, Dona (Lady) Ivone Lara's 1981 Sorriso Negro (translated to Black Smile) is an album deeply embedded in the political and social tensions of its time.

An in-depth look at the rise of enigmatic Australian rock band TISM, the unexpected success of their 1995 album, Machiavelli and the Four Seasons, and the continued trajectory of their storied career.

Released in 1986, Hunters and Collectors' album Human Frailty is one of the most important Australian albums of the last two decades of the twentieth century.

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Jochen Eisentraut''s book provides a range of perspectives on why, and how, we engage with music.