Music 2021-22 CROSSING BAR LINES
The Politics and Practices of Black Musical Space James Gordon Williams Foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley Apr 2021 204pp, 10 musical examples 9781496832115 Paperback US$30.00 9781496832108 Hardback US$99.00
Reframes the nature and purpose of jazz improvisation to illuminate the cultural work being done by five creative musicians between 2005 and 2019. The political thought of these African American improvisers is documented through multi-layered case studies that make explicit how these musicians articulate their positionality in broader society.
THE DRUM IS A WILD WOMAN Jazz and Gender in African Diaspora Literature Patricia G. Lespinasse Jan 2022 128pp 9781496836021 Paperback US$30.00 9781496836038 Hardback US$99.00
Breaks new ground by comparing the politics of resistance alongside moments of improvisation by examining recurring literary motifs - cry-and-response, the Wild Woman, and the jazz moment - in jazz novels, short stories, and poetry.
HARMONY AND NORMALIZATION US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy Timothy P. Storhoff 2020 210pp 9781496830883 Paperback US$30.00 9781496830876 Hardback US$99.00
Explores the channels of musical exchange between Cuba and the US during the eight-year presidency of Barack Obama, who eased the musical embargo of the island and restored relations with Cuba.
IMPROVISING SABOR
Cuban Dance Music in New York Sue Miller Feb 2021 256pp, 37 b&w illustrations, 121 musical notations 9781496832160 Paperback US$30.00 9781496832153 Hardback US$99.00
Examines in rich detail the playing styles and international influence of important figures in US Latin music. Sue Miller focuses on the Cuban flute style in light of its transformations in the US after the 1959 revolution and within the vibrant context of 1960s New York.
INSTRUMENTS OF EMPIRE Filipino Musicians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music during US Colonization of the Philippines Mary Talusan Aug 2021 272pp, 16 b&w illustrations 9781496835673 Paperback US$30.00 9781496835666 Hardback US$99.00
The untold story of the Philippine Constabulary Band offers a unique opportunity to examine the limits and porousness of America’s racial ideologies, exploring musical pleasure at the intersection of Euro-American cultural hegemony, racialisation, and US colonisation of the Philippines.
PERFORMING RACIAL UPLIFT
E. Azalia Hackley and African American Activism in the Postbellum to Pre-Harlem Era Juanita Karpf Jan 2022 224pp, 13 b&w illustrations, 13 musical examples 9781496836793 Paperback US$30.00 9781496836687 Hardback US$99.00
Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
Rediscovers the career of Black Activist E. Azalia Hackley (1867-1922), a concert artist, nationally famous music teacher, and charismatic lecturer. Juanita Karpf reclaims Hackley’s legacy and details the talent, energy, determination, and unprecedented worldview she brought to the cause of racial uplift.
PLAYING JAZZ IN SOCIALIST VIETNAM Quyền Văn Minh and Jazz in Hà Nội
POETIC SONG VERSE
Blues-Based Popular Music and Poetry Mike Mattison & Ernest Suarez Nov 2021 212pp 9781496837288 Paperback US$25.00 9781496837271 Hardback US$99.00
Invokes and critiques the relationship between blues-based popular music and poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This volume is anchored in music from the 1960s, when a concentration of artists transformed modes of popular music from entertainment to art-that-entertains.
SCATTERED MUSICS
Edited by Martha I. Chew Sanchez & David Henderson Apr 2021 240pp 9781496832351 Paperback US$30.00 9781496832368 Hardback US$99.00
Considers the musics that diaspora and migrant populations are inspired to create, how musics and musicians travel, and how they change in transit. The authors cover a lot of ground: cumbia in Mexico, hip-hop in Canada, Irish music in the US and the UK, reggae and dancehall in Germany, and more.
SONGS OF EARTH
Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music Anna Lomax Wood Nov 2021 490pp 9781496840356 Paperback US$35.00 9781496840646 Hardback US$99.00
Stan BH Tan-Tangbau & Quyền Văn Minh Dec 2021 320pp, 68 b&w illustrations 9781496836342 Paperback US$30.00 9781496836335 Hardback US$99.00
Quyền Văn Minh is one of the most preeminent jazz musicians in Vietnam. Considered a pioneer in the country, Minh is often publicly recognised as the ‘godfather of Vietnamese jazz’. This book tells the story of the music as it intertwined with Minh’s own narrative.
The Association for Cultural Equity
A contemporary guide to understanding and exploring Cantometrics, the system developed by Lomax and Victor Grauer for analysing the formal elements of music related to human geography and sociocultural patterning.
African American Popular Music and K-pop Crystal S. Anderson 2020 212pp 9781496830104 Paperback US$30.00 9781496830098 Hardback US$99.00
K-pop reigns as one of the most popular music genres in the world today, a phenomenon that appeals to listeners of all ages and nationalities. Here, Crystal Anderson examines the most important and often overlooked aspect of K-pop: the music itself.
American Made Music Series This series is dedicated to explorations of music history, origins, development, and artists.
CHAPEL OF LOVE
May 2021 192pp, 21 b&w illustrations 9781496829566 Hardback US$25.00
Explores the ups and downs of one of the most successful girl groups of the early 1960s. Telling their story for the first time, in their own words, this work reintroduces the Louisiana Music Hall of Famers to a new audience.
GROOVE THEORY
Jul 2021 176pp 9781496834881 Paperback US$30.00 9781496816948 Hardback US$99.00
Utilising musicology, literary studies, performance studies, and African American intellectual history, Tony Bolden explores what it means for music, or any cultural artefact, to be funky.
Caribbean Studies Series
First published in Dutch in 1990, this edition, in English for the first time, includes a new opening chapter by the author, and updates on the popular music of second- and thirdgeneration musicians of Surinamese descent in the Netherlands.
A TRANSATLANTIC HISTORY OF HAITIAN VODOU Rasin Figuier, Rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites Benjamin Hebblethwaite Oct 2021 272pp 9781496835611 Paperback US$30.00 9781496835604 Hardback US$99.00
Connecting four centuries of political, social, and religious history with fieldwork and language documentation, this work analyses Haitian Vodou’s African origins, transmission to Saint-Domingue, and promulgation through song in contemporary Haiti.
Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond
Rosa Hawkins & Steve Bergsman Foreword by Billy Vera
SURINAMESE MUSIC IN THE NETHERLANDS AND SURINAME
Marcel Weltak Translated by Scott Rollins
NEW YORK CITY BLUES
The Story of New Orleans Girl Group the Dixie Cups
The Blues Foundation of Funk Tony Bolden 2020 256pp 9781496830609 Paperback US$30.00 9781496830524 Hardback US$99.00
Larry Simon Edited by John Broven Photographs by Robert Schaffer Jul 2021 304pp, 163 b&w illustrations 9781496834997 Paperback US$28.00
Offers a dive into the blues venues and performers in the city from the 1940s through the 1990s. Interviews in this volume bring the reader behind the scenes of the daily and performing lives of working musicians, songwriters, and producers.
THE REAL AMBASSADORS
Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation Keith Hatschek
THE JAZZ MASTERS
Feb 2022 272pp, 29 b&w illustrations 9781496837844 Paperback US$25.00 9781496837776 Hardback US$99.00
Setting the Record Straight Peter C. Zimmerman Nov 2021 300pp, 55 b&w illustrations 9781496837431 Paperback US$25.00 9781496832221 Hardback US$99.00
Features twenty one conversations with musicians who have had at least fifty years of professional experience. Appealing to casual fans and jazz aficionados alike, these interviews have been carefully edited by Peter Zimmerman for sense and clarity, without changing any of the musicians’ actual words.
Tells the story of Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, and Iola Brubeck and the stand they took against segregation by writing and performing a jazz musical titled The Real Ambassadors. First conceived in 1956, the musical’s journey to the stage tracks extraordinary twists and turns across the backdrop of the civil rights movement.
MY MELANCHOLY BABY
SELLING FOLK MUSIC
The First Ballads of the Great American Songbook, 1902-1913 Michael G. Garber Jun 2021 336pp, 42 b&w illustrations, 52 musical examples 9781496834300 Paperback US$30.00 9781496834294 Hardback US$99.00
In this exploration of how the style of the Great American Songbook evolved, Michael Garber unveils the complicated, often-hidden origins of these enduring, pioneering works.
An Illustrated History
Ronald D. Cohen & David Bonner Aug 2021 170pp, 497 colour illustrations 9781496837936 Paperback US$35.00
Presents the public face of folk music in the US via its commercial promotion and presentation throughout the twentieth century. Included are concert flyers; sheet music; book, songbook, magazine, and album covers; concert posters and flyers; and movie lobby cards and posters.
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