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Beethoven in Beijing
Black Ephemera
Stories from the Philadelphia Orchestra's Historic Journey to China Jennifer Lin Foreword by Yannick Nézet-Séguin
The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive Mark Anthony Neal March 2022 232pp 9781479806904 £21.00 / $27.00 PB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
April 2022 172pp 9781439921616 £27.00 / $35.00 HB
In an era of Big Data and algorithms, our easy access to the archive of contemporary and historical Blackness is unprecedented. While this book celebrates this new access, it also ques�ons the crisis and the challenge of the Black musical archive in a moment when Black American culture has become a global export. Neal offers a new framework for thinking about Black culture in the digital world.
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Provides a photo-rich oral history of this boundarybreaking series of concerts the Phildelphia Orchestra performed under famed conductor Eugene Ormandy in 1973. Draws from interviews, personal diaries, and news accounts to give voice to the American and Chinese musicians, diplomats, journalists, and others who par�cipated in and witnessed this historic event. Excludes Asia Pacific
Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
DJ Screw
Earworm and Event
A Life in Slow Revolution Lance Scott Walker
Music, Daydreams, and Other Imaginary Refrains Eldritch Priest
American Music Series April 2022 312pp 9781477325131 £23.00 / $29.95 HB
Thought in the Act March 2022 200pp 9781478017981 £19.00 / $24.95 PB 9781478015369 £76.00 / $94.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS How a DJ’s innova�ve chopped and screwed technique changed the Houston hip-hop scene. More than the story of one man, DJ Screw is a history of the Houston scene as it came of age, full of vibrant moments and characters. But none can top Screw himself, a pioneer whose mys�que has only grown in the two decades since his death.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Ques�ons the nature of sound, music, thought, and affect by analyzing the phenomenon of the earworm: those reveries that hijack our a�en�on, the shivers that run down our spines, and the songs that s�ck in our heads. Unconven�onal and ambi�ous, this book offers new ways to interrogate the convergence of thought, sound, and affect.
Good night the pleasure was ours
Hip Hop Heresies
Queer Aesthetics in New York City Shanté Paradigm Smalls
David Grubbs
May 2022 168pp 3 illus. 9781478018179 £17.00 / $21.95 PB 9781478015543 £72.00 / $89.95 HB
Postmillennial Pop June 2022 224pp 11 b&w illus. 9781479808205 £21.00 / $28.00 PB 9781479808199 £71.00 / $89.00 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS In this book-length poem Grubbs melts down and recasts three decades of playing music on tour, capturing the daily life of touring as a world unto itself. And yet, over the course of the book’s mul�decade arc, Grubbs depicts music-making as an irreversible process—one reason for loving it so.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS This book transforms the landscape of hip hop scholarship, Black studies, and queer studies by bringing together these fields through the hermeneu�c of aesthe�cs. This book takes seriously the work that New York City hip hop cultural produc�on has done and will do, and advocates a form of hip hop that eschews authen�city in favor of performa�vity. Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ 1
Johann Scheibe
John Prine
April 2022 408pp 9780252044311 £52.00 / $65.00 HB
American Music Series March 2022 232pp 9781477325933 £15.00 / $18.95 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Organ Builder in Leipzig at the Time of Bach Lynn Edwards Butler
In Spite of Himself Eddie Huffman
In his nearly forty-year career, Johann Scheibe became Leipzig's most renowned organ builder and one of the late Baroque's masters of the cra�. Drawing on extensive research and previously untapped archival materials, Lynn Edwards Butler explores Scheibe's professional rela�onships and the full range of his projects.
Across five decades, John Prine has created cri�cally acclaimed albums and earned many honors. In this book, Huffman recounts the stories behind Prine’s bestknown songs and discusses all of Prine’s albums as he explores the brilliant records and underappreciated gems to give Prine his due as one of the most influen�al songwriters of his genera�on.
Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Listening in the Afterlife of Data
Mandolin Man
The Bluegrass Life of Roland White Bob Black
Aesthetics, Pragmatics, and Incommunication David Cecchetto
Music in American Life May 2022 280pp 9780252086403 £15.00 / $19.95 PB 9780252044335 £88.00 / $110.00 HB
Thought in the Act March 2022 184pp 3 illus. 9781478017912 £19.00 / $24.95 PB 9781478015291 £76.00 / $94.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS Roland White's long career has taken him from membership in Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys and Lester Fla�'s Nashville Grass to success with his own Roland White Band. Bob Black draws on extensive interviews with White and his peers and friends to provide the first in-depth biography of the pioneering bluegrass figure.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Wri�ng at a cultural moment in which data has never been more ubiquitous or less convincing, Cecche�o theorizes sound, communica�on, and data by analyzing them in the contexts of computa�on, wearable technologies, and digital artwork.
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Maximum Clarity and Other Writings on Music
Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera Sarah Kay
Ben Johnston Edited by Bob Gilmore
July 2022 298pp 20 b&w hal�ones, 18 color hal�ones 9781501763885 £36.00 / $44.95 HB
Music in American Life March 2022 328pp 9780252086717 £23.00 / $30.00 PB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Focusing on songs by the troubadours and trouvères from the twel�h to the fourteenth centuries, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera contends that song is not best analyzed as "words plus music" but rather as a dis�nc�ve way of sounding words.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS Described by New York Times cri�c John Rockwell as "one of the best non-famous composers this country has to offer," Ben Johnston reconceives familiar idioms--ranging from neoclassicism and serialism to jazz and southern hymnody--using just intona�on. This collec�on brings together forty-one of Johnston's most important wri�ngs. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
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Mongolian Sound Worlds
Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy
Edited by Jennifer Post, Sunmin Yoon & Charlotte D'Evelyn
New Perspectives Edited by Lynette Bowring, Rebecca Cypess & Liza Malamut
March 2022 312pp 9780252086441 £23.00 / $30.00 PB 9780252044373 £100.00 / $125.00 HB
Music and the Early Modern Imagina�on March 2022 318pp 17 b&w illus., 17 printed music items 9780253060099 £31.00 / $39.00 PB 9780253060105 £72.00 / $90.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Music cultures today in rural and urban Mongolia and Inner Mongolia emerge from centuries-old pastoralist prac�ces that were reshaped by poli�cal movements in the twen�eth century. This book inves�gates the unique sonic elements, fluid genres, social and spa�al performa�vity, and sounding objects behind new forms of Mongolian music. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Sheds new light on the place of music in complex, previously misunderstood environments.
Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals
Music in Black American Life, 16001945
Christopher M. Reali
Music in American Life June 2022 288pp 9780252086588 £18.00 / $22.95 PB 9780252044519 £88.00 / $110.00 HB
A University of Illinois Press Anthology Compiled by Laurie Matheson, Introduction by Sandra Jean Graham
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS The forceful music that rolled out of Muscle Shoals in the 1960s and 1970s shaped hits by everyone from Wilson Picke� and Aretha Franklin to the Rolling Stones and Paul Simon. Christopher M. Reali's indepth look at the fabled musical hotbed examines the events and factors that gave the Muscle Shoals sound such a potent cultural power.
Music in American Life May 2022 288pp 9780252086656 £21.00 / $28.00 PB 9780252044571 £88.00 / $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS Engages with fundamental issues in ways that changed our percep�ons of Black music.
Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020
My Life in the Purple Kingdom
BrownMark Contributions by Cynthia M. Uhrich Foreword by Questlove
A University of Illinois Press Anthology Compiled by Laurie Matheson, Introduction by Tammy L. Kernodle
May 2022 176pp 18 color plates 9781517913755 £13.00 / $16.95 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS From the young Black teenager who built a bass guitar in woodshop to the musician building a solo career with Motown Records—Prince’s bassist BrownMark on growing up in Minneapolis, joining Prince and The Revolu�on, and his life in the purple kingdom.
Music in American Life May 2022 272pp 9780252086663 £21.00 / $28.00 PB 9780252044588 £88.00 / $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS Explores a variety of topics with works that pioneered new methodologies for hearing and studying Black music. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Excludes Japan & ANZ
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On the Bus with Bill Monroe
Recording History
Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa Christopher Silver
My Five-Year Ride with the Father of Blue Grass Mark Hembree
June 2022 304pp 9781503631687 £20.00 / $26.00 PB 9781503630567 £72.00 / $85.00 HB
Music in American Life April 2022 224pp 9780252086496 £15.00 / $19.95 PB 9780252044427 £88.00 / $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
With this book, Christopher Silver provides the first history of the music scene and recording industry across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, and offers striking insights into Jewish-Muslim rela�ons through the rhythms that animated them. He traces the path of hit-makers and their hit records, illumina�ng regional and transna�onal connec�ons.
A backstage audi�on led Mark Hembree into a fiveyear s�nt (1979–1984) as the bassist for Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys. Hembree gives readers an up-close look at the occasionally exal�ng, o�en unglamorous life of a touring musician in the some�mes baffling, always colorful company of a bluegrass icon. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Sonic Bodies
The Costs of the Gig Economy
Text, Music, and Silence in Late Medieval England Tekla Bude
Musical Entrepreneurs and the Cultural Politics of Inequality in Northeastern Brazil Falina Enriquez
Sound in History March 2022 336pp 11 b&w hal�ones, 1 table 9780812253702 £56.00 / $69.95 HB
August 2022 288pp 9780252086687 £23.00 / $30.00 PB 9780252044618 £88.00 / $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Starts from a simple premise—that music requires a body to perform it—to rethink the rela�onship between music, ma�er, and the body in the late medieval period. Sonic Bodies argues that writers thought of "music" and "the body" as mutually dependent and historically determined processes that called each other into being.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS Ins�tu�ons in Recife, Brazil, have restructured subsidies in favor of encouraging musicians to become more entrepreneurial. Enriquez explores how contemporary and tradi�onal musicians in the fabled musical city have nego�ated these intensified neoliberal cultural policies and economic uncertain�es. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
The Running Kind
recent highlights
Listening to Merle Haggard David Cantwell
Becoming Clara Schumann
April 2022 320pp 9781477322369 £23.00 / $29.95 HB
Performance Strategies and Aesthetics in the Culture of the Musical Canon Alexander Stefaniak
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
A new and expanded biography of one of country music’s most celebrated singer-songwriters. Expanding on his earlier analysis and covers Haggard's death and a�erlife as an icon of both old school and modern country music, David Cantwell takes us on a revelatory journey through Haggard’s music and the life and �mes out of which it came.
November 2021 320pp 1 b&w illus, 6 b&w tables, 32 printed music items 9780253058287 £25.00 / $20.00 PB 9780253058294 £68.00 / $75.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Guides readers through Clara Schumann’s en�re career, including performance, composi�on, edits to her husband's music, and teaching.
Interviews with American Composers
Music in Arabia
Perspectives on Heritage, Mobility, and Nation Edited by Issa Boulos, Virginia Danielson & Anne K. Rasmussen
Barney Childs in Conversation Barney Childs Introduction & Edited by Virginia Anderson
September 2021 322pp 50 b&w illus., 4 b&w tables, 8 printed music items 9780253057532 £28.00 / $36.00 PB 9780253057549 £80.00 / $100.00 HB
Music in American Life January 2022 456pp 9780252043994 £48.00 / $60.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
In 1972-73, Childs surveyed the landscape of new American concert music by recording freewheeling conversa�ons with fellow composers—all of them important but most not yet famous. Provides invaluable snapshot of American music at an important crossroads. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc &
Including work by leading scholars and local authori�es, this collec�on presents fresh perspec�ves and new research addressing why musical expression is fundamental to the Gulf region’s diverse, transna�onal communi�es.
ANZ
Roadrunner
Singing Like Germans
Joshua Clover
Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms Kira Thurman
Singles September 2021 144pp 1 illus. 9781478014393 £15.00 / $19.95 PB 9781478013471 £68.00 / $84.95 HB
October 2021 368pp 28 b&w hal�ones, 1 chart, 1 printed music item 9781501759840 £25.00 / $32.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cultural theorist and poet Joshua Clover examines Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers' 1972 song “Roadrunner,” char�ng its place in rock & roll history and American culture.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS In Singing Like Germans, Kira Thurman tells the sweeping story of Black musicians in German-speaking Europe over more than a century. Thurman brings to life the incredible musical interac�ons and transna�onal collabora�ons between people of African descent and white Germans and Austrians.
The Dylan Tapes
Where the Devil Don't Stay
Friends, Players, and Lovers Talkin’ Early Bob Dylan Anthony Scaduto Edited by Stephanie Trudeau
Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers Stephen Deusner
American Music Series September 2021 320pp 9781477318041 £21.00 / $27.95 HB
November 2021 400pp 9781517908157 £23.00 / $29.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS The Dylan Tapes, compiled from thirty-six hours of interviews, is a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Anthony Scaduto’s landmark 1971 biography of Bob Dylan. These reel-to-reel tapes, found in a box in Scaduto’s basement, are a never-bootlegged trove of archival material about Dylan, drawn from conversa�ons with those closest to him during the early years of his career.
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS The Drive-By Truckers are one of this century’s most consequen�al rock bands, a great live act whose songs deliver truth and nuance. Here their fellow Southerner Stephen Deusner tells the band’s story not chronologically but geographically, traveling to the places the band’s members have lived in and wri�en about.
Excludes Japan & ANZ
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