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Audible Loss
New Music and the Crisis of Memory
Andrea Zarafshon Moore
February 2025 256pp 2 images and 8 music examples
9781531508692 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781531508685 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Music has long served as a powerful medium for communal mourning and remembrance in times of crisis. Audible Loss examines musical responses to three major crises in US society at the turn of the twenty-first century: the AIDS epidemic, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the ongoing conditions of anti-Black violence.
Band People
Life and Work in Popular Music
Franz Nicolay
American Music Series
September 2024 296pp
9781477323533 £25.99/ $29.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
A close look at the lives of working musicians who aren’t the center of their stage. Through interviews and incisive cultural critique, writer and musician Franz Nicolay provides a portrait of the musical middle class.
Between Composers
The Letters of Norma Beecroft and Harry Somers
Brian Cherney
October 2024 336pp 8 photos
9780228022749 £45.00/ $49.95 HB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
The letters show a striking record of a turning point in the lives and careers of two young artists that would mark them and their music for decades, and provides a window into cultural life in Canada and Rome at the end of the 1950s.
Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude
On the Genius of the Mass in B Minor
James Crooks
May 2024 210pp
9780228020639 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9780228020622 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
James Crooks explores this profound aesthetic experience in a case study of J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor - widely considered among the greatest works of the western choral canon. Spotlighting the wisdom embedded in gratitude, the book celebrates music as a pathway to understanding our deepest selves and our intimacy with the world.
Bangtan Remixed
A Critical BTS Reader
Edited by Patty Ahn, Michelle Cho, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Rani Neutill, Mimi Thi
Nguyen and Yutian Wong
August 2024 432pp 48 illus., including 15 in color
9781478030621 £27.99/ $31.95
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Delves into the cultural impact of celebrated K-Pop boy band BTS and shows how one band can inspire millions of fans and provide a broad range of insights into contemporary social and political life. The collection’s contributors—who include artists, scholars, journalists, activists, and fans—approach BTS through inventive and wide-ranging transnational perspectives.
Beyond the Bandstand
Paul Whiteman in American Musical Culture
Edited by W. Anthony Sheppard
Music in American Life
November 2024 336pp 12 color and 28 b&w photos,15 music examples, 9 tables
9780252088209 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9780252046100 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
The most successful bandleader of the 1920s, Paul Whiteman was an entertainment icon who played a major role in the mainstreaming of jazz. Multifaceted and cutting-edge, Sheppard’s collection of essays confronts explores the racial politics and artistic questions surrounding a controversial figure in popular music.
Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters
Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage
Masi Asare
Refiguring American Music
October 2024 304pp 18 illus.
9781478030959 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478026730 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Songwriter, scholar, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of Black women singers in US musical theatre between 1900 and 1970. Challenging pervasive narratives that these and other Black women possessed “untrained” voices, Asare theorizes singing as a form of sonic citational practice.
Fantasies of Nina Simone
Jordan Alexander Stein
September 2024 320pp 32 illus.
9781478030706 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478026471 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Looking at examples from Nina Simone’s four-decade, genrebending, career—from songbook standards, jazz, and pop to folk, junkanoo, and reggae—and at her work’s many uptakes and afterlives, Stein mobilizes the psychoanalytic concept of fantasy to build a black feminist history with and for this multifaceted performing artist.
Made in NuYoRico
Fania Records, Latin Music, and Salsa’s Nuyorican Meanings
Marisol Negrón
Refiguring American Music
October 2024 352pp 31 illus.
9781478030898 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781478026662 £98.00/ $109.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on interviews with fans, legendary musicians, and music industry figures as well as analyses of songs, albums, film, and archival documents, Negrón shows how Nuyorican cultural and social histories became embedded in salsa during its foundational period of the mid-1960s and its boom in the 1970s and impacted the music’s flows.
Bruce Songs
The Music of Bruce Springsteen, Album-byAlbum, Song-by-Song Kenneth Womack, Kenneth L. Campbell and Bruce Springsteen
September 2024 288pp 26 color and 4 b&w images
9781978830714 £29.99/ $34.95 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Bruce Songs: The Music of Bruce Springsteen, Albumby-Album, Song-by-Song is an authoritative guide coauthored by renowned music scholar Kenneth Womack and music historian Kenneth L. Campbell and offering an in-depth exploration of Bruce Springsteen's musical legacy.
Jazz Radio America
Aaron J. Johnson
Music in American Life
December 2024 328pp 20 b&w photos, 37 tables
9780252088308 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9780252046223 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Johnson examines jazz radio from the advent of Black radio in 1948 to its near extinction after 1980. An interwoven story of a music and a medium, Jazz Radio America answers why certain kinds of jazz get played and why even that music is played in so few places.
Mele on the Mauna
Perpetuating Genealogies of Hawaiian Musical Activism on Maunakea
Joseph Keola Donaghy
Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
September 2024 200pp 14 b&w illus. 9780253070395 £21.99/ $25.00 PB
9780253070401 £54.00/ $60.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Illuminates how music played a powerful role in building solidarity, inspiration, and activism, reveling in the most contentious confrontations about protecting Maunakea and the outpouring of musical performances and creativity that occurred.
Métis Music
Stories of Recognition and Resurgence
Monique Giroux
McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
October 2024 240pp 9 photos, 3 tables
9780228022268 £35.00/ $38.95 PB
9780228022251 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on newspaper articles, archival documents, interviews with Métis and non-Métis musicians, and over a decade of research at cultural festivals, Monique Giroux critically examines music as a shifting site of encounter, showing readers what to listen for, how to learn by listening, and the importance of acting intentionally with the learning gained through listening.
Phonographic Modernity
The Gramophone Industry and Music Genres in East and Southeast Asia
Edited by Fumitaka Yamauchi and Ying-fen Wang
December 2024 360pp 68 b&w photos, 1 map, 9 tables
9780252046124 £67.00/ $75.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Histories of phonographic technologies and industries have long overlooked the East and Southeast Asian contributions to the sonic dimension of global modernity. Yamauchi and Wang address this with a collection of essays that show the nations of East and Southeast Asia as vibrant contributors to human audible history.
Sing Me Back Home
Ethnographic Songwriting and Sardinian Language Politics
Kristina Jacobsen
Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
October 2024 296pp 20 colour illus., 3 b&w tables
9781487553869 £22.99/ $29.95 PB
9781487553852 £56.00/ $70.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Set on the Italian island of Sardinia, Sing Me Back Home explores language and culture through songwriting as an ethnographic method. Based on thirteen months of ethnographic fieldwork writing songs with Sardinian musicians, artisans, shepherds, poets, and language activists, Kristina Jacobsen asks, how are Sardinian lives and language ideologies narrated against the backdrop of American music?
