Music Fall 2020
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A Case for Charpentier
American Gamelan and the Ethnomusicological Imagination
Treatise on Accompaniment and Composition Carla E. Williams
Elizabeth A. Clendinning
Historical Performance October 2020 152pp 1 color illus, 40 b&w illus., 8 b&w tables, 78 printed music items 9780253051615 £27.99 / $35.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
September 2020 264pp 9780252085291 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780252043383 £88.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Illuminates what it means to devote one’s life to world music ensemble education by examining Who originally authored the anonymous, the career and community surrounding the undated French manuscript Traité Balinese-American performer and teacher I Made d’accompagnement et de composition? Tackles Lasmawan. the mystery and offers the first English translation Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ of this rare manuscript.
Arvo Pärt
Bach Perspectives, Volume 13
Sounding the Sacred Edited by Peter C. Bouteneff, Jeffers Engelhardt & Robert Saler
Bach Reworked Edited by Laura Buch
Bach Perspectives December 2020 176pp 9780252043635 £48.00 / $60.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
December 2020 256pp 9780823289769 £26.99 / $35.00 PB 9780823289752 £100.00 / $125.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
An insightful look at how composers build on each other's work, reveals how nuanced understandings of parody procedures can fuel both musical innovation and historically informed performance. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Focuses on the representational dimensions of Pärt’s music (including the silence), listening past the fact that its storied effects and affects are carried first and foremost as vibrations through air, impressing themselves on the human body.
Beyoncé
Black Diamond Queens
At Work, On Screen, and Online Edited by Martin Iddon & Melanie L. Marshall
African American Women and Rock and Roll Maureen Mahon
January 2021 272pp 5 b&w illus., 3 b&w tables, 5 printed music items 9780253052841 £31.00 / $27.00 PB 9780253052827 £83.00 / $80.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Refiguring American Music October 2020 392pp 19 illustrations 9781478011224 £23.99 / $29.95 PB 9781478010197 £91.00 / $109.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Because her image is linked with debates on race, sexuality, and female empowerment, Beyoncé has become a central figure in pop music and pop culture. Explores her work as a singer, activist, and artist, looking into her songs, videos, and performances, as well as responses from her fans.
Documents the major contributions African American women vocalists such as Big Mama Thornton, Betty Davis, Tina Turner, and Merry Clayton have made to rock and roll throughout its history.
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"But He Doesn't Know the Territory"
Chen Yi
Leta E. Miller & J. Michele Edwards
The Story behind Meredith Willson's The Music Man Meredith Willson
Women Composers December 2020 256pp 9780252085444 £20.99 / $28.00 PB 9780252043543 £88.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
September 2020 208pp 9781517910471 £13.99 / $17.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Chen Yi is the most prominent woman among the renowned group of new wave composers who came to the US from China in the early 1980s. Provides an accessible guide to the composer's background and her more than 150 works, with interviews and in-depth analyses of select pieces. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Willson described The Music Man as “an Iowan’s attempt to pay tribute to his home state.” With a new foreword by Michael Feinstein, reflects on the ups and downs, and finally successes of making one of America’s most popular musicals. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Emerald Street
Focal Impulse Theory
A History of Hip Hop in Seattle Daudi Abe
Musical Expression, Meter, and the Body John Paul Ito
November 2020 288pp 24 b&w illus., 1 map 9780295747569 £22.99 / $29.95 PB 9780295747576 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Musical Meaning and Interpretation October 2020 416pp 6 b&w illus., 157 music exx., 6 tables 9780253049957 £19.99 / $25.00 PB 9780253049933 £66.00 / $80.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Emerald Street, Daudi Abe chronicles the development of Seattle hip hop from its earliest days, drawing on interviews with artists and journalists to trace how the elements of hip hop—rapping, DJing, breaking, and graffiti— flourished in the Seattle scene.
Music not only begins in motion with the performer, but also returns to motion, as the universal response to music is to move. Movement is not merely physical reaction; it carries meaning and, in a real sense, is meaning.
George Frederick Bristow
Industrial Strength Bluegrass
Katherine K. Preston
American Composers November 2020 208pp 9780252085321 £22.99 / $29.95 PB 9780252043420 £88.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Examining Bristow against the backdrop of the music scene in New York City, illuminates the little-known creative and performance culture that he helped define and create. Vivid and richly detailed, enriches our perceptions of musical life in nineteenth-century America. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy Edited by Fred Bartenstein & Curtis W. Ellison
Music in American Life January 2021 272pp 9780252085604 £22.99 / $29.95 PB 9780252043642 £88.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Eyewitness narratives and in-depth analyses that explore southwestern Ohio's bluegrass. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
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Music in World War II
My Life in the Purple Kingdom
Coping with Wartime in Europe and the United States Edited by Pamela M. Potter, Christina Baade & Roberta Montemorra Marvin
BrownMark Contribution by Cynthia M. Uhrich & Questlove
September 2020 144pp 18 color plates 9781517909277 £17.99 / $22.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
October 2020 308pp 29 b&w illus., 2
music exx., 1 table 9780253050267 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9780253050250 £70.00 / $85.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
From the young Black teenager who built a bass guitar to the musician building a solo career with Motown Records—Prince’s bassist BrownMark on his life with Prince and in the purple kingdom. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Explores how music and sound took on radically different dimensions in the United States and Europe before, during, and after World War II.
Representing Islam
Rez Metal
Hip-Hop of the September 11 Generation Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir
Inside the Navajo Nation Heavy Metal Scene Ashkan Soltani Stone & Natale A. Zappia
Framing the Global December 2020 224pp 9780253053046 £24.99 / $32.00 PB 9780253053039 £70.00 / $85.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
October 2020 114pp 41 photos 9781496205094 £12.99 / $16.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Captures the creative energy of indigenous youth culture in the twenty-first century. Bridging communities from disparate corners of Indian Country and across generations, heavy metal has touched a collective nerve on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona in particular.
Explores the tension between Islam and the global popularity of hip-hop, including attempts by the hip-hop ummah, or community, to draw from the struggles of African Americans in order to articulate the human rights abuses Muslims face.
Serving Genius
Soul on Soul
Carlo Maria Giulini Thomas D Saler
The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams Tammy L. Kernodle
August 2020 256pp 9780252085611 £18.99 / $24.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Music in American Life October 2020 348pp 9780252085536 £18.99 / $24.95 PB 9780252043604 £100.00/ $125.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Thomas D. Saler tells the intertwined stories of Giulini's extraordinary career and fascinating personal life, including the maestro's musical awakening, his student years in Rome, his nine months in hiding for his anti-fascist beliefs during World War II, and his selfless devotion to his wife. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Williams’ was a valued friend and mentor to the likes of Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie. Details her life in music against the backdrop of controversies over women's place in jazz and bitter arguments over the music's evolution. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
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Sounds from the Other Side
Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam Rachel Harris
Afro–South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music Elliott H. Powell
Framing the Global November 2020 258pp 24 b&w photos, 6 figures 9780253050205 £27.99 / $35.00 PB 9780253050182 £66.00 / $80.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
November 2020 200pp 19 b&w Illus. 9781517910044 £17.99 / $22.50 PB 9781517910037 £74.00 / $90.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is experiencing a crisis of securitization and mass An interdisciplinary analysis of the political incarceration. In Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam, implications of African American musicians’ South author Rachel Harris examines the religious Asian influence since the 1960s. practice of a group of Uyghur women in a small Excludes Japan & ANZ village now engulfed in this chaos.
Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater
The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England
Nina Penner
Moving Media, Tactical Publics Patricia Fumerton
Musical Meaning and Interpretation October 2020 296pp 1 b&w illus, 69 music exx., 3 tables 9780253049971 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9780253049964 £70.00 / $85.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Material Texts September 2020 512pp 83 illus. 9780812252316 £72.00 / $89.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Featuring more than 80 illustrations and easy access to related music files, this magisterial work argues that a ballad cannot be read as a fixed artifact, independent of its illustrations, tune, and movement across time and space.
The first systematic exploration of how sung forms of drama tell stories. Nina Penner examines the roles of character-narrators and how they differ from those in literary and cinematic works and how music can orient spectators to characters' points of view.
The Lady Swings
The Meaning of Soul
Memoirs of a Jazz Drummer Dottie Dodgion & Wayne Enstice
Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s Emily J. Lordi
Music in American Life January 2021 288pp 9780252085512 £17.99 / $22.95 PB 9780252043598 £88.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Refiguring American Music August 2020 224pp 9781478009597 £19.99 / $25.95 PB 9781478008699 £79.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Dottie Dodgion is a jazz drummer who played with the best. Vivid and always entertaining, The Lady Swings tells Dottie Dodgion's story with the same verve and straight-ahead honesty that powered her playing. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Analyzing the work of Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Solange Knowles, Flying Lotus, and others, Lordi proposes a new understanding of soul, showing how it came to signify a belief in black resilience enacted through musical practices.
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The Performing Pianist's Guide to Fingering
Toward a Sound Ecology
New and Selected Essays Jeff Todd Titon
Joseph Banowetz Contributions by Philip Fowke & Nancy Lee Harper
August 2020 324pp 9 b&w illus. 9780253049681 £31.00 / $38.00 PB 9780253049674 £83.00 / $100.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
November 2020 320pp 27 b&w illus., 16 b&w tables, 303 printed music pcs 9780253053138 £27.99 / $34.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
How does sound ecology—an acoustic connective tissue among communities— also become a basis for a healthy economy and a The much-anticipated companion to Joseph just community? Titon's collected essays address Banowetz's The Pianist's Guide to Pedaling, his growing concerns with people making music, provides practical fingering solutions for technical holistic ecological approaches to music, and musical passages. sacred transformations of sound.
When Sunday Comes
Unlikely Angel
The Songs of Dolly Parton Lydia R. Hamessley
Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras Claudrena N. Harold
Women Composers October 2020 296pp 9780252085420 £14.99 / $19.95 PB 9780252043529 £100.00 / $125.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Music in American Life November 2020 288pp 9780252085475 £17.99 / $22.95 PB 9780252043574 £100.00/ $125.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Dolly Parton's success as a performer and pop culture phenomenon has overshadowed her achievements as a songwriter. Filled with insights on hit songs and less familiar gems, offers an unprecedented look at the creative force behind the image. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Gospel music evolved in surprising directions during the post-Civil Rights era. Focuses on musicians like Yolanda Adams and the Winans, and the network of black record shops, churches, and businesses that nurtured the music. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
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All I Ever Wanted
Glitter Up the Dark
A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir Kathy Valentine
How Pop Music Broke the Binary Sasha Geffen
March 2020 304pp 24 b&w photos 9781477312339 £20.99 / $26.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
American Music Series April 2020 264pp 9781477318782 £14.99 / $18.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
All I Ever Wanted traces the path that took Kathy Valentine from her childhood in Texas to the height of rock ‘n’ roll stardom, devastation after the collapse of the band that had come to define her, and the quest to regain her sense of self after its end
From early blues and the Beatles to performers such as David Bowie, Prince, Missy Elliot, and Frank Ocean, explores how artists have used music, fashion, language, and technology to break out of the confines mandated by gender essentialism and establish the voice as the primary expression of gender transgression.
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Lift Every Voice and Swing
Peggy Seeger
A Life of Music, Love, and Politics Jean R. Freedman
Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century Vaughn A. Booker
Music in American Life February 2020 408pp 9780252085130 £14.99 / $19.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
July 2020 368pp 6 halftones 9781479890804 £27.99 / $35.00 PB 9781479892327 £82.00 / $99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Draws on a wealth of research and conversations with Seeger to tell the life story of one of music's most charismatic performers and tireless advocates. From her youth to her pivotal role in folk revivals, and her tireless work on behalf of environmental and feminist causes. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Explores the role of jazz celebrities like Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and Mary Lou Williams as representatives of African American religion in the twentieth century. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Psychobilly
The Pianist's Dictionary, Second Edition
Subcultural Survival Kimberly Kattari
Maurice Hinson & Wesley Roberts
June 2020 262pp 9781439918609 £24.99 / $32.95 PB 9781439918593 £79.00 / $99.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
March 2020 252pp 6 b&w illus. 9780253047328 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9780253047311 £70.00 / $85.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Psychobilly, which began in 1980s Britain, fuses punk, heavy metal, new wave, and shock rock with carnivalesque elements. A decade-long study of this littleknown outsider genre introduces readers to the history and the core aspects of the music with interviews of passionate performers and fans. Excludes Asia Pacific
The Pianist’s Dictionary is a handy and practical reference dictionary aimed specifically at pianists, teachers, students, and concertgoers. Users will find helpful and clear definitions of musical and pianistic terms, performance directions, composers, pianists, famous piano pieces, and piano makers.
The String Quartets of Beethoven
The Voice in the Headphones
March 2020 360pp 9780252085154 £26.99 / $35.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
March 2020 160pp 9781478008132 £16.99 / $21.95 PB 9781478007685 £74.00 / $89.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Edited by William Kinderman
David Grubbs
In his new book-length prose poem, David Grubbs draws on decades of recording experience, taking readers into the recording studio to tell the story of an unnamed musician who struggles to complete a film soundtrack in a day-long marathon recording session.
Stands as the most detailed and comprehensive exploration of the subject. Collects new work by leading international scholars who draw on a variety of historical sources and analytical approaches to offer fresh insights into the aesthetics of the quartets. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
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