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A Respectable Spell
Avidly Reads Opera
Transformations of Samba in Rio de Janeiro Carlos Sandroni
Alison Kinney
October 2021 160pp 1 b&w illus. 9781479811731 £10.99/ $14.95 PB 9781479811724 £71.00/ $89.00 HB
October 2021 304pp 9780252086083 £20.99/ $28.00 PB 9780252044021 £100.00/ $125.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Avidly Reads Opera is a love le�er to the music and those who love it, complete with playlists, a crowdsourced �p sheet from ultra-fans to newbies, and stories of the turbulent, genrebus�ng, and o�en hilarious history of opera and its audiences.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
A landmark in Brazilian music scholarship, A Respectable Spell follows the rich history of samba from its nineteenth century origins to its emergence as a dis�nc�ve genre in the 1930s. Merging storytelling with theory, Carlos Sandroni profiles performers and composers while analyzing the complex ideologies their music can communicate.
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Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Babaylan Sing Back
Becoming Clara Schumann
Philippine Shamans and Voice, Gender, and Place Grace Nono
Performance Strategies and Aesthetics in the Culture of the Musical Canon Alexander Stefaniak
November 2021 252pp 10 b&w hal�ones, 4 maps 9781501760099 £17.99/ $23.95 PB 9781501760082 £92.00/ $115.00 HB
November 2021 320pp 1 b&w illus, 6 b&w tables, 32 printed music items 9780253058287 £24.99/ $20.00 PB 9780253058294 £68.00/ $75.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Babaylan Sing Back depicts the embodied voices of Na�ve Philippine ritual specialists popularly known as babaylan. These ritual specialists are widely believed to have perished during colonial �mes, or to survive on the margins in the present-day. They are either persecuted as witches and purveyors of supers��on, or valorized as symbols of gender equality and an�colonial resistance.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Well before she married Robert, Clara Schumann was already an interna�onally renowned pianist, and she concer�zed extensively for several decades a�er her husband's death. Guides readers through her en�re career, including performance, composi�on, edits to her husband's music, and teaching.
Cosmic Trip
Dhol
March 2021 116pp 61 color plates 9780998484440 £22.99/ $29.95 PB
December 2021 280pp 9780252086120 £20.99/ $28.00 PB 9780252044076 £88.00/ $110.00 HB
Rock Concerts at the Minneapolis Labor Temple 1969-1970 Christian A. Peterson
Drummers, Identities, and Modern Punjab Gibb Schreffler
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
In the years 1969–1970 the Minneapolis Labor Temple burned brightly as the center of the Twin Ci�es music scene. Cosmic Trip is the story of this famed club framed through the poster art of Juryj Ostroushko.
The dhol drum is an icon of global Punjabi culture. Yet the iden��es of dhol players within their local communi�es and the broadly conceived Punjabi na�on remain obscure. Based on two decades of research, Dhol reveals a beloved instrumental form and the musical and social prac�ces of its overlooked performers.
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Interviews with American Composers
Lemon Jail
On the Road with the Replacements Bill Sullivan
Barney Childs in Conversation Barney Childs Edited by Virginia Anderson
August 2021 160pp 86 b&w illus. 9781517912765 £11.99/ $15.95 NIP
Music in American Life January 2022 456pp 9780252043994 £48.00/ $60.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
A tour diary of life on the road with one of Minnesota’s greatest bands—with nearly 100 never-before-seen photographs. A raucous tour diary of rock ’n’ roll in the 1980s, Sullivan’s book puts us in the van with the Replacements in the early years.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
In 1972-73, Barney Childs embarked on an ambi�ous a�empt to survey the landscape of new American concert music by recording freewheeling conversa�ons with fellow composers. The result is an invaluable snapshot of American music at an important crossroads.
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Listening to Bob Dylan
Music as Mao's Weapon
Larry Starr
Remembering the Cultural Revolution Lei X. Ouyang
Music in American Life September 2021 152pp 9780252086021 £14.99/ $19.95 PB 9780252043956 £88.00/ $110.00 HB
November 2021 232pp 9780252086212 £20.99/ $28.00 PB 9780252044175 £88.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Venerated for his lyrics, Bob Dylan in fact is a songwri�ng musician with a unique mastery of merging his words with music and performance. Larry Starr cuts through preten�on and myth to provide a refreshingly holis�c apprecia�on of Dylan's music, ranging from celebrated classics to less familiar composi�ons.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
China's Cultural Revolu�on (1966-1976) produced propaganda music that s�ll s�rs unease and, at �mes, evokes nostalgia. Untangles the complex interac�ons between memory, trauma, and genera�onal imprin�ng among those who survived the period of extremes.
Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Music in Arabia
Networking the Black Church
Perspectives on Heritage, Mobility, and Nation Edited by Issa Boulos, Virginia Danielson & Anne K. Rasmussen
Digital Black Christians and Hip Hop Erika D. Gault Religion and Social Transforma�on January 2022 336pp 17 b&w illus. 9781479805822 £26.99/ $35.00 PB 9781479805815 £79.00/ $99.00 HB
September 2021 322pp 50 b&w illus., 4 b&w tables, 8 printed music items 9780253057532 £27.99/ $36.00 PB 9780253057549 £80.00/ $100.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Framed around interviews with prominent Black Chris�an hip hop ar�sts, it explores how digital Black Chris�ans construct religious iden�ty and meaning through video-sharing and social media, changing the Black Church in the process.
Brings a cri�cal eye and ear to the contemporary soundscape, musical life, and expressive culture in the Gulf region. The collec�on presents fresh perspec�ves and new research addressing why musical expression is fundamental to the area's diverse, transna�onal communi�es.
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Performing Environmentalisms
Politics as Sound
The Washington, DC, Hardcore Scene, 1978-1983 Shayna Maskell
Expressive Culture and Ecological Change Edited by John Holmes McDowell, Katherine Borland, Rebecca Dirksen & Sue Tuohy
Music in American Life September 2021 280pp 9780252086229 £18.99/ $24.95 PB 9780252044182 £88.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
September 2021 296pp 9780252086090 £22.99/ $30.00 PB 9780252044038 £88.00/ $110.00 HB
Uncompromising and innova�ve, hardcore punk in Washington, DC, birthed a new sound and nurtured a vibrant subculture aimed at a specific segment of the city's youth. Examines the music's aesthe�cs and the unique impact of DC's sociopoli�cal reali�es on the sound and the scene that emerged.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Focuses on the strategic use of tradi�onal ar�s�c expression, including song, in response to environmental degrada�on and ecological collapse.
Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Queer Country
Radiation Sounds
Shana Goldin-Perschbacher
Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences Jessica A. Schwartz
Music in American Life January 2022 288pp 9780252086335 £18.99/ $24.95 PB 9780252044267 £88.00/ $110.00 HB
October 2021 312pp 21 illus. 9781478014614 £20.99/ $27.95 PB 9781478013686 £84.00/ $104.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Though frequently ignored by the music mainstream, queer and transgender country and Americana ar�sts have made essen�al contribu�ons as musicians, performers, songwriters, and producers. Queer Country blends ethnographic research with analysis and history to provide the first in-depth study of these ar�sts and their work.
Jessica A. Schwartz examines the seventy-five years of Marshallese music developed in response to the United States’ nuclear weapons tes�ng on their homeland, showing how Marshallese singing prac�ces make heard the harmful effects of US nuclear violence.
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Roadrunner
Russian Composers Abroad
Joshua Clover
How They Left, Stayed, Returned Elena Dubinets
Singles September 2021 144pp 1 illus. 9781478014393 £14.99/ $19.95 PB 9781478013471 £68.00/ $84.95 HB
Russian Music Studies October 2021 382pp 7 b&w tables, 89 printed music items 9780253057785 £27.99/ $36.00 PB 9780253057778 £72.00/ $90.00 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.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
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As waves of composers migrated from Russia in the 20th century, they grappled with the complex struggle between their own tradi�ons and those of their adopted homes. Russian Composers Abroad explores the self-iden�ty of these émigrés, especially those who le� from the 1970s on, and how aspects of their diasporic iden��es played out in their music.
Singing Like Germans
Soundscapes of Liberation
Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms Kira Thurman
African American Music in Postwar France Celeste Day Moore
October 2021 368pp 28 b&w hal�ones, 1 chart, 1 printed music item 9781501759840 £24.99/ $32.95 HB
Refiguring American Music October 2021 312pp 40 illus. 9781478014690 £20.99/ $27.95 PB 9781478013761 £84.00/ $104.95 HB
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.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Celeste Day Moore traces the popularity of African American music in postwar France to outline how it came to signify both state power and libera�on for Francophone audiences throughout the world.
Tania León’s Stride
The Dylan Tapes
Music in American Life November 2021 264pp 9780252086014 £18.99/ $24.95 PB 9780252043949 £88.00/ $110.00 HB
November 2021 400pp 9781517908157 £22.99/ $29.95 HB
A Polyrhythmic Life Alejandro L. Madrid
Friends, Players, and Lovers Talkin’ Early Bob Dylan Anthony Scaduto Edited by Stephanie Trudeau
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Acclaimed composer, soughta�er conductor, esteemed educator, �reless advocate for the arts—Tania León’s achievements encompass but also stretch far beyond contemporary classical music. Alejandro L. Madrid draws on oral history, archival work, and ethnography in this first in-depth biography of one of the most important figures in American classical music.
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.
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Excludes Japan & ANZ
Three Loves for Three Oranges
Values and Music Education
Gozzi, Meyerhold, Prokofiev Edited by Dassia N. Posner & Kevin Bartig
Estelle R. Jorgensen
Counterpoints: Music and Educa�on November 2021 322pp 9780253058218 £22.99/ $30.00 PB 9780253058225 £64.00/ $80.00 HB
Russian Music Studies September 2021 460pp 60 b&w illus., 13 printed music items 9780253057884 £40.00/ $50.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Values and Music Educa�on, esteemed author Estelle R. Jorgensen explores how values apply to the prac�ce of music educa�on. We may declare values, but they can be hard to see in ac�on. Jorgensen examines nine quartets of related values and offers readers a roadmap for thinking construc�vely and cri�cally about the values they hold.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
With contribu�ons from 17 dis�nguished scholars in theater, art history, Italian, Slavic studies, and musicology, illuminates the historical development of Modernism in the arts, the ways in which commedia dell'arte's self-referen�al and improvisatory elements have inspired theater and music innova�ons, and how polemical playfulness informs crea�on.
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Where the Devil Don't Stay
Who Got the Camera? A History of Rap and Reality Eric Harvey
Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers Stephen Deusner
American Music Series October 2021 408pp 9781477321348 £22.99/ $29.95 HB
American Music Series September 2021 320pp 9781477318041 £20.99/ $27.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
In a bracing work of cultural cri�cism, Harvey argues that reality TV emerged in the late 1980s in dialog with another kind of entertainment that served as its foil while borrowing its techniques: gangsta rap. Both were components of a cultural revolu�on that redefined popular entertainment as a truth-telling medium.
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.
Soundtrack to a Movement
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Songbooks
African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism Richard Brent Turner
The Literature of American Popular Music Eric Weisbard
April 2021 256pp 9781479806768 £22.99/ $30.00 PB 9781479871032 £71.00/ $89.00 HB
Refiguring American Music May 2021 552pp 40 illus. 9781478014089 £20.99/ $27.95 PB 9781478011941 £99.00/ $124.95 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines the link between the revolu�onary Black Islam of the post-WWII genera�on and jazz music. It argues that from the late 1940s and ’50s though the 1970s, Islam rose in prominence among African Americans in part because of the embrace of the religion among jazz musicians.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offers a cri�cal guide to American popular music wri�ng, from William Billings's 1770 New-EnglandPsalm-Singer to Jay-Z's 2010 memoir Decoded.
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The Piano in Chamber Ensemble, Third Edition
Universal Tonality
The Life and Music of William Parker Cisco Bradley
An Annotated Guide Maurice Hinson & Wesley Roberts
February 2021 416pp 47 illus. 9781478011194 £22.99 / $29.95 PB 9781478010142 £91.00 / $109.95 HB
July 2021 852pp 2 b&w tables 9780253056733 £68.00/ $85.00 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Jazz cri�c and historian Cisco Bradley tells the story of the life and music of bassist and composer William Parker, who for fi�y years has been a monumental figure in free jazz.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
This expanded and updated edi�on features over 3200 composi�ons, from duos to octets, by more than 1600 composers. The authors catalog published works for piano with two or more instruments with informa�on on performance level, length, individual movements, overall style, and publisher. 5
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