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Maybe We'll Make It A Memoir
Margo Price
American Music Series
October 2022 256pp 48 b&w photos
9781477323502 £23.99/ $27.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Price shares the story of her struggle to make it in an industry that preys on its ingenues while trying to recover from devastating personal tragedies. This is a memoir of loss, motherhood, and the search for artistic freedom by so many musicians.
Bridge and Tunnel Boys
Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, and the Metropolitan Sound of the American Century
Jim
Cullen
October 2023 262pp 4 color photos, 10 b&w photos, 1 b&w illus.
9781978835221 £24.99/ $28.95 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel both released their debut albums in the early 1970s, quickly becoming two of the most successful rock stars of their generation. Bridge and Tunnel Boys how Long Islander Joel and NJ native Springsteen, considering forged their distinctive careers on the Big Apple.
DeFord Bailey
A Black Star in Early Country Music
David C. Morton With
Charles K. Wolfe
Foreword by Dom Flemons
June 2023 224pp 45 b&w photos
9780915608393 £16.99/ $19.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
For years following his departure from the Opry, Bailey’s story was a mystery. This meticulously researched biography tells the story of a pioneering Black early country music star in rich detail. This book’s original 1991 publication helped with Bailey’s election to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2005.
A Curious Mix of People
The Underground Scene of '90s
Austin
Greg Beets & Richard Whymark
October 2023 288pp 48 b&w photos
9781477328132 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
The first book about Austin underground music in the ’90s, A Curious Mix of People is an oral history that tells the story of this transformative decade through the eyes of the musicians, writers, DJs, club owners, record-store employees, and other key figures who were there.
Composing Aid
Music, Refugees, and Humanitarian Politics
Oliver Y. Shao
Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
October 2023 210pp
9780253067654 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780253067647 £67.00/ $75.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Composing Aid, Shao turns a critical ear towards the United Nations-run Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, one of the largest and oldest encampments. This political ethnography delves into cultural practices such as traditional dances and NGO events.
Dreams in Double Time
On Race, Freedom, and Bebop
Jonathan Leal
Refiguring American Music
August 2023 256pp 24 illus.
9781478020752 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478019985 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines how the musical revolution of bebop opened up new futures for racialized and minoritized communities. Blending lyrical nonfiction with transdisciplinary critique and moving beyond the standard narratives of jazz history, Leal focuses on the stories of three musicians and writers of color.
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Drones, Tones, and Timbres
Sounding Place among Nomads of the Inner Asian MountainSteppes
Carole Pegg
January 2024 344pp 30 b&w photos, 1 chart, 4 tables
9780252045455 £76.00/ $85.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
An indispensable study of the music of Altai-Sayan peoples. Based on more than twenty years of collaborative research, Carole Pegg’s long-awaited participatory ethnography explores how Indigenous nomadic peoples of Russia’s southern Siberian republics (Altai, Khakassia, Tyva) sound multiphonies of place in a post-Soviet global world.
Emergent Quilombos Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil
Bryce Henson
January 2024 280pp
9781477328101 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781477328095 £85.00/ $95.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Known as Black Rome, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, is a predominantly Black city. The local art, food, and dance are closely linked to the population’s African roots. Yet many Black Brazilian residents are politically and economically disenfranchised. Henson details a culture of resistance and activism that has emerged in response, expressed through hip-hop and the social relations surrounding it.
Flamenco Music History, Forms, Culture
and Technology
Feenin R&B Music and the Materiality of BlackFem Voices
Alexander Ghedi Weheliye
November 2023 296pp 6 illus.
9781478025214 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478020318 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Traces R&B music’s continuing centrality in Black life since the late 1970s. Focusing on various musical production and reproduction technologies such as auto-tune and the materiality of the BlackFem singing voice, Weheliye counteracts the widespread popular and scholarly narratives of the genre’s decline and death.
Get Shown the Light Improvisation and Transcendence in the Music of the Grateful Dead
Michael
Kaler
Studies in the Grateful Dead
November 2023 312pp 4 illus.
9781478024972 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478020349 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on band testimonials and analyses of early recordings, Kaler traces how the Grateful Dead developed an approach to playing music that they believed would facilitate their spiritual goals. This book demonstrates how the Grateful Dead unleashed the spiritual and transformative potential of their music through a radical new way of playing rock.
Peter Manuel
November 2023 352pp 8 b&w photos, 1 chart, 38 music examples
9780252087455 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9780252045332 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
An iconic symbol of Spain, flamenco has become a global phenomenon. Peter Manuel offers English-language readers a rare portrait of the music’s history, styles, and cultural impact. Beginning with flamenco’s Moorish and Roma influences, Manuel follows the music’s evolution through its consolidation in the mid-1800s and on to the vibrant contemporary scene.
Hound Dog
Eric Weisbard
Singles
September 2023 152pp
9781478025085 £16.99/ $19.95 PB
9781478020103 £76.00/ $84.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines the racial, commercial, and cultural ramifications of Elvis’s appropriation of a Black woman’s anthem. He rethinks the history and influences of rock music in light of Rolling Stone's replacement of Presley’s “Hound Dog” with Thornton’s version in its “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” list.
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Lieder in America On Stages and In Parlors
Heather Platt
Music in American Life
November 2023 336pp 9 b&w photos, 2 music examples, 14 tables
9780252087592 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780252045486 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Platt reveals ways in which US recital programs anticipated trends in European recitals. She also places lieder against the backdrop of the time, when factors like the growth in the sheet music industry, the evolution of American art song, and emerging anti-German feeling had a profound impact on the genre’s popularity.
Medieval Sex Lives
The Sounds of Courtly Intimacy on the Francophone Borders
Elizabeth Eva Leach
December 2023 330pp 3 b&w hal�ones, 18 b&w line drawings, 3 charts
9781501771873 £42.00/ $46.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines courtly song as a complex cultural product and social force in the early fourteenth century, exploring how it illuminates the relationship between artistic production and the everyday lives of the elites. Medieval Sex Lives presents a provocative hypothesis about the power of courtly songs to model, inspire, and support sexual behaviors and fantasies.
Music Is Power
Popular Songs, Social Justice, and the Will to Change
Brad
Schreiber
October 2023 238pp 18 b&w
9781978839021 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Music Is Power takes us on a guided tour through the past 100 years of politically-conscious music, from Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie to Green Day and NWA. Covering a wide variety of genres, including reggae, country, metal, psychedelia, rap, punk, folk and soul, Brad Schreiber demonstrates how musicians can take a variety of approaches.
Live Dead
The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness
John Brackett
Studies in the Grateful Dead
December 2023 240pp 25 illus.
9781478025481 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478020707 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on a diverse array of materials and documents contained in the Grateful Dead Archive, Live Dead details how live recordings became meaningful among the band and their fans not only as sonic souvenirs of past musical performances but also as expressions of assorted ideals, including notions of “liveness,” authenticity, and the power of recorded sound.
Music and the Making of Portugal and Spain
Nationalism and Identity Politics in the Iberian Peninsula
Edited by Matthew MachinAutenrieth & Salwa ElShawan
Castelo-Branco
October 2023 312pp
9780252087448 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9780252045325 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Topics include the ways the Salazar and Franco regimes adapted music to align with their ideological agendas; the twenty-first-century impact of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage programme and the tensions between institutions and community in identity around music.
Old Town Road
Chris Molanphy
Singles
November 2023 144pp 40 photos, Index
9781478025511 £16.99/ $19.95 PB
9781478020738 £76.00/ $84.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Chris Molanphy considers Lil Nas X’s debut single “Old Town Road” as pop artifact, chart phenomenon, and cultural watershed that channeled decades of Americana into a pop moment. It is also a prism through which to track the evolution of popular music consumption and the ways race influences how the music industry categorizes songs and artists.
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Rise Up! Indigenous Music in North America
Craig
Harris Foreword by Stephen Butler
November 2023 360pp 40 photos, index
9781496236159 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Music historian Craig Harris explores more than five hundred years of Indigenous history, religion, and cultural evolution in Rise Up! Indigenous Music in North America. Combining deep research with personal stories by nearly four dozen awardwinning Indigenous musicians, Harris offers an eyeopening look at the growth of Indigenous music.
Social Voices
The Cultural Politics of Singers around the Globe
Edited
&
S. Gibbs
Introduction by Levi
September 2023 272pp 8 b&w photos
9780252087387 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780252045240 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Around the world and across time, singers and their songs stand at the crossroads of differing politics and perspectives. Gibbs edits a collection built around the idea of listening as a political act that produces meaning. Contributors explore a wide range of issues by examining artists like Romani icon Esma Redžepova, Lata Mangeshkar, and Teresa Teng.
The Dark Tree
Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles
Steven L. Isoardi
September 2023 456pp 59 illus.
9781478025283 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this revised and updated edition of The Dark Tree, Steven L. Isoardi tells the story of Horace Tapscott and the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, a community arts group in Los Angeles that provided community-oriented jazz and jazz training for African American musicians, poets, playwrights, and artists for four decades.
Schubert's Instrumental Music and Poetics of Interpretation
René
Rusch
Musical Meaning and Interpretation
November 2023 236pp 6 b&w tables, 84 printed music items
9780253067395 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780253067388 £67.00/ $75.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing from a range of philosophical, hermeneutic, historical, biographical, theoretical, and analytical sources, this book offers readers a unique and innovative foray into the poetics of contemporary analyses of Schubert's instrumental music.
Sound Pedagogy
Radical Care in Music
Edited by Colleen Renihan, John Spilker & Trudi Wright
Music in American Life
February 2024 304pp 10 b&w photographs, 5 tables
9780252087707 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9780252045592 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
The editors of this volume curate essays that use a broad definition of care pedagogy, one informed by interdisciplinary scholarship and aimed at providing practical strategies for bringing transformative learning and engaged pedagogies to music classrooms.
The Living Art of Violin Playing Progressive Form
Maureen Taranto-Pyatt
September 2023 336pp 277 b&w photos, 117 printed music items
9780253066619 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780253066602 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Blending creative insights with wisdom of the masters, professional violinist Maureen TarantoPyatt shares practical guidance in her new methodology, Progressive Form. A comprehensive exploration of method in service of musical expression, The Living Art of Violin Playing offers the aspiring and serious violinist a path toward a more liberated musical world.
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The Needle and the Lens
Pop Goes to the Movies from Rock 'n' Roll to Synthwave
Nate
Patrin
November 2023 264pp
9781517913243 £16.99/ $19.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
How the creative use of pop music in film has shaped and shifted music history since the 1960s. As Patrin surveys the scene—musical and cinematic—across the decades, expanding into the deeper origins, wider connections, and echoed histories that come into play, this book offers a new way of seeing, and hearing, these iconic soundtrack moments.
The MachinePossibility
Music and Myth in Las Vegas
Edited
by Jake Johnson
Music in American Life
October 2023 304pp 24 b&w photos, 13 music examples, 5 tables
9780252087530 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780252045417 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
At once a Technicolor wonderland and the embodiment of American mythology, Las Vegas exists at the Ground Zero of a reverence for risk-taking and the transformative power of a winning hand. Jake Johnson edits a collection of short essays and flash ideas that probes how music-making and soundscapes shape the City of Second Chances.
Together, Somehow
Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor
Luis Manuel Garcia-
Mispireta
August 2023 320pp 20 illus.
9781478025047 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478020080 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on time spent in the minimal techno and house music subscenes in Chicago, Paris, and Berlin as the first decade of the new millennium came to a close, Garcia-Mispireta explains this bonding in terms of what he calls stranger-intimacy: the kind of warmth, sharing, and vulnerability between people that happens surprisingly often at popular electronic dance music parties.
The Pianist's Bookshelf, Second Edition
A Practical Guide to Books, Videos, and Other Resources
Maurice Hinson & Wesley Roberts
November 2023 216pp
9780253067272 £50.00/ $56.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
A completely revised update,The Pianist's Bookshelf, Second Edition, comes to the rescue of pianists overwhelmed by the abundance of works about the piano. In this clear,easy reference book, Hinson and Roberts survey hundreds of sources and provide concise, practical annotations for each item, saving readers hours of precious time.
The Propaganda of Freedom
JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold War
Joseph Horowitz
Music in American Life
September 2023 248pp
9780252045271 £29.99/ $34.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Eloquently extolled by President John F. Kennedy, the idea that only artists in free societies can produce great art became a bedrock assumption of the Cold War. In counterpoint, Horowitz investigates personal, social, and political factors that actually shape the creative act.
Union Divided Black Musicians' Fight for Labor Equality
Leta E. Miller
Music in American Life
February 2024 232pp 19 b&w photos, 7 tables
9780252087677 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9780252045561 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Miller follows the American Federation of Musicians (AFM)’s history of Black locals, which competed directly with white locals in the same territories, from their origins and successes in the 1920s through Depression-era crises to the fraught process of dismantling segregated AFM organizations in the 1960s and 70s.
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White Musical Mythologies
Sonic Presence in Modernism
Edmund Mendelssohn
Sensing Media: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media
September 2023 306pp
9781503636637 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503636347 £81.00/ $90.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pairing Erik Satie with Bergson, Edgard Varèse with Bataille, Pierre Boulez with Artaud, and John Cage with Derrida, White Musical Mythologies offers an ambitious critical history of the ontology of sound, suggesting that the avant-garde ideal of "pure sound" was always western ethnocentrism.
Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters
Lynnée Denise
Music Matters
September 2023 240pp
9781477321188 £21.99/ $24.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
A queer, Black “biography in essays” about the performer who gave us “Hound Dog,” “Ball and Chain,” and other songs that changed the course of American music. Denise pushes past the stereotypes to read Thornton’s life through a Black, queer, feminist lens and reveal an artist who was an innovator across her four-decade-long career.
Why Mariah Carey Matters
Andrew Chan
Music Matters
September 2023 168pp
9781477325070 £19.99/ $22.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Why Mariah Carey Matters examines the creative evolution and complicated biography of a true diva. Chan looks beyond Carey’s glamorous persona to explore her experience as a mixed-race woman in show business, her adventurous forays into house music and gospel, and her appeal to multiple generations of queer audiences.
Women and Music in the Age of Austen
Edited by Linda Zionkowski & Miriam F. Hart
December 2023 272pp 8 b&w illus., 7 color illus., 1 table
9781684485154 £45.00/ $49.95 PB
9781684485161 £143.00/ $160.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Highlights the central role women played in musical performance, composition, reception, and representation, and analyzes its formative and lasting effect upon Georgian culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays from musicology, literary studies, and gender studies challenges the historical categories that marginalize women’s experience from Austen’s time.
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