MUSIC Spring 2020
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All I Ever Wanted
Always the Queen
A Rock ‘n’ Roll Memoir Kathy Valentine
The Denise LaSalle Story Denise LaSalle & David Whiteis
April 2020 288pp 9781477312339 £21.99/$26.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Music in American Life May 2020 256pp 9780252084942 £15.99/$19.95 PB 9780252043079 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 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.
LaSalle’s in-her-own-words story of a lifetime in music. Her journey from rural Mississippi to an unquestioned reign as the queen of soul-blues. From her early R&B classics to bold and bawdy demands for satisfaction. LaSalle updated the classic blues of powerful women.
Artful Noise
Bring That Beat Back
Percussion Literature in the Twentieth Century Thomas Siwe
How Sampling Built Hip-Hop Nate Patrin April 2020 336pp 4 b&w photos 9781517906283 £18.99/$22.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Music in American Life July 2020 240pp 9780252085000 £21.99/$28.00 PB 9780252043130 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Recounts the story of how sampling remade hip-hop over forty years, from pioneering superstar Offers an essential survey of original works for Grandmaster Flash through crate-digging solo and ensemble percussion. Organizes and preservationist and innovator Madlib. Reviews a analyzes the groundbreaking musical literature of facet of pop music as complex as it is commonly the twentieth century. Offers a historical overview underestimated: the power of one of the most that connects music to scoring techniques, new revelatory forms of popular culture. instrumentation and evolving technologies. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Circuit Listening
Complicating, Considering, and Connecting Music Education
Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s Andrew F. Jones
March 2020 304pp 61 b&w photos, 12 color plates 9781517902070 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781517902063 £96.00/$112.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Lauren Kapalka Richerme
Counterpoints: Music and Education May 2020 232pp 9780253047472 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9780253047373 £65.00/$75.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
A multifaceted history of Chinese-language popular music and media at midcentury. Profiles some of the most famous, best loved Chinese singers and cinematic icons, and places them in a larger geopolitical and technological context. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Argues that poststructuralist philosophy offers a counter to the detrimental aspects of standardization and the career-centric rationale that permeate contemporary music education.
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German Song Onstage
Glitter Up the Dark
Lieder Performance in the How Pop Music Broke the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Binary Centuries Sasha Geffen April 2020 248pp Edited by Natasha Loges & 9781477318782 £15.99/$18.95 PB Laura Tunbridge UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS Translated by Starting with early blues and Jeremy Coleman the Beatles and continuing with performers such as David Bowie, Prince, Missy Elliot, and Frank Ocean, Geffen 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.
April 2020 336pp 9780253047014 £25.99/$32.00 PB 9780253047007 £69.00/$80.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Demonstrates that the style of Leider recitals today are not a long-standing tradition.
Hillbilly Maidens, Okies, and Cowgirls
Humane Music Education for the Common Good
Women’s Country Music, 1930-1960 Stephanie Vander Wel
Edited by Iris M. Yob & Estelle R. Jorgensen
Music in American Life March 2020 256pp 9780252084959 £20.99/$25.95 PB 9780252043086 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Counterpoints: Music and Education April 2020 312pp 9780253046918 £33.00/$38.00 PB 9780253046901 £77.00/$90.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Views artists like Patsy Montana, Rose Maddox, and Kitty Wells against the backdrop of country music’s golden age. Analyzes recordings and appearances on radio, film, and television.
Scholars and educators from around the world offer unique responses to the recent UNESCO report titled “Rethinking Education: Toward the Common Good.”
Hungry Listening
Kwaito Bodies
Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies Dylan Robinson
Indigenous Americas April 2020 288pp 26 b&w photos 9781517907693 £22.99/$28.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
How we understand and write about the Indigenous listening experience. Shows how decolonial and resurgent forms of listening might be affirmed by writing about musical experience. Relationships of song sustained in writing and resonance between listener, sound, and space. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Post-Apartheid South Africa Xavier Livermon
April 2020 288pp 35 illus. 9781478006633 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478005797 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines the cultural politics of the youthful black body in South Africa through the performance, representation, and consumption of Kwaito—a style of electronic dance music that emerged following the end of Apartheid.
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Lift Every Voice and Swing
Moravian Soundscapes
A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania Sarah Justina Eyerly
Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century Vaughn A. Booker
Music, Nature, Place June 2020 354pp 9780253047694 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9780253047663 £77.00/$90.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
July 2020 368pp 6 halftones 9781479890804 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9781479892327 £85.00/$99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
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
In Moravian Soundscapes, Sarah Eyerly contends that the study of sound is integral to understanding the interactions between German Moravian missionaries and Native communities in early Pennsylvania.
Musical Ethics and Islam
Musicophilia in Mumbai
The Art of Playing the Ney Banu Senay
Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious Tejaswini Niranjana
April 2020 240pp 9780252084881 £21.99/$28.00 PB 9780252043024 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
February 2020 272pp 48 illus. 9781478008187 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478006862 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Documents the years-long training required to become a neyzen, a player of the ney. Holds a transformative power that invites students to create a new way of living that involves alternative relationships with the self and others, and a dedication to craftsmanship.
Traces the place of Hindustani classical music in Mumbai throughout the 20th century, showing how the widespread love of music created a culture of collective listening and social subjects who embodied new forms of modernity.
Peculiar Attunements
Peggy Seeger
How Affect Theory Turned Musical Roger Mathew Grant
A Life of Music, Love, and Politics Jean R. Freedman
March 2020 192pp 9780823287741 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780823288069 £87.00/$105.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Music in American Life February 2020 408pp 9780252085130 £15.99/$19.95 NIP UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Peculiar Attunements places the recent turn to affect into conversation with an earlier affective turn that took place in European music theory of the eighteenth century. It offers a new way of thinking through affect historically and dialectically, drawing attention to repeating patterns and problems in affect theory’s history.
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 Seeger’s youth to her pivotal role in the American and British folk revivals, and her tireless work on behalf of environmental and feminist causes.
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Playing for Keeps
Psychobilly
Improvisation in the Aftermath Edited by Daniel Fischlin & Eric Porter
Subcultural Survival Kimberly Kattari
May 2020 262pp 9781439918609 £25.99/$32.95 PB 9781439918593 £82.00/$99.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice April 2020 360pp 27 illus. 9781478008149 £23.99/$28.95 PB 9781478006800 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
The outsider musical genre known as psychobilly, which began in 1980s Britain, fuses punk, heavy metal, new wave, and shock rock with carnivalesque elements. Study of this little-known anti-mainstream genre. Provides a history and introduces readers to the core aspects of the music. Excludes Asia Pacific
The contributors to Playing for Keeps examine the ways in which musical improvisation can serve as a way to negotiate violence, trauma, systemic inequality, and the aftermaths of war and colonialism.
Signs of the Spirit
Tehrangeles Dreaming
Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life Tony Perman
Intimacy and Imagination in Southern California’s Iranian Pop Music Farzaneh Hemmasi
June 2020 280pp 9780252085178 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780252043253 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
April 2020 256pp 40 illus. 9781478008361 £20.99/$25.95 PB 9781478007906 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Fact of Resonance
The Heart of a Woman
While attending a ceremony at a Zimbabwe farm contact with the Madhlozi, outsider spirits that Ndau people rely upon for guidance, protection, and prosperity. This forms the heart of his account of Ndau ceremonial musicking.
Hemmasi draws on ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles and musical and textual analysis to examine how the songs, music videos, and television made in Tehrangeles express modes of Iranianness not possible in Iran.
Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form Julie Beth Napolin
The Life and Music of Florence B. Price Rae Linda Brown
Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory June 2020 288pp 9780823288168 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780823288175 £87.00/$105.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Music in American Life June 2020 336pp 9780252085109 £23.99/$29.95 PB 9780252043239 £103.00/$125.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
The Fact of Resonance returns to the colonial and technological contexts in which theories of the novel developed, seeking in sound an alternative premise for theorizing modernist narrative form. This book shows how the experience of reading is undergirded by the sonic.
Offers the first-ever biography of Florence B. Price, a composer whose career spanned both the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances, the first African American woman to gain national recognition for her works 300 works in diverse genres.
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The Pianist’s Dictionary, Second Edition
The String Quartets of Beethoven
April 2020 232pp 9780253047328 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9780253047311 £73.00/$85.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
March 2020 360pp 9780252085154 £27.99/$35.00 NIP UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Maurice Hinson & Wesley Roberts
Edited by William Kinderman
Stands as the most detailed and comprehensive exploration of the subject. Collects new work by international scholars who use a variety of historical sources to offer fresh insights into the aesthetics of the quartets, probing expressive and structural features that have hitherto received little attention.
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 Voice in the Headphones
Tween Pop
Children’s Music and Public Culture Tyler Bickford
David Grubbs
April 2020 160pp 9781478008132 £17.99/$21.95 PB 9781478007685 £77.00/$89.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
April 2020 256pp 24 illus. 9781478008194 £20.99/$25.95 PB 9781478006855 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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.
Tyler Bickford traces the dramatic rise of the “tween” pop music industry, showing how it marshaled childishness as a key element in legitimizing children’s participation in public culture.
Voicing the Cinema
Film Music and the Integrated Soundtrack Edited by James Buhler & Hannah Lewis
The Making of an American Classic Thomas Goldsmith
Music in American Life September 2019 184pp 9780252084782 £15.99/$19.95 PB 9780252042966 £82.00/$99.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
March 2020 352pp 9780252084867 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780252043000 £103.00/$125.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Explores issues around vococentrism, the voice in cinema, and music’s role in the integrated soundtrack. Explores technology, the singing voice in diverse repertories, and background music and the soundtrack of vococentrism.
Explores the origins and influence of “Foggy Mountain Breakdown.” Takes readers on an earopening journey into two minutes and forty-three seconds of heaven. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
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Recent
Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Henry Cow
Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland
The World is a Problem Benjamin Piekut
September 2019 520pp 63 illus. 9781478004660 £24.99/$29.95 PB 9781478004059 £103.00/$119.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS
Árni Heimir Ingólfsson
Music, Nature, Place November 2019 312pp 9780253044051 £33.00/$38.00 PB 9780253044044 £82.00/$95.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Tells the story of the English experimental rock band Henry Cow and how it linked its improvisational musical aesthetic with a collectivist, progressive politics. Also the group’s political and musical collectivism, offering up their history as example of the vernacular avant-garde that emerged in the decades after World War II.
Provides a striking account of the dramatic career of Iceland’s iconic composer. Leifs (1899–1968) was the first Icelander to devote himself fully to composition. Enriches our appreciation of his music by exploring the political, literary and environmental contexts that influenced his work.
Solid State
Sounds of Vacation
The Story of “Abbey Road” and the End of the Beatles Kenneth Womack Foreword by Alan Parsons
Political Economies of Caribbean Tourism Edited by Jocelyne Guilbault & Timothy Rommen
October 2019 288pp 12 b&w halftones 9781501746857 £22.99/$26.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
September 2019 256pp 9781478004882 £20.99/$25.95 PB 9781478004288 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS
Womack offers the most definitive account yet of the writing, recording, mixing, and reception of “Abbey Road,” the Beatles’ final album together. Excludes ANZ
Examines of music and sound at popular vacation destinations throughout the Caribbean. Teases out the relationships between political economy, hospitality, legacies of slavery and colonialism.
The Arithmetic of Listening
Why Lhasa de Sela Matters Fred Goodman
--Tuning Theory and History for the Impractical Musician Kyle Gann
Music Matters November 2019 200pp 9781477319628 £13.99/$16.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
September 2019 296pp 9780252084416 £27.99/$34.95 PB 9780252042584 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
This is the first biography of the timeless bohemian world-music chanteuse, Lhasa de Sela, who dazzled audiences around the globe Offers beginners grounding in music theory to and charted exhilarating new musical territory find their own way into microtonality. Provides a before her tragic death at thirty-seven. Why much-needed primer for the wide range of tuning Lhasa de Sela Matters sings with the spirit of this systems that have informed Western music. gifted firebrand. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
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