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Art Music Activism
Aesthetics and Politics in 1930s
New York City
Maria Cristina Fava
Music in American Life
February 2024 240pp 4 b&w photos, 17 music examples
9780252045714 £76.00/ $85.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Surrounded by the widespread misery of the Depression, left-leaning classical music composers sought a musical language that both engaged the masses and gave voice to their concerns. Fava explores the rich creative milieu shaped by artists dedicated to using music and theater to advance the promotion, circulation, and acceptance of leftist ideas in 1930s New York City.
Bob Wills
Hubbin'
It
Ruth Sheldon
Introduction by Charles R. Townsend
Distributed for the Country Music Foundation Press
November 2023 128pp 23 b&w photos
9780915608409 £16.99/ $19.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
An expert fiddler and a magnetic showman, Bob Wills (1905–1975) popularizeda style of Southwestern dance music known as western swing, a rhythmic hybrid offiddle music, blues, and big band swing. This book provides a window intothe daily life of a working musician during the Depression.
Chuco Punk
Sonic Insurgency in El Paso
Tara López
American Music Series
June 2024 208pp 17 b&w photos
9781477324813 £18.99/ $21.95 PB
9781477329672 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
In Chuco Punk, Tara López dives into the rebellious sonic history of the West Texas city of El Paso drawing, through more than seventy interviews with punks, flyers, photos, and other memorabilia. Covering the late 1970s through the early 2000s, López moves beyond the breakout bands to shed light on how the scene influenced the entire topography of punk rock.
At the Vanguard of Vinyl
A Cultural History of the LongPlaying Record in Jazz
Darren Mueller
March 2024 448pp 20 illus.
9781478030072 £27.99/ $31.95 PB
9781478025818 £106/ $117.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Darren Mueller examines how the advent of the long-playing record (LP) in 1948 revolutionized the recording and production of jazz in the 1950s.
Born in the U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen in American Life, 3rd edition, Revised and Expanded
Jim Cullen
March 2024 262pp 12 color & 8 b&w images
9781978838062 £25.99/ $29.95 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
This third edition of Born in the U.S.A. is fully revised and updated, incorporating discussion of Springsteen’s wide output in the 21st century. While addressing Springsteen’s responses to events like 9/11, it also considers the evolution of his attitudes towards religion, masculinity, and his relationship with his audience. Born in the U.S.A. will give you a new appreciation for The Boss.
Commentaries on the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach
A Selective Guide
Hans-Joachim Schulze
Translated by James A. Brokaw
May 2024 264pp
9780252087929 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780252045820 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Hans-Joachim Schulze authored a 225-part series on the cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach. James A. Brokaw II translates a selection of the essays, illuminating a wide range of features of Bach’s life.
Deathlife
Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations of Blackness
Anthony B. Pinn
January 2024 240pp
9781478025412 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478020608 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Anthony Pinn examines how hip hop artists challenge white supremacist definitions of Blackness by challenging white distinctions between life and death.
Deeper Blues
The Life, Songs, and Salvation of Cornbread Harris
Andrea Swensson
August 2024 200pp £50.00 b&w illus.
9781517915025 £19.99/ $22.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
From the heart of the Minnesota blues comes the story of James “Cornbread” Harris Jr., the bluesman who helped shape the Minneapolis Sound. Through conversations with Cornbread, Jimmy Jam, and more, Deeper Blues is a unique history of Minnesota music that evolves into a heartfelt tale of reconciliation and forgiveness.
Ink
The Indelible J. Mayo Williams
Clifford R. Murphy
Music in American Life
July 2024 352pp 20 b&w photos
9780252087981 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
9780252045882 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
The product of a hardscrabble childhood, J. Mayo “Ink” Williams parlayed an Ivy League education into unlikely twin careers as a foundational producer of Black music and pioneering Black player in the early NFL. Murphy tells the story of an ambitious, upwardly mobile life affected, but never daunted, by white society’s racism.
Leo Sowerby
Joseph Sargent
American Composers
March 2024 184pp 15 b&w photos, 14 music examples
9780252045936 £45.00/ $50.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
From the 1920s to the 1940s, Leo Sowerby’s sacred compositions led admirers to call him the “dean of American church musicians.” Yet in time, Sowerby’s The Canticle of the Sun and the rest of his corpus lost favor with prominent musicians. Sargent’s biography offers the first focused study of Sowerby’s life and work against the backdrop of the composer’s place in American music.
Instrumental Lives Musical Instruments, Material Culture, and Social Networks in East and Southeast Asia
Edited by Helen Rees & Introduction by Helen ReesJuly 2024 336pp 62 b&w photos, 2 maps, 6 tables
9780252045929 £67.00/ $75.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
The musical instruments of East and Southeast Asia enjoy increasing recognition as parts of humanity’s intangible cultural heritage. Rees edits a collection that offers vibrant new ways to link these objects to their materials, the surrounding environment, the social networks they form and help sustain, and the wider ethnic or national imagination.
Let Me Take You Down
Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever
Jonathan Cott
April 2024 152pp 2 b&w illus.
9781517914486 £19.99/ $22.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
In this book, Jonathan Cott recounts the conception and creation of significance of the Beatles’ “Penny Lane” and “Strawberry Fields Forever.” This book describes the tumultuous events and experiences that led the Beatles to call it quits as a touring band and redefine themselves solely as recording artists.
Music Making Community
Edited by Tony Perman Edited by Stefan FiolMay 2024 312pp 22 b&w photos, 1 map, 1 music example
9780252045806 £67.00/ $75.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Making music offers enormous possibilities-and faces significant limitations-in its power to generate belonging and advance social justice. Tony Perman and Stefan Fiol edit essays focused on the forms of interplay between music-making and community-making as mutually creative processes.
Queens of Afrobeat Women, Play, and Fela Kuti's Music Rebellion
Dotun Ayobade
March 2024 380pp 29 b&w photos
9780253068644 £44.00/ $49.00 PB
9780253068637 £81.00/ $90.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on previously untapped material, Queens of Afrobeat weaves together an intricate narrative of women's participation in popular music. The stories of these remarkable women transform and uniquely personalize our understanding of the politics and performance of one of the major modern musical traditions in Africa.
