MUSIC from Chicago
The Composer Embalmed
Relic Culture from Piety to Kitsch
Abigail Fine
The first granular study of nineteenth-century composer devotion—a network of devotees who preserved tangible traces of composers through relics, rituals, pilgrimage, exhumation, and embalming.
2025 288 p. 6 x 9 34 halftones, 4 line drawings
1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84044-4
$35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Format Friction
Perspectives on the Shellac Disc
Gavin Williams
The first book to consider the shellac disc as a global format.
2024 208 p. 6 x 9 14 halftones, 2 tables
2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83326-2
$30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Sounding Human
Music and Machines, 1740/2020
Deirdre Loughridge
An expansive analysis of the relationship between human and machine in music.
2024 256 p. 6 x 9 42 halftones
3 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83011-7
$35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Creatures of the Air
Music, Atlantic Spirits, Breath, 1817–1913
J. Q. Davies
An account of nineteenth-century music in Atlantic worlds told through the history of the art’s elemental medium, the air.
2023 288 p. 6 x 9 44 halftones
4 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82613-4
$55.00 Your Price: $38.50
Music in the Flesh
An Early Modern Musical Physiology
Bettina Varwig
A corporeal history of music-making in early modern Europe.
2023 360 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones, 23 line drawings
5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82688-2
$47.50 Your Price: $33.25
Tuning the World
The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–1955
Fanny Gribenski
The unknown story of how the musical pitch
A 440 became the global norm.
2023 280 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones
6 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82326-3
$55.00 Your Price: $38.50
The Haydn Economy
Music, Aesthetics, and Commerce in the Late Eighteenth Century
Nicholas Mathew
Analyzing the final three decades of Haydn’s career, this book uses the composer as a prism through which to examine urgent questions across the humanities.
2022 256 p. 6 x 9 49 halftones
7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81984-6
$45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Musical Migration and Imperial New York
Early Cold War Scenes
Brigid Cohen
Through archival work and storytelling, Musical Migration and Imperial New York revises many inherited narratives about experimental music and art in postwar New York.
2022 376 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones, 1 table
8 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81801-6
$55.00 Your Price: $38.50
Opera Lab: Explorations in History, Technology, and Performance
Screening the Operatic Stage
Television and Beyond
Christopher Morris
An ambitious study of the ways opera has sought to ensure its popularity by keeping pace with changes in media technology.
2024 288 p. 6 x 9 40 halftones
9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83129-9
$37.50 Your Price: $26.25
Voice Machines
The Castrato, the Cat Piano, and Other Strange Sounds
Bonnie Gordon
An exploration of the castrato as a critical provocation to explore the relationships between sound, music, voice instrument, and machine.
2023 432 p. 6 x 9 49 halftones, 8 line drawings
11 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82514-4
$55.00 Your Price: $38.50
New Orleans and the Creation of Transatlantic Opera, 1819–1859
Charlotte Bentley
A history of nineteenth-century New Orleans and the people who made it a vital, if unexpected, part of an emerging operatic world.
2022 336 p. 6 x 9 14 halftones, 6 tables
10 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82308-9
$55.00 Your Price: $38.50
Song and Self
A Singer’s Reflections on Music and Performance
Ian Bostridge
Award-winning singer Ian Bostridge examines iconic works of Western classical music to reflect on the relationship between performer and audience.
Berlin Family Lectures
2023 120 p. 51/2 x 81/2 4 color plates, 6 halftones
12 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80948-9
$22.00 Your Price: $15.40
The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany
Neil Gregor
A new history of how the musical worlds of German towns and cities were transformed during the Nazi era.
2025 384 p. 6 x 9 28 halftones
13 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83910-3
$45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Biblical Families in Music
Conflict and Heterodoxy in Oratorios, 1670–1770
Robert L. Kendrick
Examines how stories of biblical families were reconfigured and projected in the genre of the oratorio, a form of sacred opera, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
2025 264 p. 6 x 9 21 line drawings, 5 tables
15 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83604-1
$50.00 Your Price: $35.00
Mahler’s Symphonic World
Music for the Age of Uncertainty
Karol Berger
A new analysis of Mahler’s symphonies, placing each within the context of his musical way of being in and experiencing the world.
2025 384 p. 6 x 9 19 line drawings, 48 tables
14 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83602-7
$60.00 Your Price: $42.00
Mozart the Performer
Variations on the Showman’s Art
Dorian Bandy
An innovative study of the ways performance influenced Mozart’s compositional style.
2023 288 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones, 49 line drawings
16 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82855-8
$40.00 Your Price: $28.00
Music in Golden-Age Florence, 1250–1750
From the Priorate of the Guilds to the End of the Medici Grand Duchy
Anthony M. Cummings
A comprehensive account of music in Florence from the late Middle Ages until the end of the Medici dynasty in the mid-eighteenth century.
2023 456 p. 6 x 9 8 color plates, 25 halftones, 49 line drawings, 6 tables
17 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82278-5
$60.00 Your Price: $42.00
The Temple of Fame and Friendship
Portraits, Music, and History in the C. P. E. Bach Circle
Annette Richards
This book examines the renowned portrait collection assembled by C. P. E. Bach, J. S. Bach’s second son.
2022 336 p. 7 x 10 8 color plates, 108 halftones, 27 line drawings
19 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80626-6
$55.00 Your Price: $38.50
From the Ruins of Enlightenment
Beethoven and Schubert in Their Solitude
Richard Kramer
Richard Kramer follows the work of Beethoven and Schubert from 1815 through to the final months of their lives, when each were increasingly absorbed in iconic projects that would soon enough inspire notions of “late style.”
2022 264 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones, 76 line drawings, 2 tables
18 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82163-4
$50.00 Your Price: $35.00
Beethoven’s French Piano
A Tale of Ambition and Frustration
Tom Beghin
Using a replica of Beethoven’s Erard piano, scholar and performer Tom Beghin launches a striking reinterpretation of a key period of Beethoven’s work.
2022 384 p. 6 x 9 11 color plates, 37 halftones, 27 line drawings, 11 tables
20 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81835-1
$55.00 Your Price: $38.50
Distant Melodies
Music in Search of Home
Edward Dusinberre
An engaging blend of memoir and music history from a Grammy Award–winning musician and the first violinist of the renowned Takács Quartet.
2022 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 8 halftones
21 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82343-0
$22.00 Your Price: $15.40
Berlioz and His World
Edited by Francesca Brittan and Sarah Hibberd
A collection of essays and short object lessons on the composer Hector Berlioz, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.
The Bard Music Festival
2024 352 p. 61/8 x 91/4 9 halftones, 35 line drawings, 1 table
23 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83766-6
$35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Pat Metheny
Stories beyond Words
Bob Gluck
An in-depth exploration of the style and influence of Pat Metheny, a truly distinctive musical voice of our time.
2024 192 p. 6 x 9 18 line drawings
22 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83445-0
$22.00 Your Price: $15.40
New in Paperback
Sound Experiments
The Music of the AACM
Paul
Steinbeck
A groundbreaking study of the trailblazing music of Chicago’s AACM, a leader in the world of jazz and experimental music.
2023 304 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones, 108 line drawings
24 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82953-1
$25.00 Your Price: $17.50
New in Paperback Country and
Midwestern
Chicago in the History of Country Music and the Folk Revival
Mark Guarino
The untold story of Chicago’s pivotal role as a country and folk music capital.
2024 524 p. 6 x 9 33 halftones
25 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83671-3
$20.00 Your Price: $14.00
The Jazz Loft Project
Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957–1965
W. Eugene Smith and Sam Stephenson
Reissue of an acclaimed collection of images from photographer W. Eugene Smith’s time in a New York City loft among jazz musicians.
2023 288 p. 91/2 x 11 225 halftones
27 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82484-0
$40.00 Your Price: $28.00
Instrument of War
Music and the Making of America’s Soldiers
David Suisman
An original history of music in the lives of American soldiers.
2024 336 p. 6 x 9 61 halftones
26 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82292-1
$35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Voices That Matter
Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey
Marlene Schäfers
A fine-grained ethnography exploring the sociopolitical power of Kurdish women’s voices in contemporary Turkey.
2022 240 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones
28 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82305-8
$30.00 Your Price: $21.00
The Musician as Philosopher
New York’s Vernacular Avant-Garde, 1958–1978
Michael Gallope
An insightful look at how avant-garde musicians of the postwar period in New York explored the philosophical dimensions of music’s ineffability.
2024 320 p. 6 x 9 22 halftones
29 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83176-3
$35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Thinking with Sound
A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 1900
Viktoria Tkaczyk
Traces the formation of auditory knowledge in the sciences and humanities in the decades around 1900.
2023 304 p. 6 x 9 58 halftones
31 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82328-7
$55.00 Your Price: $38.50
Interspecies Communication
Sound and Music beyond Humanity
Gavin Steingo
A surprising study reveals a plethora of attempts to communicate with non-humans in the modern era.
2024 240 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones
30 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83136-7
$27.50 Your Price: $19.25
Computing Taste
Algorithms and the Makers of Music
Recommendation
Nick Seaver
Meet the people who design the algorithms that capture our musical tastes.
2022 224 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones
32 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82297-6
$20.00 Your Price: $14.00
Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
Island Time
Speed and the Archipelago from St. Kitts and Nevis
Jessica Swanston Baker
A close look at how wylers, a popular musical style from the island of St. Kitts and Nevis, expresses a unique mode of relation in the postcolonial Caribbean.
2024 240 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones, 4 line drawings
33 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83730-7
$30.00 Your Price: $21.00
A Prodigy’s Calling
The Early Musical Biography of Cosmas Magaya, Zimbabwean Mbira Master
Paul F. Berliner
The coming-of-age story of a master musician in mid-twentieth century colonial Rhodesia as he learns his community’s most cherished art, all while navigating profound social transformation.
2024 336 p. 6 x 9 190 halftones, 4 line drawings
34 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83517-4
$30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Love Songs in Motion
Voicing Intimacy in Somaliland
Christina J. Woolner
An intimate account of everyday life in Somaliland, explored through an ever-evolving musical genre of love songs.
2023 256 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones
35 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82739-1
$32.50 Your Price: $22.75
Efficacy of Sound
Power, Potency, and Promise in the Translocal Ritual Music of Cuban Ifá-Òrìsà
Ruthie Meadows
The first book-length ethnographic study on music and Ifá divination in Cuba and Nigeria.
2023 272 p. 6 x 9 28 halftones, 4 line drawings
36 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82895-4
$35.00 Your Price: $24.50
The Scattered Court
Hindustani Music in Colonial Bengal
Richard David Williams
Presents a new history of how Hindustani court music responded to the political transitions of the nineteenth century.
2023 272 p. 6 x 9 14 halftones, 2 line drawings
37 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82545-8
$35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Sounding Latin Music, Hearing the Americas
Jairo Moreno
How is Latin American music heard, by whom, and why?
Big Issues in Music
2023 416 p. 6 x 9 16 line drawings, 2 tables
28 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82568-7
$35.00 Your Price: $24.50
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