20th century & contemporary classical music books

The lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing careers offour extraordinary women from a stunning debut biographer....  Read More >>

Between 1941 and 1963, Aaron Copland made four government-sponsored tours of Latin America that drew extensive attention...  Read More >>

The experimental composer John Cage (1912-1992) is best known for his works in percussion, prepared piano, and electronic...  Read More >>

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Sergey Prokofiev Diaries 1924-1933: Prodigal Son is thefinal volume in the critically-acclaimed Prokofiev Diaries....  Read More >>

A memoir that is also an immersive exploration of classical music – its power, its meaning, and what it can teach...  Read More >>

This first full biography of Edward J. Dent (1876-1957), Cambridge Professor of Music and foremost musicologist,...  Read More >>

Musical Topics and Musical Performance focuses on the interface of theory and practice, investigating how an appreciation...  Read More >>

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Examines how Nietzschean ideas influenced the composition of Mahler's first four, so-called Wunderhorn, symphonies....  Read More >>

A critical study of the three Bee Gees-Barry, Robin, and Maurice-and their younger brother Andy, exploring the many...  Read More >>

This book offers an in-depth analysis of Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer, an Afrofuturist project that appeared simultaneously...  Read More >>

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Arguing that new music in this era reflects a historical moment when the idea of materiality itself is in flux,...  Read More >>

Engaging Cultural Ideologies offers a recontextualization of the effects of Poland's cultural practices on the genesis...  Read More >>

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This book develops ways of discussing musical practices to articulate a new approach to understanding connections...  Read More >>

Music, Authorship, Narration, and Art Cinema in Europe: 1940s to 1980s investigates the function of music in European...  Read More >>

Edmund Rubbra’s music has given him a reputation as a ‘spiritual’ composer, who had an interest in Eastern thought,...  Read More >>

Life Lessons Through Music Shortlisted for The Age Non-fiction Book of the Year; People's Choice, Queensland Books...  Read More >>

Participation in country music culture has long been dictated and restricted by entrenched systems of gatekeeping....  Read More >>

Thisvolume provides a transnational study of the impact of musical cultures inthe Eastern Baltics-Lithuania, Latvia,...  Read More >>