Music reviews & criticism books

An insightful biography of the great composer, revealing Schubert’s complex and fascinating private life alongside...  Read More >>

An insightful biography of the great composer, revealing Schubert’s complex and fascinating private life alongside...  Read More >>

"An NPR 2023 ""Books We Love"" Pick - A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 A landmark biography that reclaims...  Read More >>

"An NPR 2023 ""Books We Love"" Pick - A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 A landmark biography that reclaims...  Read More >>

"Begeben Sie sich in ""The Musical Odyssey of Elisabeth Waldo"" auf eine fesselnde Reise durch das Leben und die...  Read More >>

Highlights the Black female artists of the 1950s, a time that predated the chart-topping girl groups of the early...  Read More >>

Focuses on the white, female artists of the 1950s, a time that predated the chart-topping girl groups of the early...  Read More >>

Punk rock evokes dissent and disruption, abrasive and anarchic musicality, and a host of countercultural aesthetics....  Read More >>

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This book situates harping activity as a vital aspect of music making in traditions around the world.  Read More >>

Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality....  Read More >>

Highlights the Black female artists of the 1950s, a time that predated the chart-topping girl groups of the early...  Read More >>

Focuses on the white, female artists of the 1950s, a time that predated the chart-topping girl groups of the early...  Read More >>

Punk rock evokes dissent and disruption, abrasive and anarchic musicality, and a host of countercultural aesthetics....  Read More >>

""Presents a history of the influence of Black musicians on the Beatles, exploring musical and storytelling legacies...  Read More >>

Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality....  Read More >>

Transfigured New York presents conversations with iconic, genre-bending artists who shaped the sounds of experimental...  Read More >>

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In Acoustic Profiles, author Randolph Jordan proposes a new model for image-sound analysis that incorporates the...  Read More >>

Largely focusing on avant-garde composers active in the 1950s and 60s, this book highlights their engagement with...  Read More >>

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Fanfare for a City invites us to listen to the sounds of Paris during the Second Empire (1852–1870), a regime that...  Read More >>

Lieder and the rise of song recital in the United States, 1850–1914 Though viewed as quintessentially German, lieder...  Read More >>