Music reviews & criticism books

Postgraduate Research in Music: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Thesis is an essential text for music students...  Read More >>

the powerful role of music in ceremonies and rituals  Read More >>

Si les premieres traces de ritualisation musicale (noces, banquets) remontent au debut du xiiie siecle avec les...  Read More >>

About Man and God and Law is the story of how Bob Dylan sparked a revolution of the spirit and why it matters today....  Read More >>

About Man and God and Law is the story of how Bob Dylan sparked a revolution of the spirit and why it matters today....  Read More >>

A Grateful Dead concert, Ray Robertson argues, is life. Like life, it can be alternately compelling and lackluster;...  Read More >>

A Grateful Dead concert, Ray Robertson argues, is life. Like life, it can be alternately compelling and lackluster;...  Read More >>

Leipzig is the city of books and music. It is also the city whose rallies at the St. Nicholas Church led to the...  Read More >>

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Paul Thom argues that opera is a set of practices framed by the concepts of work, interpretation, performance, and...  Read More >>

The Malay Nobat: A History of Power, Acculturation, and Sovereignty explores the history and meaning of the nobat,...  Read More >>

This book offers a long-overdue examination of choral performance practices in the 1800s, including expressive devices,...  Read More >>

David Friddle explores choral methods and community choral ensembles that originated in the nineteenth century....  Read More >>

Gritty City is a love letter to Winnipeg, a prairie metropolis born out of rebellion, a river city marooned in the...  Read More >>

From rock’n’roll to contemporary pop, Mixing Pop and Politics is a provocative and entertaining mash-up of music...  Read More >>

This book explores the role of the ubiquitous nurse character found in over one hundred operas and provides insight...  Read More >>

This book explores the world of Nordic ritual folk music, including Viking reenactments, neopagan spiritualities,...  Read More >>

Gritty City is a love letter to Winnipeg, a prairie metropolis born out of rebellion, a river city marooned in the...  Read More >>

An exploration of the life, ideas and music of visionary composer Olivier Messiaen.  Read More >>

"Tauchen Sie ein in die lebhafte Geschichte eines der spektakul�rsten musikalischen Ereignisse der Welt mit ""Das...  Read More >>

An illuminating history of the banjo, revealing its origins at the crossroads of slavery, religion and music  Read More >>

Drei aussergewohnliche Musiker, die im fruhen 20. Jahrhundert als Komponisten, Padagogen und Freunde miteinander...  Read More >>

A 1990s coming of age story of how music rewired a young girl's life.  Read More >>

Todos n�s que estud�mos a hist�ria da m�sica, tanto estudantes como professores, estamos preocupados com este facto....  Read More >>

Wir alle, die wir die Musikgeschichte studiert haben, sowohl Studenten als auch Lehrer, sind dar�ber besorgt. Es...  Read More >>