Theory of music & musicology books

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Making Mexican Rock: Censorship, Journalism, and Popular Music after Avándaro

Making Mexican Rock: Censorship, Journalism, and Popular...

Author: Andrew Green
ISBN: 9780826507297
Format: Hardback
$169.40

Mexican rock history has tended to end as Mexican democracy begins. There is another story to tell, however, about...  Read More >>

Rock Aesthetics in Colombian Literature and Culture: Writing the Noise

Rock Aesthetics in Colombian Literature and Culture:...

Author: David Marti´nez Houghton ,  Alex Bare
ISBN: 9781666948479
Format: Hardback
$197.00

This is a book about how rock music has served as inspiration for many important Colombian literary works since...  Read More >>

Understanding Music: The Nature and Limits of Musical Cognition

Understanding Music: The Nature and Limits of Musical...

Author: HansHeinrich Eggebrecht ,  translated by Richard Evans
ISBN: 9781032929262
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht was one of the most influential German musicologists of the twentieth century and yet he...  Read More >>

Musical Style and Social Meaning: Selected Essays

Musical Style and Social Meaning: Selected Essays

Author: Derek B. Scott
ISBN: 9781032920917
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Why do we feel justified in using adjectives such as romantic, erotic, heroic, melancholic, and a hundred others...  Read More >>

Heinrich Schenker and Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' Sonata

Heinrich Schenker and Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' Sonata...

Author: Nicholas Marston
ISBN: 9781032928500
Format: Paperback
$83.99

In 1912 Heinrich Schenker contracted with the publisher Universal Edition to provide an 'elucidatory edition' (Erläuterungsausgabe)...  Read More >>

Acoustics of Empire: Sound, Media, and Power in the Long Nineteenth Century

Acoustics of Empire: Sound, Media, and Power in the...

Author: Peter McMurray (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, University of Cambridge) ,  Priyasha Mukhopadhyay (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Yale University)
ISBN: 9780197553787
Format: Hardback
$219.95

Music and sound studies have increasingly turned their attention to questions of empire and postcolonial thought...  Read More >>

Electro Swing: Resurrection, Recontextualisation, and Remix

Electro Swing: Resurrection, Recontextualisation, and...

Author: Chris Inglis
ISBN: 9781032184302
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Electro swing is a relatively recent musical style and scene which combines the music of the swing era with that...  Read More >>

Knowledge and Music Education: A Social Realist Account

Knowledge and Music Education: A Social Realist Account...

Author: Graham J. McPhail (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9781032292526
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Knowledge and Music Education: A Social Realist Account explores current challenges for music education in relation...  Read More >>

16 Bars

16 Bars

Author: Marcus A Ragsdale
ISBN: 9781796099478
Format: Paperback
$197.97

MARCUS A. RAGSDALE AUTHOR/ARTIST Hi, thank you for buying this book. 16Bars was created from the heart, I hope it...  Read More >>

16 Bars

16 Bars

Author: Marcus A Ragsdale
ISBN: 9781796099492
Format: Hardback
$277.17

MARCUS A. RAGSDALE AUTHOR/ARTIST Hi, thank you for buying this book. 16Bars was created from the heart, I hope it...  Read More >>

Rāgs Around the Clock

Rāgs Around the Clock

Author: David Clarke
ISBN: 9781800648074
Format: Paperback
$81.71

Rāgs Around the Clock is a rich and vibrant compendium for the discovery and study of North Indian classical music....  Read More >>

Remembering Your Ancestral Fire

Remembering Your Ancestral Fire

Author: Michael J Taylor
ISBN: 9781943333233
Format: Paperback
$79.07

By teaching djembe, M. Taylor, a biracial American male, has learned how others learn and understand. He has become...  Read More >>

Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid

Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During...

Author: Joy White
ISBN: 9781914420092
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Analyses how Black music and culture framed how we passed the time in the first 18 months of the pandemic.  Read More >>

Fairouz and the Arab Diaspora: Music and Identity in the UK and Qatar

Fairouz and the Arab Diaspora: Music and Identity in...

Author: Dima Issa (University of Balamand, Lebanon)
ISBN: 9780755641802
Format: Paperback
$59.99

With a discography of over 1000 songs, 20 musicals and three motion pictures, the Lebanese singer and performer,...  Read More >>

Xenakis - Back to the Roots: Philological Approaches to Electroacoustic Music

Xenakis - Back to the Roots: Philological Approaches...

Author: Reinhold Friedl ,  Thomas Grill
ISBN: 9783837674293
Format: Paperback
$74.95

This book includes contributions by companions of Xenakis and renowned experts in Xenakis research with studies...  Read More >>

Perception and Cognition of Music: The Sorbonne Lectures

Perception and Cognition of Music: The Sorbonne Lectures...

Author: Stephen McAdams (Full Professor, Canada Research Chair in Music Perception and Cognition, Full Professor, Canada Research Chair in Music Perception and Cognition, McGill University)
ISBN: 9780198939177
Format: Hardback
$68.95

Perception and Cognition of Music: The Sorbonne Lectures presents revised and updated materials delivered in four...  Read More >>

Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America's Soldiers

Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America's...

Author: David Suisman
ISBN: 9780226822921
Format: Hardback
$57.95

An original history of music and its consequences in the ranks of the US military. Since the Civil War, the United...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Video Game Music and Sound

The Oxford Handbook of Video Game Music and Sound

Author: William Gibbons (Dean, Dean, Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam) ,  Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (Obel Professor of Music, Obel Professor of Music, Aalborg University)
ISBN: 9780197556160
Format: Hardback
$377.95

Bringing together dozens of leading scholars from across the world to address topics from pinball to the latest...  Read More >>

Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music

Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making...

Author: Lawrence Sherman ,  Dennis Plies
ISBN: 9780231219112
Format: Paperback
$36.95

Larry S. Sherman, a neuroscientist and lifelong musician, and Dennis Plies, a professional musician and teacher,...  Read More >>

Representing Hip Hop Histories, Politics and Practices in Australia

Representing Hip Hop Histories, Politics and Practices...

Author: Sudiipta Dowsett (UNSW, Australia) ,  Lucas Marie (Curtin University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032492490
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This long-awaited volume is the first to focus entirely on Hip Hop in Australia. Bringing together both scholarly...  Read More >>

Italian Opera Singing at the Time of Verismo: The Invention of the Modern Voice

Italian Opera Singing at the Time of Verismo: The Invention...

Author: Barbara Gentili
ISBN: 9781837650781
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Connects discussions of vocality and operatic culture with broader aesthetic and cultural shifts in society.  Read More >>

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