Theory of music & musicology books

In Music at the Threshold from the Sacred to the Dangerous, Sean Williams explores the connection of liminality...  Read More >>

Investigates feminist ideologies in metal music and demonstrates techniques of socio-political resistance for usage...  Read More >>

Music: it’s not only the soundtrack to our lives, but shapes who we are – conjuring memories, emotions, dreams,...  Read More >>

Reassesses the life, music and enduring influence of Charles Wood, a central figure in British and Irish music and...  Read More >>

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Music in World Literature: From Tolstoy to Manga examines the relationship between music and literary works within...  Read More >>

Interdisciplinary ethnography of Torah scrolls as ritual objects and subjects_x000D_ _x000D_ For Jews all over the...  Read More >>

According to a widely held view in eighteenth-century Britain, Britons were inherently unmusical. Through a detailed...  Read More >>

This book offers an anthropological exploration of the lullaby, a type of music found in nearly all human societies....  Read More >>

An exploration of the vibrant world that underlies Black musical creation, blending memoir, cultural history and...  Read More >>

This edited volume explores the transformative role of emerging technologies in advancing SDG 5— Gender Equality....  Read More >>

The Bene Israel are a Jewish community from western India who, over centuries, developed a distinctive identity...  Read More >>

Addresses how feelings of absence and loss are woven throughout music practices in the twenty-first century.  Read More >>

We live immersed in a code we do not know how to read. We believe music is entertainment and physics is abstraction....  Read More >>

Music has always been profoundly transnational, transcending language barriers and crossing borders in ways that...  Read More >>

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the knowledge of musical instrument physics and its practical application...  Read More >>

Lyric Composition 101 is a comprehensive songwriting curriculum textbook designed to support structured learning...  Read More >>

The first monograph in English to offer a comprehensive account of Pierre Schaeffer's music philosophy including...  Read More >>

Music has always been profoundly transnational, transcending language barriers and crossing borders in ways that...  Read More >>

This book explores Bad Bunny as a multifaceted signifier whose meanings evolve depending on the generational, geographical,...  Read More >>

Music and Cyberculture explores the transformation of musical thought and practice in the digital age. Through...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies encompasses the thinking that considers how people in motion craft worlds...  Read More >>

A comprehensive, authoritative guide to a wide range of musical styles from around the world  Read More >>

Interrogates the history of musical amateurs from Europe, Australia, and New Zealand in the nineteenth-century to...  Read More >>