Theory of music & musicology books

Stop guessing where your fingers go. Start producing clean, confident sound from day one. If you've picked up an...  Read More >>

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On March 20, 2026, seven voices return. BTS named their comeback album after a six-hundred-year-old Korean folk...  Read More >>

Offers the first comprehensive account of a centuries-old tradition of encrypting covert messages into music, from...  Read More >>

An alternative history of the album, focussing on the format’s turbulent life through the digital music era since...  Read More >>

Presents Fauré not as a solitary figure, but part of a vibrant continuum of nineteenth- and twentieth-century composers...  Read More >>

Offers the first comprehensive account of a centuries-old tradition of encrypting covert messages into music, from...  Read More >>

Sounding untouchability across postcolonial borders_x000D_ _x000D_ Communities of Sound brings together insights...  Read More >>

Poets, literary critics, and lovers of poetry often speak of the “music of poetry.” This book gives substance to...  Read More >>

""Drawing on two years of multi-sited ethnography in Santiago, Montevideo, and Buenos Aires, the author documents...  Read More >>

Examines how British female punks experienced oppression at the intersection of classism, sexism, (and, in some...  Read More >>

Poets, literary critics, and lovers of poetry often speak of the “music of poetry.” This book gives substance to...  Read More >>

A collection of fourteen original essays taking a fresh approach to how music plays a crucial role in literary texts,...  Read More >>

Explores contemporary beliefs and social dynamics in Zulu everyday life through the stories told about the iconic...  Read More >>

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An in-depth exploration on how the musical work of Tyler, The Creator is a watershed in American hip-hop culture,...  Read More >>

Examines how British female punks experienced oppression at the intersection of classism, sexism, (and, in some...  Read More >>

Explores the multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens from a broad range of perspectives including...  Read More >>

This book presents a theoretical framework for hermeneutic musical analysis, enriched with numerous practical examples....  Read More >>

How Black music shapes the political identity, consciousness, and engagement of Black youth From Rihanna and Kendrick...  Read More >>

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