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Will You Take Me As I Am: Joni Mitchell's Blue Period

by Michelle Mercer

Joni Mitchell is one of the most celebrated artists of the last half century, and her landmark 1971 album, Blue, is one of her most beloved and revered works. Generations of people have come of age listening...


Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era

by Ken Emerson

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, after the shock of Elvis Presley and before the Beatles spearheaded the British Invasion, fourteen gifted young songwriters huddled in midtown Manhattan's legendary Brill...


Alexander Zemlinsky: A Lyric Symphony

by Marc D. Moskovitz

From Zemlinsky's early success as a composer and widely recognized achievements as a conductor to his eventual descent into obscurity, this new biography places Zemlinsky (1871-1942) against the backdrops of...


Reading Mahler: German Culture and Jewish Identity in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna

by Carl Niekerk

Gustav Mahler's music is more popular than ever, yet few are aware of its roots in German literary and cultural history in general, and in fin-de-siècle Viennese culture in particular. Taking as its point of...


Sweet Air: Modernism, Regionalism, and American Popular Song

by Edward Comentale

Finding meaning in the clash of modern life and local, rural musical culture


And Party Every Day: The Inside Story of Casablanca Records

by Larry Harris, Curt Gooch & Jeff Suhs

(Book). Now it can be told! The true, behind-the-scenes story of Casablanca Records, from an eyewitness to the excess and insanity. Casablanca was not a product of the 1970s, it was the 1970s. From 1974 to 1980,...


Walking on the Moon: The Untold Story of the Police and the Rise of New Wave Rock

by Chris Campion

An unflinching look at the rise of one of the most recognizable names in pop music -The Police

The Police have sold more than 50 million albums, made Rolling Stone's Greatest Artists of All Time list, and finished...


This Music Leaves Stains: The Complete Story of the Misfits

by James, Jr. Greene

This Music Leaves Stains presents the full story behind the Misfits and their ubiquitous, haunting skull logo, a story of unique talent, strange timing, clashing personalities, and incredible music that helped...


Keyboard Music Before 1700

by Alexander Silbiger

Keyboard Music Before 1700 begins with an overview of the development of keyboard music in Europe.  Then, individual chapters by noted authorities in the field cover the key composers and repertory before 1700...


Dear Dorothy: Letters from Nicolas Slonimsky to Dorothy Adlow

by Nicolas Slonimsky & Electra Slonimsky Yourke

In the mid-twentieth century renowned musicologist, conductor, and lexicographer Nicolas Slonimsky traveled to cities throughout the world to play and conduct music of the American avant-garde. From trips to...


Song and Social Change in Latin America

by Lauren E. Shaw, John R. Baldwin & Carmelo Esterrich

Politics and music are intertwined in this study of different musical forms in Latin America from the twentieth century to the present as scholars from diverse disciplines analyze various musical genres contextualized...


Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll

by Larry Birnbaum

An essential work for rock fans and scholars, Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock ‘n’ Roll surveys the origins of rock ’n’ roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley....


Lutoslawski on Music

by Zbigniew Skowron

Lutoslawski on Music is the first collection of writings by the Polish twentieth-century composer Witold Lutoslawski. It includes texts about his own compositions and techniques as well as writings on various...


Women Singers in Global Contexts: Music, Biography, Identity

by Ruth Hellier

Exploring and celebrating individual lives in diverse situations, Women Singers in Global Contexts is a new departure in the study of women's worldwide music-making. Ten unique women constitute the heart of...


Between Baudelaire and Mallarmé: Voice, Conversation and Music

by Helen Abbott

Helen Abbott examines the verse and prose poetry of Baudelaire and Mallarmé, together with their critical writings, to address how their attitudes towards the performance practice of poetry influenced the future...


Loading the Silence: Australian Sound Art in the Post-Digital Age

by Linda Ioanna Kouvaras

Linda Kouvaras explores the ways in which selected sound art works demonstrate creatively how sound is embedded within local, national, gendered and historical environments. Taking Australian music as its primary...


Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era

by Karen McAulay

Karen McAulay traces the complex history of Scottish song collecting, and the publication of major Highland and Lowland collections. Looking at sources, authenticity, collecting methodology and format, McAulay...


Elvis In Texas: The Undiscovered King 1954-1958

by Stanley Oberst & Lori Torrance

Exciting never before seen photos, interviews, and memorabilia of Elvis' tours of Texas.


Johann Leisentrit's Geistliche Lieder und Psalmen, 1567: Hymnody of the Counter-Reformation in Germany

by Richard D. Wetzel & Erika Heitmeyer

In their analyses of a pivotal work from the Counter Reformation in Germany, the authors provide a broader knowledge of the religious, political, and humanistic currents of the sixteenth century. Their book...


Lonesome Melodies: The Lives and Music of the Stanley Brothers

by David W. Johnson

Carter and Ralph Stanley--the Stanley Brothers--are comparable to Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs as important members of the earliest generation of bluegrass musicians. In this first biography of the brothers,...