Music
The Art of Fugue
Fugue for J. S. Bach was a natural language; he wrote fugues in organ toccatas and voluntaries, in masses and motets, in orchestral and chamber music, and even in his sonatas for violin solo.
Audiotopia
Ranging from Los Angeles to Havana to the Bronx to the U.S.-Mexico border and from klezmer to hip hop to Latin rock, this groundbreaking book injects popular music into contemporary debates over American identity.
Beethoven After Napoleon
In this provocative analysis of Beethoven's late style, Stephen Rumph demonstrates how deeply political events shaped the composer's music, from his early enthusiasm for the French Revolution to his later entrenchment during the Napoleonic era.
Beyond Structural Listening?
In a highly influential essay Rose Rosengard Subotnik critiques "structural listening" as an attempt to situate musical meaning solely within the unfolding of the musical structure itself.
The Dark Tree
Brought to life by the passionate voices of the men and women who worked to make the arts integral to everyday community life, The Dark Tree is the first history of the important and largely overlooked community arts movement of African American Los Angeles.
Jazz Cultures
From its beginning, jazz has presented a contradictory social world: jazz musicians have worked diligently to erase old boundaries, but they have just as resolutely constructed new ones.
Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty
Horace Silver is one of the giants from the incredible flowering and creative extension of bebop music that became known as "hard bop" in the 1950s.
Listening to the Sirens
In this fresh and innovative study, Judith A. Peraino investigates how music has been used throughout history to call into question norms of gender and sexuality.
Medieval Music and the Art of Memory
This bold challenge to conventional notions about medieval music disputes the assumption of pure literacy and replaces it with a more complex picture of a world in which literacy and orality interacted.
Modal Subjectivities
In this boldly innovative book, renowned musicologist Susan McClary presents an illuminating cultural interpretation of the Italian madrigal, one of the most influential repertories of the Renaissance.