Music

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The Bastard Instrument

A Cultural History of the Electric Bass

An alternative history of popular music that centers the electric bass

Opera for Everyone

The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age

How one opera company represents the economic precarity and aesthetic possibilities of operatic performance in the twenty-first century U.S.

Singing the Land

Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America

How song shaped American Zionism

Improvising Across Abilities

Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument

An exploration of the instrument that allows everyone to access artistic practice

Rape at the Opera

Staging Sexual Violence

How opera practitioners represent sexual violence on today’s opera stages

Tracks on the Trail

Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency

How music defines US presidential campaigns
 

Jamming the Classroom

Musical Improvisation and Pedagogical Practice

Musical improvisation as a vehicle for teaching, learning, and enacting social justice

Seriously Mad

Mental Distress and the Broadway Musical

Explores the history of American musical theater’s engagement with notions of madness, from Man of La Mancha to A Strange Loop

Transforming Vòdún

Musical Change and Postcolonial Healing in Benin's Jazz and Brass Band Music

How musicians from the West African Republic of Benin transform Benin’s cultural traditions

Rock This Way

Cultural Constructions of Musical Legitimacy

What remixes, covers, mash-ups, and parodies say about the perceived legitimacy of music making

Listening with a Feminist Ear

Soundwork in Bombay Cinema

On the cultural politics and possibilities of sound in cinema

Here for the Hearing

Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater

A scholarly music analysis book specifically focused on musical theater

The Taylor Mac Book

Ritual, Realness and Radical Performance

Brings together the voices of scholars, critics, and artists to celebrate the genius of Taylor Mac

The Names of Minimalism

Authorship, Art Music, and Historiography in Dispute

A retelling of the history of minimalism and its impact on the concept of authorship

Queer Voices in Hip Hop

Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary Performance

Positions queer and trans hip hop artists within a longer tradition of Black queer music

Contingent Encounters

Improvisation in Music and Everyday Life

Investigates the relationship between improvisation in music and in everyday life

For the Culture

Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice

Examines the relationship between social justice, Hip-Hop culture, and resistance

Listening to the Lomax Archive

The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s

Exploring the rhetoric and cultural significance of African American folk music during the Great Depression

Ballads and Songs of Southern Michigan

Edited by Emelyn Gardner & Geraldine Chickering
Subjects: Music

Old-time Michigan songs and tunes

Interlochen

A Home for the Arts

By Dean Boal
Subjects: Music

A rich history of Michigan's renowned schools for the arts

Open the Door

The Life and Music of Betty Carter

Presents the lifelong influence of Betty Carter's career and her music on the music world

Sampling and Remixing Blackness in Hip-Hop Theater and Performance

Explores expressions of Blackness in Hip-Hop performance by non-African American artists

Sonorous Worlds

Musical Enchantment in Venezuela

In Venezuela’s El Sistema, music is both a means of government control and a form of emancipation for youth musicians

Echoes of the Great Catastrophe

Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora

A multi-sited exploration of the musical legacy of the Anatolian Greek diaspora