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Sensing Precarity

Viral Listening in Medicalized Worlds

By Ailsa Lipscombe
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Disability Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Understanding and challenging our relationships to medicalized sound during the COVID-19 pandemic

Resilience & Melancholy

Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism

Expanded Second Edition

By Robin James
Subjects: Music, Popular Music, Gender and Sexuality Studies

When women raise their voices

Theorizing Music for Antiracist Futures

Key Terms and Critical Methods

Edited by Jade Adele Conlee & Tatiana Rose Daub Koike
Subjects: Music, Music Theory, Race and Ethnicity, Critical Ethnic Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Explores complex histories and assumptions behind musical terms

Music at the Margins of Sense

By Jessica A. Holmes
Subjects: Music, Disability Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Challenging misconceptions of musical experience in deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing disabled musicians and listeners

Queer and Trans Aesthetics

By Lloyd Whitesell
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Art, Music

A study devoted to queer meaning in cultural expression

Black Song

A Manifesto for Music and Justice

By Singing Justice Collective, Louise Toppin, Naomi Andre, Stephen A. Berrey, Tyrese Byrd, Mark Allan Clague, Caroline Helton, Traci L. Lombré, Samantha Williams, Cody Jones, Christie Finn, and Thomas Hampson
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Connecting music and history to engage more deeply and respectfully with Black musical traditions

Prison Song

Music and Incarceration in the United States

By David Metzer
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Ethnomusicology, American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

How musicians across genres have confronted the prison system over the last hundred years

Curriculum of the Mind

By Stevie “Dr. View” Johnson & The Space Program
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Sociology, African American Studies
Series: Tracking Pop

Dreaming of freedom through sound

Transpacific Experiments

Intermedia Art and Music in 1960s Japan

By Miki Kaneda
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Asian Studies, Japan, Media Studies, New Media

How intermedia art and everyday life in 1960s Japan shaped an unexpected transcultural avant-garde

Macau and Catholic Sacred Music Across the Sino-Western Divide

By Jen-yen Chen
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Asian Studies, China
Series: Musics in Motion

The sonic experiences and cultural diversity of the Catholic religion in Macau

What Music Did

The Story of Numerocracy in the West

By Tony Conrad
Edited by Patrick Nickleson
Subjects: Music, Music Theory, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, New Media

Considering whether the numbers in music add up

Big Feelings

Queer and Feminist Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl

By Dan DiPiero
Subjects: Music, Popular Music, Sexuality Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Studies
Series: Tracking Pop

Listening to music that gives listeners a shared sense of what feels—and is—urgent

A Beautiful Fight

The Racial Politics of Capoeira in Backland Bahia

By Esther Viola Kurtz
Subjects: Dance, Music, Ethnomusicology, Latin American Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Music and Social Justice

A critical ethnography of Black and white participation in Afro-Brazilian music and dance

Prince, Musical Genre, and the Construction of Racial Identity

By Griffin Woodworth
Subjects: Music, Musicology, African American Studies
Series: Tracking Pop

The legacy of the music legend

Transformismo

Performing Trans/Queer Cuba

By M. Myrta Leslie Santana
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Theater and Performance, Latinx Studies, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, American Studies

How drag performance transforms the social landscape of Cuba and illuminates the island’s racial, sexual, and economic inequalities

Hip-Hop Civics

Connected Learning in the Rap Classroom

By Jabari M. Evans
Subjects: Music, Music Composition, Education, Higher Education, Media Studies, New Media
Series: Music and Social Justice

How Hip-Hop-based education can engage Black and Brown students in civic education

Hold Me Down

By Ben Lauren
Subjects: Writing, Music, Music Composition
Series: Music and Social Justice

How the concept of feel is used to write songs

Owning My Masters (Mastered)

The Rhetorics of Rhymes & Revolutions

By A.D. Carson
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Music, Musicology
Series: Tracking Pop

Using hip hop to create new theory

Contemporary Opera in Flux

Edited by Yayoi U Everett
Subjects: Music, Musicology

A collection of essays examining operas that push the conventional boundaries of opera and advance the work of underrepresented composers

Teaching Difficult Topics

Reflections from the Undergraduate Music Classroom

Edited by Olivia R. Lucas & Laura Moore Pruett
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Reflections from college music instructors offering various approaches to inclusive, supportive pedagogy in the classroom

The Bastard Instrument

A Cultural History of the Electric Bass

By Brian F. Wright
Subjects: Music, Popular Music, American Studies, Music Theory, Music Composition, Jazz
Series: Tracking Pop

Centering the electric bass in popular music history

Opera for Everyone

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

By Megan Steigerwald Ille
Subjects: Music, Music Composition, Musicology, Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies

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

By Eli Sperling
Subjects: Foreign Language, Modern Hebrew, Jewish Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Music, Ethnomusicology, Diaspora Studies

How song shaped American Zionism

Improvising Across Abilities

Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument

Edited by Thomas Ciufo, Abbey L. Dvorak, Kip Haaheim, Jennifer Hurst, IONE, Grace Shih-en Leu, Leaf Miller, Ray Mizumura-Pence, Nicola Oddy, Jesse Stewart, John Sullivan, Sherrie Tucker, Ellen Waterman, and Ranita Wilks
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Disability Studies, Media Studies, New Media
Series: Music and Social Justice

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

Rape at the Opera

Staging Sexual Violence

By Margaret Cormier
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Theater and Performance
Series: Music and Social Justice

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

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