The autobiography of one of the 20th century’s most innovative and wittiest composers/performers/authors who witnessed the birth of modern music.

Tells the story of classic blues singers from Ma Rainey to Bessie Smith.

The cultural history of one of rock's greatest masterpieces told through the eyes of its creator.

A Philosophy of Music Education is considered the classic text on the relation of aesthetics to the practical teaching and performing of music.

A walking tour and history of Bob Dylan's life and time in New York, from Greenwich Village to Woodstock.

A new and accessible introduction to this exciting, controversial, and often misunderstood music, drawing on extensive research, close listening, and the author’s experience as a performer.

Shows how punk rock shaped modern culture around the world.

Analyzes how White American mainline Protestants used the internal musical controversies of the turn-of-the-millennium Worship Wars to negotiate their shifting position within the nation's diversifying religious and sociopolitical ecosystems.

Highlights the original cast members—both the well-known and the (until now) wholly unknown—who staged the duo's comic operas in Britain and in America.

The incredible, true story of the twentieth century's greatest performing sea lion and the man who trained him.

The critical biography of a dynamic and under-represented figure who produced and starred in some of the most innovative works of her day.

A close examination of the complexity inherent in Michael Jackson's ambiguous racial identity.

Charts underexamined genealogies of minoritarian aesthetic responses to the multiple crises of the long 1970s.

A complete introduction to musical theater from its roots in the eighteenth century through today, written by a master historian.

Rock on Record shows students how to listen to and enjoy the rich repertory of rock records made between the 1950s and 1980s.

An accessible introduction to the centrality of word, chant, and song in the Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, and Sikh traditions.

Explores how modernist films use classical music in ways that restore the music’s original subversive energy.

Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.

Articulates an imaginationist solution to the question of how purely instrumental music can be perceived by a listener as having emotional content.

Argues that Indigenous hip hop is the latest and newest assertion of Indigenous sovereignty throughout Indigenous North America.

An innovative approach to teaching Chinese language and culture, using folk and popular songs.

A transformative look at a popular instrument and a hidden chapter of American history.

Using insights from Integral Theory, describes how the improvisational methods of jazz can inform education and other fields.

Explores the religious, political, and cultural significance attributed to music in early China.

A cookbook for—and by—fans of the rock band Phish.

The definitive oral history of the Woodstock rock festival.

How music functions as a metaphor and model for democracy.

Explores the revolutionary potential of Bruce Lee and hip hop culture in the context of antiglobalization struggles and transnational capitalism.

Viewing hip-hop as the postmodern successor to African American culture's Jazz modernism, this book examines hip-hop music's role in the history of the African-American experience.

Describes the Russian rock music counterculture and how it is changing in response to Russia's transition from a socialist to a capitalist society. It explores the lived experiences, the thoughts and feelings of the rock musicians as they meet the challenges of change.

In this introduction to natural-base music theory, Ernst Levy presents the essentials of a comprehensive, consistent theory of harmony developed from tone structure. A Theory of Harmony is a highly original ...

Music is performed, reproduced, and heard differently today as a result of twentieth-century technology. A new consideration of these changes is a practical and cultural necessity. In Conditions of Music ...