Includes 22 new settings of period tunes, and examines the expressive culture of the largest antebellum tenant farmer protest from its origin to its 21st-century reverberations.

A fascinating story of how three musicians, who escaped the Nazis, inspired Iceland’s modern classical music.

Three generations of famous movie soundtrack composers reveal the secrets of their art and success.

The story of Woodstock, N.Y., over the last 100 years and how a small, rural town coped with the many challenges of changing times.

Situates yoga practice within a musical context in the life and work of famed violinist Yehudi Menuhin

A personal voyage of discovery drawing on musicology, literary theory, Jewish studies, and philosophical phenomenology.

Shows how nineteenth-century discoveries in acoustical science shaped Victorian literary representations of gender, sexuality, and intimacy.

Explores how Black women have continually used sound to convey stories and forge community across generations.

Explores the music of the Tibetan Chöd tradition.

A concise history of early jazz, from its major innovators to its unrecognized heroes.

Celebrates over a half-century of the work of one of America's greatest folklorists.

Makes a case for the power of music and sound in the face of fascistic forces, from modernism to the present.

The neglected small group swing sound of the 1940s–60s takes its place in the pantheon of jazz literature.

The classic work on Levy’s theory of negative harmony.

The classic text on Baroque Counterpoint, enlarged and revised, drawing from the master composers of the era.

The first music theory anthology to provide 255 topically arranged examples by 67 historical women and people of color.

How jazz spurred a generational debate that reshaped American culture.

A compelling biography of virtuoso, baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams and how his life intersected with some of the greatest poets, writers, painters, and musicians of his time.

Illuminates the beginnings, downfall, and legacy of the acid-inspired, spontaneous, and playful approach to life and music in Haight-Ashbury from 1964–1967.

An unflinching look at the triumphs and tragedies of '50s rock and roll, from the biggest stars, like Chuck Berry and Carl Perkins, to those who barely grabbed the spotlight.

Spearheads a new field for the combined study of religion and music, drawing upon theories and methods of the social sciences, ethnomusicology, philosophy, theology, liturgical studies, and cognitive studies.

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.