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

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

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

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

Explores the music of the Tibetan Chöd tradition.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.