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.

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.

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

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

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.

Defines a new research area linking youth cultures and music with peacebuilding practice and policy.

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.

A multilayered portrait of this brash, gifted artist, whose restless voice and spirit seem as alive today as ever.

The definitive oral history of the Woodstock rock festival.

New York's fascinating history as presented in song.

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

Addresses the band’s resounding impact on how we think about gender, popular culture, and the formal and poetic qualities of music.

A son’s coming to terms with his mother’s decision to abandon her career as a concert pianist in order to raise her children.

Documents the influence of Jewish music on American popular song.

Through translation and commentary, this book presents the final visionary statements of the German-Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig.

Presents historical, ritual, and musical data preserved in authentic Ming documents illustrating the significance of state sacrifices in imperial China.

Explores how Rutini’s experimental work in sonata-allegra formal procedures played a significant role in the history of music.