Music

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A Beautiful Fight

The Racial Politics of Capoeira in Backland Bahia

By Esther Viola Kurtz
Subjects: Dance, Music, Ethnomusicology, African American Studies, 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

Tracks on the Trail

Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency

By Dana Gorzelany-Mostak
Subjects: Music, Popular Music, American Studies, Political Science, American Politics
Series: Tracking Pop

How music defines US presidential campaigns
 

Jamming the Classroom

Musical Improvisation and Pedagogical Practice

By Ajay Heble & Jesse Stewart
Subjects: Music, Musicology
Series: Music and Social Justice

Musical improvisation as a vehicle for teaching, learning, and enacting social justice

Seriously Mad

Mental Distress and the Broadway Musical

By Aleksei Grinenko
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Music, Musicology, Disability Studies, Psychology

Explores the history of American musical theater’s engagement with notions of madness, from Man of La Mancha to A Strange Loop

Transforming Vòdún

Musical Change and Postcolonial Healing in Benin's Jazz and Brass Band Music

By Sarah Politz
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, African Studies
Series: Musics in Motion

How musicians from the West African Republic of Benin transform Benin’s cultural traditions

Rock This Way

Cultural Constructions of Musical Legitimacy

By Mel Stanfill
Subjects: Music, Popular Music, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Law, Intellectual Property, African American Studies

What remixes, covers, mash-ups, and parodies say about the perceived legitimacy of music making

Listening with a Feminist Ear

Soundwork in Bombay Cinema

By Pavitra Sundar
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Women's Studies

On the cultural politics and possibilities of sound in cinema

Here for the Hearing

Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater

Edited by Michael Buchler & Gregory John Decker
Subjects: Music, Music Theory, Musicology
Series: Tracking Pop

A scholarly music analysis book specifically focused on musical theater

On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone

By Philip Ewell
Subjects: Music, Music Theory, African American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Exposing the racial injustices of music theory

The Taylor Mac Book

Ritual, Realness and Radical Performance

By David Roman & Sean Edgecomb
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, American Studies, Music, Popular Music
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Brings together the voices of scholars, critics, and artists to celebrate the genius of Taylor Mac

The Names of Minimalism

Authorship, Art Music, and Historiography in Dispute

By Patrick Nickleson
Subjects: Music, Musicology

A retelling of the history of minimalism and its impact on the concept of authorship

Queer Voices in Hip Hop

Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary Performance

By Lauron J. Kehrer
Subjects: Music, Popular Music, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Tracking Pop

Positions queer and trans hip hop artists within a longer tradition of Black queer music

Contingent Encounters

Improvisation in Music and Everyday Life

By Dan DiPiero
Subjects: Music, Musicology, American Studies

Investigates the relationship between improvisation in music and in everyday life

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