Musicology

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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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Performing Commemoration

Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma

By Annegret Fauser & Michael A. Figueroa
Subjects: Music, Musicology
Series: Music and Social Justice

An edited collection about the roles music plays in public commemoration of traumatic events

i used to love to dream

By A.D. Carson
Subjects: Music, Musicology, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Tracking Pop

Fourteen tracks that use hip-hop creative and compositional practice to interrogate the idea of home

Beyond Notation

The Music of Earle Brown

By Rebecca Y. Kim
Subjects: Music, Music Composition, Musicology, Music Theory, Composition

The first comprehensive survey of the groundbreaking work of Earle Brown, augmented with several newly published items from his personal archive

 

China and the West

Music, Representation, and Reception

Edited by Michael Saffle & Hon-Lun Yang
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Asian Studies, China

A groundbreaking interdisciplinary volume exploring the phenomenon of the “Westernization” of contemporary Chinese music 

Taking It to the Bridge

Music as Performance

Edited by Nicholas Cook & Richard Pettengill
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Music, Musicology

Musicologists and performance studies scholars reach across their disciplines to examine the role of performance in musical culture

A Song for One or Two

Music and the Concept of Art in Early China

By Kenneth DeWoskin
Subjects: Philosophy, Music, Musicology, Art, Architecture, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Formulates a general and tentative definition of aesthetics in China from early discussions of music [6]

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