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Nadia and Lili Boulanger

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 17:20:45 +0000

Pioneers in their fields and two of the best-known women in music in the twentieth century, Nadia and Lili Boulanger have only previously been considered in isolation from one another. Yet, as Caroline Potter's new book demonstrates, their careers were closely linked during Lili's short life (1893..

Price: $233.99

Being Musically Attuned (The Act of Listening to Music)

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 16:22:36 +0000

Listening according to mood is likely to be what most people do when they listen to music. We want to take part in, or even be part of, the emerging world of the musical work. Erik Wallrup explores this vague and elusive phenomenon, which is held to be fundamental to musical hearing. He unfolds th..

Price: $233.99

Salons, Singers and Songs (A Background to Romantic French Song 1830-1870)

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:30:14 +0000

Drawing on reviews of salon music in periodicals such as La Gazette et revue musicale, Le Menestral and Le Monde musicale, David Tunley places romantic French song within the framework of the society which nurtured it.

Price: $233.99

Popular Music Theory and Analysis (A Research and Information Guide)

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:10:54 +0000

Popular Music Theory and Analysis: A Research and Information Guide uncovers the wealth of scholarly works dealing with the theory and analysis of popular music. This annotated bibliography is an exhaustive catalog of music-theoretical and musicological works that is searchable by subject..

Price: $233.99

Communion Chants of the Thirteenth-Century Byzantine Asmatikon

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:40:53 +0000

This is a complete edition with critical commentary of the Byzantine Communions in thirteenth-century manuscripts of the Asmatikon, all known sources being used. The chants concerned are the earliest known examples of Communion Chants of the Orthodox Church, and are found in a book which may go ba..

Price: $233.99

Voicing Girlhood in Popular Music (Performance, Authority, Authenticity)

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:07:11 +0000

This book explores the girl’s voice and the construction of girlhood in contemporary popular music, visiting girls as musicians, activists, and performers. It illuminates the way ideals of girlhood are historically specific, and the way adults frame and construct girlhood to both valorize and v..

Price: $249.99

Haunted Soundscapes (Transcultural Perspectives on Music, Sound and Power in Turkey)

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:38:52 +0000

Haunted Soundscapes: Transcultural Perspectives on Music, Sound and Power in Türkiye fills this gap. Drawing on hauntology, critical soundscape theory, and concepts of transculturality, it examines the haunted soundscapes of Türkiye —sonic spaces where unexamined past traumas permeate th..

Price: $233.99

Barbed Wire Love (A People's History of Stiff Little Fingers)

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:08:27 +0000

THE STORY OF THE PUNK PIONEERS FROM BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND IN THE WORDS OF 500 FANS

Barbed Wire Love – A People’s History of Stiff Little Fingers is the story of the Belfast punks who burst onto the UK music scene in 1977, their songs and attitude inspired by the p..
Price: $40.00

Like Young (Jazz, Pop, Youth And Middle Age)

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:35:38 +0000

Francis Davis is one of this nation's savviest and most admired music and cultural critics. In this collection of essays he observes the modern jazz and pop that have reached middle age at the same moment as many of their listeners, including the author. Moving through the scales from Frank Sinatr..
Price: $21.99

Music in Twin Peaks (Listen to the Sounds)

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 18:13:20 +0000

In this edited volume, contributors explore an essential element of the influential television series Twin Peaks: the role of music and sound. This collection considers how the music and sound design not only create the ambience of this ground-breaking series, but function in the narrative, enc..
Price: $233.99