Angela Y. Davis 
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism 

Strings teaching and learning has tended to emphasize performance rather than the quality of experience for the children. School instruction has become rigid and focused on technical accuracy. …

Dwight E. Brooks deep dives into Earth, Wind & Fire”s That”s The Way of the World. Alongside interview material from members Phillip Bailey and Verdine White, he analyses how this album shattered m …

The sounds of spectators at football (soccer) are often highlighted – by spectators, tourists, commentators, journalists, scholars, media producers, etc. – as crucial for the experience of football. …

In 1677 a slim quarto volume was published anonymously as A Philosophical Essay of Musick. Written by Francis North (1637-85), chief justice of the Common Pleas, the Essay is in the form of a legal …

First published in 1920, The Music of Spain deals with historical periods, schools and style and appears to embrace everything related to music provided it affects or is affected by Spain in some deg …

Since its premiere in 1868, Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg has defied repeated upheavals in the cultural-political landscape of German statehood to retain its unofficial status as the German …

This volume seeks to offer a new approach to the study of music through the lens of recent works in science and technology studies (STS), which propose that facts are neither absolute truths, nor com …

This cross-disciplinary volume illuminates the history of early phonography from a transnational perspective, recovering the myriad sites, knowledge practices, identities and discourses which dynamic …

Meet the most musically gifted family in the world ‘I was entranced… Beautifully written and hugely enjoyable.’ Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, Other Seven brothers and si …

A plethora of biographical accounts of some of the contemporary composers and musicians at the turn of the twentieth century. …