Music & Art Books

New and Published Books

1. Bodily Expression in Electronic Music

   Perspectives on Reclaiming Performativity

   Edited by Deniz Peters, Gerhard Eckel, Andreas Dorschel

   Series: Routledge Research in Music

   In this book, scholars and artists explore the relation between electronic music and bodily expression from perspectives including aesthetics, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, dance and interactive performance arts, sociology, computer music and sonic arts, and music theory, transgressing...

   Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge
2. Soho

   The Rise and Fall of an Artist's Colony

   By Richard Kostelanetz

   Soho: The Rise and Fall documents how a little-known industrial neighborhood in New York became, through one of the accidents of history, a nexus of creative activity for a brief but intensive period. Such an ideal situation--entirely unplanned--could not last forever; the author shows how market...

   Published May 8th 2003 by Routledge
3. Music and Modern Art

   Edited by James Leggio

   Series: Border Crossings

   Music and Modern Art adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the relationship between these two fields of creative endeavor....

   Published November 6th 2001 by Routledge
4. The New York Schools of Music and the Visual Arts

   Edited by Steven Johnson

   Series: Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture

   Musicians and artists have always shared mutual interests and exchanged theories of art and creativity. This exchange climaxed just after World War II, when a group of New York-based musicians, including John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, and David Tudor, formed friendships with a group of...

   Published November 4th 2001 by Routledge
5. A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes

   2nd Edition

   By Richard Kostelanetz

   A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes recognizes that change is a driving force in all the arts. It covers major trends in music, dance, theater, film, visual art, sculpture, and performance art--as well as architecture, science, and culture....

   Published August 14th 2001 by Routledge
6. Images

   Iconography of Music in African-American Culture (1770s-1920s)

   By Eileen J. Southern, Josephine Wright

   This lavishly illustrated book brings together for the first time a significant body of imagery devoted to the traditional culture of the African-American slave....

   Published November 27th 2000 by Routledge
7. The Arts Entwined

   Music and Painting in the Nineteenth Century

   By Marsha Morton, Peter L. Schmunk

   Edited by Marsha L. Morton, Peter L. Schmunk

   Series: Critical and Cultural Musicology

   This collection of essays by musicologists and art historians explores the reciprocal influences between music and painting during the nineteenth century, a critical period of gestation when instrumental music was identified as the paradigmatic expressive art and theoretically aligned with painting...

   Published November 30th 1999 by Routledge