Music Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Baltic Musics/Baltic Musicologies

   The Landscape Since 1991

   Edited by Kevin C Karnes, Joachim Braun

   This volume is the first to bring together music scholars working on Baltic topics from throughout Europe, North America, and the Middle East for the purpose of exploring the impact of Nazi and Soviet occupation (1940-91) and the restoration of republican independence upon the production of...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
2. Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art

   Performing Migration

   Edited by Rocío G. Davis, Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, Johanna C. Kardux

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   This volume analyzes innovative forms of media and music (art installations, television commercials, photography, films, songs, telenovelas) to examine the performance of migration in contemporary culture. Though migration studies and media studies are ostensibly different fields, this...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
3. Psychology of Music

   From Sound to Significance

   By Siu-Lan Tan, Peter Pfordresher, Rom Harré

   Why are some disturbances of air molecules heard as 'noise' while others are perceived as music? What happens at the level of the sound wave, the ear, and the brain when we perform or listen to music? How do musical abilities emerge and develop, and become refined as one acquires musical expertise?...

   Published January 14th 2013 by Psychology Press
4. Gigs

   Jazz and the Cabaret Laws in New York City, 2nd Edition

   By Paul Chevigny

   Series: Routledge Studies in Law, Society and Popular Culture

   Gigs provides a fascinating account of a unique victory for musicians against repressive entertainment licensing laws. It provides a much-needed study of the social, political, cultural and legal conditions surrounding a change in law and public attitudes toward vernacular music in New York City....

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
5. Newly Composed Folk Music of Yugoslavia

   By Ljerka V. Rasmussen

   Series: Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertations

   This book challenges the monolithic portrayals of folk music and social change under communism by making a case for "people's music" and shows how new folk music embodies an inherently pluralistic concept of Yugoslavia's culture....

   Published September 27th 2012 by Routledge
6. Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity

   By Eduardo de la Fuente

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   In the first decade of the twentieth-century, many composers rejected the principles of tonality and regular beat. This signaled a dramatic challenge to the rationalist and linear conceptions of music that had existed in the West since the Renaissance. The ‘break with tonality’, Neo-Classicism,...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. Migrating Music

   Edited by Jason Toynbee, Byron Dueck

   Series: CRESC

   Migrating Music considers the issues around music and cosmopolitanism in new ways. Whilst much of the existing literature on ‘world music’ questions the apparently world-disclosing nature of this genre – but says relatively little about migration and mobility – diaspora studies have much to say...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
8. What’s So Important About Music Education?

   By J. Scott Goble

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   What’s So Important About Music Education? presents a new philosophy of music education for the United States, rooted in history and current perspectives from ethnomusicology. J. Scott Goble explores the societal effects of the nation's foundations in democracy and capitalism, the constitutional...

   Published January 3rd 2012 by Routledge
9. The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance

   By Graham St. John

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology

   This lively textual symposium offers a collection of formative research on the culture of global psytrance (psychedelic trance). As the first book to address the diverse transnationalism of this contemporary electronic dance music phenomenon, the collection hosts interdisciplinary research...

   Published June 21st 2011 by Routledge
10. Popular Music of Vietnam

    The Politics of Remembering, the Economics of Forgetting

    By Dale A. Olsen

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology

    Based on the author’s research in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and other urban areas in Vietnam, this study of contemporary Vietnamese popular music explores the ways globalization and free market economics have influenced the music and subcultures of Vietnamese youth, focusing on the conflict...

    Published June 17th 2010 by Routledge