Music Books

New and Published Books

1. Music Education

   Source Readings from Ancient Greece to Today, 4th Edition

   Edited by Michael Mark

   Music Education: Source Readings from Ancient Greece to Today is a collection of thematically organized essays that illuminate the importance of music education to individuals, communities and nations. The fourth edition has been expanded to address the significant societal changes that have...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Redefining Mainstream Popular Music

   Edited by Sarah Baker, Andy Bennett, Jodie Taylor

   Redefining Mainstream Popular Music is a collection of seventeen essays that critically examines the idea of the "mainstream" in and across a variety of popular music styles and contexts. Notions of what is popular vary across generations and cultures – what may have been considered alternative to...

   Published January 24th 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. Understanding Society through Popular Music

   2nd Edition

   By Joe Kotarba, Bryce Merrill, J Patrick Williams, Phillip Vannini

   Written for Introductory Sociology and Sociology of Popular Music courses, the second edition of Understanding Society through Popular Music uses popular music to illustrate fundamental social institutions, theories, sociological concepts, and processes. The authors use music, a social phenomenon...

   Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
5. Local Music Scenes and Globalization

   Transnational Platforms in Beirut

   By Thomas Burkhalter

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology

   This book offers the first in-depth study of experimental and popular music scenes in Beirut, looking at musicians working towards a new understanding of musical creativity and music culture in a country that is dominated by mass-mediated pop music, and propaganda. Burkhalter studies the generation...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
6. Liveness in Modern Music

   Musicians, Technology, and the Perception of Performance

   By Paul Sanden

   Series: Routledge Research in Music

   This study investigates the idea and practice of liveness in modern music. Understanding what makes music live in an ever-changing musical and technological terrain is one of the more complex and timely challenges facing scholars of current music, where liveness is typically understood to represent...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
7. Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities

   Unlimited Voices in East Asia and the West

   Edited by Christian Utz, Frederick Lau

   Series: Routledge Research in Music

   Looking at musical globalization and vocal music, this collection of essays studies the complex relationship between the human voice and cultural identity in 20th- and 21st-century music in both East Asian and Western music. The authors approach musical meaning in specific case studies against the...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
8. Edward Elgar

   A Thematic Catalogue and Research Guide, 2nd Edition

   By Christopher Kent

   Series: Routledge Music Bibliographies

   This updated second edition is an in-depth exploration of Elgar's compositions and of writings by and about the composer and his music. The past 16 years have seen a steady increase in scholarly publications and the emergence of The Elgar Society Journal, as well as further discoveries of the...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
9. Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures

   Literature, Cinema and Music

   Edited by Karima Laachir, Saeed Talajooy

   Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

   This study highlights the connections between power, cultural products, resistance, and the artistic strategies through which that resistance is voiced in the Middle East. Exploring cultural displays of dissent in the form of literary works, films, and music, the collection uses the concept of '...

   Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
10. Music in Science Fiction Television

    Tuned to the Future

    Edited by K.J. Donnelly, Philip Hayward

    Series: Routledge Music and Screen Media Series

    The music for science fiction television programs, like music for science fiction films, is often highly distinctive, introducing cutting-edge electronic music and soundscapes. There is a highly particular role for sound and music in science fiction, because it regularly has to expand the vistas...

    Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge