Music 2012

New Titles and Key Backlist

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Thank you for your interest in Routledge’s Music titles. For 2012, we are excited to offer you a diverse list of books, ranging from undergraduate and graduate textbooks, to edited collections and scholarly monographs, reflecting Routledge’s commitment to publishing for all levels of the academic community.

In 2012 we launch the third edition of World Music: A Global Journey, by Terry E. Miller and Andrew Shahriari, a well-received textbook in the survey of world music. The year reflects important revisions to leading books in music technology and a new introduction to music business. If you are seeking books for teacher prep, we have several new titles serving both the US and UK in our music education listing. Also of note is the second edition of A Cultural Study of Music.

We’ve also expanded our Routledge Research program, home to leading-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. With new series in Popular Music and Music Theory, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.

We invite your feedback on our publishing program – your manuscript ideas and information pertaining to the trends in your discipline – so that we can reflect cutting edge thinking and scholarship in Music.

For a full listing of our Music books, visit our website www.routledge.com/music.

  1. World Music

    A Global Journey - Paperback & CD Set Value Pack, 3rd Edition

    By Terry E. Miller, Andrew Shahriari

    Authors Terry E. Miller and Andrew Shahriari take students around the world to experience the diversity of musical expression. World Music: A Global Journey, now in its third edition, is known for its breadth in surveying the world’s major cultures in a systematic study of world music within a...

    Published January 31st 2012 by Routledge

  2. The Digital Musician

    2nd Edition

    By Andrew Hugill

    The Digital Musician is a textbook for creative music technology and electronic music courses. It provides an overview of sound properties, acoustics, digital music, and sound design as a basis for understanding the compositional possibilities that new music technologies allow. Creative projects...

    Published June 19th 2012 by Routledge

  3. Music, Science, and the Rhythmic Brain

    Cultural and Clinical Implications

    Edited by Jonathan Berger, Gabe Turow

    Series: Routledge Research in Music

    This book studies the effects of repetitive musical rhythm on the brain and nervous system, and in doing so integrates diverse fields including ethnomusicology, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, religious studies, music therapy, and human health. It presents aspects of musical rhythm and...

    Published July 19th 2011 by Routledge

  4. The Cultural Study of Music

    A Critical Introduction, 2nd Edition

    Edited by Martin Clayton, Trevor Herbert, Richard Middleton

    What is the relationship between music and culture? The first edition of The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction explored this question with groundbreaking rigor and breadth. Now this second edition refines that original analysis while examining the ways the field has developed in the...

    Published November 8th 2011 by Routledge

  5. Music, Sound and Filmmakers

    Sonic Style in Cinema

    Edited by James Wierzbicki

    Series: Routledge Music and Screen Media Series

    Music, Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema is a collection of essays that examine the work of filmmakers whose concern is not just for the eye, but also for the ear. The bulk of the text focuses on the work of directors Wes Anderson, Ingmar Bergman, the Coen brothers, Peter Greenaway,...

    Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge

  6. Music in the Western

    Notes From the Frontier

    By Kathryn Kalinak

    Series: Routledge Music and Screen Media Series

    Music in the Western: Notes from the Frontier presents essays from both film studies scholars and musicologists on core issues in western film scores: their history, their generic conventions, their operation as part of a narrative system, their functioning within individual filmic texts and their...

    Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge

  7. Electronic and Experimental Music

    Technology, Music, and Culture, 4th Edition

    By Thom Holmes

    Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive history of electronic music, covering key composers, genres, and techniques used in both analog and digital synthesis. This textbook has been greatly expanded and revised with the needs of...

    Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge