Routledge Music Research

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The Routledge Research program is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Visiting areas of research such as music technology, music theory, popular music, ethnomusicology, experimental music, and performance, alongside considerations of race, gender, politics, religion, and globalization, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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