mpMusic & Politics385510.3998/mp.3855Back MatterRecent Books on Music and PoliticsWestKaikaiwest@umich.edu25052023171CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
The books listed in this column address music as it relates to political expression or focus on power relationships between individual musicians or musical communities and a governing authority. Readers are welcome to submit additional titles to musicandpolitics@umich.edu for possible inclusion in the next issue.
Abfalter, Dagmar, and RosaReitsamer. Music as Labour: Inequalities and Activism in the Past and Present. New York: Routledge, 2022.Adlington, Robert, and EstebanBuch, eds. Finding Democracy in Music. New York: Routledge, 2022.Afolayan, Adeshina, and ToyinFalola. Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: Afrobeat, Rebellion, and Philosophy. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.Agamennone, Maurizio, DanielePalma, and GiuliaSarno, eds. Sounds of the Pandemic: Accounts, Experiences, Perspectives in Times of COVID-19. New York: Routledge, 2022.Alim, H. Samy, JeffChang, and CaseyWong, eds. Freedom Moves: Hip Hop Knowledges, Pedagogies, and Futures. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023.Boon, Marcus. The Politics of Vibration: Music as Cosmopolitical Practice. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022.Browne, Sarah Elisabeth. Staging Rebellion in the Musical, “Hair”: Marginalized Voices in Musical Theatre. New York: Routledge, 2022.Bylander, Cindy. Engaging Cultural Ideologies: Classical Composers and Musical Life in Poland 1918–1956. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2022.Chakrabarti, Sukanya. In-Between Worlds: Performing [as] Bauls in an Age of Extremism. New York: Routledge, 2022.Clague, Mark. O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2022.Cohen, Brigid. Musical Migration and Imperial New York: Early Cold War Scenes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.Culyer, Antonio C.Access, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Cultural Organizations: Insights from the Careers of Executive Opera Managers of Color in the US. New York: Routledge, 2022.Dyndahl, Petter, SidselKarlsen, and RuthWright, eds. Musical Gentrification: Popular Music, Distinction and Social Mobility. New York: Routledge, 2022.Enriquez, Falina. The Costs of the Gig Economy: Musical Entrepreneurs and the Cultural Politics of Inequality in Northeastern Brazil. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2022.Epstein, Louis K.The Creative Labor of Music Patronage in Interwar France. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2022.Fifer, Julian, AngelaImpey, Peter G.Kirchschlaeger, ManfredNowak, and GeorgeUlrich, eds. The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights. New York: Routledge, 2022.Gall, Gregor. The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer: Radicalism, Resistance, and Rebellion. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2022.Geoffroy-Schwinden, Rebecca Dowd. From Servant to Savant: Musical Privilege, Property, and the French Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.Glatthorn, Austin. Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire: The German Musical Stage at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.Golding, Rosemary, ed. Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain. New York: Routledge, 2022.Golovlev, Alexander, ed. French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945–1955. New York: Routledge, 2022.Hallman, Diana R., and César A.Leal, eds. America in the French Imaginary, 1789–1914: Music, Revolution and Race. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2022.Harris, Amanda. Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930–1970. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.Haukamp, Iris, ChristinHoene, and MartynSmith, eds. Asian Sound Cultures: Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology. New York: Routledge, 2022.Hayton, Jeff. Culture from the Slums: Punk Rock in East and West Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.Hoag, Melissa, ed. Expanding the Canon: Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom. New York: Routledge, 2022.Holmes, Ramona. Resilient Voices: Estonian Choirs and Song Festivals in World War II Displaced Person Camps. New York: Routledge, 2023.Kaufman, Will. American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War II: A Cultural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.Keym, Stefan, and AnnaFortunova. Eastern European Emigrants and the Internationalism of 20th-Century Music Concepts. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2022.Kingston Mann, Larisa. Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022.Kirby, Sarah. Exhibitions, Music and the British Empire. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2022.Kölbl, Marko, and FritzTrümpi, eds. Music and Democracy: Participatory Approaches. Vienna: mdwPress, 2021.Kowalczyk, Beata M.Transnational Musicians: Precariousness, Ethnicity and Gender in the Creative Industry. New York: Routledge, 2022.Lettman, Stacy J.The Slave Sublime: The Language of Violence in Caribbean Literature and Music. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022.Lopes de Barros, Rodrigo. Distortion and Subversion: Punk Rock Music and the Protests for Free Public Transportation in Brazil (1996–2011). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022.Love, Joanna K., and JessieFillerup, eds. Sonic Identity at the Margins. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.Luo, Jian Ming. Cultural Tourism and Cantonese Opera. New York: Routledge, 2022.Mathew, Nicholas. The Haydn Economy: Music, Aesthetics, and Commerce in the Late Eighteenth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.Mazierska, Ewa. Popular Polish Electronic Music, 1970–2020. New York: Routledge, 2022.McGeary, Thomas. Opera and Politics in Queen Anne’s Britain, 1705–1714. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2022.Morgan, Harry. Music, Politics and Society in Ancient Rome. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022.Ordoulidis, Nikos. Musical Nationalism, Despotism and Scholarly Interventions in Greek Popular Music. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.Orzech, Rachel. Claiming Wagner for France: Music and Politics in the Parisian Press, 1933–1944. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2022.Ouyang, Lei X.Music as Mao’s Weapon: Remembering the Cultural Revolution. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2022.Parks, Gregory S., and Frank RudyCooper, eds. Fight the Power: Law and Policy through Hip-Hop Songs. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022.Peddie, Ian, ed. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.Piotrowska, Anna G.Music, City and the Roma under Communism. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.Pilzer, Joshua D.Quietude: A Musical Anthropology of “Korea’s Hiroshima.” New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.Rabaka, Reiland. Black Power Music!: Protest Songs, Message Music, and the Black Power Movement. New York: Routledge, 2022.Ramsey, Guthrie P.Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022.Richardson, Michael S.Medievalism and Nationalism in German Opera: “Euryanthe” to “Lohengrin.” New York: Routledge, 2022.Riddell, Fraser. Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siècle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.Rocke, Stephanie. The Politicized Concert Mass (1967–2007). New York: Routledge, 2022.Rodríguez, Richard T.A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022.Schäfers, Marlene. Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023.Schweig, Meredith. Renegade Rhymes: Rap Music, Narrative, and Knowledge in Taiwan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.Selvik, Randi Margrete, SveinGladsø, and AnnabellaSkagen, eds. Relevance and Marginalisation in Scandinavian and European Performing Arts, 1770–1860. New York: Routledge, 2022.Shupe, Abigail. War and Death in the Music of George Crumb: A Crisis of Collective Memory. New York: Routledge, 2022.Siddiqi, Asif. One-Track Mind: Capitalism, Technology, and the Art of the Pop Song. New York: Routledge, 2022.Silver, Christopher. Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022.Tsioulakis, Ioannis. Musicians in Crisis: Working and Playing in the Greek Popular Music Industry. New York: Routledge, 2022.Werner, Ann. Feminism and Gender Politics in Mediated Popular Music. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.Williams, Joseph. England’s Folk Revival and the Problem of Identity in Traditional Music. New York: Routledge, 2022.