Music & Politics

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Recent Books on Music and Politics

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Mueller

Dorian

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31 07 2024

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Spring 2024

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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.

Adkins, Monty, and

Rachel E.

Mann, eds. Gerhard, Roberto: Re-Appraising a Musical Visionary in Exile. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Adlington, Robert

. Musical Models of Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Agawu, Kofi

. On African Music: Techniques, Influences, Scholarship. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Alim, H.

Samy, Jeff Chang, and

Casey

Wong, eds. Freedom Moves: Hip Hop Knowledges, Pedagogies, and Futures. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023.

Allen, Aaron S., and

Jeff Tod

Titon, eds. Sounds, Ecologies, Musics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Alonso-Minutti, Ana R.

Mario Lavista: Mirrors of Sounds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Baker, Sarah,

Zelmarie

Cantillon, and

Raphaël

Nowak. Popular Music Heritage, Cultural Justice and the Deindustrialising City. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Borshuk, Michael

, ed. Jazz and American Culture. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Bower, Bruno

Elisabeth Honn

Hoegberg, and

Sonja

Starkmeth, eds. Genre Beyond Borders: Reassessing Operetta. New York: Routledge, 2023.

Bull, Anna,

Christin

Scharff, and

Laudan

Nooshin, eds. Voices for Change in the Classical Music Profession: New Ideas for Tackling Inequalities and Exclusions. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Callahan, Erin C.

, and Court Carney The Politics and Power of Bob Dylan’s Live Performances: Play a Song for Me. New York: Routledge, 2023.

Campbell , Mark V., and

Murray

Forman, eds. Hip-Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production. Bristol: Intellect, 2023.

Celenza, Anna Harwell

, ed. Music and Human Flourishing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Cimardi, Linda

. Performing Arts and Gender in Postcolonial Western Uganda. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2023.

Çizmeci, Esra

. Performing Post-Tariqa Sufism: Making Sacred Space with Mevlevi and Rifai Zikir in Turkey. New York: Routledge, 2023.

Clausius, Katharina

. Opera and the Politics of Tragedy: A Mozartean Museum. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2023.

Contreras Zubillaga, Igor, and

Eva Moreda

Rodriguez, eds. Spain in Our Ears: International Musical Responses in Support of the Republic during the Spanish Civil War. New York: Routledge, 2023.

de Ferranti, Hugh,

Michiyo

Yoneno-Reyes, and

Masaya

Shishikura, eds. Unsilent Strangers: Music, Minorities, Co-existence, Japan. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2023.

Donovan, Ryan

. Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Eyre, Makana

. Sing, Memory: The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Saved the Music of the Nazi Camps. New York: W. W. Norton, 2023.

Forman, Murray,

Mark Anthony

Neal, and

Regina N.

Bradley, eds. That’s the Joint! The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge, 2023.

Gibbs, Levi S.

, ed. Social Voices: The Cultural Politics of Singers around the Globe. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2023.

Gibson, Sarah Jane

. Building Community Choirs in the Twenty-First Century: Re-imagining Identity through Singing in Northern Ireland. Bristol: Intellect, 2023.

Gordon, Robert, and

Olaf

Jubin, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Global Stage Musical. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Gratzer, Wolfgang,

Nils

Grosch,

Ulrike

Präger, and

Susanne

Scheiblhofer

, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Music and Migration: Theories and Methodologies. New York: Routledge, 2023.

Griffith, Lauren Miller

. Graceful Resistance: How Capoeiristas Use Their Art for Activism and Community Engagement. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2023.

Harbert, Benjamin J.

Instrument of the State: A Century of Music in Louisiana’s Angola Prison. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Helbig, Adriana N.

ReSounding Poverty: Romani Music and Development Aid. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Hui, Yu, and

Jonathan P. J.

Stock, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Music in China and the Chinese Diaspora. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Jenkins, Christopher

. Assimilation v. Integration in Music Education: Leading Change toward Greater Equity. New York: Routledge, 2023.

Jordan, Daniel David

. Coros y Danzas: Folk Music and Spanish Nationalism in the Early Franco Regime (1939–1953). New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Kapuria, Radha

. Music in Colonial Punjab: Courtesans, Bards, and Connoisseurs, 1800–1947. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Kolb-Neuhaus, Roberto

. Silvestre Revueltas: Sounds of a Political Passion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Leal, Jonathan

. Dreams in Double Time: On Race, Freedom, and Bebop. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023.

Lee, Gavin S. K.

, ed. Queer Ear: Remaking Music Theory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

MacGregor, Emily

. Interwar Symphonies and the Imagination: Politics, Identity, and the Sound of 1933. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Machin-Autenrieth, Matthew,

Salwa el-Shawan

Castelo-Branco, and

Samuel

Llano, eds. Music and the Making of Portugal and Spain: Nationalism and Identity Politics in the Iberian Peninsula. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2023.

Malnig, Julie

. Dancing Black, Dancing White: Rock ‘n’ Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

McGraw, Andrew

. Music as Ethics: Stories from Virginia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Minks, Amanda

. Indigenous Audibilities: Music, Heritage, and Collections in the Americas. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Moreno, Jairo

. Sounding Latin Music, Hearing the Americas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Morrison, Matthew D.

Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2024.

Olwage, Grant

. Paul Robeson’s Voices. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Pardue, Derek,

Ailbhe

Kenny, and

Katie

Young, eds. Sonic Signatures: Music, Migration and the City at Night. Bristol: Intellect, 2023.

Phillips, Barry

. In Search of Tito’s Punks: On the Road in A Country That No Longer Exists. Bristol: Intellect, 2023.

Piperno, Franco,

Simone

Caputo, and

Emanuele

Senici, eds. Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550–1860. New York: Routledge, 2023.

Quevedo, Marysol

. Cuban Music Counterpoints: Vanguardia Musical in Global Networks. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Quinn, Iain

. Rudolph Ganz, Patriotism, and Standardization of The Star-Spangled Banner, 1907–1958. New York: Routledge, 2023.

Rabak, Reiland

. Black Women’s Liberation Movement Music: Soul Sisters, Black Feminist Funksters, and Afro-Disco Divas. New York: Routledge, 2023.

Romero, Brenda M.,

Susan M.

Asai,

David A.

McDonald,

Andrew G.

Snyder, and

Katelyn E.

Best, eds. At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023.

Rusak, Helen

. Women, Music, and Leadership. New York: Routledge, 2023.

Sarath, Edward

. Music Studies and Its Moment of Truth: Leading Change through America’s Black Music Roots. New York: Routledge, 2023.

Schäfers, Marlene

. Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Stokes, Martin

. Music and Citizenship. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Sykes, Jim, and

Julia Suzanne

Byl, eds. Sounding the Indian Ocean: Musical Circulations in the Afro-Asiatic Seascape. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023.

Tochka, Nicholas

. Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Vassallo, Mario Thomas, and

Andrew P.

Debattista, eds. The Different Faces of Politics in Literature and Music. New York: Routledge, 2023.

Vernallis, Carol

. The Media Swirl: Politics, Audiovisuality, and Aesthetics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023.

Vesey, Alyxandra

. Extending Play: The Feminization of Collaborative Music Merchandise in the Early Twenty-First Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Waltham-Smith, Naomi

. Mapping (Post)colonial Paris by Ear. of Elements in Music and the City. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Weber, Cameron M.,

Ying

Zhen, and

J. J.

Arias. Artists and Markets in Music: The Political Economy of Music During the Covid Era and Beyond. New York: Routledge, 2023.

Weheliye, Alexander Ghedi

. Feenin: R&B Music and the Materiality of BlackFem Voices and Technology. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023.

Wenz, Clara

. Music from Aleppo during the Syrian War: Displacement and Memory in Hello Psychaleppo’s Electro-Tarab. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Wilbourne, Emily

. Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Williams, Richard David

. The Scattered Court: Hindustani Music in Colonial Bengal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023.