Compiled by Kai West
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.
Baranello, Micaela. The Operetta Empire: Music Theater in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520976542.https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520976542
Baumgartner, Michael, and Ewelina Boczkowska, eds. Music, Collective Memory, Trauma, and Nostalgia in European Cinema after the Second World War. New York: Routledge, 2021.
Begbie, Jeremy, Daniel K. L. Chua, and Markus Rathey, eds. Theology, Music, and Modernity: Struggles for Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198846550.001.0001.https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198846550.001.0001
Benedict, Cathy. Music and Social Justice: A Guide for Elementary Educators. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190062125.001.0001.https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190062125.001.0001
Begnal, Michael S. The Music and Noise of the Stooges, 1967–71: Lost in the Future. New York: Routledge, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003126522.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003126522
Bennett, Peter. Music and Power at the Court of Louis XIII: Sounding the Liturgy in Early Modern France. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108902588.https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108902588
Bourdaghs, Michael K., Paola Iovene, and Kaley Mason, eds. Sound Alignments: Popular Music in Asia’s Cold Wars. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478013143.https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478013143
Bullock, Philip Ross, and Laura Tunbridge, eds. Song Beyond Nation: Translation, Transnationalism, Performance. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Byrne, Kevin. Minstrel Traditions: Mediated Blackface in the Jazz Age. New York: Routledge, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429351280.https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429351280
Carrieri, Alessandro, and Annalisa Capristo. Italian Jewish Musicians and Composers under Fascism. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Cole, Ross. The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520383753.https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520383753
Coleman, Billy. Harnessing Harmony: Music, Power, and Politics in the United States, 1788–1865. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469658872.001.0001.https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469658872.001.0001
Contreras, Ayana. Energy Never Dies: Afro-Optimism & Creativity in Chicago. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2021.
DelDonna, Anthony R. Instrumental Music in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples: Politics, Patronage and Artistic Culture. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108770064.https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108770064
Diamond, Beverly, and Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, eds. Transforming Ethnomusicology Volume II: Political, Social & Ecological Issues. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197517604.001.0001.https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197517604.001.0001
Díaz, Juan Diego. Africanness in Action: Essentialism and Musical Imaginations of Africa in Brazil. New York: University of Oxford Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197549551.001.0001.https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197549551.001.0001
Driscoll, Christopher M., Monica R. Miller, and Anthony B. Pinn, eds. Kendrick Lamar and the Making of Black Meaning. New York: Routledge, 2021.
Everist, Mark. The Empire at the Opéra: Theatre, Power and Music in Second Empire Paris. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108909815.https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108909815
Fanning, David, and Erik Levi, eds. The Routledge Handbook to Music under German Occupation, 1938–1945. New York: Routledge, 2021.
Foster, Timothy M. Music and Power in Early Modern Spain. New York: Routledge, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003197225.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003197225
Franklin, M. I. Sampling Politics: Music and the Geocultural. New York: University of Oxford Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190855475.001.0001.https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190855475.001.0001
Frühauf, Tina. Transcending Dystopia: Music, Mobility, and the Jewish Community in Germany, 1945–1989. New York: University of Oxford Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197532973.001.0001.https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197532973.001.0001
Galuszka, Patryk. Eastern European Music Industries and Policies after the Fall of Communism: From State Control to Free Market. New York: Routledge, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429273988.https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429273988
Gillies, Richard Louis. Singing Soviet Stagnation: Vocal Cycles from the USSR, 1964–1985. New York: Routledge, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429274077.https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429274077
Gillin, Edward J. Sound Authorities: Scientific and Musical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Gurke, Thomas, and Susan Winnett, eds. Words, Music, and the Popular: Global Perspectives on Intermedial Relations. New York: Springer International Publishing, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85543-7.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85543-7
Guy, Nancy, ed. Resounding Taiwan: Musical Reverberations Across a Vibrant Island. New York: Routledge, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003079897.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003079897
Hansen, Kai Arne. Pop Masculinities: The Politics of Gender in Twenty-First Century Popular Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190938796.001.0001.https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190938796.001.0001
Havelková, Tereza. Opera as Hypermedium: Meaning-Making, Immediacy, and the Politics of Perception. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190091262.001.0001.https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190091262.001.0001
Horlor, Samuel. Chinese Street Music: Complicating Musical Community. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108913232.https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108913232
Howland, John. Hearing Luxe Pop: Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520971646.https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520971646
Karnes, Kevin C. Sounds Beyond: Arvo Pärt and the 1970s Soviet Underground. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823289752.003.0005.https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823289752.003.0005
Kinderman, William. Beethoven: A Political Artist in Revolutionary Times. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226669199.001.0001.https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226669199.001.0001
Klenke, Kerstin. The Sound State of Uzbekistan: Popular Music and Politics in the Karimov Era. New York: Routledge, 2021.
Klingberg, Lars, and Juliane Riepe. Politische Instrumentalisierung von Musik der Vergangenheit im Deutschland des 20. Jahrhunderts am Beispiel Georg Friedrich Händels. Beeskow, Germany: Ortus Musikverlag, 2021.
Lochhead, Judith, Eduardo Mendieta, and Stephen Decatur Smith, eds. Sound and Affect: Voice, Music, World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226758152.001.0001.https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226758152.001.0001
Mani, Charulatha. Reimagine to Revitalise: New Approaches to Performance Practices Across Cultures. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108903905.https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108903905
Marriage, Zoë. Cultural Resistance and Security from Below: Power and Escape Through Capoeira. New York: Routledge, 2021.
Maskell, Shayna L. Politics as Sound: The Washington, DC, Hardcore Scene, 1978–1983. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2021.
McConnell, Bonnie. Music, Health, and Power: Singing the Unsayable in The Gambia. New York: Routledge, 2021.
Menestrel, Sara Le, ed. Lives in Music: Mobility and Change in a Global Context. New York: Routledge, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429434204.https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429434204
Moore, Celeste Day. Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478021995.https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478021995
Na’Allah, Abdul-Rasheed. Yoruba Oral Tradition in Islamic Nigeria: A History of Dàdàlúàdá. New York: Routledge, 2021.
Ó Briain, Lonán. Voices of Vietnam: A Century of Radio, Red Music, and Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197558232.001.0001.https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197558232.001.0001
Orzech, Rachel. Claiming Wagner for France: Music and Politics in the Parisian Press, 1933–1944. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2022.
Perea, Jessica Bissett. Sound Relations: Native Ways of Doing Music History in Alaska. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190869137.001.0001.https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190869137.001.0001
Tina K. Ramnarine, ed. Dance, Music and Cultures of Decolonisation in the Indian Diaspora. New York: Routledge, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003011156.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003011156
Rodríguez, Mauricio. Musicians’ Migratory Patterns: American-Mexican Border Lands. New York: Routledge, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429450440.https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429450440
Rogers, Jillian C. Resonant Recoveries: French Music and Trauma Between the World Wars. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190658298.001.0001.https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190658298.001.0001
Sagall, Sabby. Music and Capitalism: Melody, Harmony, and Rhythm in the Modern World. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52095-1.https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52095-1
Saito, Yoshiomi. The Global Politics of Jazz in the Twentieth Century: Cultural Diplomacy and “American Music.” New York: Routledge, 2021.
Schwartz, Jessica A. Radiation Sounds: Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478021919.https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478021919
Sonner, Thomas. Soundtrack der Demokratie – Musik bei staatlichen Zeremonien in der Weimarer und der Berliner Republik. Hamburg, Germany: Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2021.
Sprigge, Martha. Socialist Laments: Musical Mourning in the German Democratic Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197546321.001.0001.https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197546321.001.0001
Sullivan, James. Which Side Are You On? 20th Century American History in 100 Protest Songs. New York: University of Oxford Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/10588167.2020.1824573.https://doi.org/10.1080/10588167.2020.1824573
Turner, Elizabeth. The Discourse of Protest, Resistance and Social Commentary in Reggae Music: A Bakhtinian Analysis of Pacific Reggae. New York: Routledge, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367823559.https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367823559
Villegas, Mark R. Manifest Technique: Hip Hop, Empire, and Visionary Filipino American Culture. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2021.
Weber, William, with Beverly Wilcox. Canonic Repertoires and the French Musical Press: Lully to Wagner. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1jpf1wp.https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1jpf1wp
Wiley, Christopher, and Lucy Ella Rose, eds. Women’s Suffrage in Word, Image, Music, Stage and Screen: The Making of a Movement. New York: Routledge, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429344534.https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429344534
Wolfe, Paula. Women in the Studio: Creativity, Control and Gender in Popular Music Sound Production. New York: Routledge, 2021.